Little Mosque on the Prairie is largely considered one of Canada’s greatest TV shows. In terms of quality, I don’t know, the pickings are pretty slim and other than maybe Being Erica and Rookie Blue there are few Canadian shows that consistently could compete in the American market (Slings & Arrows, yes, is one of […]
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The first two episodes of ABC’s latest attempt at a “hip” sitcom are available for free on iTunes before the official premiere on April 11th. Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 is, first of all, a ridiculous title that is hard to say, hard to write and hard to force into a HIMYM-style acronym […]
I have played all of Lionhead Studio’s Fable series so far. I heard about the upcoming Fable: Heroes and was confused and sad. It looked dubious. I thought to myself, “Oh man the series has really gone down since…” and I couldn’t at first decide which Fable game I enjoyed best. So, instead of being […]
Writer-director Mary Harron has proven herself as an accomplished auteur in the realm of the psychological thriller. Having written and directed the cult hit, American Psycho, Harron has proven that she’s able to simultaneously challenge you intellectually, while making your heart skip a beat. So it’s more the disappointing that her latest foray into the […]
In the “About You” section of my facebook page, under “Religion” it says “Aaron Sorkin”. See, when I first discovered Sports Night (Sorkin’s first TV series) I found, for the first time in my life, characters who spoke my language. They’re quick, silly, intense and self-awarely cheesy and it was Aaron Sorkin who created them. […]
This is one hell of a book. Saleem, the narrator, opens by telling us (in a stuttering, halting way—a stickler for perfect accuracy, that Saleem) when he was born, that he’s 31 now, and that he’s dying. This was the first Rushdie I’d read, so I can’t give you any firsthand information about how it […]
Remember the first 30 minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the primates encounter the black monolith and begin taking on human attributes and advanced levels of cognitive capability? Well, expand that episode to an hour and thirty minutes, and the result is the BBC Earth documentary, One Life. Inconspicuously narrated by Daniel Craig, One […]
Last night’s installment of the close-to-cancellation cult sitcom Community was the first in quite some time that reminded me why this show deserves another season. Community was once a groundbreaking show, the most innovative and cleverly constructed on network TV. But with the exception of a few highlight episodes (the Taran Killam-guesting Christmas episode, for […]