I was pretty sure Elektra would be my least favourite thing at Stratford this season. I’m not big on the Greeks (not that I’m against them, they’re just a tough sell and almost always directed by crazy people who want to make everything into a Very Meaningful Movement Piece). I’m most certainly not someone immediately […]
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When marketing this week’s Doctor Who, ‘Dinosaurs on a Spaceship’, the focus was of course, dinosaurs and a spaceship. Yes, yes, you spent a lot of your budget on those, and they were admittedly very cool. Personally, I was way more excited about this week’s guest stars. Lestrade from Sherlock had a big gun! Peep […]
Political Animals‘ 6-part season was great and if it doesn’t get a second season, I’ll be sad, but it’ll still be a great mini-series that got to the heart of its humans while completely leaving pretension at the door. The great James Wolk and Sebastian Stan got better and better each episode, Ellen Burstyn stayed […]
Would someone please explain to me why His Girl Friday is a play? I get adapting plays into movies, and I even get adapting movies into musicals (so long as the songs are original), but a movie into a play? Chances are there’s no improving on the performances in a movie iconic enough to give […]
My Facebook Newsfeed has been blowing up with this link over the past few hours. Everyone from my high school English teacher to twentysomething politicos to sheltered theatre geeks are jumping on the Chris Kluwe bandwagon; and for good reason. Okay, backstory: Brendon Ayanbadejo (linebacker, Baltimore Ravens) comes out in favour of legalizing gay marriage. […]
Most hockey fans will tell you that the 2004–05 season was a pretty dark time for the sport. For the first time in the history of North American professional sports, a labour dispute wiped out an entire season. When it finally ended, and the NHL returned in October 2005, fans flocked back to the game […]
The week before my eighth birthday the only thing I wanted more than a new bicycle was to see Crimson Tide. It was early May and I distinctly remember the adrenaline that coursed through my veins as my father closed the car door and informed me that we were on our way to the AMC. […]
The Summerworks Festival is my one big regret of the summer, theatre-wise. After a disappointing Fringe, I was really looking forward to the juried, uniquely Torontonian festival. The lineup looked pretty good and I had my press pass all lined up but I simply dropped the ball. I saw only 6 productions over the course […]