Articles by Bjorn Olson

Dum Maaro Dum

Rohan Sippy

PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2011

Bollywood has played Hollywood's hyperactive, overseas sibling for many years now, tenaciously nipping at the heels of its big brother by c...

The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman

Wuershan

PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2011

The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman has one foot in the past and one in the present, with its framework tied to the historical martial...

CatDog: Season One Part One

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2011

In the wake of The Ren and Stimpy Show, John Kricfalusi's great, criminally subversive and insanely funny cartoon show, which debuted on Ni...

13 Assassins

Takashi Miike

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2011

13 Assassins takes place in May of 1844, in the waning days of feudal Japan. Evoking The Godfather in its opening scenes, the film follows...

Small Town Murder Songs

Ed Gass-Donnelly

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2011

A movie that's as strange and unique as its lead actor, Small Town Murder Songs is the kind of film that resolutely sticks to its own pace...

God Bless America

Bobcat Goldthwait

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2011

Bobcat Goldthwait has seen the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness, reality TV and the cruelty of modern popular culture. God...

Tyrannosaur

Paddy Considine

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2011

Tyrannosaur is a grim, bleak film about grief, abuse, pain and the loss of hope. It focuses on the interaction between two people: Joseph (...

Afghan Luke

Mike Clattenburg

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2011

Recent war films have addressed the seemingly never-ending contemporary conflict in the Middle East, yet Canadian filmmakers have mostly sh...