Movies of the Year

Had this one in the bank and just forgot to post it. Oops! Sending off what will be the last month of all-around good movies I’ll see because I’ve set myself up for some real dogshit during December. Here’s what I saw in November that stuck with me! Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis Challengingly paced at the start and, honestly, doesn’t go anywhere...

I write a blurb review for everything I log on Letterboxd but since most people aren’t sickos who check it every day like I do, I figure it’d be nice to do a once-a-month roundup and revisit my thoughts on the stuff I liked days-to-weeks later. I’ll omit my last couple VIFF films since I’ve already talked about em’ a lot elsewhere. Southland...

A couple of things all coalescing into the same general window of time has got me to think, not with any meaningful conclusion or anything, about what happens when communal spaces close for good. The Vancouver International Film Festival took place recently and it happened to overlap with the closure of social media site Cohost.org. Everyone got...

This was originally written for Cohost.org I’ve not… really… spent a lot of energy thinking of a “my time on Cohost” retrospective post like some folks have done (which have all been a pleasure to read!) because I’m not sure I really can. I think it’s easy to pick apart the stuff that’s individually made Cohost such a wonderful place to exist on,...

I wrote a small thing about Cohost that I’ll probably come back to later for, like, some kinda actual “goodbye to this site”-type post but for now I just want to think (out loud) a bit on something that came up in the aforementioned post. I brought up that my digital art journey began on deviantART, touching on how critical that place was for the...