“Live long and prosper.” That was Spock’s Star Trek catchphrase, words immortalized in Leonard Nimoy’s deadpan delivery, matter-of-fact, with hidden layers of emotion. And boy, if anything has lived long and … Continue reading Dammit Jim! Star Trek is Fifty!
Biff Bam Pop maestro Andy Burns is having a blast at Fan Expo (see J.P. Fallavolita’s essential strategy guide to Fan Expo survival). So I’m tackling the weekend box office predictions … Continue reading Gasp! “Don’t Breathe” Survives at the Top; “Suicide Squad” Keeps Grinding it Out
It’s the Labour Day weekend. Probably the slowest weekend of the year, movie-wise. People go to the cottage, go to the Canadian National Exhibition, hit Fan Expo, stuff like that. … Continue reading Will Suicide Squad Retake Its Lacklustre Box Office Crown?
We hear about Syria a lot these days. Ravaged by ISIS, crushed by their own dictatorial leaders, the Syrian population is wildly displaced, with millions of refugees looking for new … Continue reading Stars in Broad Daylight
The revolution is coming. It’s coming for your flat screens and your movie theatres and when it’s done, nothing will be the same. Virtual reality has at long last arrived, with … Continue reading TIFF’s Virtual Reality Show a Revealing Revolution
The new story trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One just dropped. There’s a nice chunk of juicy narrative morseldom dished out in its two minutes and fifteen seconds. And possibly the most … Continue reading Rogue One: Into Darthness Trailer Drops
Why do so many aliens want to kill us? Okay, maybe humanity leaves a lot to be desired. There’s war, murder, avarice aplenty, and people that want to elect Donald … Continue reading Biff Bam Pop’s Alien Invasion – District 9
Quick. Name Kurt Cobain’s favourite movie. Fight Club? BZZT! He was long gone by the time Fincher’s slacker opus came out. Quadrophenia? The Elephant Man? No doubt they’d have been right up his alley. … Continue reading Lost Generations: The Films of Wim Wenders
When you’re young, very young, the world is bright and bold, a riot of colour and creatures and moments tumbling one to the next. Boy and the World, a newly released animated … Continue reading Beautifully Drawn Boy: The Thrilling, Wrenching Journey of Boy and the World
A few weeks back, a story was doing the rounds about Harrison Ford’s mammoth payout for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The UK’s Daily Mail posted that Ford had been paid … Continue reading Harrison Ford Made 50 Times the Salary His Star Wars: The Force Awakens Costars Got—It Should Have Been More
Wannabe astronauts simulating free-fall bouncing on the beds in their dorm like trampolines. A free-thinker on an assembly line who dares to scrawl squiggles in a world of striped boxes. … Continue reading The 17th Annual Animation Show of Shows
Playing Bloodborne is like smashing your head against a wall, a very gory, slimy wall, again and again and again and again. It’s hard. You cry out like a Canadian … Continue reading Holiday Gift Guide 2015: Bloodborne
