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Recap: BravoTV’s “Vanderpump Rules” The Homo-erotic Undertones Edition

Let’s not mess around about what went down on BravoTV’s “Vanderpump Rules” this week. I couldn’t live-tweet or blog that night because I was busy watching the Ohio State Buckeyes (my alma mater) trounce the Oregon Ducks. Thank God for the DVR. So Jax is at least bi, or bi-curious, or maybe even gay and

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Review: Panda Bear’s “Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper”

No matter how invincible one may think they are, death is inevitable. Thinking about it makes many of us feel this wave of unease. We don’t know when the grim reaper will come pay his uninvited visit. Leaving many of us living in this constant cocoon of fear. People find different ways of coping with

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Review: Dan Mangan, “Club Meds”

Let’s be honest here, the world is terrifying. Ostensibly it is said that life is beautiful and there is such potential for you to have a great time. In truth we are from time to time stricken with anxiety of social interaction or the fear of being let down again and again. Confidence can be

The Canadian Screen Awards Nominations Revealed!

Xavier Dolan continues his winning ways with 13 Canadian Screen Awards nominations for Mommy, a dazzling story of an emotionally volatile boy and his weary mother that blasted out of the gate at Cannes last spring to win the Jury Prize. It has figured consistency in critics’ polls and today it swept Canada’s “Oscar” nominations.

Golden Globe Winner Julianne Moore on Still Alice

  Still Alice’ Julianne Moore won the Golden Globe Best Actress in a Drama award this past Sunday, for taking a journey no other actress has taken. She plays a 55 year old college linguistics professor diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease and the film follows Alice’ descent into the disease, from simply forgetting words

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Recap: WEtv’s “Marriage Boot Camp” The Party Is Over Edition

WEtv’s “Marriage Boot Camp” is back and this time I just can’t resist blogging it. If the first episode was any indication, I’m not going to be disappointed by the crazy-factor this season (really, somebody let Heidi and Spencer back on American television?). Heidi Montag (I know, it’s hard to recognize her because of all

House of Lies: Surreal First World Problems Continue in Season 4

House of Lies has always been more than just a comedy. It’s a trip inside the surreal and often fantastical world of white-collar egomaniacs. Sure, the “sexcapades” are a little out of control sometimes, as is the nature of premium networks like Showtime and HBO, but this hyper reality is grounded in hard-hitting truths, socio-economic

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Make Time For Punk, Blues and Pop Fusion With Hanni El Khatib

Being able to write a good pop song is difficult. Adding in elements of punk and blues with that is an even more mind blowing experience. Hanni El Khatib gracefully played his way on in to the music industry in 2011 with “Will the Guns Come Out.” Khatib worked as a creative director for skateboarding

Predestination Review

Put the time-travel gibberish into the background and the result is a great, gritty Aussie noir flick not to be missed. The Spierig brothers reunite with Ethan Hawke for their first feature in five years and it is a fascinating film. The screenplay is based on the science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein

Inherent Vice Review

Ignore the stoner humor and hackneyed clichés and appreciate the mood and setting of this most neo of the neo-noirs. Those who have read any of Thomas Pynchon’s intractable tails must have been amazed that Paul Thomas Anderson would take on the hazardous task of transforming his 2009 novel into a movie. Continuing Pynchon’s ongoing