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Ann Hui’s devastating 1982 portrait of postwar Vietnam and its refugees is despairingly relevant, even timely, in 2022. Read more
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Book Going-Out-Of-Print Event
Whatever the opposite of a Book Launch is, this is it. Join me at TIFF Bell Lightbox on Thursday, March 31 for a 35mm screening of Mad Max: Fury Road, after which I’ll be signing (the very last) copies of…
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Back foot
I spent the weekend playing D&D. A fine thing. Thirteen hours on Saturday and another 7-ish on Sunday. Returned to the city with no real sense of what the hell was going on or what I had to do next;…
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Very Rapidly: Why Does THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT Feel So Slow?
There are a lot of reasons The Book of Boba Fett isn’t hitting with fans (creepy CGI Luke much?) but the big one, for us, is the PACING… which is ironic, because pacing used to be one of the defining…
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When I was a little girl
I wanted a pony and a princess and a big scary alien dude
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Waltzing Matilda (Station Eleven)
Flung out into space — a winter’s tale.
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The meanest letter I ever received
The other day I found the meanest letter I’d ever received. It was dated February 1995. I dug it out of the basement by accident, where it had been lost in the wrong box; I’d given up on it years…
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VHS Nostalgia, Part I
I don’t think you all realize how good tapes were. You’d have a tape. Big, wodgy thing. The size of a book, made of licorice. Inevitably noisy — predetermined to clatter, especially if you dropped one, which, don’t worry, they…
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Blu-ray Review: TIME, Spellbinding Work Of Lived, and Living, Memory
Director Garrett Bradley explodes her documentary to consider the breadth and weight of the years of an incarcerated family. Read more
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Pitching woo at DOOM PATROL
Doom Patrol got me through* the pandemic — along with all the other things that got me through the pandemic. Roll20. Pumpkin enzyme face masks. Ten years’ worth of whiskey. “Downtime” for iOS. But yeah. Doom Patrol. *it’s not over
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