Weekend Roundtable: Naughty Doctors
When we’re sick, we entrust them with our health, sometimes even with our lives. In real life, doctors swear an oath to Do No Harm. In TV and movies, such as this week’s release of ‘A Cure for Wellness’, th...
When we’re sick, we entrust them with our health, sometimes even with our lives. In real life, doctors swear an oath to Do No Harm. In TV and movies, such as this week’s release of ‘A Cure for Wellness’, th...
Could the most interesting Blu-ray release of the week be a famously cheesy television series from the 1970s? If so, what does that say about everything else?
Blu-ray collectors generally dread the so-called “double dip,” when a studio reissues a title previously released on the format in hopes of convincing fans to buy yet another copy. To justify this, the new disc had bet...
As we return from the long weekend, a brand new batch of Blu-ray releases awaits our open wallets. This week brings us a recent Oscar nominee, at least one legitimate classic, one of the best TV series currently on the air, and 3D...
During the months of May and June, the major broadcast networks wind down their TV seasons and make way for the cable nets to dominate the summer. Most of the shows we’ve watched over the past several months have either alre...
After my hectic first day at the Calgary Expo, I figured that Saturday would have to be much smoother sailing. Boy, was I wrong. In fact, the media pass fiasco was merely a bad dream compared to the full blown nightmare that swept...
The 2012 Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo has come and gone. Legions of fans came to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ and meet the entire cast of the classic television series, b...
Likely by the time you read this post, I’ll be on my way from Winnipeg to the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, western Canada’s largest pop culture convention (second largest in all of Canada) on April 27th to 29th. Thi...
It has been nearly two weeks since Central Canada Comic Con, and I’m still pretty exhausted. Maybe not quite as much as those diehard nerds still recovering from their year’s quota of exercise LARPing all weekend, mind...
I love the idea of companies like Panasonic getting back into gaming. (Remember the 3DO?) But this really isn’t the way to do it.