Will Suicide Squad Retake Its Lacklustre Box Office Crown?

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?

Rogue One: Into Darthness Trailer Drops

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

Biff Bam Pop’s Alien Invasion – District 9

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

Lost Generations: The Films of Wim Wenders

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

Beautifully Drawn Boy: The Thrilling, Wrenching Journey of Boy and the World

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

Biff Bam Pop Remembers David Bowie

Andy Burns: I saw Bowie three times – the first was at a 2,000 seat club in Toronto called The Warehouse. He was touring Earthling, which I thought and still … Continue reading Biff Bam Pop Remembers David Bowie

The 17th Annual Animation Show of Shows

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

Holiday Gift Guide 2015: Bloodborne

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

Holiday Gift Guide 2015: Dragon Age: Inquisition—Game of the Year Edition

Yeah, I know. It’s last year’s game. The raves, the kudos, they fell on the 2014 side of the calendar. But Dragon Age: Inquisition is big enough to sprawl across more than … Continue reading Holiday Gift Guide 2015: Dragon Age: Inquisition—Game of the Year Edition