One of the best ways to combat superhero movie fatigue is to stop making everything so huge, the noise so loud, the stakes so big --- not every adventure has to have the fate of the entire universe ha...

Christopher Nolan had a near impossible task after Oppenheimer. Instead of trying to top that huge, award-winning movie with another historical drama, or going back to the futuristic sci-fi he sometim...

Japanese bathrooms are quite different from our North American variety. My family and I recently spent a couple of weeks in Japan, where I experienced these differences firsthand. They had, shall we s...

Pop Wine Bar on 20th Street in Saskatoon is on the 100 Best Bars in Canada list again. No surprise on my end! Last year, I hosted a panel at Memofest at the Remai, where I interviewed a few of my favo...

Full disclosure: I did not finish the book. Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary is a great story buried inside what eventually started to feel like an enthusiastic science textbook. Weir pulled the same thi...

The Time We Have: Ditching Preciousness and Making the Work Matter This talk is about the one resource every writer struggles with most: time. Too often we treat writing as something that requires id...

Every new year, I throw down the best and worst movies of the previous year and my friend and frequent collaborator, Dave Scaddan, writes his Top 20 Albums. There's a few of the same albums on his lis...

It’s that time of year, movie lovers! After Christmas and New Year’s, I have to go back to work or they’ll just find a bloated corpse, reeking of bourbon and covered in butter tart crumbs. But that al...

To be fair, there may be worse movies from 2025. I saw several hundred, but I didn't see all of them. These are just the worst ones I personally watched. Of course, art is subjective, so one person’s ...

Marty Supreme is about Marty Mauser, a young man with ping-pong dreams that absolutely no one respects. Not his peers, not his family, not the gatekeepers, not the vaguely sinister creeps circling the...

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The Predator franchise has always been a strange beast. In 1987, it split the difference between muscle-bound action and creature-feature horror. So, you’ve got the near-perfect original, a decent seq...

WestJet has announced they’re going to start charging passengers for the ability to recline their seats. That’s right, the next time you want to jam your seatback into my knees like the airplane is yo...

Craig Silliphant uses humour to unpack the absurdity of our times in his new book, Bunnyhug Cynic

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is his most expensive movie to date, and you can feel both the budget and the ambition pressing on the screen. While PTA is one of my favourite director...

Craig Silliphant uses humour to unpack the absurdity of our times in his new book, Bunnyhug Cynic

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We weren’t super keen on going to the States with everything that’s going on there, but we had pounced on the Oasis Live ’25 tickets before the country melted down. However, once I started seeing the ...

I first noticed Paradox Pizza on Instagram as a pop-up at places like Amigos, but I was never able to get there. Then suddenly, like some kind of culinary mirage turned solid, their sign went up on th...

Zach Cregger, one of the twisted minds behind the absurdist sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U’ Know, made a huge leap into horror with 2022’s Barbarian. That film’s first half was a master class...

Have you ever shoplifted anything? Ever been caught? I have. Sort of. Not exactly. But also, yes. I lived in Regina for four years as a preteen, from grade five to grade eight, 1985 to 1988. It was a ...

Marvel really needed this one to land. With all the talk of superhero fatigue and Marvel oversaturating the market with mediocrity the last few years, Fantastic Four could have been a cosmic palate cl...

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First, a warning: this piece falls squarely in the realm of TMI. It’s a story about one man and his colonoscopy. I mean, it’s medical, so we could choose to be mature about it. However, I most certain...

The Mission: Impossible franchise has been running, leaping, and dangling from tall things since 1996, when the film series spun off from the classic 1960s TV show. Now, eight films deep, Mission Impo...

So here we are, deep into the Marvel burnout era, where every new release feels like a post-credits scene from something better that came out five years ago. But against all odds, Thunderbolts* is... ...

Thanks for reading! Subscribe to get these pieces directly to your inbox. It's free! At first glance, Netflix’s Adolescence looks like it might be all style over substance — a “one-take” series that s...

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Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light is one of those films that sneaks up on you. It starts as a quiet, observational drama, unfolding in the lives of two nurses, Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Div...

It’s that time of year, movie lovers! When we begin to enact our New Year’s resolutions and try to get rid of those holiday pounds, I know it’s time to drop my choices for the best (and worst) movies ...

I saw hundreds of films this year, some great, some terrible, and some in between. This list is the rest of the Top 30, movies that I deemed good enough to go on the list, even if they didn’t make the...

For someone learning the craft of film, screenwriting, or criticism, a bad movie can be just as important as a good movie. Sometimes more important. It shows you what not to do. I guess I learned a lo...

Editor’s Note: For many years, we at The Feedback Society would publish our year end lists of the best in music and film. The task of best albums of the year always went to my friend Dave Scaddan, a m...

On October 11th, 1975, the first episode of an upstart young sketch comedy show called Saturday Night hit the NBC airwaves. It originated because talk show god Johnny Carson wanted more time off. They...

In 2019, Todd Phillips directed Joker, (very) loosely based on the DC Comics Batman villain. Joaquin Phoenix played Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill societal castoff who finds a new identity in the Joker....

I grew up on a smorg of wildly different influences that informed my film education. Everything from mainstream movies, to the wild VHS horror and exploitation films of John Carpenter or Troma, to the...