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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Think you know everything about The Daily Show simply because you watch it? Then you don’t know Jon. Or Stephen. Or Lewis. Or the other John. Read more
Posted in Feature
Tags: Comedy Central, John Hodgman, Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show
Guitar hero Jimmy Page, fashion icon Valentino, protests and a huge Chinese restaurant are some of the topics explored at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. David Guggenheim – the Academy Award-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth –celebrates the electric … Read more Responding to a takedown notice from Hasbro, the Facebook application’s creators shut down the game to players in the U.S. and Canada, where Hasbro owns the rights to Scrabble. As of this morning, if North American users try to access … Read more
Posted in News-and-Notes
Tags: facebook, Scrabble, Scrabulous
It’s four years later and the story has been picked up from right where we left them: Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) are packing their bags and following the building hottie Maria (Paula Garcés) to Amsterdam. But because … Read more
Posted in Film, Reviews
Tags: Christopher Meloni, David Krumholtz, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Harold and Kumar, John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Rob Corddry
The follow up to his 2003 best-seller Pattern Recognition has finally made its appearance in paperback and with that arrival comes another binge of cyberpunk from the Godfather of the genre, William Gibson. Spook Country, his ninth novel, returns us … Read more
Posted in Books, Reviews
Tags: Cyberpunk, William Gibson
Sharon Robinson is best known for her frequent collaborations with Canadian icon Leonard Cohen. Starting her association as a back-up singer for Cohen in 1979, Robinson has been on several world tours, and since then, has influenced Cohen’s work as … Read more
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tags: leonard cohen, sharon robinson
So as a kid, you witness your family’s slaughter during a camping trip. If the perpetrator was a criminal, you become a crime fighter like Batman; if it was a big hairy Forest Troll, you become a monster slayer like … Read more
Posted in Film, Reviews
Tags: Brookstreet Pictures, David Fox, Jack Brooks, Rachel Skarsten, Robert Englund, Trevor Matthews
The guys who brought us Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy have teamed up once again for Step Brothers – the result of a brainstorming session between Will Ferrell, John C. Riley … Read more
Posted in Film, Reviews
Tags: Adam Scott, Anchorman, John C. Riley, Kathryn Hahn, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Step Brothers, Talladega Nights, Will Ferrell
The witching hour at the Toronto International Film Festival is the place to be for the strange and unusual, the hard-hitting and fast-paced, and the bloody and shocking. Fortunately, this year’s Midnight Madness lineup looks like it will deliver on … Read more
Posted in News-and-Notes
Tags: Gene Simmons, Jean-Claude Van Damme, JT Petty, Midnight Madness, Prachya Pinkaew
A former Philadelphia news anchor was charged on Monday after hacking into the email account of his co-anchor hundreds of times over a period of over two years. U.S. federal prosecutors have charged Larry Mendte, 51, with a felony count … Read more
Posted in News-and-Notes
Tags: Alycia Lane, CBS, Larry Mendte, Rich Eisen
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Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean will appeal a recent decision by Haiti’s electoral council rejecting his run in the country’s Nov. 28 presidential election. The former Fugees member’s candidacy was rejected beacause has hadn’t resided in the country for the past … Read more Here are top 20 programs in Canada for the week of August 9-15, 2010. This chart shows the top TV programs for all home market stations for the week indicated. Programs are ranked based on their average minute audience. The … Read more Here are top 20 programs in Canada for the week of August 2-8, 2010. This chart shows the top TV programs for all home market stations for the week indicated. Programs are ranked based on their average minute audience. The … Read more |
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