Tonight I watched The Bees (Alfredo Zacarías, 1978), one of a series of the killer-bees-panic subgenre of the 1970s. John Saxon stars, so ...

Number one, I hope we can arrange a really nice birthday celebration for Mom's 80th this summer. Number two, which, of course, has a lar...

I don't envy anyone who tries to adapt Stephen King's magnum opus, The Stand . The book's greatness doesn't lie in its good ...

Beautifully bleak, Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men (2005) presents a societal collapse painted in tones of brown and grey with the occa...

 Last Thursday I experienced a moment of something close to despair. I stayed up far too late; I didn't come to bed until midnight, even...

They say two thousand twenty twenty going overboard all the time So this year we're going to party like it's 1939

Something sad and beautiful: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World , Lorene Scafaria's 2012 romantic comedy-drama about humanity...

Being marooned on a tropical island would probably not be much fun in real life, but in popular culture it's not always a completely ba...

As part of my job I spent the whole day monitoring Twitter for news of the wildfire disaster impacting Fort McMurray. The CBC has a great l...

Our species' hold on civilization is tenuous. On some level, every human being knows we live on the edge of disaster, but we carry o...

In Stephen King's The Stand , an experimental flu virus, Captain Trips, kills 99.4 percent of Earth's population. That made me wond...

Today I'm thinking of my friends in southern Alberta, who are struggling against a rising tide of floodwaters . Several years ago Syl...

Some days it's hard to be human. Last night I mentioned my friend Rick's serious illness ; Sylvia and I missed a tribute to him b...