Amelia Brown

My name’s Amelia. I’ll be your server tonight.

My name’s Amelia. I’ll be your server tonight.

The tables are filling up quickly and the kitchen bell is ringing, just as more diners arrive. I seat them before running back for the food. The young woman at the door doesn’t have a reservation, but I happen to know who she is.

By Amelia Brown The tables are filling up quickly and the kitchen bell is ringing, just as more diners arrive. I seat them before running back for the food. The young woman at the door doesn’t have a reservation, but I happen to know who she is. Her photo appeared in a story with my byline. […]

 Amelia Brown

My name’s Amelia. I’ll be your server tonight.

My name’s Amelia. I’ll be your server tonight.

The tables are filling up quickly and the kitchen bell is ringing, just as more diners arrive. I seat them before running back for the food. The young woman at the door doesn’t have a reservation, but I happen to know who she is.

The tables are filling up quickly and the kitchen bell is ringing, just as more diners arrive. I seat them before running back for the food. The young woman at the door doesn’t have a reservation, but I happen to know who she is. Her photo appeared in a story with my byline. We exchanged […]

 Amelia Brown

Camera, Set, Activism! Ideology goes to the movies

Camera, Set, Activism! Ideology goes to the movies

With no place for politics in mainstream film reviews, several Canadian journals explore the messages in the medium

By Amelia Brown When Adam Nayman wrote about the Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in 2009, his editor at Eye Weekly wasn’t happy. The review criticized the movie’s “fake feminism,” arguing the brutal violence against a woman was rendered moot after she beat the perpetrator even more viciously. But the editor wondered whether these criticisms […]