Film Critic at CTV's @YourMorning. Pop Culture Columnist on @CBCRadio. Contributor @guardian @globeandmail and more.
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Getting into negotiating identity through dance in a big epic conversation with Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Hasan Minhaj in Time Magazine, with exclusive photos to boot.
Best of the Best is on Netflix today.
time.com/article/2026/09/16/… – at Toronto, Ontario
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The highlight of tonight’s YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING Q&A was @nathanfielder and @HertzBarry talking about The Fast and the Furious franchise.
Nathan and Barry’s favorite? FAST FIVE.
Lance went with Tokyo Drift.
This was a fantastic convo on spoiler culture with @kvanaren and @brofromanother. youtu.be/zIfzR5l9WkE?si=3Kkr… – at Toronto, Ontario
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With the dreadful ALI G: WHO IZ I?, Sacha Baron Cohen goes full Matt Walsh, and becomes the very thing he once mocked: an oaf who doesn't understand the world no longer wants him. MGM is 2 for 2, as this ties with MELANIA for most odious film of the year. theglobeandmail.com/culture/…
Had to act on this immediately. – at Toronto, Ontario
The apocalyptic problem for home video enthusiasts is less that studios will decide to stop releasing films on disc but that the companies that make the disc players will cease production. These aren't record players; they're complicated to manufacture. flatpanelshd.com/news.php?su…
Spoke to the Canadians on Wildwood about not only keeping stop-motion animation alive but going bigger than ever. share.google/82cmcLc8mM5Ry2Y… – at Toronto, Ontario
Are the people mad that a reviewer saw a public screening and posted a review (without breaking embargo) to RottenTomatoes the same people who put way too much stock in RottenTomatoes? – at Toronto, Ontario
Had to prop it way up here because this monolith won't fit in shelves.
Christmas came early! It's launch day for the Criterion Kubrick Collection and there's a 50% off Criterion flash sale on. Thank you @cinemacellarhq for inviting me to grab my copy!
(And look out for @coreyatad among the first to get his hands on this beauty.)
Had a big long chat on method acting on Commotion yesterday. youtu.be/Gigpog6iw-Y?si=ep1u… – at Toronto, Ontario
And got into Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother this morning. youtu.be/ialtnLeDHIQ?si=fYX9… – at Toronto, Ontario
And waded into the news about Sally Rooney.
youtu.be/wX4w6AXfWRA?si=fQJp… – at Toronto, Ontario
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Unpopular embargo opinion (depending who you ask): Once a movie screens publicly in any capacity, all bets should be off.
Christmas came early! It's launch day for the Criterion Kubrick Collection and there's a 50% off Criterion flash sale on. Thank you @cinemacellarhq for inviting me to grab my copy!
(And look out for @coreyatad among the first to get his hands on this beauty.) – at Toronto, Ontario
This piece drops the most appealing rumor at the very end. The replacements to these fired executives could be Mike DeLuca and Pam Andy! – at Toronto, Ontario
Netflix fired film boss Dan Lin because he could not find the balance between streaming titles and theatrical release experiments, sources say.
Lin and Greta Gerwig did clash over the upcoming "Narnia" movie, but sources say the incident is not directly what led to his firing.
On a Zoom call earlier this year, Lin is said to have been “dismissive” to Gerwig regarding the progress of the "Narnia" movie, which carries a $250 million budget. Word traveled fast around Netflix that the meeting had gone south. Soon after, Lin disappeared from the film, per sources, and film VP Doug Belgrad stepped in as the primary Netflix exec overseeing the project (until, of course, he was laid off last week).
variety.com/2026/film/news/n…
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Had fun exploring the rabbit holes and mirrored hallways of YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING to offer a syllabus of Fielder & Oppenheim's intentional and accidental influences — including Allan King, Charlie Kaufman, Errol Morris and, hear me out, Michael Mann. theglobeandmail.com/culture/…
Video stores staying open till midnight for a major new release is bringing back such core memories. – at Toronto, Ontario
A movie I thought about while sorting through the residue of You Can See Everything is Sophy's film Blue Heron. – at Toronto, Ontario
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