I sat down with Jason James over the weekend to chat about his first feature-film, That Burning Feeling, currently showing at this year’s edition of VIFF. The film follows Adam Murphy, a real estate big shot and prolific bachelor, as his life bottoms out in the event of a contracted social disease. The result is a […]
I’ll admit I was apprehensive about seeing another story about a young woman falling in love with a beast. I expected the usual gender tropes, the underlying message that men are always the aggressive, animalistic creatures and women are the nurturing, submissive beings who must learn to love and accept the ‘beast’ or ‘wolf’ in […]
This Rifflandia, I was lucky enough to sit down with four members (Nick Ward, Philip Kobernik, Matt Bishop and Colin Richey) of the six-piece Seattle-based “folkestral” band Hey Marseilles. This was their first year playing Rifflandia, and what follows is a conversation that reveals them to be a modest and thoughtful bunch. After being escorted […]
The Shining is probably the one novel in Stephen King’s canon that transcends all the others. Even if you’ve never read the book, I’m sure you’ve seen, or at least are aware of, the classic 1980 Stanley Kubrick film that starred a disturbing axe-wielding Jack Nicholson. The “Heeere’s Johnny!” scene is so ingrained in popular […]
I sat down with Jason James over the weekend to chat about his first feature-film, That Burning Feeling, currently showing at this year’s edition of VIFF. The film follows Adam Murphy, a real estate big shot and prolific bachelor, as his life bottoms out in the event of a contracted social disease. The result is a […] 