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So Thor is… pretty good, all things considered. And this comes from someone who is avowedly not a fan of Thor comics, so for once I was approaching this more as a general moviegoer than somebody with the Fuck Yeah _____ t-shirt on. It has decent performances, fun enough action, some pretty decent dialogue and […]

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Everything about the Green Lantern movie looks awful. And this is completely dysjunct from the talent involved. I mean, I like Ryan Reynolds. I like Mark Strong. I like Peter Sarsgaard. I even enjoy Blake Lively as an actor (she was great in The Town). Even the smaller cast details are perfect: Geoffrey Rush voicing […]

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I don’t want anybody to get me wrong when I praise the DC Comics version of the O.S.S., which appeared in old war comics – mostly G.I. Combat – and were, well, basically war comics. War comics geared more towards espionage, obviously, with all the cool fripperies that World War II-era spying had on the […]

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I know predicting future fashions is never easy (really, I should at some point devote a post to the endless lineup of incredibly terrible civilian clothing in Legion of Super-Heroes over the years. – suffice it to say that the future? Is caftans), but if you end up with a future-military where plumed and/or finned […]

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My election aftermath post is up at Torontoist. Also, I don’t think Harper and the Tories will make dramatic shifts to the right on social policy: I genuinely don’t think they’re that stupid, and I suspect if they tried there are enough newly minted Tory MPs that would break ranks (and Layton is smart enough […]

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I’m liveblogging the federal election results tonight with the rest of the Crack Torontoist Election Team Central Brigade here.

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Torontoist made its endorsement of a party in the federal election today. I wrote it.

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So after Obama releasing his birth certificate yesterday the birthers made appearances on all the MSNBC shows and the MSNBCers just lost it. I mean, Chris Matthews and Lawrence O’Donnell aren’t calm little bunnies, generally speaking, but there’s their usual level of shoutiness and then there was this: Matthews was plainly and visibly furious with […]

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A couple of people asked for: The age old debate of Ameritrash v Euro. Which, even for a nerd site like this one, is definitely getting into esoteric territory, so explanation is in order. Among serious boardgamers – – No, wait! If you’re not a boardgamer, stick around! I promise something at least slightly profound […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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If you’re not Canadian, you might not appreciate how unbelievable the last of this set of best-case scenarios is: For the sake of comparison: you see that 43 in the Liberals’ Conservatives’ best-case scenario for the New Democrats? 43 seats is the most the New Democrats have held in any Parliament ever. (via Threehundredeight)

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