Brian D. Johnson

Finally back in the saddle after a luxuriously long absence, I’m returning = with a fresh palate. For almost a month, I didn’t set...

After two and a half weeks of being holed up in a cabin on a Laurentian lake, it’s time to break blog silence. It has rained every...

As regular readers of this blog may have noticed, and I believe I know both of you by name, I’ve been absent from the website. I’m...

Kevin Costner may be on an upswing with ’Swing Vote’

It’s a weekend of underworld heroes, in all shapes and colours. An infernal brute fights off an underground horde in Hellboy II:...

Summertime. The living is easy and the popcorn is high. And the time is right for . . . intelligent design? That’s just my lazy...

It seems the secret of a successful jazz festival is booking music that’s not jazz. The organizers of the Montreal Jazz Festival...

This weekend marks a showdown between two goofy Hollywood comedies about mild-mannered bozos endowed with extravagantly fake...

Once again, circumstances beyond my control have conspired to keep me from seeing the weekend’s designated blockbuster, The...

An interview with Leonard Cohen backstage at Hamilton Place