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You can call me Harry Poseur

How could you not be caught up in the frenzy of Harry Potter-mania in this last week? Now, I, for one, have only read the first book, but I...

Linda
Of Crime and (Black) Comedy: A Conversation with John Dahl

Of Crime and (Black) Comedy: A Conversation with John Dahl

We loved John Dahl’s latest film You Kill Me here at The Pie, so we couldn’t have been more thrilled when he agreed to sit down and answer some...

Jennifer
Pirates of the Caribbean

Jennifer’s Best of 2006… and 1986!

Here we are at the end of another lackluster year at the movies. Out of all the releases in 2006, I was passionate about seeing only three: Pirates of...

Jennifer
C.R.A.Z.Y.

Linda’s Best of 2006

10 movies that I really liked in 2006: C.R.A.Z.Y. – A fabulous, funny, rich, tearjerker coming-of-age film that won a slew of awards in Canada, played film festivals, then...

Linda
Casino Royale

Vickie’s Best and Worst of 2006

Huh. Oh well. More than anything else, 2006 seems to have been the Year of Mediocrity, where the vast majority of films wound up in the “meh” pile, and...

Vickie
The Raftman's Razor

The Raftman’s Razor… or one screenwriter’s whirlwind experience on the film festival circuit

For me, one of the treats of this year’s film festival season was hearing the saga of my friends’ short film The Raftman’s Razor first getting accepted at the...

Linda
sarahwaters

BBC2 dips into the sexy side of Victorian England: Tipping the Velvet author Sarah Waters

2002 has turned into quite a banner year for Sarah Waters. At 36, the Welsh-born, London-based writer found herself to be the youngest author on the 2002 shortlist for...

Linda
Sarah Peirse in RAIN

The Scent of Rain: A Conversation with Christine Jeffs and John Toon

“When the rain came, it came first as the scent of rain…” – Kirsty Gunn, Rain Like a slightly faded and worn photograph from the seventies, Christine Jeffs’ new...

Linda
Yo La Tengo

Moby Octopad’s L’Hippocampe Rendezvous: Yo La Tengo and the Documentaries of Jean Painlevé

As much as Seattleites like to grumble about Paul Allen’s bloated architectural monstrosity, the Experience Music Project (or EMP), one can’t help but appreciate the musical treats that the...

Linda