How to read… The Daily Show
By now, everyone knows about The Daily Show, right? First hitting the airwaves in 1996 in a forgettable burst of mediocrity, The Daily Show kicked it into high gear in 1999 under its... Read the full post
Food, music and dissent populate TIFF doc picks
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... Read the full post
Scrabulous puts tiles back in the bag
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... Read the full post
New on DVD: Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
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... Read the full post
William Gibson, Spook Country
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... Read the full post
Sharon Robinson, Everybody Knows
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... Read the full post
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
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,... Read the full post
Step Brothers
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... Read the full post
Midnight Madness still bold and bizarre
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,... Read the full post
TV anchor rivalry leads to felony charge
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... Read the full post
