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Mapping the Stars.

I wonder what sounds can be heard in David Thomson’s apartment late at night? Click clack? Or tick t… Source: Mapping the Stars.

Mapping the Stars.

                                                                                                 I wonder what sounds can be heard in David Thomson’s apartment late at night? Click clack? Or tick tap? Does he punch out concise yet intricately personal critiques on an old German typewriter like Woody? Or touch the wide flat keys of […]

Batman and Robin: Camping Near the Roots.

  Does anyone remember having uncontrollable fun watching the 1960s Batman (Kane 1966) series? Wild costumes, crazy make-up and injected into all those WHACK! SMACK! BLAM! fist fights was the comical, clownish and often camp celebration of whimsical one-liners and colourful characters. Batman and Robin (Schumacher 1997), the fourth installment in Warner Bros caped-crusader series […]

North of the Border: Canadian hero, American Outlaw.

    As the screen evolves from black to the flickering movement of motion picture, a stagecoach is visibly circled and restrained by masked gunmen on horseback, thieves, and criminals; jackals at the throat of one of industry’s beasts.   The first images of The Grey Fox (Borsos 1982) are those of the early Hollywood […]