When you think about it, ‘Doctor Who’ should really have ended in 1966. After all, the star of the series was involved in protracted and angry disputes with the show’s producer, and was also suffering from the first visible symptoms of the arteriosclerosis that would take his life less than a decade later. Sure, the […]

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I signed up for Netflix last week and they have tons of Star Trek and dinosaur shows.  I am at peace. I decided to go through the Star Trek: Voyager episode listings and found one I don’t remember ever seeing, which I guess is appropriate because it’s called “Unforgettable,” and it’s about the crew meeting […]

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STEVEN SPIELBERG: Hello, everybody, and more specifically Academy voters. This is my new movie, War Horse. It is about a horse. Also there is war. I am pretty sure that these two things combined are good for at least half a dozen Oscars. ALBERT: Boy, look at that baby horse! I bet that is a […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full And that concludes Part Three of this comic what we are doing. I am really tremendously happy that we have now completed three whole issues, which feels terribly substantial (especially when you consider that at 28 pages, three issues for us is almost four standard issues for anybody else) […]

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But, as it is this site’s Christmas tradition: And, as always, if you do not celebrate No Doubtmas:

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The most recent XKCD strip is, for Canadians, shockingly old hat. Because Canadians have had access to No Name since 1978. Randall Munroe is quite correct when he asserts that he would “build brand identity overnight,” because that is exactly what happened with No Name – it was immensely successful for Loblaws when they introduced […]

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Click on thumb to see full It was this or rank all the versions of A Christmas Carol and, despite a hefty campaign, I’m still about six short of doing so.

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By popular request (presumably because of this). Originals via.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Somebody should just let Brad Bird (no relation) direct all the action movies. (As for the Dark Knight Rises preview: visually exciting, looks epic, excited for the movie, but totally unable to figure out what the hell Tom Hardy was saying through his Bane mask.)

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Gene Marks’ “If I Was A Poor Black Kid” has been getting widely trashed around the intertoobz for its shameless display of white privilege and jaw-dropping ignorance about what actually being a poor black kid is like. You can read numerous takedowns of this and they’re all good. Smarty P. Jones’ response is an excellent […]

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My “Villain” entrant in Torontoist’s 2011 Heroes and Villains is sort of a repeat.

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