nick hilbourn

Kindergarten Cop turns 30 years old this month. In its time it was considered an awkward child: too grim for kids and too pandering for adults. It was, in fact, exactly what it was supposed to be though: the pubescent stage of the…

Donald Quist trusts in the clarity and outlook of his talent, which has emerged in a myriad of roles: fiction writer, playwright, reporter, podcast host and educator. Only recently has he focused his efforts on telling his own story.…

I had a lot of ill-will built up toward Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are. It wasn’t just the usual enmity for a film adaptation of a book. But you’ve got to understand Maurice Sendak’s classic is the bedrock on which the colours and…

I've had several, what you might call, “meta” moments recently (in the cinematic mode). “Meta”, of course, is a term used when a situation approaches the limit of its ontological reality through some linguistic utterance (whether in form…