I'm cheap. I love a bargain. I love video games. And I have a short attention span. Brain Age 2 + Bill Lynch's Mistress = a perfect match. So while I was wandering around downtown Toronto late one night, I just happened to walk by one of those big box

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It’s been a bit of a whirlwind here in porn land this week and we have Meg White and Oscar De La Hoya to spank for it. First off, Meg White (drummer for The White Stripes) may not in fact be the hardest button to button. She’s allegedly the headliner

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ELF WHISTLE, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA -In the fall edition of the “OGMMLJC Centennial,” the quarterly student paper of Our Gracious Mary Mother of the Lord Jesus Christ Collegiate & Vocational Institute, 17-year-old sophomore James Naismith wrote the

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With the aroma of Weeds Season 3 fresh in the air, we need to heed to our cravings and head to Agrestic for some home grown gossip. It seems my memories of Season 2 have gone up in smoke, so as a refresher, I watched the last three episodes of Weeds in

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Oh, what a long, frag-filled trip it’s been. Back when Microsoft first got into the games biz, they needed a system-seller for their underdog Xbox and found it with Bungie’s 2002 first-person shooter Halo: Combat Evolved. The title may have been boastful,

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Just a few weeks back , a platoon of professional gamers arrived in Toronto to prove their profession was not, in fact, an oxymoron. The simultaneous appearance of the World Series of Video Games (WSVG) and the World Cyber Games (WCG) at Toronto’s Fan

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What’s problematic about making a movie based on comparisons is that you will always invite comparisons back upon yourself. And when you make a Beatles-remixing movie-musical about the power of love, the politics of war, and the profound nature of music,

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Now here’s a place that’s got the right idea. Last week, the Russian province of Ulyanovsk held its annual “Conception Day” where citizens were encouraged to skip work and have sex (with their partners) in hopes of boosting Russia’s low birth-rate and

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Well the Internet has gone and done it again: delivered us two fresh new stars whose irreverent brand of comedy became a Youtube phenomena. What's It Gonna Be is a parody rap song featuring a bearded WASP-y fellow (played by Mike O'Connell ) gruffly rapping

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The lack of heroic pixel chicks in gaming has been an issue since soon after people started pumping quarters into Pong . Sure, Ms. Pac-Man proved more popular than her yellow-bellied boyfriend, but her lone feminine attributes were an itty-bitty bow and

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Me. Varsity 4. 9:30 this morning. The Babysitters . Time to leave it all on the court. It’s my final review of the fest, and I’m primed: Notebook in hand, pen, spare pen, second spare pen, pencil if I get bored of using pen, mechanical pencil if my original

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As easy as it would be for me to review what this film is, it would be even easier (and a lot more fun) to review what it is not: It is not a romantic comedy. Actress Ludivine Sagnier ( Swimming Pool, 8 Femmes ) does not eventually fall for a nerdy, yet

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While Reggie and I have been concentrating on gorging ourselves on films at TIFF, it bears mentioning that we also managed to get pretty loaded a couple of times as well. OK, it was just the first two nights for me, but hey, I have a wife and two little

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Dr. Dorian ‘Doc’ Paskowitz is a Stanford educated MD, who decided in the mid-1950s that he had no interest in money or status, and just wanted to surf. He found the perfect wife (on his third try, no less) and the two settled into a wandering bohemian

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Hammer & Tongs are a British film making team comprised of Garth Jennings (director) and Nick Goldsmith (producer); they came onto the London music video scene, guns a blazin' back in the 1990's, creating excellent videos for Britpop greats like Blur

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George A. Romero and his zombie movies have been haunting me since I first saw Dawn Of The Dead , as much for the post-apocalyptic themes as for the shambling cannibalistic undead. He basically invented the genre that has become one of the corner stones

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The problem with the term ‘weird’ is that it represents the strange, fantastic and unexplainable of the world, and therefore having a word to describe it is decidedly un-weird. This is the same linguistic paradox that bogs down the ubiquitous “street-cred”

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Teenage pregnancy is generally no laughing matter, or at least that was the de facto societal stance until Jason Reitman ( Thank You For Smoking ) directed Juno . Thanks to this little film, it is clear that pregnancy can be an educational albeit occasionally

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Simon Pegg is near and dear to the tiny blackened hearts of us Sideshow residents. Pegg is of course the star of Spaced , the classic UK cult comedy series that Showcase plays back to back each Sunday night at 10PM. But Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz

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I’ve long thought Jude Law to be a whinging gas-bag. This notion started percolating sometime around 99’s The Talented Mr. Ripley , and was fully cemented in 2004 when he reprised, to wholly nauseating effect, the lead role played by Michael Caine in

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When it comes to rough places to grow up, 12th century Mongolia has got to be high on the list. And if crap childhoods make good excuses for being crazy adults, Genghis Khan is pretty much off the hook. While grown-up Genghis is known for such works as

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The Coen Brothers ( Fargo, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink , etc.) take hold of Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country For Old Men like a rattlesnake onto the throat of a dying man. McCarthy's 2003 novel tells the tale of a south Texas drug deal gone wrong.

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It’s going to be hard for me to talk about the movie I saw this morning without heaping on a mangled mass of superlatives. Boy A , as a film, completely kicked my ass. I got weepy. I felt exhausted after. It was amazing. And I realize that I’m all wise-assy

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Horror fans rejoice. The master is back. After a string of films ranging from so-so to abysmal, Italian horror legend Dario Argento has returned to ‘70s and ‘80s fighting form with his latest work, The Mother of Tears . The much-anticipated fright flick

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Each year at TIFF, there are a handful of films that are destined for greatness. Be it the source material, the director or the star, a few choice pieces are blessed with the rare alchemy that truly melds art and entertainment. For those of us who have

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This afternoon, I saw young people fucking at the Varsity theatre. In the toilet. The actual bowl. After that I went into theatre number seven and watched a movie. The movie was called, Young People Fucking . Classic. The movie, like the joke I just made

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Looks like Jenna Jameson was serious about quitting the porn biz (thankfully, her $30 million-a-year ClubJenna enterprise lives on). For what it’s worth, and perhaps to substantiate her claim that she’s done giving jobs in adult films for good, she had

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There's not much else on our minds this week beyond the pending launch of the Toronto International Film Festival . It's a chance for us to feel perfectly justified in watching movies all day starting at 8:45 AM, showing up in the office just long enough

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