CBS’s Monday lineup featured two melancholy but wonderful offerings from 2 Broke Girls and How I Met Your Mother. I’m not usually as taken with 2 Broke Girls as the rest of the world seems to be (it tries too hard), but this week’s episode was right on the money. From Caroline’s practiced “rich girl” […]
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I’m not one for Rocky Horror, but I love me some Room. A midnight screening of Tommy Wiseau’s masterpiece of incompetency is the most fun I’ve had at the movies, possibly ever. The cult film, famed as one of the worst movies ever made, is a grossly narcissistic showpiece for the ambiguously accented producer/writer/director/star full […]
Fox’s newest sitcom balances on a premise that has hilarious truthful potential. Almost all teenage daughters are monsters, but to former geeks who grow up to mother girls just like the ones who tortured them, the trauma is all the more potent. It’s a tricky concept, but such a universal and generally untouched one that […]
In honor of Home Alone, a movie I must have watched fifty four thousand times from age 3 to age 13, and not a single time since, I’m going to do this whole review in the form of random observations, and let my rampant, 24-year-old ID take the reins: • Holy Shit, Macauley is young. […]
As I’ve said before, this was a great season for new shows, but I’ve loved none so much as I’ve grown to love Pan Am. There hasn’t been a new drama this well written or an ensemble this talented since the premiere of Parenthood almost 2 years ago, and the last time I saw a […]
From the first moment of Bad Santa, the film is fully defining its viewpoint. Billy Bob Thorton, looking alcoholic skinny with a cigarette in his hand and a Santa suit hanging angrily off his lanky frame, provides voice over narration to a scene that is set at a bar and which ends with Billy Bob […]
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is gearing up for their 60th Anniversary, recently posting the promotional photos for the 14 productions in their 2012 season. Head to www.stratfordfestival.ca for details on the upcoming shows. 42nd Street A Word or Two The Best Brothers Cymbeline Elektra Henry V Hirsch MacHomer The Matchmaker Much Ado About Nothing The […]
The last weekend in October was one of the coolest weekends I’ve ever spent in my beloved Toronto. Downtown, in the heart of the ever-gorgeous Distillery District, sits the city’s most valuable performance space: The Young Centre for the Performing Arts. The beautifully designed venue sports a spacious lobby with a bar that serves everything […]