Ah, it's a rough life for the Tattooed Man, writing this whilst still cowering under the covers in a darkened hotel room to hide from an impending hangover after a night out drinking with Hong Kong legends John Woo, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark and Donnie Yen.

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If you're here in Toronto this week there can be no doubt what the major local event is. At every club in town, on the radio and on television, it's all the same: Canadian Music Week . And CMW ain't just for bands any more. Last year marked the festival's

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Making sure that the shelves of sex shops are stocked with quality skin flicks is a hard job, but somebody's got to do it. At Queen West's Come As You Are , that person is Holly. For two years, she's been watching about 20 pornos a month, putting together

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Hip hop happy Friday! You woke up this morning, gave a big yawn, and said to yourself: “Man, I wish Reginald T. Vampire would drill my grill with some trill trivia thrills.” You totally, totally said that. YOU : That is the dumbest thing ever. Why on

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I blame Sin City . Thanks to the success of that film, an awful lot of people who really should know better seem to have gotten it into their heads that the key to a successful comic book adaptation is to just use the source material as storyboards and

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Ah, global warming, you devious bastard. Rising temperatures have had unexpected consequences in Kim Nguyen's Truffe , prime among them the sudden emergence of Montreal as the Black Truffle capital of the world, the tasty little morsels sprouting by the

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Before you go making your picks for Sunday’s regal rumble, we (me) here at Showcase (.ca) wanted to offer you some tasty informational Timbits to help you on your way. Below you’ll find the Vegas odds, as well as a sexy secret about each of the combatants

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It’s a gutsy move to make a film like Cadillac Records . On the one hand, movies about American music and the elder statesmen of artists who created it have been done many times before. On the other hand, chronicling the rise of Chess Records and the

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What to do when the week's new releases suck and the first sign of relief - that'd be upcoming superhero opus Watchmen - is still two weeks away? Two things. First, gloat. Last week I wrote about how the film studios were essentially soiling their underthings

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Happy post-Valentine's Day, everyone, I hope that no matter your Facebook relationship status, you had a weekend full of contemplating the frontiers of love. Here's my second post on the topic, about a real-life couple who muse on the subject themselves.

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At what point did they turn into laughing stocks? I’m sure somewhere there is a support group where Jason Voorhees, Chucky and other erstwhile-imposing legends of gore purge their feelings of inadequacy. The original Friday the 13th is a good movie. Child’s

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How on earth did this happen? After years of steady decline into increasingly feeble sequels and fairly pathetic self parody a new Friday The 13th film is coming and - gasp! - it has all the signs of becoming a major blockbuster. And here I though the

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The second a high profile chick flick comes to theaters, something happens to most women: our "girls night out" radar goes up and we gather our best girl friends for a night out which includes dinner, followed by the much anticipated chick flick. In April

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... but I won't be able to because I'll be on another continent. Yeah, it's hard to gripe about missing a couple of opening days due to travel but there's a certain cruel irony in the fact that despite this being February - the traditional dumping ground

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Walking in to the Trane Studio on Bathurst last night, I was very much of two minds. The event was a fund raiser for A Love Supreme , the new film co-directed by Bruce McDonald and Peter Lynch, and the fact that they needed to raise funds was the cause

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