November 24, 2018
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Thought
In honour of director Nic Roeg who died today at 90.
November 21, 2018
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Review
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935, Roy Del Ruth, W.S. Van Dyke)
I get nostalgic for times long before I was born.
November 18, 2018
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2010 (1984, Peter Hyams)
Man, this really didn’t age well. Almost everything predictive about it is dramatically wrong.
November 17, 2018
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Review
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017, Martin McDonagh)
The acting, directing, cinematography – most everything about this movie was ace. But I wasn’t really happy with the horrible racist people being redeemed. It felt like the wrong year for that.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
This was loads of fun. Anthologies are generally hit and miss, but I liked every one of these old-timey western stories. And Tom Waits as the old prospector was an absolute stunner.
I keep wanting to call it The Ballad of Lester Scruggs though, because Foggy Mountain Boys.
November 13, 2018
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The Last Word On Nothing | On Food Pills And Legacy
“What if instead of eating three meals each day (plus snacks, if you’re me) we just popped pills and moved along with our lives. Food pills were once a staple of…”
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Logan Lucky (2017, Steven Soderbergh)
Dumb people heist movies are a nice antidote to super-genius heist movies. Soderbergh does both well. This started out amazing but lost it’s way toward the end.
November 11, 2018
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Review
Gaslight (1944, George Cukor)
First time watching this classic for me. I’d been talking to the girls about the origins of the modern term “gaslighting” and realized I hadn’t seen the movie myself.
October 31, 2018
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Tracing Modernism’s Roots in Tuberculosis Hospitals
“De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, U.K. Completed in 1935, the dramatic pavilion of concrete, steel, and glass was a “sanatorium by the sea” for ordinary…”
October 28, 2018
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Review
You Were Never Really Here (2017, Lynne Ramsay)
Intense doesn’t begin to describe it. I thought less of it immediately after watching than I did as time went on. As with most challenging films, it takes a bit of analysis and maybe reading a few reviews to get a sense of what you actually saw. Recommended for the adventurous.
October 18, 2018
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“Play Video 0:48 Watch the trailer for Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old – video T o mark the centenary of the first world war’s end, Peter Jackson has…”
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Create more value than you capture: An oral history of Toronto product development
“Warning: you are now experiencing BetaKit #longform content. TL;DR does not apply. Feature photography: Sanjay Chauhan. CREATE MORE VALUE THAN YOU CAPTURE: AN…”
October 15, 2018
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Here Are 8 Major Questions Still Unanswered About Banksy’s Sotheby’s Prank | artnet News
“We’re having a lot of fun with Banksy ’s viral art shredding prank, which took place exactly one week ago at Sotheby’s London and has had the world atwitter…”
October 13, 2018
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Review
Black Panther (2018, Ryan Coogler)
One of the better superhero films of late, but I’m not a fan of the genre. In any case, I love the afro-futurism and it was wonderful seeing so many strong black actors playing positive characters that are far less frequent in Hollywood than they should be.
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The Perils and Possibilities of Anger
“A slew of new books challenge the notion that rage is a danger to self and to society. Illustration by Golden Cosmos The hatchet came later. Rocks were rare in…”
October 12, 2018
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Critic’s Notebook: The Rise of the TV Auteur? No Thanks
“Courtesy of Netflix Justin Theroux in Netflix’s ‘Maniac.’ I started having worries about the current state of television’s newfound love of auteur directors in…”
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Big Mouth Season 2 Is a Hilarious and Vital Portrait of Puberty
“Missy (Jenny Slate), the Hormone Monstress (Maya Rudolph), and Jessi (Jessi Klein), learning to embrace the female form in an episode of Big Mouth . Photo:…”
October 10, 2018
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“You stupid darkness!” and 29 other Peanuts quotes for everyday use
“On October 2, 1950, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz’s daily newspaper strip Peanuts debuted with two kids sitting on a curb and remarking, “Here comes ol’ Charlie…”
October 6, 2018
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If we learn from Europe, we can secure the Canada-U.S. border
“A group of migrants who said they were from Djibouti and Somalia walk along a residential street after crossing the Canada-U.S. border in Emerson, Man., March…”
October 5, 2018
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Review
808 (2015, Alex Dunn)
This documentary about a drum machine was a major rush for me. The classic 808 sounds unpin so much of the music I listened to in the eighties and beyond. It’s rather bizarre – particularly since most of those sounds came from people using the device in ways its inventors never anticipated – much like AutoTune.
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New Life for a 1902 Manual About Color
“Emily Noyes Vanderpoel amassed a large collection of textiles, ceramics and enamels — particularly pieces from Asia and the Near East. Credit Litchfield…”
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The Endless (2017, Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson)
They were going for something here. I’m not sure they made it. Or I didn’t get it.
October 4, 2018
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In their honour, we publish their names – Macleans.ca
“If you hold a paper version of Maclean’s , consider closing this issue for a moment to read the dedication on the cover. You’ll find the name of a Canadian…”
September 28, 2018
September 27, 2018
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How First Capital Realty Curates Retail Communities Through Neighbourhood Acquisitions
“‘ Shops at King Liberty’. Photo: First Capital Realty By Mario Toneguzzi First Capital Realty has strategically made an effort of consolidating real estate…”
September 26, 2018
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What If Reality Isn’t Real? – Member Feature Stories – Medium
“Maybe it’s best to start at the end. “I’m sorry, I’m running a bit short of time,” I say casually on the phone to Robin Hanson before the last question of my…”
September 25, 2018
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Nobody Was Going To Solve These Cold Cases. Then Came The DNA Crime Solvers.
“A woman in a ditch. A baby in a parking lot. The DNA Doe Project has the ability to identify cold case victims — so why don’t they take on every case? Their…”
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The Nasty Feud Over What Killed the Dinosaurs
“Illustrations by Denise Nestor 1. Gerta Keller was waiting for me at the Mumbai airport so we could catch a flight to Hyderabad and go hunt rocks. “You won’t…”
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Raphael Bob-Waksberg, In Good Faith
“Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos by Getty Images and Netflix Raphael Bob-Waksberg is reading me some numbers. As the seasons of BoJack…”
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A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Literary Canon
“Illustration: Tim McDonagh Why Now? Okay, assessing a century’s literary legacy after only 18 and a half years is kind of a bizarre thing to do. Actually,…”