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

Back to back Canadian wins between KPop Demon Hunters and The Girl Who Cried Pearls! #oscars

If only parents could send their demon kids to bed now. There’s still that Golden performance and best song on deck. #Oscars

How she summoned that Oscar.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think this movie would end up in the best picture lineup at the #Oscars.

Going into #Oscars weekend, resharing my year-end piece on how One Battle After Another, It Was Just An Accident and The Secret Agent (my personal faves) are in conversation with each other. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

Went long on what we should know going into the Oscars, and the surprises that may be in store, for my CBC Radio pop culture column. Listen here. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Chaotic predictions promised. open.spotify.com/episode/0o9m...

Spoke to Chris Miller and @philiplord.bsky.social about toying with our cynicism, why Project Hail Mary is an optimistic balm to these uncertain times, and how Ryan "the greatest actor of our time" Gosling improvised one of the movie's funniest moments. www.cbc.ca/arts/phil-lo...

Hey look. It's the annual CTV's Your Morning Oscars best picture breakdown produced by the indomitable Carolyn Rosseto. youtu.be/dkSpdMutuJk?...

Spoke with the filmmakers behind Twisted Yoga, the upcoming AppleTV+ series about how seeking enlightenment turned into trafficking. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The mass exodus at the Toronto Film Critics Association is gathering pace after indigenous actress and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her award trophy following the alleged censorship of her video acceptance speech, which included remarks in support of Palestine.

Absurd. Via @justsayrad.bsky.social on the hellsite, The Toronto Film Critics Association censored lle-Máijá Tailfeathers acceptance speech because she mentioned Palestine. Both weird and pathetic!

More grateful than ever that Ryan Coogler secured the ownership rights from WB to Sinners because ...

For the morning crowd, my review of Scream 7, a movie that can't justify its own existence beyond vacuous nostalgia and paying Neve Campbell what she's worth, or rather what it cost to fire Melissa Barrera. share.google/2iPAJnk7JDvx...