Hey, now, if I really thought I was better than anybody, I wouldn’t have included that part. It was once and it was years ago. Whatever shame I felt from that has already been addressed. Apparently this movie has fans. 

Hey, thanks! I wasn’t expecting to be accused of condescension for that comment, but okay! I’m not a film snob. I just happened to think it was a DUMB movie, and I was surprised that the people I was with liked it. I also said to each their own, and despite what my tone may have suggested, I meant that sincerely. The…

“Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters”: .. I was interrupted from a particularly brutal morning hangover to be invited to this with a friend, but mostly her friends whom I didn’t know very well. If you haven’t seen it (don’t see it), it’s literally Hansel and Gretel as adults dressed up like X-Men exploding maggot-filled…

I hate Trump. Also, the author does nothing to distinguish himself from the very people he’s criticizing. 

The more obvious story seems to be not so much that J.J. Abrams is ‘nostalgia-obsessed’ so much as how utterly harrowing a line it seems to walk in a franchise like Star Wars, which has become so nauseatingly infused with politics and fan immaturity that it’s all but lost the sense of *fun* it was meant to be about in…

I’m a fan of Carrie Fisher (both in Star Wars and of the actor/comedienne in general) but I can’t help but disagree with the narrative of her fighting tooth and nail against a script with bad dialogue were she alive. It seemed to me like she, along with Harrison Ford, played along and did the lines for old time’s…

Separately, a very reasonable chunk of CBC comedy is just a close-up of Rick Mercer’s face.

As someone who would be the first to agree that Star Wars is (at least for ‘us’ - I’m 34) a great divider between those who outgrew it’s ‘magic’ but appreciate it as adults, and those who ‘appreciate’ it for all the wrong reasons, I thought it was great.

*Spoilers*

- I thought the reveal of the birth name of Rey - the…

And a Francophile is a connoisseur of all things Dave Franco.

In regard to the “Figured You Out” song (“I like your pants around your feet..”), the verse is supposed to be from the perspective of a wife-beater, while the chorus (“Now I know who are..”) is from the perspective of the ‘real man’, which in this case is Nickelback. It’s a bad song, but that’s the intention, at…

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I feel I could sense Kawhi and the Raptors hold their breath a bit when John Tory (the mayor) appealed for him to stay when giving him the key to the city. I don’t think Tory was intentionally trying to guilt him (nor would that work), but many need to take Kawhi’s repeated advice to “enjoy it”, whether he stays or…

A friend of mine worked on the show. The wife was apparently killed off because the actress playing her was allegedly insufferable to work with and Kiefer wanted her fired. Also, Kal Penn is a gem of a guy, reportedly.

As for the show: I’m with most people in that the premise is great, the first bit is promising, and…

There was no doubt some of that going on at the outset, but it is actually customary to stand and clap for an injured player of either side as they are leaving a game. Is that just a Canadian thing?

Drake chirped players in the Toronto-Cleveland series as well. At some point, near the end of one of the series, LeBron ran past him and roared at him. Every Raptors fan I know including my own mother felt it was appropriate.

That being said, there’s something so hilariously unique about this predicament that I am…

That’s just plain ignorance of this country, this area, and its relationship to sports in general. It’s not to the degree of ‘Canadians aren’t real basketball fans’, but it’s pretty close to that level of presumptuousness bordering on the insulting.

I’m Canadian, and I absolutely agree and cannot stand that sort of thing.

This, however, is the genuine article, and sometimes things can just be unambiguously good and there’s no need to shit all over everything.

I’m so happy that Nav Bhatia is being recognized. I’m pretty sure he still has those full-page ads with the “#1 Superfan” header, and has had them since at least 1995. Even during the Jays/Leafs playoff runs, you can always spot him with a keen eye. It’s nice when good people in your own backyard are recognized. Go…

I’ll never get past when it was pointed out that instead of cutting his leg off, he could have just used the saw to reach the cellphone.

There’s a nice town in Ontario that’s home to the second-largest Elvis festival in the world. Just this year they voted to stop hosting it. I understand, what with the aging demographic, but for all the pretend bitching we locals ever did about it, it is kind of sad and coming-of-age to see it go. One weekend a year, m…