Navigating Netflix: Dear Mr. Watterson
The broad yet brilliant appeal of a strip that persists almost 20 years after its 10-year run ended is why Dear Mr. Watterson is necessary. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Total Recall
If you watch Total Recall for what it is, then it's still a highly enjoyable experience and one that holds up well almost 24 years later. What are you waiting for? Get your ass to Mars. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
If you are a fan of Thompson's work, his persona, or are just interested in a man who atypically typified an era, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is necessary viewing. Read More
Navigating Netflix: District 9
The reprehensible magic of the apartheid era strikes again. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Batman: The Brave and the Bold
It's a great Batman series that offers unique perspective on a character that jumps from the page to the screen in new adaptations on a regular basis. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Zombieland
Just remember the key lesson the film has to teach us: watch where you point a gun in Bill Murray's house. Read More
The Saskatchewan film industry: An implosion in progress
Maybe the SaskParty will see the light and reverse course as Election Day draws closer. Stranger things have happened. Read More
Navigating Netflix: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
In the world of science fiction, the work of Douglas Adams is quite unique. Quirky, light-hearted, inventive, and, at times, outright funny, Adams most recognizable… Read More
Navigating Netflix: The Bourne Identity
The film itself is unique in the genre of spy/action thrillers. Read More
Navigating Netflix: 21 Jump Street
There are a lot of surprising things about this movie, the big one being that it's actually funny. Read More
The blasted city as blank canvas
Before the Giuliani era, New York was a bubbling crucible of filmmaking innovation as chronicled in doc Blank City. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Good Morning, Vietnam
Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket are all classic, gritty, dark, and violent but Good Morning, Vietnam took a different angle. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Heroes
The best of Heroes is definitely contained in season one but there is still a lot of great story to be found in the balance of the series. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Hamlet 2
And when you have a song and dance number in a play called “Rock Me, Sexy Jesus” you know you have a winner. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Trek Nation
Trek Nation is, simply put, about Rod’s exploration of the father he never got to know and the creation he never truly understood. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Drive
Driver is an unexpectedly brilliant and engaging story that takes the watcher in a completely different direction than we’ve been conditioned to expect. Read More