Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon's R-rated Nefarious (2023), which I watched last night, is an interesting paradox—a beautifully acte...

  OK, so— The Zone  of Interest.  The coldness I felt after watching this film last night dissipated on my walk with Beckett this morning, a...

  This is the Ryan Gosling I met almost 30 years ago in Montréal, on the set of my friend Ron Oliver 's "The Tale of Station 109.1...

A year ago today, a month post-final cancer surgery, hobbling a bit, but feeling...something. Probably not "joy," because I was to...

  Yesterday afternoon, I stopped into the Cherie Bistro for a quick lunch before heading home. At the next table were two young people—one v...

  Throwback Thursday: The sequence in Midnight Mass where Henry Thomas plucks Wild Fell out of Kristen Lehman's hands in order to danc...

  The new book, PRIDE, will be published by Douglas & McIntyre  two months from today, just in time for full spring. I'm delighted ...

  I am haunted tonight by the story of Airman Aaron Bushnell, who set himself on fire yesterday in front of the Israeli embassy in Washingto...

  Tucked away at the airport with a Bloody Mary, doing some work for the publicist assigned to the new book, and thinking about this spectac...

  In Manchester, UK today, two teenagers, a male and a female, were sentenced to 20+ year terms in prison for the sadistic murder of a 16-ye...

  I'm delighted and honoured to share that I'll be speaking a Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario at the Jack.Org annual sum...

Re-reading Dan Simmons' A Winter Haunting this evening, I came across a mention of an IBM ThinkPad, and it sent me down an unusually dee...

My only goal today is to turn down ugly voices—whether they're political commentators on television, or social media chatterboxes blithe...

  https://www.npr.org/2023/10/13/1205235922/help-israel-gaza-humanitarian-organizations

I got up early this morning to join the "No Space For Hate" protest at Queen's Park, the counter-protest response to the one-d...