Lou Costello.

*breathes a sigh of relief*

In today's Globe and Mail, Eric Veillette writes about Black Zero...

I’m constantly amazed by the passion and dedication of those working in the boutique Blu-ray field. Black Zero is no exception.

This X-rated classic made a Toronto cinema the target of censors in the ‘70s. Now the filmmaker’s raunchy catalogue is getting the attention it deserves. Toronto Star thestar.com/entertainment/…

How Canadian film archives are fighting to preserve our audio-visual heritage — my latest for the The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/arti…

Thanks for sharing my story! So much work goes into preserving these films before they are discovered by a new audience. I wanted to highlight the invisible work done by archivists & the challenges they face.

My latest for the The Globe and Mail: In B.C., film classification is alive & well, much to the dismay of exhibitors, distributors & industry advocates who spoke to me, calling the current system parochial, archaic & out of step with modern film exhibition theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/arti…

Very proud to be responsible for a @Letterboxd entry for “Emmanuelle in Ontario”

The truth about Ed Wood, as Will Sloan's new book argues, is stranger and more interesting than Tim Burton's attempt at rehabilitation: He was an artist working through obsessions in ways Hollywood wasn’t ready to embrace. Great story by Eric Veillette: theglobeandmail.com/culture/books/…

For small town cinemas across Canada, the show must go on! Check out this great deep dive from Eric Veillette in CBC Arts. cbc.ca/arts/for-small…

For the Toronto Star, I write about Ed Conroy new book, ImagiNation: The Golden Age of Toronto Kids’ TV. This here ‘80s kid spills lots of ink on Today’s Special & some of the difficult themes they tackled. thestar.com/entertainment/…

This week’s newsletter looks at the history of The Bloor Theatre. No no, not that one. The one across the street, which we’ve known as Lee’s Palace since the mid-‘80s. open.substack.com/pub/thedowntow…

Big ups to Severin for trusting w/ hosting a release screening for the new Emmanuelle boxed set. EMMANUELLE + my short EMMANUELLE IN ONTARIO + introduction by the legendary Marika Green + other fun things. November 29 at the historic Revue Cinema

Very proud to be responsible for this Letterboxd entry.

Giving major ‘70s-‘80s Toronto rep house vibes. Let’s have more of this.

Seeing this tonight at The Revue ! cbc.ca/arts/a-movie-t…

if the only thing that survived from pre-1960 Hollywood were the Warner Bros. cartoons, you could use them as a Rosetta Stone to extrapolate what the rest of film culture was like.