The NYT's Manohla Dargis reviews Zoo.

The Toronto Star's Geoff Pevere on the proliferation of the first-person doc, something not invented by Michael Moore, but someone who did give it commercial legs. And he did it all, say his critics, by putting compelling story before truth.

I did a backgrounder for the Virginia Tech University shootings: Common threads run through school shooters.

The most haunting part of the story is this quote that U of T psychology prof Jordan Peterson read me from Milton's Paradise Lost as a way of explaining the mindset of such people:

"'The more I see pleasures around me, so much more I feel torment within me as from the hateful siege of contraries. All good to me becomes bane. And in heaven, much worse would be my state. ... Only in destroying do I find ease to my relentless thoughts.'"

And on a much, much lighter note, here's a preview of the Hot Docs festival: Hot Docs festival to offer 'feisty' lineup.

I got the big question out of the way fast:

Will this be the best Hot Docs ever?

"It's always the 'best Hot Docs ever'," Sean Farnel, director of programming, told CTV.ca with a laugh.

The legendary cult director's films El Topo and The Holy Mountain are about to be re-released after a 30-year feud with ex-Beatles manager Alan Klein, who held the films. Alejandro Jodorowsky spoke with the Guardian.