Happy Friday one and all, smart and stupid, short and tall! And why am I in such a playfully insulting mood today? Oh, I don’t know, maybe because today’s the day that aliens are proven to be real. This is it folks, no reported sightings or photoshopped

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Best thing about short films? If they suck, they're over soon. Heh. Biased though I may be, however, I'm betting that particular scenario won't come up real often at the upcoming Worldwide Short Film Festival. In the name of full disclosure I probably

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Attention roller derby fans! Saturday marked the official start of the second annual Toronto Roller Derby League with a fast-paced bout featuring the 2007 Champions, The Gore-Gore Rollergirls, against the Smoke City Betties. Alligator Boy was there to

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I wish I could say that hipsters are rarely capable of honest self-reflection, but isn’t that the point of being a hipster? Like, gouging your parents for your trust fund while you wait tables and snort coke and wax poetic on your own unique state of

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If you’re like me (and if you’re not, you might want to get on that), the end of The Wire has left a gaping, pain-soaked hole in your psyche. To make it worse, the cast has started popping up in decidedly un-Wire-like roles, as if trying to prove that

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It’s Indiana Jones week and I’m here writing about a new Uwe Boll film ? How can this be? Well, I’ve got a few reasons; you may not like them but here they are: First, though the good doctor (Jones, not Boll) did make an appearance while I was at the

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Top of the hump day to you all! Usually by this point in the blog, I've offended at least one person with an abrasive headline , a scantily clad image (that may or may not include a porn star ) or a quick quip about Eliot Spitzer's love spatoon right

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So there was this game— Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 —that I kept hearing about where Japanese high school students fight monsters by, well, shooting themselves in the head! Crazy, right? Gets crazier. When not crawling dungeons as a member of the Specialized

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Last we saw Kenny Hotz he was making Al Qaeda outtake videos and feeding surgical tubing up his ass on Season Four of Kenny vs. Spenny . This week I caught up with the venerable Mr. Hotz to find out what he’s up to, and if he misses Spenny since shooting

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When the ol’ Tattooed Man looked over his schedule for this week the plan was to hopefully write something about the Canadian film screening in Cannes this year, most notably the new Egoyan picture and Blindness , the Canadian co-production that kicks

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Congratulations to Jayde Nicole of Port Perry, Ontario! She’s the 22-year-old who was just crowed Playmate of the Year by Playboy Magazine , the most recent Canadian mate being Shannon Tweed back in 1982 – way to break the spread Nicole! It’s basically

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In journalism, we are taught to disclose our biases. So, here goes: I hate everything that isn’t British. Phew, that feels better, even if I was kind of lying. But look at my track record: I love everything that comes out of the UK. Estelle, wellies,

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The gaming nation may have relocated to Liberty City , but another pixilated metropolis is accepting new citizens in Square-Enix’s insta-cult-classic RPG, The World Ends With You . But rather than relying on a thinly-veiled NYC, World is set in real Tokyo’s

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If you like Fridays, chances are you also like totally filthy RnB music. The two go together like Britney Spears and vagina exposure. I’m sorry for the joke above. It was a test. If it bothered you, you might want to tune out now. Likewise, if you’re

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So, the trailer for the new Incredible Hulk film looks absolutely horrible despite the fact that it features Ed Norton smashing the hell out of Yonge Street but luckily for Avi Arad and the suits at Marvel their fortunes aren't resting entirely on the

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You know how people say, TGIF? Well TGI Hump Day because I too need a healthy supply of adult-themed news to keep me going from week to week. You know who else needs porn? How about Sue Johanson. She’ll have a lot of free hands on her time since the U.S.

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Compared to Lauryn Hill (by none other than Wyclef) and talked up by John Legend and Will.I.Am. (well, her album’s producer and guest star, but still) and hometown superstar Kardinal Offishall, Estelle is, in a word, fresh. Her album, Shine , came out

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“The best weed comes from British Columbia ,” a passerby helpfully informs me as I wander the lower east side of Liberty City 's Brooklyn-esque Broker borough. I’ve already gone drinking with my cousin Roman and gotten blurrily behind the wheel and virtual

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If you haven’t been forwarded the link to the Stuff White People Like blog about 70 times, there’s a good chance your internet’s down. Or that the thing you refer to as ‘the internet’ is actually ‘your television.’ Either way, you’re out of the loop.

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I have a confession to make. Despite a stellar cast, extremely high hopes and moments of outright brilliance, I was a little bit underwhelmed by Garth Jennings' film version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy . Sure, it's worlds better than it could

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