It is said that they’re making a fourth Mission: Impossible movie, and that Brad Bird is in talks to direct it. I think this is a fantastic idea. A big reason for my enthusiasm is, of course, the involvement Brad Bird himself, a talented filmmaker who made one of the best superhero movies there is with The […]

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I make no secret of it; I adore the Marvel Essentials line of trade paperbacks. My own blog, Fraggmented, has dozens of posts devoted to these insane 500+ page black-and-white chunks of classic comics, each one giving you twenty or more issues of a title for an almost sickeningly reasonable cost. (Some of the collections […]

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Your guest judge is Tasty Oreo, who is amusingly bewildered when Jason Coleman leads the crowd in a round of “Aussie Aussie Aussie/Oi Oi Oi,” which is not coincidentally also the cheer for Osgoode Hall law school students. (We stole it, of course.) Top four: Broadway. And of course we start off with a Tasty […]

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I don’t think a lot of people still read Al Capp’s Li’l Abner; Capp’s extreme misanthropy, combined with his shift to the hard right late in his career, can make the strip a bit of a slog at times. But at its best, it was comics genius. And it was never better than in the […]

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1.) The voice shouting “He my nun!” on Midnite Vultures track “Hollywood Freaks” is actually a sample of David Duchovny. 2.) Did a guest voice on an episode of Animaniacs under a pseudonym. 3.) An early version of Guero contained a track called “Octorok Motherf****r” that has never been released. 4.) Big fan of the comic strip […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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The wonderful thing about the DVD revolution is the way that it makes it possible for just about anyone to become a film student. Videotapes began the process, of course, but their limitations meant that the really nice versions of a lot of movies were only available to someone who was willing to shell out […]

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Tonight: each couple dances once to live music. Such a simple little innovation, but a genuinely good idea; you probably couldn’t sum up why the Australian version of this show is the best any more easily than that, as well as why Nigel Lythgoe’s desperate flailing to remake the American version is so wrongheaded. Top […]

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You may or may not have heard about what has recently happened to Constance McMillen. For those who haven’t, she’s an out lesbian who’s graduating from high school this year, and wanted to go to prom. When the school banned her from prom, she sued for the right to attend, so they cancelled the prom. […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist, and because of it, I am now finally in Wikipedia until somebody edits it or something.

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Reading old Code-approved humour comics frequently raises the question “was that intended to mean what we now think it means?” So, here’s a question, in lieu of actual content: do you think the innuendo in these comics panels is a) intended by the writer or b) not? 1. From Marvel/Timely/Atlas’s Millie the Model # 92 […]

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Hey, everybody. Long story short: the next two weeks for me are nothing but writing my tax policy paper, studying, writing exams, and then collapsing in a heap for a couple of days having – hopefully – graduated law school.1 So I’ll be back in two weeks. Hopefully my guestbloggers will chip in with some […]

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Tremors: the cheap little Flash game.

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Yes, I know, I’m a guest contributor and I’m totally hijacking one of MGK’s personal topics, but how can I resist the lure of the giant soapbox? It’s a chance to tell large numbers of people to go see a movie I like, and you will all listen to me oh the POWER MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! In […]

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