Canadian-born reporter and editor Adam Symchuk has been writing on the topic of film, TV, and literature for over a decade. Starting with an emphasis on Asian film, literature and manga, his love of ...

I’m the one that speaks in random movie dialogue. I almost always miss contact on high-fives. For years, I have been writing, speaking at length, and thanking the gods that my shocking encyclopedic ...

Corpse Bride, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, is based on the Jewish folk tale "The Finger". The film adaptation adds a lot of embellishments and changes the ...

It was always 1933 in my mother’s one photograph of Fanny, her hair bobbed like Garbo’s, her eyebrows thin, penciled arcs. Her silk skirt flowed to her shoe buckles. Her arms were fleshy, the way ...