Just Don’t Call Me Late For Dinner
A dozen years ago there was a black comedy French film called Le diner de cons. The story is about a group of prominent French… Read More »Just Don’t Call Me Late For Dinner
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Brian McAsey
Brian McAsey is a University of Calgary graduate in Philosophy and Classics. He is a firefighter and a filmmaker, poet, past opera performer, and fiction writer. Brian co-produced the prestigious CTV Bell documentary feature, Girls Don't Fight and produced the award winning independent documentary film, The Deeper You Go. He is retired from the sport of wrestling but still competes as a marathon, ultra marathon, and Ironman athlete.
Paul May Be Dead But This Film Is Boring
The Last Testament of George Harrison is a feature documentary narrated by an audio recording allegedly made by the late titular Beatle. Apparently, Harrison just… Read More »Paul May Be Dead But This Film Is Boring
Atom Egoyan’s Chloe is Creepy, Sexy… and Lousy
Living in a post-Austin Powers world unfortunately means the name Chloe evokes images of a web-footed, French child prostitute with evil progeny. Not so with… Read More »Atom Egoyan’s Chloe is Creepy, Sexy… and Lousy
White Ribbon a Blue Ribbon Effort
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke makes the bleakest and most disturbing films you have ever seen. He also makes some of the most beautiful, intelligent and… Read More »White Ribbon a Blue Ribbon Effort
The Ten Best Horror Films You’ve Never Seen
This Halloween video stores will be swamped with patrons clamouring to be scared silly. In the finite universe of horror-cinema most will settle for a… Read More »The Ten Best Horror Films You’ve Never Seen
Vanity in the Bonfire
Beneath that column of smoke in the distance is a building fire, an engine crew, a little piece of hell. Inside that building, impossibly hot,… Read More »Vanity in the Bonfire
Walk Towards the Light: 2009 Calgary Underground Film Festival
Do you love film? Have you ever been in an ecstatic state during a viewing of a movie, experienced something akin to a lucid dream… Read More »Walk Towards the Light: 2009 Calgary Underground Film Festival
Pontypool: Shut Up or Die!
Bruce McDonald Talks Pontypool is one of those weird words you roll around your mouth like a jawbreaker while you try to recall the proper… Read More »Pontypool: Shut Up or Die!
Entre Le Murs is in a Class above the Rest
Good news for film lovers, filmmaker Laurent Cantet’s Entre Le Murs (The Class) has finally found its way into the cultural backwater that is Calgary.… Read More »Entre Le Murs is in a Class above the Rest
Popcorn Rapture: The Best and Worst of Cinema in 2008
Another year of sitting in dark rooms watching flickering light against the wall has come and gone. The year in cinema hasn’t been the best… Read More »Popcorn Rapture: The Best and Worst of Cinema in 2008