Category: Review of poetry collection

by M. Bijman February 27, 2018

Review in a 48-second video – You Took the Last Bus Home, by Brian Bilston

Compact Crits #6: 48-second review of You Took the Last Bus Home, by Brian Bilston (poetry) Here’s the full reviewContinue Reading

by M. Bijman February 25, 2018

Brian Bilston’s first anthology of poetry contains more than 200 poems, and despite some of them being only four linesContinue Reading

I abhor the Nestlé Pure Life commercial – here’s why October 19, 2018
I just hate this commercial. Every time I see it I get absolutely furious. It is patently, obviously, in-your-face WRONG on just about every level. This is the latest Nestlé bottled water commercial, showing on Canadian TV. It shows a well-dressed, well-fed little white girl, complete with safety goggles, drinking bottled water and asking “what can […] […]

Slice (2018) October 28, 2018
“So you're telling me that my pizza place is built on a gateway to hell?” — Jack Describing Austin Vesely’s werewolf-pizza Chance-the-Rapper comedy-horror film Slice is a mouthful. But with a premise like that, it’s no surprise that it bears a fully loaded, stuffed crust, dripping hot delight of a title sequence.Created by artist and animator John Chris […]
The Walking Dead (Season 9) (2018) October 18, 2018
“We're not just fighting to survive anymore. We're making a new beginning.” — Rick Grimes A ruined, decomposing world picked clean by those who remain, harshly rendered frame by frame. Out of that decay comes something new, driving he carrion-eaters away, holding them at bay... for now. For its ninth and latest season, AMC's much beloved horro […]