Canada

September 7, 2024

[TIFF 2024] Seeds

Seeds is an “influencer horror” film about a woman who takes a lucrative sponsorship gig from a big-time seed company, only to learn that things aren’t as innocent as they seem. Continue reading

Categories: Canada, Movies

Tags: TIFF
June 9, 2024

Movies I Saw at Hot Docs 2024

A little over a month ago, I attended the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival for the first time. There was a wide variety of subject matter, and I appreciated that most (every?) showing included filmmaker Q&As after the credits. I’ll go again next year, as long as the festival’s apparent financial woes don’t tank Continue reading

Categories: Canada, Movies
May 7, 2024

From the River to the Dean’s Office

Last Thursday, I stopped by the newly established encampment at my former school, the University of Toronto. These encampments, which have popped up at what feels like nearly every North American university at this point, have been variously described as “pro-Palestine” or “anti-Israel.” Continue reading

Categories: Canada, Culture
September 23, 2023

Movies I Saw at TIFF 2023

The Hollywood strike may have prevented this year’s Toronto International Film Festival from being as lively as prior years, but that didn’t hold me back. This year I saw 11 films at the festival. I even liked most of them! Here are all of the films that I saw at TIFF 2023, in the order Continue reading

Categories: Canada, Movies

Tags: TIFF
July 2, 2023

Linking is Not Stealing

Imagine if every time you asked a librarian for help finding a book, the library would be forced to pay money to that book’s publisher. A rational observer of this behavior might suggest that the librarian has already done a service to that book’s publisher by handing them a new reader. A rational observer might Continue reading

Categories: Canada, Culture, Information Architecture