Here’s a piece I recently wrote for CBC Arts Online, on Reality TV in the Arab world. I spent a lot of time in the Middle East flitting about studios in which flashy American Idol style productions were being filmed; plenty of this will be incorporated into The Sheikh’s Batmobile.

The videogame industry continues to ply us with statistics on how they are the future of entertainment, much as they have done for the past thirty years. Here’s why those numbers deserve a leee-tle bit of circumspection.

Here’s a piece I covered for CBC during the Toronto International Film Festival, on an unheralded yet superb Algerian filmmaker. Without men like him, vast tracts of history would simply be wiped from our collective memory.