(Warning: mild spoilers for later books in the Song of Ice and Fire series.) Well, technically I suppose this is also an open letter to David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the producers of Game of Thrones. But if I said this was an open letter to them, everybody would just say “huh?” So it’s an […]

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Didn’t have time to blog last week’s USA show, mostly because I saw it two days late and other than Sasha and Twitch’s UNBELIEVABLE hiphop I was largely apathetic to it. At some point, Nigel is going to realize that the All-Star concept fundamentally hurts his show by making the current group of performers look […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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…is very, very good. I am not sure if it is the best of the “Avengers Generation” of Marvel movies, but I am quite sure that it is my favourite, because Joe Johnston did exactly what I wanted him to do in making a Captain America movie, which was basically take the tone of the […]

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I realize “Rehab” is the more predictable choice here, but A) it would still be sort of tasteless and B) I always liked this song better.

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My obituary for Torontoist is here.

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The trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man has once again rung the bell and the internet is debating whether or not we truly, truly need another Spider-Man movie: Now, ASM will come out a mere five years after Spider-Man 3came out. This has been deemed a short stretch of time, but it’s only four years shorter […]

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NOTE: This was the second of these, written back for my Livejournal back when I was still on Livejournal. However, it does not appear to have been web-archived, and besides, I might as well rewrite it now. So this is a revamped version of the original article. Loser was just further evidence that Jason Biggs’ […]

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Dan Didio has said repeatedly that the DCU reboot is permanent. However, in less than two months, they have changed their mind as to whether Wonder Woman should wear pants. Constancy is not their strong point, you know?

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Your guest judges tonight are Mary Murphy and Rex Harrington, who is Mary’s gay best friend who lives in Canada. Lauren and Rodrigo: hip-hop. I love that Luther knows that a good hip-hop routine doesn’t have to have a storyline, and I really liked his choreo here. Rodrigo was predictably excellent here, just straight-up killing […]

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People have been asking me in email if I think the difference between the quality of the Canadian version of SYTYCD (thus far – be wary, as they all danced mostly in-style this week and next week is the real test) as to the American version which has not enthralled this season so far is […]

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My first encounter with Signalman came in an issue of Justice League of America I read when I was about five – specifically a two-parter where he was part of the Ultra-Humanite’s Secret Society of Super-Villains. (This was one of the periodic JLA/JSA teamups which were so awesome at the time and which modern-day comics […]

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