Perfectly adequate summer entertainment with Jackie Chan sliding into the “elder sensei” role like a well-deserved glove, but the real shocker is that while it’s still only visible through a rudimentary level of acting talent right now, Jaden Smith has pretty much all of his father’s screen presence and natural charisma; he’s going to be […]

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My weekly TV column (most of which I wrote on Friday) is up at Torontoist. There might not be any updates from me for a bit, because I am incredibly sick right now; I was coughing and had a sore throat ever since Friday afternoon, and got gradually worse over the weekend (and being absolutely […]

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On the one hand, I’m not crazy enough to say that the “Star Wars” prequels are good. There’s some rough sailing there, for a variety of reasons: Lucas hadn’t directed a film in a long time, his scripts were less polished due to a lack of a strong editor…and the less said about Jar-Jar, the […]

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ROUND OF 16 Uruguay over South Korea Ghana over USA Netherlands over Slovakia Brazil over Chile Mexico over Argentina Germany over England Japan over Paraguay Spain over Portugal ROUND OF 8 Ghana over Uruguay Netherlands over Brazil Germany over Mexico Spain over Japan ROUND OF 4 Netherlands over Ghana Spain over Germany FINAL Netherlands over […]

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I picked up IDW’s first Archie Comics collection, The Best of Dan DeCarlo Volume 1. Since no one has yet posted a list of the contents, I thought I’d have a go at it. Before I do, I’ll give some brief thoughts: the biggest quibble is that there are only 26 stories here, and they […]

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For those just wanting to read my G20 stuff for Torontoist rather than go through the site looking for it, here you go.

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…as I am Torontoist’s official accredited journalist (well, one of two, but I do the writing bits) covering the G20 summit here in Toronto (motto: “When We Have An Economic Summit, We Have Earthquakes And Tornadoes Just To Make The Fucking Point”). Needless to say, this is totally awesome and I hope I get the […]

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Before anything even happens on this episode, there was this sequence where each contestant draws their All-Star and each All-Star then tells them the style they’ll be dancing, and everybody pretends to be surprised when everybody except Kathryn (who can of course dance anything) explains they’ll be dancing, amazingly, in the preferred style of that […]

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Something something oh no it’s a tornado what will we do oh no etc. Seriously, do we even have to bother pointing out that the tornado is no match for the likes of Rex the motherfucking Wonder Dog? It seems almost counterproductive to say it these days.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. Also: after today, I don’t think Spain has nearly as good a chance to advance to the group rounds as some people do, even though they did beat Honduras today. Chile was always going to be their toughest match in this group, and if you assume that […]

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Strictly B+ Pixar, with some moments that feel perhaps more repetitive than thematic – but nonetheless extremely funny and touching, and B+ Pixar, while not A-level Pixar, is still better than 95 percent of everything out there.

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