When it’s good, it’s so, so good
What allows a grown, slightly overweight man to use a hula hoop for the first time, in the middle of a crowd? This article is… Read More
Navigating Netflix: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
And if you're into their kind of comedy, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a fantastically funny film. If not, it's still worth watching for the sake of socio-political discourse. And the fart jokes. You can't forget the fart jokes. Read More
Ten uses of WiFi you probably never thought of
Isn’t the world a magical place? Millions and millions of bits of data are flying around our heads as I write this through wireless internet… Read More
A day of celebration and critical examination
As a kid growing up in the 80s in southern Quebec, July 1st, Canada Day – or perhaps even Dominion Day to some —was somewhat… Read More
Navigating Netflix: Oldboy
Oldboy is a hard film to explain. It's a brilliant, brutal thriller that takes the viewer on a journey you cannot possibly see coming. Read More
A post-Pride run-down of festival favourites, and a guide for 2015
It’s kind of like a really glittery Christmas, but with less guilt and religious/secular tensions, and a much better colour scheme. Read More
Navigating Netflix: The Wolverine
This is a solid movie and well worth watching for fans of the character and franchise. That said, there's still a truly great Wolverine movie out there waiting to be made. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Zoolander
He was a man with a simple dream, to parlay his successful modelling career into the creation of the "The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too." Read More
Country, know thyself: Shameless Propaganda
Longtime National Film Board (NFB) filmmaker Bob Lower turns the camera back on the NFB and Canada during WWII in his new feature depicting the birth of the NFB amid a mandate to drum-up support for England during the war. Read More
Top 10 Manitoba day trips
1. Whirlwind tour through the Bible Belt Manitoba’s version of the conservative string of American states can be found just over an hour southwest of… Read More
Navigating Netflix: Dear Mr. Watterson
The broad yet brilliant appeal of a strip that persists almost 20 years after its 10-year run ended is why Dear Mr. Watterson is necessary. Read More
To the best bookstore in Winnipeg
I would have sold a piece of my soul and turned my back on those I love if it guaranteed me a job at McNally Robinson. Good thing it didn't come to that. Read More
Navigating Netflix: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Just off-the-wall enough to distance itself from its 90s sitcom peers, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air remains a syndication mainstay that's fun to come back to. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Total Recall
If you watch Total Recall for what it is, then it's still a highly enjoyable experience and one that holds up well almost 24 years later. What are you waiting for? Get your ass to Mars. Read More
Navigating Netflix: Superbad
There’s a point when you’re in high school and you think everything that will ever matter is happening right then and there. People are constantly… Read More
Partying with the ghost of Gram Parsons
As Coachella party goers are shaking off hangovers and drug stupors under the relentless desert sun, across the San Bernadino mountains sits a desert oasis where for decades musicians and freaks of all flavours have found spiritual respite. Read More