I went to do an errand one night. It was about 9 p.m. when I left the house, and before I flew out the door, I did the dance: "Should I...

In January of 2017 I attended a screening dedicated to Toronto's The Funnel Experimental Film Theatre . Held in TIFF Theatre 4 and hoste...

Guy Maddin is one of my favourite filmmakers. When he hosted a week-long retrospective of his work at the University of Toronto's "...

Destination: Moonbase Alpha - The Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Space: 1999 - by Robert E. Wood Telos Publishing Limited 2009

“Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question." Sir. Can Monday be paid to get lo...

Actor Leonard Nimoy, best known for playing "Mister Spock" in Star Trek (1966 - 1969), would have been ninety-two today. His invo...

Periodically I'll check my Instagram account to check out the latest... cat videos. That is the default. Instagram must know something ...

The Making of Space: 1999 - A Gerry Anderson Production - by Tim Heald Ballantine Books 1976

Canadian actor and author William Shatner is, quite simply, the coolest man in this galaxy. Happy Birthday to a fellow Montrealer.

A good part of my day today was me humming, or 'hearing', Ron Goodwin's "Miss Marple Theme". Written in 1963 for Murde...

“Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question." Sir. Why does Friday come after M...

Music for Prime Time - A History of American Television Themes and Scoring - by Jon Burlingame Oxford University Press 2023

“Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question." Sir. Why can't some people le...

The "Americans" again have a man-rated rocket to take astronauts into Earth orbit. It's been a while. For years NASA depended ...

Me, a very young me, in October of 1985 working on a set build in the Graveyard Shift workshop. It's really a matter of holding the a...

My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl Penguin Books 1980

If one is really into film scores, he or she probably knows Jerry Goldsmith's brilliant music for 1979's science fiction epic, Star ...

I remember the first time I heard the term, "Bro Code". ("What's that?") My first conversation about the “Code” to...

“Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question." Sir. Why do some politicians try ...

"Look at you. You're a bunch of weirdos!" So explained Dr Morton Shulman to his crowd of guests as he rocked back and forth in...