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Catching Up With Pure Pwnage

Fan Expo is a weird and wonderful place. I spent the better part of a day there in late August at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, and came away ...

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Take Our Trailer Park Boys Swag, Please!

So we're "early adopters" and we've started a page on a website called "Facebook" which is the new Friendster. "Facebook" helps you connect and sha...

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Join in the LIVE Chat – Weeds and The Foundation – Eps 3

  The intensity definitely picked up with Episode 2 of Weeds. Guillermo is incredibly captivating and creepy. The interaction between him and Na...

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Because "Central Perk" Was Taken: Pure Pwnage Needs A Hangout Handle!

 Production on the Pure Pwnage TV series is fast approaching, and the creators need your help with something very important:  In ...

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IN THEATRES: Zombieland

Ah, poor Jesse Eisenberg. He finally meets a girl he likes, she's in an emotionally vulnerable state, and before anything has the time to develop she...

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Weeds' "Little Boxes" Like You've Never Heard It Before

When Josh Reid subscribed to the Showcase YouTube channel last week, we noticed that his video library contained dozens of videos of him ‘covering’ ...

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An Apple a Day Keeps Drug-Dealing Videogames Away

Weeds may be the first TV show where drug dealers are the heroes – hell, even The Sopranos largely avoided that heat score – but gamers have been ab...

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BE OUR GUEST: Sebastien Grainger on Casino Royale & Con-Air

  Each week, I e-mail an esteemed personality with the name of the upcoming Saturday Big Ticket Movies on Showcase, and they respond with the fi...

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Showcase at the 2009 Emmys

If you watched the Emmy Awards last night, then you already know that Showcase swept the SOUND MIXING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES category with two...

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TIFF 09: Top 5 (Sort Of)

With the annual Toronto Film Orgy now complete, life returns to some semblance of normalcy as those of us who have spent the last week and a half in ...

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Join in the LIVE Chat – Weeds and The Foundation – Eps 2

  Wow! Was premiere night for Weeds and The Foundation ever crrrrazy?!  Is it just me or is Weeds reaching new levels of over-the-top alr...

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TIFF 09: THE INFORMANT! review

 In his 1993 sonnet “Informer”, Canadian literary icon Darrin O’Brien (better known as ‘Snow’) intones: Me sittin’ round cool with my dibbie d...

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Taking One For The Home Team: Canadian Successes At TIFF

For someone like me who has press access to the Toronto International Film Festival and clears their schedule of pretty much all else to cram as much...

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TIFF 09: THE JONESES review

David Duchovny is charming the way Tom Cruise is short: extremely. This makes him the perfect male lead in The Joneses, the story of a the most char...

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TIFF 09: CLEANFLIX review

Is it an SNL skit? No, it’s CleanFlix -- a documentary that examines cinematic purification, the process of editing out all of the sex, violence, a...

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TIFF 09: DELIVER US FROM EVIL review

It was supposed to be a return to a simpler life for Johannes and Pernille, a move away from the big city and back to the small town for the high pow...

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Kenny vs. Spenny, Season 6: Tease Me, Please Me

Please enjoy this Kenny vs. Spenny Season 6 teaser before YouTube suspends our account for indecency which is now only hosted in our own video centre...

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Top 10: A Stoner's Guide to Hollywood

Marijuana, that fragrant herb, has accessorized some classic television and movie moments. Season 5 of Weeds got started on Showcase last Sunday, so w...

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TIFF 09: THE DAMNED UNITED review

 The Damned United is perhaps the most sweeping and engaging romance to ever grace the silver screen. It is as though Titanic and Casablanca made...

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BE OUR GUEST: Sebastien Grainger on The Departed & The Pursuit of Happyness

Each week, I e-mail an esteemed personality with the name of the upcoming Saturday Big Ticket Movie on Showcase, and they respond with the first...

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TIFF 09: THE LOVED ONES Review

Though a touch prone to melodrama and inclined to overindulge its teen-angst metaphor, Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones is, nonetheless, one of the more ...

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Live Blogging Event - Weeds and The Foundation Back to Back!

  Our absolutely mad Sunday night fall line-up begins this weekend and we’d love to hear what you think about all the craziness of Weeds Season ...

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THE FOUNDATION: A Fax from Mr. Valmont-Selkirk

We've just received a fax from Michael Valmont-Selkirk [pictured] of the R.J. Selkirk Foundation in anticipation The Foundation, which premieres thi...

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Name the Rapper/Actors... and Win!

As movie loglines go, this is about as good as it gets: When voodoo spells awaken a giant serpent, Army special ops veteran and master hunter Nick Kir...

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TIFF 09: DEFENDOR Review

Apparently Canada is looking to corner the market on unusual lo-fi superhero films. In 2006 Toronto native Hal Haberman co-wrote and co-directed a ...

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TIFF 09: JENNIFER'S BODY Review

Adjust expectations accordingly:On the Megan Fox front, Jennifer's Body contains no nudity, moderate cleavage, and one lesbian make-out sequence. ...

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WEEDS Season 5: This Sunday! Plus: Tweet and Win!

Season 5 of Weeds makes its Canadian premiere this Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Showcase, and we are celebrating by holing up in the newly built Show...

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BE OUR GUEST: Sebastien Grainger on X-Men and Fantastic Four

Each week, I e-mail an esteemed personality with the name of the upcoming Saturday Big Ticket Movie on Showcase, and they respond with the first thi...

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THE FOUNDATION: Go Tak Go!

In Episode 2 of The Foundation, which premieres Sunday, September 13 at 10:40pm ET/PT (after Weeds), Mike gets the Selkirk Foundation involved in a c...

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RESCUE ME Season 5 Finale: Now Streaming

Were you out enjoying "nature" and "fresh air" over Labour Day weekend? Never fear: both hours of the two-part Rescue Me season finale are now strea...

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The X-Games

Almost since their invention, superhero comics have been source material for other mediums. Take Superman, who was created by Canadian artist Joe ...

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Bleep! Bleep! The Return of Michael Richards

Redemption is like the Road Runner: elusive, beguiling, and really into birdseed. Our hapless Wile E. Coyote in this little scenario is recently-outed...

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BE OUR GUEST: Sebastien Grainger on 13 Going on 30

  Each week, I e-mail an esteemed personality with the name of the upcoming Saturday Big Ticket Movie on Showcase, and they respond with the fi...

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TIFF 09: The Behemoth Is Coming...

Yes, my friends, that is an ugly poster.  A truly horrible and shockingly amateur poster, really, the sort of thing a high school kid could knoc...

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THE FOUNDATION: Meet Apollo

In this clip from Episode 1 of The Foundation, Michael promises Chara Saunders, a child suffering from necrotizing glomer... super-bad kidneys, a tri...

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Top 5: Gangster Honeys

When it comes to hot movie chicks, mobster babes have got extra sizzle. Aside from the obvious (yet titillating) phallic symbolism of girls-with-gun...

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Rescue Me Season 5, Episodes 18-20: RECAP

This Sunday, tune into Showcase for the two-hour season finale of Rescue Me, starting at 10pm ET/PT. We've been writing about this show all season...

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Kenny and Spenny Need Help!

For years, you offered your help, and they didn't take you up on it. Now, for the first time, Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice need you to suggest a rev...

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Viva Vanity! A Sneak Peek at THE FOUNDATION

A few weeks back, we told you about our new philanthropy comedy The Foundation -- a new Showcase Original series created by Michael Dowse, whose contr...

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