Articles/Essays:
 SNUBBED:
20 Great Films That Should Have Won an Oscar, But Didn’t
MovieMaker,
Spring, 2005
Seconds
(1966)
Frankenheimer’s greatest film is probably The Manchurian Candidate,
but it had the misfortune of being released in the same year as
a little film called Lawrence of Arabia (not to mention the dubious
distinction of being released just months before the assassination
of JFK). That’s not to diminish the brilliance of Seconds, a paranoid
thriller unlike any other. The film did garner a nomination for
James Wong Howe’s incredible black-and-white cinematography but
was otherwise overlooked.
2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968)
You’d think that even with the Academy’s aversion to science-fiction,
a high-minded film like 2001 would have received some recognition.
All it got, however, was an expected (and well-deserved) award
for Best Special Effects. But 2001 is much more than a spectacle.
It is pure cinema—a film open to interpretation and infinite in
its subtleties.
Once
Upon a Time in the West (1968)
If The Searchers reinvented the western, Leone turned it on its
head. Once Upon a Time in the West is without question the coolest
western ever made, its nearest competition being Leone’s own Dollars
trilogy a few years earlier. The movie deserves an award just
for the moment when Henry Fonda’s face first comes into frame,
and we suddenly see those cold blue eyes in a whole new light.
Flickr
offers snapshot of where the Web's headed
The
Globe & Mail, December 02, 2004
Vancouver-based
Ludicorp's photo-sharing/social networking service Flickr is all
the rage with shutterbugs. But it's also contributing to something
much more significant: an evolution of the Web that could change
the way people use on-line sites.
Reunderstanding
Movies
Mindjack, December 12, 2003
Technologies
of Social Change
Unpublished
essay. December 2002
Artificial
Intelligence in Film:
How
Science Fiction Shapes Public Attitudes to Science and Technology
Unpublished essay.
The
New Future
Mindjack, January 15, 2000. Republished in Seattle's MISC
Magazine, Spring 2002
Caffeinated
Culture
Mindjack, May 01, 2000
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Video Game Reviews:
- Mortal
Kombat: Shaolin Monks
GlobeandMail.com, November 21, 2005
- We
Love Katamari
GlobeandMail.com, November 10, 2005
- Game
Boy Micro
GlobeandMail.com, October 03, 2005
- Destroy
All Humans
GlobeandMail.com, July 15, 2005
- Alien
Hominid
GlobeandMail.com, February 07, 2005
- Metal
Slug Advance
GlobeandMail.com, January 17, 2005
- Prince
of Persia: The Sands of Time
Mindjack, February 25, 2004
- Soul
Calibur 2, Syberia, Post Mortem
Mindjack, November 24, 2003
Film/DVD
Reviews:
- The
Fly & The Fly II
Mindjack, October 23, 2005
- Evil
Dead 2
Mindjack, October 7, 2005
- Steamboy
& Memories
Mindjack, September 20, 2005
- Ghostbusters
1 & 2
Mindjack, September 07, 2005
- Layer
Cake
Mindjack, August 29, 2005
- The
Aviator
Mindjack, May 30, 2005
- Fox
Film Noir
Mindjack, March 25, 2005
- Code
46
Mindjack, February 01, 2005
- The
Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection
Mindjack,
January 21, 2005
- The
Battle of Algiers
Images, December 20, 2004
- Film
Noir on DVD
Mindjack, November 05, 2004
- THX
1138
Mindjack, October 25, 2004
- Videodrome
Mindjack,
September 17, 2004
- Freaks
Mindjack, August 27, 2004
- Throne
of Blood
Mindjack, July 12, 2004
- The
Prisoner and Thunderbirds
Mindjack, June 14 2004
- Breathless,
Russian Ark, Z
Mindjack, April 12, 2004
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