TIFF is so good, it will wash your life. It’ll singe your chest hairs. It’s like happiness paying for your dinner, and not expecting you to put out. From September 6 – 15, the Toronto International Film Festival rolls up on this godforsaken town and brings

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Happiest of Thursdays to you Sideshow friends! You know what, call me crazy, but I think Thursdays are pretty sweet. Sure, The Contortionist has a lock-down on the very sought after hump day slot, but when you’re that flexible and sashay around in a tight-ass

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"American, Arrogant and InYaFace!" The TapouT slogan says it all about this bad a$$ clothing company that has slowly but surely become one of the hottest brands in sports today. Unlike the millions of bandwagon Mixed Martial Arts fans that refer to the

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Long live the ladies! The L Word is back for another lustful season on Showcase starting tomorrow night at 10PM . Mark your calendars and make a girls night of it (I'd say the more the merrier). We know you've been dying to find out what's happened since

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Every Olympics, journalists debate whether or not certain competitions, like ballroom dancing or synchronized swimming, actually constitute a sport. But what about the World Series of Video Games , during which "cyber-athletes" from around the globe gather

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When it comes to identifying the hardest man in showbiz, there’s no one made of sterner stuff than Ron Jeremy. In his new tell-all autobiography, Ron Jeremy – The Hardest (Working) Man In Showbiz , the star of over 2,000 adult films, is anything but limp

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Remember when Wayne Campbell would skulk outside the music shop, eyeing that guitar and covetously whispering “it will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine.” That was me and any plus-size Hi-Def TV. Then a review copy of BioShock arrived in my mailbox and

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It's an exciting time for the cadre of film geeks and fanboys here at showcase.ca. The entire TIFF 2007 program was announced the other day and there are a host of amazing new films are being premiered there, including famed Italian horror director Dario

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Leave it to long-time Jane's Addiction guitarist and all-round good-guy rocker Dave Navarro to branch out from his music moves into the world of porn. Dave (as I like to call him) has directed his first hardcore porn flick entitled Dave Navarro: Broken

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Just a quickie reco- post for now. Monday is always a hectic kick-off of the week, so last night, to conserve our strength and brain cells, the missus and I opted to hunker down in front of the tube and watch several hours of TV on DVD. Rather than going

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Uwe Boll is like 90 percent of a really cool story. The renegade, self-made director and self-professed “most critically maligned filmmaker of his generation” has some serious anger issues. This is the same dude that famously beat the shit out of four

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After heavy metal and Harry Potter , Christian fundamentalists’ favourite whipping boy is the videogame industry. I’m not really sure why. Just because poor teenage Jesus only had backgammon to entertain himself doesn’t mean videogames lead straight to

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Happy Hump Day! Here's a quick tiddy-bit for ya, there's a new movie premiering this fall that brings the Real Doll phenomenon to the big screen. Lars and the Real Girl , starring Oscar nominee and Canuck Ryan Gosling, is a story of a lonely guy living

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In today's cluttered narrative environment, truly new stories are rarities. Remakes of foreign or vintage TV programs and adaptations of books or comics into movies are not only prominent in the entertainment business, rather they account for a large

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It’s bad enough Wal-Mart crushes small business, oppresses minimum-wage workers and supports sweatshops and censors musicians, but now mean ol’ Sam Walton is holding Chibi-Robo prisoner. For those not in the know, Chibi-Robo is a three-inch-tall, battery-powered

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You know when you see a new idea and think to yourself “I totally could have thought of that, I just didn’t”? Well I don’t get that feeling, as my ideas are prominently crap, (see: A fly swatter that says “Don’t BUG Me” on it). However, if I ever did

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Superbad is one of the most hyped comedies of the year and with good reason; given the all star line-up cast and crew , it would take a Hollywood studio to bleed the ha-ha out of it! And the Internet-related marketing campaign has done little to dispel

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It was inevitable that at some point we’d mention the king guru of soft-core porn in our weekly Hump Day posts. And when it comes to dirty old men, only Hugh Hefner takes the cake. His little 1953 start-up magazine, P layboy , has since transformed into

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Last week while at the local supermarket buying some kibble for my faithful furry companion, I noticed with some dismay that the latest edition of the Betty & Veronica Double Digest sported some troubling cover art . The whimsical Archie Comics style,

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Good day, readership, Here’s a hypothetical: Say I’m at a party, partying with some people that are much cooler than me (I know it’s impossible to imagine, that’s why it’s called a hypothetical ) and I want to seem cooler than I really am to impress these

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Rock stars aren’t known for being monogamous, but until recently Rockstar Games appeared betrothed to Sony. The mutually beneficial marriage between the Grand Theft Auto series and the Playstation 2 had both companies bathing in dollar bills . But when

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Our crack team of Sideshow sexperts are busy surfing the web and watching the porn around the clock to bring you the latest in hard-core penetratables the world has to offer. Just this week, Reggie The Vampire discovered the CB-3000, a fool-proof chastity

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