Rewatched SHANG CHI on my flight back out to the west coast and was surprised to see Ronny Chieng was only in it for a few minutes. Dude's such a natural presence on the screen, I was convinced he had a bigger part

Had to crash out while the sun was still up on Sunday ahead of a 6am flight Monday, and after I did, a flaming freight train rolled through London, confirming every single childhood fear about missing out on stuff by going to bed early

Couple at the next table over are on a date. While she was in the bathroom, he unscrewed the light above them, then put their candle in the middle of the table. Now they're holding hands and doing shots while toasting Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson. Love is alive and well

When, sometime in the distant, glorious future, it is my turn to say goodbye to this world, one of the things I shall miss the most is the absolute conviction with which young men in the gym give each other nonsense fitness advice

Sunset can even make this part of town look good

Sitting down to watch SPIRAL for the third or fourth time, and while I understand it's not well-liked in the SAW fandom, it remains the only entry apart from the first that I've seen more than once. Chris Rock practically builds a world on his own and you got to respect it

Recently volunteered to help out on a film student's final project, and it was quite the honor because I got to watch in real-time as he realized he likes watching movies, not making them

Quarter past 10 at night, and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was I came here to get, but a pharmacist who looks like a retired boxer is talking a young stranger through his grief, so I suppose it was worth the trip just for that image

As a lapsed Catholic, I'm deeply gratified that this Good Friday showing of IMMACULATE is sold out

Had a waitress tell me about the time she saw a shooting, then the clerk at McDonald's gave me a free iced coffee. It's only 11:52pm and it is a weird night

Drove into Toronto for a night so I could treat myself to a rep screening of NARC at the Revue. Hadn't seen it in years and while I remember liking it at the time, it lands a lot harder 20 years on. Patric and Liotta were both absolutely at the top of their game

JFC. And we talk about how bad critical discourse has gotten now - someone wrote this, edited it, then sent it out to print

I really dug FIRST TIME CALLER, so make sure to check it out for your apocalyptic chamber piece fix. And big thanks to Abe Goldfarb for the kind words about the show

Someone on here recently mentioned the 90s Full Moon Lovecraft adaptation LURKING FEAR, which was entirely new to me, then today I randomly cracked open the spring/summer '95 issue of Alternative Cinema, and lo:

I caught this over at The Vic last week and had a blast. Check your local listings and see it ASAP if you can

Sometimes, I wonder at the wisdom of a city that establishes a 'paper bag only' mandate when it can rain hard enough to dissolve paper in seconds

Yesterday was a long one, so tonight my wife and I kicked back with a pair of Whoopi Goldberg flicks we hadn't seen before: FATAL BEAUTY and BURGLAR