Craig Silliphant

Thursday, April 2nd. 7 PM. Broadway Theatre. Relive your trauma, Saskatoon.

For me, How Chee! My buddy the great @craigsilliphant.bsky.social made a documentary about a beloved late night tv commercial that has lived on through VHS and the internet. I got to draw the poster, and it was super fun to work on. Everyone should go see this film!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: First Draft: Conversations on Writing with Craig Silliphant and Joanne (J.C.) Paulson. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joinin... The Time We Have: Ditching Preciousness and Making the Work Matter This talk is about the one resource every writer struggles with most: time. Too often we treat writing as something that requires id...

Stop waiting for the perfect circumstances to be creative.

I'm doing a FREE webinar for the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild about how to ditch the preciousness and get stuff done!

You don't have to be a writer; it's for anyone doing anything creative.

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Dave’s Top 20 Albums of 2025 - Craig Silliphant Every new year, I throw down the best and worst movies of the previous year and my friend and frequent collaborator, Dave Scaddan, writes his Top 20 Albums. There's a few of the same albums on his lis...

I'm a bit late on this but here are Dave Scaddan's Top Albums of 2025! Lots of great finds here!

(If you remember, Dave used to write this for the The Feedback Society every year while I covered best and worst movies. Now we're doing it at my own website).

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I'm going a free online talk in March for the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild on how to ditch preciousness around our work to buckle down and get it done. While it will focus on writing, it can really apply to pretty much anything that requires your time and effort to move the pieces forward.

The Top 10 Movies of 2025 - Craig Silliphant It’s that time of year, movie lovers! After Christmas and New Year’s, I have to go back to work or they’ll just find a bloated corpse, reeking of bourbon and covered in butter tart crumbs. But that al...

Here you are movie lovers! My Top 10 Films of 2025!

What was your favourite movie of the year?

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The Five Worst Movies of 2025 - Craig Silliphant To be fair, there may be worse movies from 2025. I saw several hundred, but I didn't see all of them. These are just the worst ones I personally watched. Of course, art is subjective, so one person’s ...

For the next few days, I'll be releasing my Best and Worst Films of 2025.

The next few days will be the Best Ofs, but for today, here are the Worst Five Movies I Saw in 2025. Enjoy! Feel free to yell at me or harangue me if you disagree.

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Marty Supreme - Craig Silliphant Marty Supreme is about Marty Mauser, a young man with ping-pong dreams that absolutely no one respects. Not his peers, not his family, not the gatekeepers, not the vaguely sinister creeps circling the...

In the final days of 2025, I squeezed in one of the best movies of the year --- Marty Supreme! Here's my review! If you saw it, I'd love to know what you thought of it.

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Saskatoon Dining: Pique - Craig Silliphant If you like these articles, click to subscribe for FREE to get them delivered to your inbox, every time! I am forever chasing the perfect lunch: a great soup, sandwich, pastry, or—on the truly blessed...

I'm always looking for a great lunch spot. I had been thinking of Pique as more of a bakery, but I've recently re-evaluated that line of thinking. Here's my write up on the amazing Saskatoon bakery, cafe, and yes, lunch spot!

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Stuff a copy of my latest book, Bunnyhug Cynic, into the stocking of someone you love. Give the give of Gen X sarcasm and a few laughs.

Bunnyhug Cynic is available at McNally Robinson, Turning the Tide, and Amazon.

If you need a gift idea that isn’t socks or scented candles, grab my latest book, Bunnyhug Cynic. Non-fiction humour stories about Saskatchewan, pop culture, and the absurdity of the universe.

Bunnyhug Cynic is available at McNally Robinson, Turning the Tide, and Amazon.

At the movies with Craig Silliphant: Witches and monsters YouTube video by CTV News

Heyo! I was on CTV Morning Live this week with the great and talented Jeremy Dodge, to talk about Wicked: For Good and Del Toro's Frankenstein. Let me know if you saw either of these movies and what you thought!

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Predator: Badlands - Craig Silliphant The Predator franchise has always been a strange beast. In 1987, it split the difference between muscle-bound action and creature-feature horror. So, you’ve got the near-perfect original, a decent seq...

Predator: Badlands was pretty badass! What a fun movie --- something you should check out this weekend. (Though, if you don't like violent sci-fi, it won't be for you).

Here's my spoiler-free review!

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I agree. They used to be so much better compared to Air Canada, but now they're basically on par for a race to the bottom.

Happy Halloween my fellow Halloween Heads! I'll be on The Evan Bray Show today at 11:30 talking about Halloween movies. Why are they so popular? What are my favourites? What movie scarred me as a child?

Tune in to CKOM and CJME across the province at 11:30!

Westjet to Charge A-hole Tax. I’m All Here For It. - Craig Silliphant WestJet has announced they’re going to start charging passengers for the ability to recline their seats. That’s right, the next time you want to jam your seatback into my knees like the airplane is yo...

I have long maintained that there's a special place in Hell for people who put their seats back on an airline. Recently, Westjet announced they're going to be charging for reclining seats. Here's a comedy piece I wrote about it.

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Laugh and ponder Craig Silliphant uses humour to unpack the absurdity of our times in his new book, Bunnyhug Cynic

The wonderful Joanne Paulson does a column on writers and their work. She interviewed me about Bunnyhug Cynic. Take a look and subscribe for more of her work!

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One Battle After Another - Craig Silliphant Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is his most expensive movie to date, and you can feel both the budget and the ambition pressing on the screen. While PTA is one of my favourite director...

Here's my review of One Battle After Another, the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson. Did you see it? What did you think?

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Laugh and ponder Craig Silliphant uses humour to unpack the absurdity of our times in his new book, Bunnyhug Cynic

Latest in my series of #author profiles on Substack:

Craig Silliphant, #Saskatoon writer, tackles the absurdities of our times with humour in his new book, Bunnyhug Cynic.

@craigsilliphant.bsky.social

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@joannepaulson.bsky.social interviewing

@craigsilliphant.bsky.social

Recounting life at The Freshtastic Food Bar YouTube video by CTV News

Thanks to Jeremy Dodge, Jeff Rogstad, and CTV News for more shameless self-promotion of my new book, Bunnyhug Cynic! Here is the chat I had with Jeremy that tells you more about the book. Cheers!

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Pick up my new book, Bunnyhug Cynic. It’s a collection of comedic essays about Saskatchewan, pop culture, and the crushing absurdity of existence. Oh, and of course, the glory days of Bonanza Steakhouse.

Grab a copy in Saskatoon at Turning the Tide Bookstore or McNally Robinson, or Amazon.

Oasis Live ’25 – Chicago (Concert Review) - Craig Silliphant We weren’t super keen on going to the States with everything that’s going on there, but we had pounced on the Oasis Live ’25 tickets before the country melted down. However, once I started seeing the ...

Jenny and I went to Chicago to see the epic Oasis Live '25 tour! Here's my review of the concert. The way the band took over the whole city was amazing. Fookin' biblical, man!

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Saskatoon Dining: Paradox Pizza & Brewery - Craig Silliphant I first noticed Paradox Pizza on Instagram as a pop-up at places like Amigos, but I was never able to get there. Then suddenly, like some kind of culinary mirage turned solid, their sign went up on th...

Have you tried the new Paradox Pizza & Brewery on Broadway? I took my family there last week and wrote this piece about our experience. Enjoy!

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Weapons - Craig Silliphant Zach Cregger, one of the twisted minds behind the absurdist sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U’ Know, made a huge leap into horror with 2022’s Barbarian. That film’s first half was a master class...

Here's my spoiler-free review of Weapons, the new film from the director of Barbarian. It's a horror movie, but it brings to mind movies like Magnolia and Pulp Fiction.

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Been Caught Stealing (Comedy) - Craig Silliphant Have you ever shoplifted anything? Ever been caught? I have. Sort of. Not exactly. But also, yes. I lived in Regina for four years as a preteen, from grade five to grade eight, 1985 to 1988. It was a ...

I wrote a new comedy piece called 'Been Caught Stealing,' about growing up Gen X, the time I got arrested for a crime I didn’t commit, and how it all came full circle when I grew up. Enjoy!

Please share and subscribe if you have a laugh.

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Fantastic Four - Craig Silliphant Marvel really needed this one to land. With all the talk of superhero fatigue and Marvel oversaturating the market with mediocrity the last few years, Fantastic Four could have been a cosmic palate cl...

Here's my spoiler-free review of Fantastic Four! Did you see it? What did you think? Was it enough to kickstart the MCU to again?

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Superman (Movie Review) It's cool to be kind.

Here's my review of Superman! Your mileage may vary depending on your love/hate of James Gunn's style, but I loved it. A film filled with fun, action, and best of all, kindness and hope. This is what Superman should be.

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In Through the Outdoor – My Magical, Medical Butt Adventure (Comedy) - Craig Silliphant First, a warning: this piece falls squarely in the realm of TMI. It’s a story about one man and his colonoscopy. I mean, it’s medical, so we could choose to be mature about it. However, I most certain...

Dennis Quaid is up my butt! Well, not quite, but if you want a laugh (and don't mind TMI), read this comedy piece I wrote about the colonoscopy I had last week. Enjoy! I sure didn't.

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Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning - Craig Silliphant The Mission: Impossible franchise has been running, leaping, and dangling from tall things since 1996, when the film series spun off from the classic 1960s TV show. Now, eight films deep, Mission Impo...

Here's my SPOILER-FREE review of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning!

Did you see it? What did you think?

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