Toronto Fringe’s winter mini-fest Next Stage is in a tricky spot. It plays host to the first productions of every year in Toronto theatre; the audience full of hope and anticipation and ready to have the bar set for the year to come. Curated and titled as it is, it’s not hard to expect something […]
It’s time, once again, for the On DVD series featuring new releases from Paramount Home Distribution. Click Here to read about the TV on DVD releases. Star Trek Beyond I liked it. It was weird, but I liked it. Well, I liked it more than Into Darkness. Definitely less than Star Trek 2009. My favourite podcast did […]
It’s time, once again, for the On DVD series featuring new releases from Paramount Home Distribution. Click Here to read about the film releases. Billions (Season One) I was really into this well-cast thriller about big money people, at least at first. It made the cut to score multiple MyTV Award nominations in the acting categories and […]
It’s been an incredible year for Toronto theatre. We started out with one of the strongest Januarys in recent memory (3 of our eventual Outstanding Production nominees all played simultaneously that month) then rollicked through the spring towards an overwhelmingly popular Fringe (with an emotional goodbye to the iconic Honest Ed’s tent) and arguably the […]
Okay, so it wasn’t our best year as humans, but lots of great people made lots of great stuff in 2016 and god dammit we’re going to celebrate that stuff. This is home base for our entire 2016 Awards Season. Starting with the Nomination Announcements, then the Nominee Interview Series and, finally, The Winners! Without […]
As I said in our awards announcement (and everyone has said basically every day for awhile now), this was not humanity’s best year. But, you know what, it wasn’t our worst either. Remember how much you all liked Civil War? I couldn’t relate to that, but I was happy seeing how happy you were. There […]
TV might have saved 2016. Seriously, it wasn’t the best pilot season network-wise (I’m still having nightmares about that CBS comedy slate) but how many shows were you passionately invested in in 2016? How many characters did you care about? How many worlds did you happily dive into once a week to take a break […]
To celebrate the DVD release of the final season of The CW’s under-the-radar fairytale mystery Beauty & the Beast…