YOU CANNOT COUNT THEM THERE ARE TOO MANY

wrote about robert redford's trademark second look.

could write several thousand words about marc maron on the cover of thr and what that says about journalism rn.

nothing like spending months on a super sprawling reported culture piece to make you realize how few places run that shit anymore...if anyone has any names for places that do i would love to hear them.

if you are a culture critic, it's rare to have your work be actively obviously useful, but i wrote about writer hanif kureishi suddenly becoming a paraplegic and capturing his changing perspective in his new memoir, SHATTERED, and got a magical comment. defector.com/hanif-kureis...

it takes a minute...

this movie is not my friend.

wrote about tunde adebimpe's first (!!!) solo album and the time-travelling quality of mixes (he designed it to be like a mixtape :x)

i got too excited about DROP. poor DROP.

wrote about mark corrigan's new show.

the chokehold this woman had on canadian girls in the 90s. cultmtl.com/2025/03/film...

I used to see her sometimes in the park slope coop and even when she was figuring out which cheese to buy she was mesmerizing

i thot this was just a j-cloth. i wrote about it. defector.com/what-the-bea...

wrote about BLACK BOX DIARIES, which really moved me (and is up for an academy award).

in the midst of the snowstorm yesterday, friend alerted me to @misterpatches.bsky.social on the FitWR podcast giving a s/o to my NOSFERATU article @defector.bsky.social (defector.com/when-did-the...). big thank you to matt and here's the link:

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wrote about her.

wrote about sebastian stan, A DIFFERENT MAN, and the power of perspective. defector.com/a-different-...

“If a fragmented populace is watching so much in fragmentation, doesn’t it make sense for story arc to become beside the point?” -Soraya Roberts defector.com/when-did-the...

wrote about the primacy of image over story.

i am never saying journalism is dead again because there seem to be an endless supply of staff jobs (in canada at least) for the assembly line of indistinguishable white men in this industry.

last column before christmas break is on james acaster's new special, HECKLERS WELCOME (i really wanted to like this!!!), and the inundation of crowd work in comedy.

the magical hell of the second draft being WAY TOO UNDER WORD COUNT despite adding MORE information, not less.

is there a more kick ass name than Toussaint L’Ouverture

wrote about SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE and this: defector.com/somebody-som...

someone needs to explain sylvia wynter to me cause i fear my brain is not big enough.

imagine you had to illegally download every book you need for research because you couldn't afford them all and public libraries were so underfunded there was a 10-yr hold on every book you need? thank god i live in canada where the people in power definitely don't have open contempt for knowledge.

wrote about the holiest of holies.

wrote about the holiest of holies.

on THE TALL GUY -- one of my favourites -- and richard curtis before we lost him to LOVE ACTUALLY.

on THE TALL GUY -- one of my favourites -- and richard curtis before we lost him to LOVE ACTUALLY.

this headline. i wrote about JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (speaking of titles ffs) and being bored as hell.

friend told me fiona apple's FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS was recently named pitchfork's album of the decade (have been pretty offline working on book). on that occasion, thot I would reup this icymi the first time.

"he asks a question familiar to so many women—'why didn’t you tell me?'—and the unspoken reply, as always, is, 'why should I have to?'" ICYMI i wrote about NIGHTBITCH.

"the rare mainstream hollywood movie that not only dissects a particular kind of passive male uselessness...but how that uselessness can actively prey on women’s time." on NIGHTBITCH:

was not married to this column at the start, but it might be one of my favourites i have done @defector.bsky.social?

was not married to this column at the start, but it might be one of my favourites i have done @defector.bsky.social?

its the 30th anniversary of MY SO-CALLED LIFE, so just dropping this here (my first book! wrote it in 2016 @ecwpress.bsky.social): ecwpress.com/products/in-...

couldn't not write about THE FACULTY birthing josh hartnett. defector.com/josh-hartnet...

wrote about continuing to go to concerts outside as the heat gets more unbearable.

wrote about the tornado movie.

wrote about the tornado movie.

"I can’t stop thinking about the fact that in 1995 it was possible to land a so-called 'micro-tight' budget of $6 million (in today’s money) to shoot a meandering movie in 35 days on location in Knoxville, Tenn., about a guy finding his first gray hair."

i wrote about the embarrassing number of times i read/watch/listen to things -- in this case, caroline polachek's "starburned and unkissed" from I SAW THE TV GLOW.

“trent reznor and atticus ross are not just turning a game into music, they are sublimating the emotions of the players inside that game.” yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, i also wrote about CHALLENGERS.

oh hey, i spoke with Ethan Hawke!

“With TIFF it’s like, ‘You should be grateful to be working in a job that you’re passionate about.’” ICYMI my longform reported feature on the TIFF LIGHTBOX dropped yesterday.

“With TIFF it’s like, ‘You should be grateful to be working in a job that you’re passionate about.’” ICYMI my longform reported feature on the TIFF LIGHTBOX dropped yesterday.

so you read and loved @sorayaroberts.bsky.social's righteous screed about Toronto's mismanaged arts institutions now read her investigation into the mismanagement of TIFF, an organization struggling under the weight of its flagship headquarters