The interwebs are abuzz with anger and righteous rage over the proposed Censorship Bill C-10 which would see the Conservative government use the stick of tax credits - and ultimately Telefilm funding - to govern the content of film and television productions in Canada.
This is not only a violation of our Charter Rights and Freedoms […]

What follows is a set of links to related articles - all of which deal with the current U.S. policy towards the rest of the world. All conspiracy theories aside, this is a rather sobering view of a dominant world power exerting its force and influence with the express purpose of acquiring and maintaining […]

Roy Gould and Curtis Wong gave a preview at this year’s TED Talks of the Microsoft initiative known as The World Wide Telescope.
In brief - it is to the universe what your browser is to the web. To my mind this is a beautiful extension of our collective minds and perceptions and another profound […]

Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!
What the hell - it’s the Year Of The Rat.
It’s a Leap Year.
It’s Friday.
It’s Round-Up Day!
There won’t be much commentary on this disparate bunch of crap I’m about to lay on you - just a big ass whack of links to stories that caught my attention and which […]

New dad Cory Doctorow reports at BoingBoing on new legislation that, if passed, will most likely kill the Canadian film and television industry and then piss on its grave.

Safety Minister Stockwell Day - Remember him? The guy who believes the universe was created 6,000 years ago? Feel safe? - and Justice […]

Ever wonder how big the internets are? Where all those tubes go?
Discover Magazine reports the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) has created a map of the internet that looks pretty darn cool - especially since they’ve mapped it out in a flat circle which should make the folks at the Flat Earth […]

My buddy, Mark Achtenberg, has posted more of our email exchange where we discuss writing for cinema. I hold forth in my usual endless ranting style and he thinks enough of it to put it on his blog - and I think enough of what he’s done to post about it on my blog.
I […]

I was trolling around and found this - again - posted on Violet Blue’s blog. I love Eddie Izzard and this reminded me of my own recent meltdown with my own Mac - although it took a lot more effort on my part to finally fix all the the crap that did go wrong […]

If you’ve never hear the Theremin played before here’s a chance to listen to one of the best performers alive today. Pamelia Kurstin spoke and performed at the TED Talks and it’s just a joy to hear the sounds and music she creates. This goes waaaay beyond yer cliché 1950’s SciFi movie soundtrack […]

I know - I know - I’m just a hapless shill for “The Man”.
I can’t help myself - it’s Indiana Fuckin’ Jones fer chris’sakes!
Harrison Ford is old - but so am I - and Cate Blanchett is hot in that hair.
And it’s Indiana Fuckin’ Jones!

Robbo, yer still a movie fan?
“Part time.”
Cheers.

My friend, Bryan, asked me the other day what I thought of the recently resolved strike between the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) and the networks and studios of the U.S. film and television industry - aka Hollywood.
I happened across some posts by Marc Andreessen and included them in my response to Bryan - and […]

As reported today in Michael Geist’s blog, the Canadian Association of Braodcasters (not generally known for being altruistic or forward thinking) has come out with an op-ed in the Hill Times, decrying the proposed Canadian version of the DMCA.

“If a new fee proposed by the record labels is approved, additional payments from Canadian broadcasters to […]

On Mark Achtenberg’s blog Musings & Contradictions you’ll find he has posted one of our recent email exchanges.
We occasionally fling words back and forth at each other as we deconstruct what makes films and scripts and performances work or fail. Inevitably it turns into some kind of extended rant.
I enjoy it.
And since he linked […]

My friend, Ming, sent me the link to this story.
Apparently some bunch of cinema geniuses are actually looking to tell the life story of Jim Henson.
According to the post at SlashFilm:

Empire Film Group has acquired the motion picture production and distribution rights to Henson, an original screenplay by Robert D. Slane that tells […]

As reported by Cory Doctorow in today’s postings on BoingBoing, the Harper government is preparing to ram through a totally bullshit version of copyright reform which is horribly flawed and terribly dangerous for Canadians.
Michael Geist has the skinny on what’s been happening and what you can do to make a change for the better:

The fight […]