ME: So I was watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine last night and FLAPJACKS: Ugh who cares I wanna talk about the Batman show with no Batman. ME: Oh, yeah, Gotham. That sounds a bit odd, doesn’t it? FLAPJACKS: Well, I don’t see what the point is of a show about Batman with no Batman. ME: For starters, […]

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Mom is one of the less-talked-about new shows premiering this season – it certainly doesn’t have the hype of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D or Almost Human, nor the star power of The Crazy Ones (Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar), nor the sheer wackadoo craziness of Sleepy Hollow (a show where Ichabod Crane survives for 200 […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site. A sidenote: Davinder is right now completing his practicum for teacher’s college, which requires a lot of work and attention. He’s trying to get pages out as regularly as possible but more and more it’s looking like we’re […]

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Twitter buddies were, last week, angsting a bit about how the cultural touchstones we had growing up are gradually disappearing and losing their relevance. Ghostbusters and Back To The Future lasted much, much longer in terms of cultural relevance than most movies do, partially because of the rise of cosplay and conventions, partially because each […]

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(A NOTE: For the purposes of this list, the “Renaissance” begins with Little Mermaid in 1989 and ends with Home on the Range in 2004, when Disney first shut down their 2D animation unit. This means that the “proto-Renaissance” films (The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver and Company) are not included. Also […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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Literally coughing myself hoarse, I am laughing so hard.

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Torontoist asked me to provide captions to all their photos this year at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and this may have not been wise. That Jake Gyllenhaal, he sure does love his ethnic gorilla jokes!

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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So I was sorting through my movie collection the other day – I do this about every three months, whittling down those movies I don’t really need to keep – why did I buy The Dish, anyway? It’s a nice little movie and I know I must have paid maybe four dollars for the used […]

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So I went to see Jobs yesterday, because I was in the mood to see a movie in theatres (I like going to see movies in theatres; some people whine incessantly about other people making noise and disturbing their precious experience, but I like the communal aspect of moviegoing) and it was either Jobs or […]

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