Finding Nemo creator Andrew Stanton provides heart behind Wall-E
Wall-E -a film about a trash-compacting robot running around a futuristic, uninhabited Earth, with nothing akin to vocal chords and thus no intelligible way to express himself-is, oddly enough, writer-director Andrew Stanton's most intimate work.
Leave it to Oprah to turn philanthropy into a gaudy, voyeuristic reality television show. In a hysterical peacock-like parade of moral one-upmanship, ten contestants on her new reality TV show Oprah's Big Give compete in a holier-than-thou display of charitable licentiousness week after week in the vain hope of being crowned the most generous by the Queen of Selflessness herself.
Historic Ciies exhibit McCord
In North America, when a building passes the hundred-year mark, there's a good chance that a plaque will be put on it. We don't have much antiquity here, and if there's a building that our grandparents remember from their youth we'll probably fight tooth and nail so that our children will be able to see it.
Cop cliches drive Street Kings
In life there are bad guys and there are good guys. The question Street Kings poses is: how do you tell the difference? To be honest, the speculative morals of this film are as tired as the rehash of the old genre of cop thriller itself. Last year's Gone Baby Gone did the convoluted morals shindig with more grace and panache (to say nothing of classics such as Taxi Driver and The Wild Bunch).
Misery Signals' meteoric rise to metalcore's mighty pantheon
The intense wailing of heavy guitar and hard double-pedal drum kicking is impossible to ignore in the hardcore sounds of Misery Signals. Since their initial formation in 2002, they have been on a slippery slope as various members came and went. Their lineup stabilized in 2005, when the monstrous but melodic vocal styles of Karl Schubach were introduced to their sound.
McGill grad rockets to online fame
What do Asian girls, co-ed sports, music piracy and expensive sandwiches all have in common? According to comedy blogger and former Mcgill Tribune Sports Editor Christian Lander, they are all things that white people like. Obvious? Racist? Hopelessly simplistic? Maybe.
TV. Battlestar Galactica Season 4. Holy fraking shit, Galactica is back again with a bang. The show's fourth and final season opens with an explosive episode that creates yet another cliffhanger-and generates even more questions than answers. Main characters are revealed as bona fide Cylons, the human fleet is crippled by a devastating attack, and Starbuck mysteriously returns with photos of Earth.