Toronto’s juried avant garde theatre festival SummerWorks ran August 4-14th this year and, over the course of those 11 days, our critics- Kelly Bedard, Beth McNeil and Lisa McKeown- covered 36 theatre, music and dance shows. With 14 A grades and only 4(!) productions scoring less than a B, this might have been the strongest […]
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The modern video game industry is a lot like Hollywood: big budget, ‘can’t fail’ titles that are nearly indistinguishable from one another pumped out year after year among a sea of quirky indie experiments that, when they hit, go off like a nuclear bomb. This new feature Skinner Box Storytelling will detail my weekly obsessions/distractions […]
This may have been my favorite episode of the show. Granted, it’s only the 2nd airing of The Night Of, and granted, John Turturro steals the show every chance he can get, and granted, this episode moves the point of view back and forth faster than a shuttlecock, but it’s still my favorite. Let’s not […]
A very stylish and smart production of an intriguing gem of a musical that first premiered in the National Theatre back in 2011, Sedos’ take on London Road overcomes an incredibly challenging book and score and creates something that is touching, funny, uncomfortable and thought-provoking. The premise surrounds the tragic murders of 5 prostitutes in […]
CLICK HERE to read our full coverage of San Diego Comic-Con 2016. There are a lot of things we love about Friday Night Lights/Hart of Dixie/Scorpion star Scott Porter. Among those things is the fact that he’s an unabashed Survivor superfan who tweets about the show constantly, flew out to Fiji to preview the new […]
This year’s Toronto Fringe Festival was lauded as one of the best in recent memory. There were dozens of good shows and more than a couple great ones. Favourites like Wasteland, Cam Baby, A Good Death and Life After were discussed with enthusiasm and general consensus over Dark ‘n’ Stormys in the Fringe Club at […]
To celebrate the home entertainment release of the final film by beloved director Garry Marshall (who died on July 19th at the age of 81), Elevation Pictures has given us a copy of the newly released Mother’s Day DVD to give away to one lucky reader. Marshall was a seminal voice in TV comedy and silver screen […]
CLICK HERE to read our full coverage of San Diego Comic-Con 2016. We Bare Bears in just about the cutest thing in the world. 11 minute episodes on Cartoon Network about three bears- Grizz (Eric Edelstein), PanPan (Bobby Moynihan) and Ice Bear (Demetri Martin)- navigating the metropolitan human world while being, well, bears, the simply […]