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  • Ripples: The Effect of Saskatchewan’s Film Industry

    Ripples: The Effect of Saskatchewan’s Film Industry

    April 30, 2012 / Articles

    REGINA — Cashiers, baristas and even those who preside over parking tickets were on the receiving end of a campaign by Saskatchewan’s film and digital media industry last week. Spurred on by the Saskatchewan Party’s decision to can the Film Tax Credit (FTC) in this year’s budget, the industry launched a Money Card Campaign. Each purchase they made — from coffee to mortgage payments — was accompanied by a card reading “I earned this money working in the film industry.” [...]

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  • Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance

    Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance

    April 9, 2012 / Articles

    The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used to define and control us. The Conversation about women happens everywhere, publicly and privately. We are described and detailed, our faces and bodies analyzed and picked apart, our worth ascertained and ascribed based on the reduction of personhood to simple physical objectification. Our voices, our personhood, our potential, and our accomplishments are regularly minimized and muted. As an [...]

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  • Daniel, We Salute You.

    Daniel, We Salute You.

    March 2, 2012 / Articles

    I recently heard about what happened, Daniel, and I’m sorry I haven’t said this sooner. We loved your intimidating Sheriff Cooley in O Brother Where Art Thou? We loved your Commandant Spangler in Malcolm in the Middle. We loved your Kruger in Seinfeld. And Chief Grady in Super Troopers. And the multiple people you’ve portrayed on Law & Order over the years. The list could go on and on, but the point is you’re an excellent actor whose work is [...]

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  • Building a Death Star

    Building a Death Star

    February 15, 2012 / Articles

    So you want to run a galactic empire, be the king of all that is, and wear a shiny hat? Having a space based weapons platform would help,  but you have to find the materials to build it with. It’s easy to say that “sure, the Death Star would be expensive” but is there actually enough iron in the Earth to make the first Death Star? The folks at Centives decided to find out (caution: maths ahead). The completed Death Star [...]

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  • Germany refuses to sign ACTA amid protests

    Germany refuses to sign ACTA amid protests

    February 10, 2012 / Articles

    In a potentially fatal blow to the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA), Germany’s Foreign Office announced today that it will not sign the contentious treaty as protests heat up in 200 cities across Europe. Germany, which has the largest economy in the European Union, follows in the footsteps of Latvia, Poland and the Czech Republic, which signed ACTA, but later said they would block ratification of the treaty. If ratified by the European Parliament, ACTA would set strict international standards for intellectual property law, and create a new governing body to [...]

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  • Total Recall Redux

    Total Recall Redux

    February 8, 2012 / Articles

    Total Recall, the Paul Verhoeven directed sci-fi flick starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, originally came out as a Carolco production in 1990. Ronny Cox did a great job chewing the scenery as the main bad guy Vilos Cohaagen, a man with supreme authority to run Mars and do anything he wants as long as the tribinium kept flowing. Schwarzenegger, as Douglas Quaid, visited Rekall – a company that sells fake memories – for a vacation from his dull life as a construction [...]

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  • Announcement from HOUSE Executive Producers David Shore, Katie Jacobs and Hugh Laurie

    Announcement from HOUSE Executive Producers David Shore, Katie Jacobs and Hugh Laurie

    February 8, 2012 / Articles

    Announcement from HOUSE Executive Producers David Shore, Katie Jacobs and Hugh Laurie, as well as a statement from Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company. After much deliberation, the producers of House M.D. have decided that this season of the show, the 8th, should be the last.  By April this year they will have completed 177 episodes, which is about 175 more than anyone expected back in 2004. The decision to end the show now, or ever, is a [...]

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  • Did the music industry set-up Megaupload to be shut down?

    Did the music industry set-up Megaupload to be shut down?

    January 27, 2012 / Articles

    The US government says that Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom masterminded a vast file sharing conspiracy that swindled the entertainment industry out of millions by letting users illegally download movies and songs. By putting Dotcom behind bars, the feds didn’t just end Megaupload though, once one of the most visited sites on the Web. By ending the operation, authorities have also pulled the plug on an endeavor that was scheduled to launch later this year that could have legitimately disrupted Hollywood by [...]

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  • Marilyn Monroe’s Two Secrets

    Marilyn Monroe’s Two Secrets

    January 5, 2012 / Articles

    What I learned about the icon by folding her capri pants. The excerpt below is from Simon Doonan’s Gay Men Don’t Get Fat, out today from Penguin. There was, for many years, a big photograph of Judy Garland by the late, great William Claxton duct-taped to the wall of the Barneys display studio where I worked. In this compelling image, Liza’s highly strung mother is caught backstage wrapped in a towel. Her face is a festival of anguish. One rigor mortis hand [...]

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