Patrick Tarr

My second novel comes out exactly one year from today, August 27th 2027,. 'The House in Drowning Lake' is about the mysterious dwelling found when a small town drains its reservoir. Damp creepiness ensues. Pictured, me writing it.

60 Free Film Noir Movies. Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Humphrey Bogart, Billy Wilder and more

Dreaming of a Criterion ‘Super Specific European Legal Processes’ box set, featuring Fjord, Anatomy of a Fall, and more.

This looks like fun, filmed in the GTA and featuring the great Jayne Eastwood.

Few things I love more than an ancient blood-drinking creature .

Not my country nor my fight, but as a relieved outside observer allow me to extend a hearty "go fuck yourselves" to the Albertan separatists nonetheless www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

This is...honestly quite moving. deadline.com/2026/10/stev...

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

I've been part of one or two productions that not only failed but felt cursed, but this one was so bad you can tell the people who worked on this one are still affected 50 years later.

If you’re a TV writer (or doing any collaborative creative job) you will encounter problems in other people’s work. So this week’s #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread is about THE THREE WAYS OF DEALING WITH SOMEONE ELSE’S ISSUE. Two options will lead to more problems and one will keep you employed.

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO is making history as the first R rated movie in the history of the franchise, suggesting director Takashi Yamazaki isn’t pulling any punches.

This was great, you should read this.

@tananarivedue.bsky.social writing about old Hollywood, a new @sjshank.bsky.social medieval folk horror, and Elizabeth Urso's Hail Mary all out today! And those are just the ones I've been waiting for. Should keep me busy for a bit.

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...

Our dad always told a story about the day he’d decided competitive boxing was not for him—it was after the first punch landed when sparring with Chuvalo at the Toronto gym he trained at

Unbelievable debut performance from Sneha Kumari in Ritchie Mehta’s tense historical biopic Phoolan #tiff

Cinema Cellar now open in Toronto, hooray and oh no.

Georgina Lightning has died. Born in 1963 in Edmonton, she was leading First Nations filmmaker and actor. She was the first Indigenous woman to direct a major feature film with 2008's Older Than America, which earned more than 25 festival awards. 📸 ACCT

This is an incredibly meaningful prize in honour of an incredibly wonderful friend and writer. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

feeling unexpectedly emotional as we visit saerbeck, a town of just 7200 in central germany that formed a climate municipality. they produce 4.5x the electricity they need, and have developed a whole array of climate solutions. one of them? a climate action curriculum that starts in kindergarten.

A very, very good reason to love Canada - in the twilight of his career, they hired Buster Keaton to drive a one-man rail maintenance vehicle from the East Coast right across to the West Coast, and gave us this 25 minute treasure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYmc...

My dog has finally found her mini-me best friend.

Coyote vs Acme at the Revue Cinema was a wild collection of elderly couples, families with kids, groups of young people, pairs of middle aged dude friends, you name it. Everyone laughing, delighted, applauding at the end. Stuffed with gags and some heart too.

Plan a horrorest using only your first name. Possession A Dark Song The Thing Return of the Living Dead Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Changeling (The) Kill List

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

Pete Kleinow was a veritable genius. Not only as a stop motion animator whose work lives on in projects as varied as Gumby and The Terminator, but as a musician whose pedal steel guitar is featured on so many classic songs of the 70s. Jim and I were lucky enough to see him perform at the Palomino.

Legacy of service remembered following the death of Squamish's Michael Coyle

There is no kingdom like the forests.

Pre-ordered and can’t wait.

I’d like to know as much about *anything• as Eric does about Toronto cinema history.

Toronto, you’re going to love your new waterfront park! The next phase of Biidaasige Park is now open.

Lost Sky Pilot Lake is a real one in northern Ontario... gotta be a story there.

Trying to come up with an evocative name for a fictional lake in a province with 250,000 real lakes is going to be the end of me.

I certainly had some thoughts to share, even about the very nature of the questions being asked.

I expected to like and laugh at this, but in fact I loved it and was also moved.

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

Accidentally matchy Sunday haul from @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social

Another thing this has done is it has basically created an extinction event for young writers, and their ability to learn and work their way up in the TV industry.