Amazing tips for writers and storytellers. Pixar has delivered some of the most poignant, heart-felt stories in filmic form to date. One particular favourite is the Toy Story series, and by reading the slides from this post you'll see how the story was so beautiful...
November is the month where my introspection tends to get the most unshakable. It literally burns holes in my brain thinking about what feats of artistic greatness and gestures of failure were made that year. It doesn't help that I tend to listen to Guns 'N Roses'...
As part of my lazy unemployed self required, I recently underwent a Harry Potter marathon with my better half. I reveled in the magical world of Hogwarts and the incredible, fantastical life of sorcery for more than 10 hours in one day, and know what? I'm not really...
Kevan Funk's short film toys with faith, the Free World and a matchbox budget FOR METRO VANCOUVER NEWSPAPER A Fine Young Man, directed by Kevan Funk, is a dark comedy that has garnered critical acclaim at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF),...
It's the best marriage of indie Canadian music and indie Canadian cinema, bridged together by the baroque-rock gods Broken Social Scene. Starring members from the band, as well as that really annoying guy from the cell phone commercials (I loathe that group of...
Dear readers, while I may have studied Simone de Beauvoir extensively, but I am no feminist. The angry lesbian has always been a topic I've found interesting from a theoretical perspective, it's never been quite my cup of tea. There's simply no room for the rage. That...