Pat Padua

1 week ago | spectrumculture.com | Pat Padua

If ever there was a writing style that oozed glam, Robert Dayton has it. To convey the admitted contradictions of Canadian glam – “what could be more nebulous than the words ‘Canadian’ and ‘glam,’” he asks on page one – Dayton strikes a delicious balance between enthusiastic embellishment and journalistic efficiency. What is Canadian glam, you may ask? Cold Glitter explains, fabulously.

1 month ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Pat Padua |Steve Kiviat |Brandon Wetherbee |Matt S. Siblo |Alan Zilberman |Will Lennon | +1 more

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Director Nagisa Oshima’s bold 1968 film operates on a devastating premise: What happens when a Korean man sentenced to death in a Japanese court somehow survives the execution? With a title like Death by Hanging and an opening sequence that lays out a case against capital punishment, one braces the emotions for what must inevitably be a laborious two-hour ordeal. Would you believe the movie is absolutely hilarious?

1 month ago | spectrumculture.com | Pat Padua

Imagine it’s the early ‘90s, the dawn of a new decade and nearly the end of the millennium. Hair is big, fashion is fluorescent and cocaine is plentiful, at least in your line of work. Because it is up to you, yes, you, to cast a wacky rom-com starring daytime/nighttime soap opera queen Emma Samms. So, who would you pick for her male lead? Chris Elliott? Cheech Marin? Believe it or not, both unlikely couplings came to fruition.

Jan 15, 2025 | spectrumculture.com | Pat Padua

At once deadpan and magical, reticent and packed with emotion, the work of Haruki Murakami has long been populated with fantastic creatures to complement and thwart the all-too-ordinary humans in his vividly painted worlds. But when unicorns turn up in his latest epic, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, one may be forgiven for thinking that the prolific, reliable author has crossed a line.

Nov 18, 2024 | spectrumculture.com | Pat Padua

When actors Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards face each other in the Calgary airport, sparks fly. But not in the way their fans might expect. Hello, Love, Again is director Cathy Garcia-Sampana’s sequel to the 2019 romantic drama Hello, Love, Goodbye, which until this year was the highest-grossing Filipino film of all time.