It's been a rockin' filled day for us here at the Sideshow so far. Everyone is seemingly plastered on pumpkin moonshine and death spirits and prepped for evening shenanigans. From this spooky banter around the "water cooler" comes tales from the past

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So, earlier this fall Showcase aired Spaced , during which time I managed to catch an interview with Simon Pegg . A month later, it was announced that Pegg would play Mr. Scott in the upcoming, J.J. Abrams reboot of the Star Trek feature film franchise.

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Hailing from Welland, Ontario, Attack in Black is a post-hardcore band with a soul. Their current effort, Marriage, is powerfully melodic and engaging. Their first album on Dine Alone (home to other bands like City and Colour and Bedouin Soundclash),

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Untrue Fact: The Gemini Awards were started in 1958 by a group of elitist astrologers of the same sign. They gave out awards in categories such as ‘Cutest Gemini’ and ‘Gemini that is totally the funniest.’ In 1975 this was deemed ‘astrological exclusivism’

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If ever a TV series were perfect fodder for a game adaptation, it’s Battlestar Galactica --what with its robots, raptors and raiders. Plus, y'know, there's that whole post-apocalyptic genocidal religious war with the survival of the human race at stake.

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What do Devo and The Desperate Housewives have in common? Not much. But if these horny housewives got their freak on a little more, the band's snapping song might connect these desperado's by whips alone. ( Spoiler Alert - I'm going to be talking about

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In the post Lord Of The Rings film trilogy pop-cultural ecosphere, dragons and their fantasy ilk are anything but endangered. Teen-targeted, adult skewing series such as Harry Potter or His Dark Materials have ably tapped the wellspring of interest in

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Listen bloglings, I’m really, really good at reviewing movies – believe me. But horror movies tend to be less bright than most films, with zombie movies usually the darkest of all, and this makes it exceedingly difficult to write effective notes on them

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Hi, everyone. We were just taking a stroll down memory lane and thought we'd share a little smile and a warm hug with our only best friends, the Sideshow readers. Several years ago, we held an esteemed position in the Marketing department of Alliance

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Movies in the fall generally suck – they’re all brain-dead comedies and the crap the studios delayed and are now dumping in the slow season. Agreed? Agreed. Guess what though? When I said ‘agreed,’ I meant ‘disagreed.’ That’s right, I just flipped your

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There's a gender-bending transformation happening on TV shows lately that's adding new layers to traditional television-world characters. Call it the "pre-op" phase where secondary characters transition to mainstream shows if you like, its partly due

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You’ve played Guitar Hero, it’s breakthrough follow-up, that ‘80s edition and your fingers are, no doubt, tingling with anticipation for the impending threequel later this month. But while GH turns guitar playing into a game, Ubisoft’s new Nintendo DS

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As Jerry Seinfeld commented on his largely overlooked Christian comedy album Highly Prophetable: ‘What’s the deal with the Bible? I mean – seriously - what’s the deal?’ Jerry was surely going for laughs, but in this simple line of observational humour

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Michelle Paradise is a triple Hollywood threat in terms of her presence as a writer, producer and actor. She wrote and starred in her award-winning short film, Top Ten Rules: The Lesbian Survival Guide, which is the basis for her new TV series Exes &

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It's no secret that Weeds has quickly become one of the biggest hit series on Showcase, so the arrival of Season 3 onto our fair network is an event that has sparked much activity. Firstly, many of you may have noticed that we launched a new Season 3

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Pop Quiz, Blog-Dogs! Nikki Sixx is to heroin as dogs are to: A: Fire hydrants B: Bones C: Your leg D: Heroin made for dogs The answer, as always, is D. The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star tells of Nikki’s love affair with the

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It was thirty years ago today (or thereabouts) Atari launched the 2600 which almost single-handedly transformed the television set from passive to interactive . Though starting slow in 1977 (thanks to a $200 price point) the cartridge-based console took

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Can you do it for 69 hours? That’s the challenge posed to Torontonians wanting to participate in the 69 Hour Film Challenge going down tomorrow night as a lead-up even to the 8th annual Darryl's Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival. Voted the "Best Film

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Everybody enjoys a good shocker from time to time, and I’m no exception. Whether the shocking visuals of a fantasy film or the shock-value scares of a horror flick, I practically live to get shocked by shockers. So you can imagine my delight at learning

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This past spring it was our pleasure to play host to the Showcase original webisode series, Big City Feelings , created by Toronto renaissance man and party machine Christopher Hutsul. Hutsul, it would seem, has kept busy with a variety of film, comic

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