So what do you do if you're a film writer and the director of the week's only big release is publicly ripping his own film to bits just days before it releases? Well, if you're this writer and you're in Toronto you look ahead to next week when North America's

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I first heard the buzz on Terrence Dean's Hiding in Hip Hop early this year. I'd never heard of the guy, but the buzz was that he was a longtime hip hop scenester, perhaps a producer, who was coming out as gay. Like any gossip-loving hip hop fan, I was

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I = old. Old enough, anyway, to have fond remembrances of getting Nintendo thumb from over-playing Super Mario Bros . back in elementary school. It permeated the culture and defined game mechanics—and now indie designer Jonathan Blow has taken its formula

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The Shield is so gritty that if it were a fictional cop, it would be Vic Mackey, star of the hit-series The Shield . If that makes no sense to you because you've never seen The Shield , then you're in the right place. On September 9th Vic Mackey is bringing

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The 2008 Showcase fall lineup features all of the sex ( Webdreams ), drugs ( Weeds ) and rock 'n' roll ( Cock'd Gunns ) our viewers could ever want, along with healthy(?) doses of redneck karma, Hollywood insiders and yes, my friends, there will even

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Before I begin, let me clear up one potential point of confusion. There are two prominent Paul Andersons in the film world. There is the good Paul Anderson , the one who directed There Will Be Blood and Magnolia and with whom I looked at naked women in

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Celebrating its first anniversary this month, Good Dyke Porn is a Vancouver site that aims to provide, well, good dyke porn. Read on for a conversation with its creator, Bren Ryder, about just what that means. Then, head to the site to check out the hot

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Sure, gaming might seem like fun and, um, games, but it’s not always that way for the folks slaving away in the industry’s digital sweatshops. It’s In The Game , a new no-budget documentary by noob director Dylan Griffin—which premiers with a screening

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Funny thing about science fiction: it seems like every decade or so the genre spawns a film that is generally overlooked in its original theatrical run but that simply refuses to go away after that, slowly building an audience by word of mouth, until

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The government keeps slashing arts grants, hiding their homophobia and old-fashioned prissiness behind code words like “offensive” and “appropriate.” Funny, I thought this was a free country where we get to form our own opinions and have our own discussions,

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After reviving the old-school point-and-click adventure genre with an adaptation of cult classic comic Bone and the hilarious, episodic Sam & Max series, Telltale Games keep their streak alive with the awesomely named Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive

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Back in the day (also known as 1996), I was just a 16-year-old computer geek looking for fellow Radiohead fans to be geeky with. Of course, there weren’t many at high school, so I had to be a nerd and go online to find kindred Radiohead spirits. I happened

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You know, it can be tough to be stupid. Or, to be more accurate, it can be tough to operate at diminished capacity. Name for me, if you will, the last truly great stoner comedy. And I don't mean a comedy that happens to have a stoner character, nor do

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At long last, I have seen Avenue Q. I’ve been dying to check out the Tony-award winning rock musical for half a decade now, but I never could time a NYC show properly and it took this long to make it to Toronto. So, I was super psyched to score tix last

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