Alright class, now that the smoke cleared from the Canadian Teacher’s Federation’s call to ban Rockstar games’ Bully: Scholarship Edition —a censorious cry amplified by an amalgamation of international teacher’s union—it’s time to hand these critics a

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Let’s recap: Eight episodes into the strangest season yet, Lost fans now have a month to wait before the final five episodes of the shortened fourth stanza. Oh, and the show’s on at a different time when it returns in April. The tagline for season four

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As long as you don't think about it too hard you'll probably walk out of 21 feeling like you've just watched a very smart film. And why not? It's a film about people doing math to win stacks of cash at blackjack. Gotta be smart to do that, right? Well,

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I love it when the porn community crosses paths with other mediums to widen its audience with new and clever plots and ideas. The old porn adage “Plumbing guy here to fix your pipes (cue lonely housewife anal pen)” gets tiresome, even for her. So when

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Stored somewhere in a box of my adolescent memorabilia are three VHS tapes with meticulously taped mid-to-late nineties music videos. Back in the day, seeing your favourite music video was akin to (no, wait, better than) hearing your favourite song on

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So, the Tattooed Man is thirty thousand feet in the air as he types this, on the way to a week in Hong Kong and the biggest film market in Asia . Which means, of course, that for the next week I will be the tallest person in sight – which is often true

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Here's what you get when you mix a little Toronto Fashion Week with some model sizzle! The picture to the left is courtesy of Max Chernitov's Fall 2008 collection. This guy's radar is always pointing north! The image is really just a shameless excuse

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The music industry is a-dyin’, or so the doomsaying goes, and if you were sat in on the many speeches, spiels and panel discussions at this year’s 22 nd annual SXSW music conference and festival—the Sundance of the music biz but times a bazillion—you

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After an unacceptably long board game hiatus, it was great to jump back in brains first with some serious zombie ass-kicking action. While I’ve never been an exuberant fan of the zombie genre, I have to say that Last Night on Earth made me a believer

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Call me crazy but I never would've pegged Michael Haneke as a director likely to remake any film, never mind one of his own. But despite the huge amount of international success the man has had he's gone and done just that, putting together a shot for

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Of all the hand core, sensual, adult-themed topics I’ve covered for the Sideshow in the past year – including horse sex and gang bangs – I’ve yet to delve into the world of high-class prostitution rings. Until now! Thanks to N.Y. governor Eliot Spitzer

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Reggie? On a Tuesday? Writing about music? Asking rhetorical questions? Better believe it, kids. The blog schedule is out the window this week, which means I’m writing about music on Tuesday rather than my usual confusing drivel on Friday. Just relax,

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Last year, gaming was utterly pwned by the big three consoles, but once those machines went into their annual winter hibernation after releasing all them triple-A titles before Christmas, those wee handhelds staged a comeback. Long in the shadows of Nintendo’s

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We're all used to watching TV online now, but how many of us would actually make the leap to watch a web-based serial on a major network? It was big news when NBC snapped up the MySpace series, Quarterlife , with big hopes of bringing its web success

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I wait with bated breath for the Canadian dates of the Radiohead tour to be officially announced (word on the street is that it’s August 15th). I do the daily check at radiohead.com and the occasional Hype Machine search for anything new and Radiohead-related.

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but as most L Word fans already know, Paris Hilton is set to appear in an upcoming episode of the all-girl starring cast. It’s well known that big egos and high maintenance cast members have caused problems on set;

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Ah, the fabled Saturday Night Live curse. It's a tricksy one to figure out. Pretty much the entire original cast emerged unscathed, as did Eddie Murphy - though Eddie seems to have been struck by it late in his career, the curse having grown to simply

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Like Pac-Man gobbling down all those little pills, the world’s biggest game publisher Electronic Arts is trying to get even bigger by taking over Take-Two Interactive . No wait, let’s try a less-retro analogy. EA wants to car-jack Take-Two before Grand

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