"Trick or Treat!" Someone's trick or treating in the wrong neighbourhood! Be careful out there, kids!

"Respect is for the dead. The livin' need dough!" "LOL" is my only response.

A few years ago I found out that my Beatles-fan brother had not yet seen a certain 1967 television opus. I asked why he hadn't sought ou...

“Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question." Sir. Why is the concept of time t...

A friend of mine is a bit of a Jack Kerouac fan. After I told him I was reading On the Road , he said he preferred the author's next boo...

Totally Tasteless ― The Life of John Nathan-Turner ― by Richard Marson Miwk Publishing Ltd. 2016 *** When John Nathan-Turne...

On Tuesday nights during the 1970/71 television season I was there with my parents in front of the 19-inch Zenith colour set tuned to Canada...

Reopening my 'Graveyard Shift' files a few years ago sent me back to 1985, as I reviewed photos, memos, call sheets, and sketches r...

When we were young, spirited, energized, and full of stamina: while I was a few months into my second year of film school I was hired to des...

As I write this it's a few minutes past 1pm. Here in downtown Toronto the temperature is currently sitting at 21 Celsius (70 Fahrenheit)...

How much is too much flattery? It depends on who it is you are flattering It might fly or lie flat. ___ 2017 Simon St. Laure...

That's what I heard, folks, a few years ago. I was working on my laptop as the television smoked at my feet. "Next week's big K...

As noted on its website :   " Black Zero is a multimedia publisher specializing in Canadian experimental cinema from the 1960s to the ...

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has uploaded to YouTube a wonderful selection of their old film shorts. One such film, from 1957, is...

Cats are caught in that twilight zone between acting like a cat and being a cat.

My Canon EOS R100 camera data: ISO speed: 250 F-stop: f/5.6 Exposure time: 1/125

As I wrote on Sunday, August 31st, four weeks ago today, I stumbled upon a shop here in Toronto's beautiful "Annex" neighborh...

The poster said all I had to know. On September 15, 1990, there would be a celebration to remember on the River Thames. That of "Battl...

The Battle of Britain - The Greatest Battle in the History of Air Warfare - by Richard Townshend Bickers Salamander Books L...

Battle of Britain  was a troubled feature film production complete with massive cost overruns and a shoot that seemed to have no end, this h...