Here's @kvanaren.bsky.social and @johnniejae.bsky.social with some beautiful insight on the new Little House On The Prairie. youtu.be/V8NndYr5z_k?...

here, have a nice time laughing at exactly the moment I lose control of my faculties and the several following seconds where I attempt to claw them back www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbHt...

pls keep an eye out for today's episode of commotion on cbc when it goes online; you can enjoy @justsayrad.bsky.social accidentally calling eps of The Bear bottle episodes live on the radio, immediately regretting it, and my brain fully shorting out about what constitutes an appropriate reaction

I liked The Invite. It goes places in terms of relationship woes that I've only seen in real life. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/83f0ba5...

So that couple that scaled the Empire State Building have a Netflix doc I actually found mildly compelling. www.theguardian.com/film/article...

"The move bucks the trend of studios getting ahead of professional reviews by inviting fan-site bloggers and influencers to see major releases in advance and then letting them post (often highly enthusiastic) mini reviews on social media." www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Supergirl: An impotent and incoherent attempt at bringing George Miller’s grimy diesel-and-rust aesthetic to James Gunn's house-style. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/83f0ba5...

Twenty five years ago today, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS hit theatres. If that quarter-century mark sounds crazy, that's because it genuinely is. So much so that I wrote a whole book about it, which I may have mentioned here once or twice. Happy 25, F&F. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/barry...

The rug that really tied the room together in The Big Lebowski is up for auction. Starting bid is $15,000 USD. entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv...

The angle we didn't see in the official FIFA broadcast. Elyanna and Jessie Reyez throwing it down with the keffiyehs during the opening ceremony in Toronto.

Reviewed Scary Movie and pondered what this franchise has to say in a post-Get Out world. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

"I want to thank Scarborough for teaching me the three Fs. When to fight, when to be funny and when to flee." - Mike Myers at the Canadian Screen Awards

Halle 😭😭😭😭😭 (that's what I heard too, though)

One Battle After Another Steelbook just landed.

The Yogurt Shop Murders was a probing docuseries about the shadow of a terrible unsolved crime that shook a community for decades. Then, just as it aired, the crime was finally solved. So Margaret Brown went back for an unexpected finale.

Tatiana Maslany challenges the idea that Canadians are peaceful in our interview for CBC Arts. www.cbc.ca/arts/maximum...

Left #Cannes too soon to catch La Bola Negra. So here's a write up on the festival I experienced before that: the early feelings of a hollowed out fest, the solidarity with Palestinians, my blindspots and faves. www.cbc.ca/arts/as-holl...

Here's Leah Nelson, Lauren Miller Rogen and Seth Rogen on their "love letter to caregivers" and bringing their personal experiences with Alzheimer's to Tangles. www.cbc.ca/arts/the-can...

Taking a break from Cannes coverage to share my review of I Love Boosters, which feels like Boots Riley's cartoonish Bay area spin on Tout Va Bien. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Late post: my CBC pop culture column on the Canadians and the star power (or lack thereof) at Cannes. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

My first print piece out of Cannes 2026. Spoke to Asia Argento and Jorge Thielen Armand about their haunting surrealist thriller about the history of violence in Venezuela, which they shot while Trump was sending warships to the coast. #cannes www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Tatiana Maslany on Canada's complicity in ongoing genocide.

I had such a blast watching Tatiana Maslany in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, and talking to her about the show, and the last 10 years since her Emmy win, and Mark Carney talking about both sides of his mouth while sending weapons abroad. www.cbc.ca/arts/maximum...

I had such a blast watching Tatiana Maslany in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, and talking to her about the show, and the last 10 years since her Emmy win, and Mark Carney talking about both sides of his mouth while sending weapons abroad. www.cbc.ca/arts/maximum...

Love how Ben Platt is here collaborating with Rachel Zegler, as if defying his family after they tried dragging her name through the mud for saying Free Palestine. deadline.com/2026/05/rach...

Went longer on The Devil Wears Prada 2, and how being a shadow of it's old self is kind of the point, on the CBC pop culture column. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Revisiting Sullivan's Travels with my kid and realized the Preston Sturges classic inspired our favourite Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode, Mistaken Identity.

Revisiting Sullivan's Travels with my kid and realized the Preston Sturges classic inspired our favourite Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode, Mistaken Identity.

Got into Michael, the noticeable seeds for how this franchise will inevitably frame the allegations and what it means to support this movie on my CBC pop culture column. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Even as a critic who has tried to write about MJ’s legacy with nuance and grace, I appreciate the clarity the director of Leaving Neverland brings to the table

Got to watch Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin work on the set of Modern Whore, and talk to them once again about representing sex work, pleasure and how "visibility does not mean safety." www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/83f0ba5...

Got to watch Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin work on the set of Modern Whore, and talk to them once again about representing sex work, pleasure and how "visibility does not mean safety." www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/83f0ba5...

Lee Cronin 's The Mummy treats Don't Look Now and The Exorcist as mummified inspirations, preserved in form but not spirit. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/83f0ba5...

In Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet, documentarians in disguise help bring down a cult leader now serving a 50-year sentence

‘I have to betray them to save them’: how undercover film-makers exposed a sinister polygamous cult

Trust Me: The False Prophet is great, a true crime series that goes Donnie Brosco on the FLDS, handles upsetting subject matter with care and comes by its thrills and chilling revelations honestly. Spoke to the director about pulling that off. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Trust Me: The False Prophet is great, a true crime series that goes Donnie Brosco on the FLDS, handles upsetting subject matter with care and comes by its thrills and chilling revelations honestly. Spoke to the director about pulling that off. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

This Warren Kinsella movie called The Campaign was screening for an exclusive audience at the Yonge and Eglinton Cineplex last night. youtu.be/LDm5A-lZN9Y?...

For my CBC Pop Culture Column, we went long on Project Hail Mary, shared clips from my interviews with Lord and Miller, and made some time for Chuck Norris. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

If you wanna see some real Grace and Rocky chemistry, here's @elamin.bsky.social @hertzbarry.bsky.social Sarah-Tai Black and I talking Project Hail Mary. youtu.be/0y3fCEjMHDE?...

Here's Phil Lord and Chris Miller on meeting the cynicism of this moment, and a world that seems beyond saving, with the optimism of Project Hail Mary (while lightly nudging our attention to an easter egg in the movie).

Here's Phil Lord and Chris Miller on meeting the cynicism of this moment, and a world that seems beyond saving, with the optimism of Project Hail Mary (while lightly nudging our attention to an easter egg in the movie).

Spent yesterday recapping the Oscars and the way it centred children (as below) on CBC radio shows across the country, then jumped on Alberta at Noon chatting the year in movies with listeners. Heartened that a caller brought up It Was Just An Accident. Have a listen. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Thinking about children as a running theme throughout these #Oscars  , from the opening riff on Weapons where they literally ran through the ceremony, to the children that PTA and Coogler dedicated their awards to, and Autumn's child being whisked down the aisle by Coogler, etc.

So Leonardo DiCaprio just joined Dustin Hoffman and Clark Gable as the only actors to lead three best picture winners: Titanic, The Departed, OBAA. #Oscars

James Cameron, Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson won their first directing Oscars for movies starring Leonardo DiCaprio. #Oscars

This little family moment was so beautiful. #oscars

Lockjaw refused to show up at the #Oscars because the jetski they gave the Phantom Thread costumer designer turned out to be defective.

PTA's casting director flexing her Oscar before him was gold. #Oscars

Gonna treat this best casting win as an Oscar for Chase Infiniti. (I know there’s more to it. I don’t care) #Oscars