Growing up, the stories of Robert Munsch were required reading, and to this day I can still recite many of them word for word. From the gleeful chanting of Mortimer, to the chaos of Moira’s Birthday, to the tender tears of Love You Forever, I delighted in the crazy whimsical world that was Robert Munsch. …
It only took about five minutes into the pilot episode of the television series Lost before I was hooked. By the end of the pilot I was addicted, and I remained a faithful viewer right up until the finale six years later. Lost had its fair share of ups and downs, but I stayed with it …
Confession time: I am a movie trailer addict. The number of trailers that I have watched in my lifetime by now must number in the thousands, far outnumbering the number of actual films I have seen. There are many reasons why I watch so many trailers, but the main one is that I see movie trailers …
November 11th is a day that many countries, whether observing Veterans Day, Independence Day, Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day, stop and reflect on the sacrifices millions have made during the past century of warfare. We remember the horrors of war, the toll taken on the soldiers who fought the battles, and the anguish of their …
The band Young the Giant came to my attention when their song “My Body” began to get a solid chunk of airplay on rock radio stations earlier this year. I loved the song immediately, and I have since been known to dance around the kitchen to its infectious beat more than once while cooking dinner. …
The other night I spent the evening with a couple of friends, and we watched one after another all the Pixar short films we could find. With a few exceptions, I had previously seen all of films we watched, but this viewing was different. Watching them all back to back was an entirely unique experience, …
Sadly, many brilliant TV shows are cancelled too soon for any number of reasons, including bad ratings, mismanagement by their network, or the fact that they were simply too smart and too good to survive on network television. In some rare cases, cancelled TV shows can be brought back (Family Guy), rescued by cable (Southland), …