LOng Reads
Goodbye to Language for The Brooklyn Rail
Isiah Medina doubles down with Gangsterism
Try a Little Tenderness for Reverse Shot
Pillion explores taboo subjects rather politely
Monumental Human Error for Documentary Magazine
Burden of Dreams and My Best Fiend paint mirrored portraits of megalomania
Off the Deep End for Little White Lies
Fred Halsted’s slippery sadism behind and in front of the camera
The Truth, Ruth for POV #124
Spike Lee’s prolific documentary career remains under discussed
Torn Curtains for Bright Wall/Dark Room #139
Fashion-as-performance in Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright
Death by Landscape for Documentary Magazine #44/1
AKA Serial Killer turns fifty
Shotgun Wedding for Reverse Shot
Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama wants to push your buttons
Empty Rooms for Reverse Shot
On the transgressive films of Kalil Haddad
Life Support for Documentary Magazine
Notes from a beleaguered Hot Docs 2025
Short Reads
The Mirror Has Two Faces for Reverse Shot
Mother Mary stages a limp conceptual face-off
Rich Perverts and Sliced Eyeballs for Toronto Star
A Luis Buñuel retrospective plays TIFF Cinematheque
Down the Hatch for Reverse Shot
Rose of Nevada plumbs the insidious pleasures of decay
Hands Off for The Walrus
The US is trying to annex the ultra-Canadian Heated Rivalry
Ed Wood’s Angora Sweater for Notebook
Tim Burton’s biopic in “One Shot”
Pictures of Ghosts for CBC Arts
Blue Moon and Peter Hujar’s Day explore a day in the life of a queer artist
Developments and Discoveries for In Review Online
Passing Strangers turns fifty
Spurs of the Moment for Toronto Star
Brokeback Mountain remains a miracle twenty years later
Rainy Days That Never End for Screen Slate
Pennies from Heaven screens at Paris Theatre
Double Fantasy for Screen Slate
Special Effects screens at Anthology Film Archives
A Bang and a Whimper for Screen Slate
Blast of Silence screens at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg
Drifting Along for TFCA
On the 25th edition of Wavelengths
Shit Happens for MDFF Selects
The Heirloom explores the foibles of creative and romantic partnership