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
It’s almost a myth. Two brothers, separated and raised in different nations. Similar, and yet different. And only one can be king. Okay okay, pretty melodramatic. But that’s the story … Continue reading Holiday Gift Guide 2015: Destiny: The Taken King vs. Halo 5: Guardians
Sony announced a few days ago that they’ve sold over 30 million PS4 consoles. Not too shabby. What blows my mind is the Sony wags think that at least half … Continue reading Biff Bam Pop’s Holiday Gift Guide 2015: ‘Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection’
It begins with an act of war. Years ago, humanity and the Cylons fought a destructive war to a draw, so the Cylons withdrew. For forty years, nobody heard a … Continue reading Luke Sneyd On… Battlestar Galactica
I’m new to the blood-drenched idiosyncrasies of Sion Sono, the Japanese filmmaker getting a double-bill tonight at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. Sono takes the word prolific and makes … Continue reading 31 Days of Horror 2015: Tag
By the numbers and with its fair share of familiar faces, Gridlocked (2015) is a serviceable action flick showing tonight at Toronto After Dark. In the style of The Expendables franchise, it’s a bullets and brawling … Continue reading Toronto After Dark: Gridlocked
One of the many cool things Toronto After Dark does is they’ve pitched a wide tent for themselves. The gory heart of the festival is and will probably always be … Continue reading 31 Days of Horror: Synchronicity
