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Mean Girls Review: Stop Trying To Make Fetch Happen

Mean Girls is a delightfully funny and fresh take on high school teenage girl clique-dom with engaging characters, witty, highly quotable dialogue, and a cast of future stars. It's just too bad that movie came out in 2004.

Child’s Play Review: A Savage Playdate

Child's Play doesn't take itself too seriously and embraces its kooky sci-fi premise. This reboot feels like a less thoughtful version of Black Mirror, but with a cranked up vicious streak.

Spider-Man: Never Too Old to be Young Again

I have a lot of sympathy for Spider-Man. After a remarkably successful eight-year run, hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars grossed, three major villains vanquished (along with a few minor ones to boot), and tolerating Kirsten Dunst for three whole movies, he’s finally been exposed. Peter Parker never finished high school. We know what […]

Retro Kick: Growing Up with Canadian TV

We Canadians often take for granted or mock Canadian TV programming. Our television tastes have broadened so much in the last decade or so, that we often see our own television industry as producing shows that are too hokey, too corny and even too Canadian for our sophisticated TV palettes. This is not to say […]