- <em>Game of Thrones</em>: “Eastwatch” Me, Watch Me
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It’s hard for me to say, but this season of Game of Thrones is shaping up to be a vast improvement over its last two predecessors. Season five saw an…
- SummerWorks, 2017
SummerWorks, 2017
The 2017 SummerWorks Performance Festival runs August 3-13 and our staff is on hand to cover pretty much everything. Check back at this page throughout the festival for all of…
- Christopher Nolan’s <em>Dunkirk</em>
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Dunkirk is one of the most original history films in mainstream cinema. Unlike most traditional war films the focus is not on the action of the war, or the ideology of…
- San Diego Comic-Con, 2017
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It's Comic-Con Time Again!
Managing Editor Kelly Bedard and Staff Writer Tom McGee are on the scene to bring you tons of coverage from the con floor, the panels, the press…
- Toronto Fringe, 2017
Toronto Fringe, 2017
From July 5-16, six of our Toronto staffers- Kelly Bedard, Duncan Derry, Lisa McKeown, Mary-Margaret Scrimger, Lorenzo Pagnotta and Chelsea Dinsmore- reviewed 100+ plays in this year's Fringe Festival. We…
- The Rebooted Adventures of Spider-Man
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With great power comes great responsibility: happily, Spider-Man: Homecoming understands that with YET ANOTHER REBOOT of a beloved super hero ALSO comes great responsibility...and they more than live up to…
- Rachel’s Boys: The 2017 Bachelor Scale
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The odd Bachelorette editing and schedule this year (a pre-rose ceremony cliffhanger here, a double episode there) meant that Rachel went from 15 remaining guys to 6 in literally two…
- <em>Wonder Woman</em>– The First Chapter
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In 2011, when Captain America: The First Avenger came out, I wrote a review that basically boiled down to: I’d watch the TV show but am bored with the pilot episode.…
- Fall 2017 Network Television Previews, Ranked
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The five major broadcast television networks arranged in a list in order of how appealing the previews for their new fall shows are, overall...
LEAST: NBC
NBC has historically been my favorite…
- Artificial Turf Blues Game 46: A Statue for Danny Barnes?
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13 The Musical by The British Theatre Academy
By Adam Mcdonnell // Theatre (London)
Jason Robert Brown is one of the most well-respected composers working in musical theatre today. His credits include Songs for a New World, The Last Five Years and Parade (my …
Apartment 301: Sharp Characters – Blunt Ending
By Anwar Ragep // Theatre (New York)
I’m a big fan of Antony Raymond whom I consider one of the city’s rising star playwrights. He creates rich unique characters with clear voices. As tensions and emotions inevitably …
Game of Thrones: “Eastwatch” Me, Watch Me
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
It’s hard for me to say, but this season of Game of Thrones is shaping up to be a vast improvement over its last two predecessors. Season five saw an …
Family Matters in the Zombocalpyse: Telltale’s Walking Dead Season 3
Micro-Review Walking Dead Season Three is a bit of a departure for the series, taking the focus…
She Wore the Black Hat: Jerri Manthey & the Legacy of Female Villainy in Reality TV
By Lita Brillman // TV
“In the game of Survivor, you’ve gotta switch hats a lot. You gotta wear a white hat part of the time and sometimes you gotta put on the black hat. …
SummerWorks ’17: Part VII
By Amy Strizic // Theatre (Toronto)
Read All Our SummerWorks Reviews HERE Icône Pop (A) The scene for Icône Pop is set as the audience walks into the blackbox theatre at The Theatre Centre with singer Mykalle …
SummerWorks ’17: Part VI
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Read All Our SummerWorks Reviews HERE The Only Good Indian (B+) It’s difficult to grade this solo show from Pandemic Theatre because half its runtime is just a “long table” …
SDCC ’17: Comic Con-templations, Day Two
Click Here to read all of our coverage from 2017 San Diego Comic-Con I was sitting in a slightly overpriced, but breezy coffee shop just west of the Convention Centre, …
SummerWorks ’17: Part V
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre (Toronto)
Read All Our SummerWorks Reviews HERE Explosions for the 21st Century (A-) My favourite SummerWorks show this year, Christopher Ross-Ewart’s philosophical and practical lecture on sound design is both an …
Jessica: Almost Human
By Anwar Ragep // Theatre (New York)
Jessica, a play written by Patrick Vermillion, showing at the IRT Theater brings science fiction and artificial intelligence to the stage. But an overly ambition script falls short in execution …
SDCC ’17 Exclusive: Cartoonists The Lehrer Boys
By Kelly Bedard // TV
Click Here to read all of our coverage from 2017 San Diego Comic-Con One of the most fun interviews I did at San Diego Comic-Con was my one-on-one (well, one-on-two, …
SDCC ’17 Exclusive: I Know That Voice ft. Bender & Hulk
By Kelly Bedard // Cinema
Click Here to read all of our coverage from 2017 San Diego Comic-Con We caught up with two of the giants of voice-over acting John DiMaggio (Futurama‘s Bender) and Frederick Tatasciore (Avengers Assemble‘s …
SummerWorks ’17: Part IV
By Mary-Margaret Scrimger // Theatre (Toronto)
Read All Our SummerWorks Reviews HERE Pearle Harbour’s Chautaqua (A+) [Ed. Note: A+ is the highest grade we give but, just for the record, MM’s official submission was “A+++++++”] This is …
SummerWorks ’17: Part III
By Lisa McKeown // Theatre (Toronto)
Read All Our SummerWorks Reviews HERE Erased: Billy and Bayard (A) Created and performed by the Queer Songbook Orchestra, featuring Andrew Broderick and Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, the show weaves together the …
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