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In which I use my dictionary to help me insult people I'll hopefully never meet, and also finally expose to the world how much of a comic book geek I am by making fun of Jeph Loeb. Read more...

In which I review Mr. Nobody, and take more shots at Inception. Read more...

In which I discuss Christopher Nolan's latest film, trash Ellen Page, and ruminate on the finer points of unicorn taming. Read more...

Green Zone is an interesting film for Canadians to watch; just like The Hurt Locker before it we’re watching a current world event that we very well could have been part of. Both of those films carry a meaning for Americans that isn’t a reality for most Canadians: this isn’t our war. It’s chilling to think how different things could have been if we had been taken in by the same deception (or mistakes, depending on who you believe). The plot of the film center on Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller, a man tasked with finding the weapons of mass destruction that the American Army was sent to war over. When his unit is sent on yet another fruitless search for WMDs, a local man alerts then to a meeting of high value targets taking place only a few kilometers away. This sets events in motion that lead Miller across Baghdad and against his own comrades in arms in an effort to find the truth. Read more...

I’m a big fan of BBC documentaries. There’s something about them that’s so uplifting, so utterly positive, that even in a world where the Gulf of Mexico is disappearing, possibly forever, and the Great Barrier Reef is being chipped away at year by year, and the East coast of Africa is a toxic dumping ground, you can still take a moment and appreciate the beauty that this planet does have left.

In which I discuss Jean-Pierre Juenet's new film, and take yet another cheap shot at BP. Read more...

TThe post apocalyptic world of The Book of Eli will be familiar to those who have played the classic videogame series Fallout. Denzel Washington plays Eli, a lone walker carrying a book that is precious to him, on a mission that only he knows about. It is a world where the sky has been torn open by nuclear war, leaving the Earth desolate and empty. Bandits and thieves harass and murder innocents on the road for basic supplies; Eli is clearly a tough individual to have survived. Read more...

In which I discuss Toy Story 3, and complain about perfection. Read more...

The two-disc special edition of Batman Under the Red Hood is getting something a little extra special at Future Shop. Read more...

It’s rare that you can actually point to a single element in a film and say “if this wasn’t here it would be a much better movie”. In the case of The Wolfman it’s Benicio Del Toro; I enjoyed everything else but I was so completely underwhelmed by the lead that it was an effort to look past him to see a movie I wanted to enjoy. Fortunately the Blu-ray version of The Wolfman has a great deal more to offer on top of the film, making it a pretty cool disc to have in your collection. Read more...

As Teddy mentioned last week, Rogers officially took their premium online video streaming website out of beta and launched the full version, featuring new content and enhanced services, including free access to hundreds of TV shows and movies by anyone in Canada. To celebrate the roll-out, Rogers held a lively party called Casting Call on May 27, 2010 at Toronto's hip, upscale music-bar Cheval. Read more...

And it should stay that way. You're going to see a lot of lies in the media over the next few weeks, so click through here to get the facts. Read more...

In which I discuss the new Iron Man film, Icelandic volcanos, and my pants. Read more...

The Bourne Trilogy joins other Universal hits on Blu-ray. It's not the first time this series has been in HD; they graced the HD-DVD format shortly before its demise. How do they stack up in the dominant HD format? Read more...

The Lord of the Rings trilogy landed at the box office with a huge impact. The idea of bringing Tolkien's master work to screen had been a dream of filmmakers and studios for over half a century; an animated effort was aborted shortly after The Hobbit was finished. The trilogy itself was said to be unfilmable. Read more...