After a week away, Sasha James returns to give us our weekly re-cap of HBO’s Girls, the show that took four episodes to get around to mentioning brunch. Continue reading
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Girls Episode 1.2 Review
Sasha James returns for a recap of the second episode of HBO’s Girls, the show that no matter if you love it or hate it, looks like it’s staying around for a while. Continue reading
Girls Episode 1.1 Review
Sasha James takes us through the debut episode of HBO’s Girls. You might have heard of this one. Continue reading
A Beginner’s Guide to Studio Ghibli
This March 10 to April 13, Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox presents “Spirited Away: The Films of Studio Ghibli,” a retrospective of Studio Ghibli, the legendary Japanese animation studio. Newly-struck 35mm prints of fifteen of the studio’s most beloved films will be screened in both Japanese with English subtitles and dubbed English. If you are unfamiliar with Studio Ghibli, we’ve written up a handy “Beginner’s Guide” for your perusal! Continue reading
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Sing-a-long-a Grease Preview
Grease, the highest grossing movie-musical of all time, is back on the big screen this February 24-26th at TIFF Bell Lightbox for four “Sing-a-long-a” screenings hosted by comedian Shawn Hitchins. Continue reading
The Addams Family Musical Review
The Addams Family musical, now in its second year on Broadway, is based on the artwork of cartoonist Charles Addams and the popular film and television productions that followed. The comedy musical pushes our favourite gothic family into new territory — into genuine, unironic happiness. Happiness that was not achieved through decapitation, poisoning or the like. It’s kind of weird. Continue reading
Tags: Andrew Lippa, Blake Hammond, Brian Justin Crum, Courtney Wolfson, Crista Moore, Douglas Sills, Marshall Brickman, Martin Vidnovic, musical, Patrick D. Kennedy, Pippa Pearthree, Rick Elice, Sara Gettelfinger, stage production, The Addams Family, The Addams Family Musical, theatre, Tom Corbeil, touring play
Doctor Who Episode 6.8 Recap
The last time we heard from our favourite Gallifreyan and his time-traveling companions, Amy Pond had given birth to a baby girl named Melody. She and her baby had been held against their will by the Clerics, an organization led by Madame Kovarian intent on using Melody as a weapon. Ten thousand light-years away, the Doctor and the Last Centurion assembled an army to recover the female Ponds. Unfortunately, nothing went to plan and a lot of people died. Continue reading
Doctor Who Episode 6.7 Review
Spoiler Warning: “The Rebel Flesh” (6.5) and “The Almost People” (6.6). Also, I wouldn’t read any further into this post unless you’ve watched the entirety of “A Good Man Goes To War” (6.7) right to the very end. I mean to the last second. You’ve been warned, alright? Spoilers. Continue reading
Doctor Who Episode 6.5/6.6 Review
I knew going into “The Rebel Flesh” and “The Almost People” that I wasn’t going to like these episodes at all. After watching the trailer for this two-parter, the episodes immediately felt like the dismal Silurian two-parter in Series Five – “Cold Blood” and “The Hungry Earth”. Both two-installment stories deal with representations of humanity and a war between humans and their human-like counterparts (now enemies). Continue reading
Doctor Who Episode 6.4 Review
This is the episode that Whovians have been waiting 47 years for, but just didn’t know it. With a woman-turned-TARDIS, companions running through actual TARDIS corridors and Neil Gaiman on board, it would be very hard to go wrong. There is no doubt that “The Doctor’s Wife” will go down as one of the most iconic episodes within both Series Six and the decades-spanning television series Doctor Who as a whole. Continue reading
Doctor Who Episode 6.3 Review
The Doctor, Amy and Rory have decided to go on adventures after three months of fighting The Silents. Their first stop is a pirate ship manned by one Captain Avery. Avery and his fellow pirates are being picked off one by one by a siren who can smell even the smallest drop of blood. Episodes immediately following the premiere episode are least spectacular episodes of each series. They are often self-contained stories that are lighter in theme that usually go back in time rather than forward. Series Six’s “Curse of the Black Spot” follows in this same vein, but thankfully for Doctor Who audiences,”Curse of the Black Spot” blows the previously mentioned episodes out of the water. Continue reading
Doctor Who Episode 6.2 Review
As I said in my review, the first episode of Doctor Who Series Six —”The Impossible Astronaut” — was filled with elaborate narrative arcs and characters on the brink of disaster. The second part to this two-parter serial — “Day of the Moon” — does nothing in the way of answering questions or alleviating any of the tension introduced in the previous episode. Continue reading
