I miss Rachel Weisz . This thought was not only the first to pass through my head as I awoke to yet another sad and lonely day of my Rachel-free existence this morning but also returned mere minutes after sitting down to watch the latest entry in The

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Everyone’s life has its Seinfeld moments and lately, I find myself identifying with Elaine Benes. Because, tragedy of tragedies, it seems that the Today contraceptive sponge is once again off the market. I’m not sure why—all I know is that I used to be

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If there’s one thing SS loves, it’s her grade school days. Ah, the sweet smell of rejection in the schoolyard. Will anyone ask me to dance to November Rain? Will the Catholic school teachers turn a blind eye to inappropriate 12-year-old grinding? Sigh,

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One could fairly describe me as a vocal David Simon advocate. Through five seasons of The Wire , I was that guy who would take every possible opportunity to declare it the best show on television and to crown Simon, its creator, the shimmering salvation

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So, Carter, Duchovny and Anderson all "Want to Believe". That's nice. That's good. Belief is important to people, you might even argue that it's a basic human imperative, we're all wired up to believe. The question, of course, is what exactly the X Files

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After my post on feminist porn, I got an email from a wannabe slut asking where to find such films in Vancouver. I suggested she check out her local alternative sex shop, but she didn’t know where it was! That made me really sad. So, in the interest of

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SS: Oh Magic Mirror, please tell me about today’s record releases! MM: I would, Sword Swallower, but you’d be so depressed that you’d slit your wrists and bleed all over the nice new shag carpeting I just installed. Dear readers, as you can see, it’s

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The game industry's downsized E3 expo is not the ear-splitting, eye-melting, booth babe-slobbering bacchanal of yesteryear. Wired magazine dubbed the now invite-only event “a shadow of its former self,” exhibitors have plummeted from 400 to under 40 since

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Is your summer dragging along like a filthy ream of toilet paper stuck to the bottom of your shoe? Yeah, mine too. It literally stinks like shit. But just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, a beautiful ray of sunshine comes ripping through the

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Right. First of all everybody out there needs to stop referring to The Dark Knight as Heath Ledger's final film. Because it isn't. That honour (?) belongs to The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus , the new slice of oddity from mad genius Terry Gilliam,

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A couple of years ago, I wandered into Paul Petro Contemporary Art and was greeted by a seven-foot-tall naked female Sasquatch. She was sort of like those big plush Hanna Barbera characters you see at Canada’s Wonderland, only naked, full of styrofoam

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“The thing is,” Sam Endicott of The Bravery tells me, “Sometimes I lie.” He’s talking about the set he just played in the pouring rain at Edgefest in Toronto’s Downsview Park last Saturday. He yelled out to the crowd between songs: “This one goes out

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The other day I re-watched War Games , a 25-year-old hacker flick starring Ferris Bueller who nearly incites global thermo nuclear war after accidentally breaking into a military mainframe to play an online game. This proto- Internets was an amalgam of

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Oh, it’s a good time to be a geek. The King of the Cerebral Geeks – that’d be Memento ’s Christopher Nolan – has his latest comic book noir hitting screens next week and early buzz has a posthumous Oscar nom for Heath Ledger looking likely. But before

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Hola amigos: t’is I, the Big Top, newest attraction at the Sideshow. I’d like to thank the circus powers that be for inviting me to join this pervy little family. I promise to continue delivering the Hump Day goods. As we get to know each other, you’ll

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Hot off the UK indie music tip, Bloc Party released their newest single to the public today. Mercury, the first single off the bands yet-to-be-named forthcoming album (they’re still in the middle of production), is a dark mix of cacophonic horns and insistent

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Much as many cable TV series shine in the summertime without all that big-budget network competition, downloadable console games also excel in these dog days. Since we’ve already driven around GTA4’s Liberty City and skulked about Metal Gear Solid 4’s

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Happy Blogling, Fridays! A bit of history, for you nerd-types: In March 2007, I wrote a post called Links to What Stinks! In it I revelled in my own sense of irony, explaining how “stinks” meant “awesome” for the purpose of the post. Well those days are

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Right. Hancock . Big names, budget, decent director, hot genre. Should be a hit, yes? A sure fire money winner? Err, no. sorry. Despite a big cast and the special effects whiz-bang, Hancock never really rises above being just okay because it never really

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The airlock scene - the money shot of the deep space movie. Whether you find it cliché, offensive or whether you lock yourself in the bathroom with a compiled collection, we’ll almost all agree that no film with characters in the cold, vast, empty vacuum

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