Yeah, it wasn't bad. We had The Wedge (in its prime hosted by Sook Yin Lee), Loud (that sometimes got pretty bro-y, but also played some pretty great hardcore from that era), and most importantly:
Al Music. When Weird Al Yankovic would take over the god damn station for an entire day of programming.

oh shit, I totally forgot about Rusty, but yep. I remember The Tea Party not being bad either.
It's worth revisiting Treble Charger's first two albums, but Wide Awake Bored is a god damn dumpster fire of horrible.

Looking back, I realize that Canada dodged a huge bullet in that time period. Sure we had the same bullshit, but we also had a golden age of some pretty great rock. Sloan, Treble Charger (before they started trying to be Sum 41), Tragically Hip, Limblifter, Age of Electric, the Gandharvas, and sure, I'll throw in Our…

I'm happy to see DuVernay directing this, and it's great that she's actively trying to avoid making another "White People: the movie", but I'm getting a little tired of this whole thing in the media where diversity/inclusion = hiring black actors.
I mean, yeah, there needs to be much more representation of Black…

Yep. Every month for the last year I checked the solicitation listings when they're released, hoping to see "Revengeance #1" among the titles.
Considering that it was not only his first creator owned series, but also set in the Toronto of his younger days, it seemed like it was something very personal for him - and no…

One unanswered question about HB2: How will a bill 'protecting' women and children from hypothetical sexual assaults impact Republicans' sterling track record of telling actual, existing sexual assault survivors that their assault is either their fault, or that they're lying?

Hey, I agree with you, but there's zero chance of that even being in the ballpark of being a reasonable consideration to mull over. Putting morality and ethics ahead of maximizing profits would be downright un-American and anti-capitalist.
The only time movie executives are ever going to choose to flush money down the…

Oh, I agree with what you're saying.
Unfortunately, whether it's film, tv, video games, advertising, pop music - any time there's large sums of money to be made off of creative work - you end up with accountants having final say on creative decisions (and most disgustingly assuming that that fact makes them 'creative').

Plus, Pascal would be able to rock a mustache without looking like a child molester. Seriously, Cumberbatch's Dr. Strange mustache is the facial hair personification of an Amber Alert.

But how much is *actually* couched in good intentions? Back in my college days I knew a lot of people who conspicuously carried around copies of AdBusters and went to protests to be seen at protests. I was also one of 3 guys in a feminism class. The prof hated me because I took issue with her teaching Andrea Dworkin…

The opening weekend for Avengers: Age of Ultron made just north of $150 million in China, and $240 million total.

Well, the character of Iron Fist was always problematic for being a 'white savior', it's not like they whitewashed that role or anything.
The Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction runs did a pretty good job of addressing the more troubling aspects of Danny Rand, and did a reasonable job of pivoting away from them. Hopefully…

It's not about doing what's right for the story though, it's about box office. China is a huge market (almost certainly the largest of the international markets), they're (on the government side) also not known for embracing freedom of speech and expression, they also don't recognize Tibet (that being the *least*…

Yeah, Sam Bee would have been wonderful, but instead she got to develop her own show that's tailored to her sensibilities and the topics she wants to cover, which is better for her and her fans. I mean, really, the only problem with Full Frontal is that it's weekly and not nightly.

Yeah, especially when it comes to confrontation and escalating arguments. Pre-internet you'd have to risk (and probably receive) a punch in the face for the way most online comment-board arguments devolve.
Plus, people would think more carefully about any claims they made because looking like a damn fool in person is…

All of this 'who get's jobs/cast in what movies/tv shows' outrage is so completely misplaced. Cargill is right. So is what's-his-name director that responded to the Ghost in the Shell controversy (although, using cg to make Johansson 'look more Asian' or whatever is fucking ridiculous and offensive. Her casting is…

I prefer 'outrage addicts' to 'SJW'. It's more accurate to their motivations, it doesn't infer that there's something wrong about wanting social justice, and it doesn't ignore the fact that people with that mindset exist everywhere on the political spectrum (*cough* Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Donald Trump…

Meh, maybe not. There are two movies titled Crash, and the Goon comic was around long before the movie you're talking about.
Not entirely outside the realm of possibility that they work something out. I mean, it's not like the hockey movie is on track to be turned into a franchise.

But *was* it the right thing for the client? He kind of swept the whole "I'm a god damn lunatic who'll never be able to represent your interests in court" thing under the rug. He could have went through the whole space suit / 'put your cell phones in this bin'/lights off thing and said "hey, this is my issue, but HHM…

The US remake of Mad Dogs or the UK original?
I'm only familiar with the remake, but I found it to be eye-rolling and compulsively watchable in equal measure.
For me, it seemed like some weird mash up of the Fargo series and Entourage.
It also seemed like it had 2 or 3 seasons worth of weird plot points occurring in a…