Stuart Henderson is a culture critic and historian. He is the author of Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s (University of Toronto Press, 2011). All of this is fun, but he’d rather be camping. Twitter: @henderstu
Features
Friday, February 3 2012
The Amazingness of Everything: A Conversation with Dan Mangan
At the end of the day, "insincerity is so visible, says the much-loved Canadian troubadour.
Monday, November 21 2011
The Hunter and The Hunted: Keira Knightley Explores Duality in 'A Dangerous Method'
A Dangerous Method's Best Actress hopeful Keira Knightley speaks with PopMatters about playing the unsung feminist heroine of psychoanalysis, Sabina Spielrein, for David Cronenberg.
Thursday, November 17 2011
The Deliberate Method of Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud in 'A Dangerous Method'
Today PopMatters begins a five-part countdown until the November 23 release of David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. Today Stuart Henderson recounts his meeting with Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen.
Thursday, November 10 2011
There Is No "World Music": A Conversation with the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart
About halfway into his three-decade run as a drummer in the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart became one of the most significant figures in the music industry, despite the fact that this side of his story is still mostly unknown.
Thursday, September 15 2011
It’s All About You: A Conversation with Robert Earl Keen
"I don’t live a tragic or squalid or scary or crazy life. I have a relatively normal existence. And I’m not consumed with the idea of fame. I am consumed with the idea of writing really good songs and making really good records."
Columns
Friday, August 20 2010
Rambo's Hold Will Never Let (Us) Go
The essential point of this series of all the Rambo films, muddy as it has been made by the hateful final installment, is that Rambo represents the failure of the American people to come to terms with their misadventure in Vietnam.
Reviews
Thursday, January 26 2012
You May Observe the Ride, but You May Not Come Aboard the Bus: 'Magic Trip'
On listening to people read from a script while we watch silent home movie footage of people on heroic doses of psychedelics.
Tuesday, January 17 2012
Be the Best Gravy You Can Be: 'The Wavy Gravy Movie: Saint Misbehavin'
Wavy Gravy emerges not only as a fascinating character, but as a powerful, inspiring, even heroic man. This is what the '60s always wanted to be about, but almost never were.
Monday, January 16 2012
Coeur de Pirate: Blonde
Riding 1960s-era throwback arrangements for all they’re worth, Blonde feels just right in an era of Adele, Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Sharon Jones.
Monday, January 9 2012
Shirley Brown: Woman to Woman (Original Recording Remastered)
The song “Woman to Woman” remains a footnote – a perpetual inclusion on lists of “one-hit wonders” from the 1970s. Shirley Brown certainly could have done worse, but she deserved better.
Monday, December 5 2011
'Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. XXII': Time of the Apes, Mighty Jack, The Violent Year, The Brut
This new box set, like pretty much every other MST3K set ever released, is by turns astoundingly funny and ho-hum (but the former well outpaces the latter).
Blogs
Friday, September 23 2011
Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'A Dangerous Method'
David Cronenberg's latest is a chilly study of the creative and competitive triangle between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), and the lesser-known Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightly) in the early years of the 20th century.
Friday, September 23 2011
Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'The Day'
Can a cannibal ever truly be redeemed? For the answer to this Augustinian question I guess you could watch The Day, but it's probably better to just let that be one of life's unaswerables.
Friday, September 16 2011
Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Into the Abyss'
In his documentaries especially, Herzog throws the supposed regulations out completely, ditching any pretense toward objectivity or “documentation” for a decidedly first-person perspective
Friday, September 16 2011
Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Sons of Norway'
Sons of Norway, mockingly named after a Norwegian cultural heritage preservation society, tells the story of the role punk music and culture influenced a young boy on the cusp of his adolescence in 1978.
Friday, September 16 2011
Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'The Descendants'
This is a mature and well-executed study of what happens when people die and leave us with their messes to clean up.
