The official Hunger Games trailer hit the world like a flaming District 12 tribute today after Josh Hutcherson (who plays fan favourite Peeta Mellark) introduced it on Good Morning America. The superb, pulse-pounding teaser kicks off with the serene Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen meeting her tried and true best friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) […]
This has been a mighty weird season of Survivor. After last year’s dual narrative of redemption island’s Christ-like figure in Matt and the main island’s godfather figure in Rob (and the awesome landslide victory in favour of manipulation and mind control), I was thinking it might be time to put Jesus away for awhile, maybe […]
… he did not live Happily Ever After.
*This entire article is spoilers. Be forewarned if you haven’t yet seen Once Upon a Time, Buffy, Angel, Lost, The Sopranos or MASH*
Adam Pettle and Brenda Robins’ 2009 adaptation of Miklos Laszlo’s 1937 Hungarian comedy Parfumerie, about the behind the scenes lives of employees at a beauty supply store, is not something you would assume would be a hit. But it is. Most performances of the Dora-winning remount have already sold out and a discerning friend of […]
Welcome to My Games, the newest branch in My Entertainment World (our 7th!), a place for news, reviews and editorials about the latest in the gaming world- from the latest in video gaming systems to online adventures to oldschool boardgames. Now I’ll pass the baton over to Tom Farndon, our head writer for My Games.
I went to University in Boston. Don’t ask me why but I had it in my head that I had to leave home after highschool, live in another city (another country, as it turned out), get some space from the town where my parents live, where I’d spent all of highschool and lived since I […]
Actor Harry Morgan died this week at his home in LA after battling pneumonia. The beloved star lived to be 96 years old in a life filled with decades of first-rate television and film roles like those he played on Dragnet and MASH, 2 landmark series. Morgan’s portrayal of Col. Sherman T. Potter in MASH […]
Canadian theatre icon Seana McKenna’s take on the title villain in Richard III was one of the star attractions of The Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 2011 season; Gareth Potter’s ballsy (forgive the pun) and brash turn as disillusioned drag queen Hosanna in Michel Tremblay’s heartwrenching play of the same name was a personal highlight. Their physical […]