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CLICK HERE to read all of our SDCC 2018 Coverage. Every year at Comic-Con, I make a point of stopping by the Stern Pinball booth on the convention’s exhibit floor to see what new pop culture licenses the company has secured to turn into classic arcade games. This year’s big title is Iron Maiden. When asked […]

CLICK HERE to read all of our SDCC 2018 Coverage. We caught up with Hosea Chanchez (The Game) and Imani Hakim (Everybody Hates Chris) at San Diego Comic-Con to get the scoop on their new movie Down For Whatever from TV One. Hosea plays a cop searching for the people who murdered his partner and mentor. Imani plays the […]

Arguably the greatest challenge faced by a festival with as strict a mandate as The Shaw Festival’s “plays by Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, and plays about the period of Shaw’s lifetime” is the issue of relevance, or perhaps freshness is a more accurate word for the issue since I honestly believe you can find […]

CLICK HERE to read all of our SDCC 2018 Coverage. I’m not a skilled gamer but the ever-evolving art coming out of that storytelling genre fascinates me and I love to talk to gamers and game-makers about the latest. On the floor at San Diego Comic-Con, I caught up with programmer Richard May who walked me […]

 

Mirvish Productions has been on a run of great programming for the last little while with Come From Away’s Canadian sit-down production as a quality anchor, and tours of The Phantom of the Opera and Wicked coming through town. Phantom certainly can take some criticism but I’d argue its messages about empathy and mercy ultimately […]

 

CLICK HERE to read all of our SDCC 2018 Coverage. I stopped by the LEGO booth at San Diego Comic-Con to tour the life-size models they had on display, including Aquaman, Unikitty from the LEGO movie, a giant Millennium Falcon perfect for posing, and a ginormous Thanos from Avengers: Infinity War that might be the coolest […]

CLICK HERE to read all of our SDCC 2018 Coverage. While walking the exhibition floor on preview night at Comic-Con International, I made sure to stop by my favourite booth- Cinema Makeup School. They always have tons of cool demonstrations going on and makeup artists on hand to give you the inside scoop on how the […]

 

Rory Mullarkey’s new play is totally bonkers, and while it does have some laugh-out loud moments, there are too many misfires meaning it ends up plodding along and becomes quite a frustrating watch. Unapologetically, this is a play deeply rooted in the surreal comedy genre, and it seems likely that it is going to split […]