Ultra-awesome home theatre setups. I am horribly, horribly impressed, although when it comes to home theatre, I am a fan of couches first and foremost. I mean, presumably the objective of home theatre is to have somebody with which to snuggle, right? That’s the biggest advantage of home theatre over, like, actual theatre. (Yes, yes, […]

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ME: So, did you look at the clinical and intensive options for next year? ANDREW (ANOTHER LAW STUDENT): Yeah. I’m liking the intensive research one. ME: I missed that one. ANDREW: It’s where you team up with three or four other students and you do legal research for an NGO. You know, Amnesty International or […]

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Yes, your choice of acronym is very clever. EDIT TO CLARIFY: Look, the “well some Democrats make fun of Bush in a mean way too” entirely misses the point. Calling Bush et al dickheads or assholes is just being rude; calling Hillary a cunt, and especially in this knowing, schoolboyish way, is downright misogynistic. And […]

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You are given a hundred million dollars and orders to remake The Seven Samurai (or, if you prefer, The Magnificent Seven) in the setting of your choice. What is the setting, and who plays each of the following roles: The Stoic Leader The Right-Hand Man Who Gets All The Good Jokes The Weapons Master The […]

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Heath Ledger dead at 28. A good young actor, who I firmly believe was on the brink of greatness. Fuck.

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Best Picture: Juno, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Michael Clayton, Atonement. A much better year than average for nominees in this category, with everything being either very good or pretty damned good; where is my standard Academy embarrassment nomination? Where is the Ghost, the Crash? Anyway, this is basically a two-horse […]

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Longtime readers will by this point know that one of the things that interests me most about the Legion of Super-Heroes, from a storytelling standpoint, is the thousand-year gap between the present day DC universe and the Legion setting – essentially using the Legion as a way to play proxy psychohistorian for the DCU in […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Regardless of whether or not you think Barack Obama should be President (and I do), you have to admit this is one hell of a speech, both in terms of style and content and the sheer balls required to make it.

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Way back in the day, there was American Seeds. And now… Click on image to enlarge

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Notes from attending Test The Nation as part of Team Bloggers: – Pleasant chat in the waiting area, where we were served an mediocre buffet meal (but, hey, free food) with the other members of Team Bloggers, most of whom were from outside Toronto and thus flown in and given hotel accomodation. Those of us […]

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(I promise this is my absolute last word on anything to do with “One More Day” until, I dunno, they make Spidey gay for Harry Osborn or something.) One of the basic premises of the Spider-Man reboot with “One More Day” is that the marriage of Peter and Mary Jane, as it stands, doesn’t “work” […]

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Cloverfield is, quite simply, just about fucking perfect in every respect that a giant monster movie could be.

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