Month: October 2019
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Casino Stories in Pop Culture
The casino industry is a follower of technological and pop culture trends. Thanks to technology their sites are available to users of computers, phones, and tablets on the go, but it’s thanks to pop culture they have a bigger client base. You can find such a site at this URL, offering many bonuses and rewards to…
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Concert Review: Morrissey (Saskatoon, October 22nd, 2019)
Morrissey is great at making people upset, which he did once more with the shuffling around of his Saskatoon show. But can we forgive him? There were a lot of jokes and poor attitudes walking into the lobby of the Morrissey show last night, myself chief among the dour. Hilariously, the shirts they were selling…
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Interview: Wendy McGrath (Broke City)
Please welcome our guest writer, Thea Bowering, interviewing prairie writer Wendy McGrath about her brand new book, Broke City, part of the Santa Rosa Trilogy. Recently, on my CJSR-Radio program, WORD, I talked with Edmonton poet and novelist Wendy McGrath about Broke City (2019), the novel that completes her Santa Rosa Trilogy, which also…
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Where’s Our Tintin Sequel?
It’s been eight years since they made a Tintin movie. Our writer, Kim, who grew up on the books, asks — where’s my Tintin sequel? Billions of blistering blue barnacles! Where is my Tintin sequel? It’s been nearly eight years since Tintin debuted on the big screen, a movie that ended with the promise of…
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Jesse is back, on the run, in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Does it hold up to the high standard set by the series? For those who want to take another dive into the Breaking Bad universe, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is quite satisfying, for the most part. Is it breaking new…
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It: Chapter Two
Overlong and meandering, and without the coming-of-age story that propped up the first movie, It: Chapter Two is a ferociously tedious film to be endured. Before we slip into the stinky sewer that is It: Chapter Two, I thought some quick context on my opinion of It: Chapter One might be in order. I can’t…
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Kim Thinks About Horror (A Halloween Op Ed)
Kim doesn’t like horror movies. Or, hey, maybe he does. Either way, he ponders what horror means to different people and talks about his favourites. Let’s get something out in the open straight away — I don’t like horror movies. When a friend asks, Do you want to watch a horror tonight? my answer has…
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Gears 5
They may have dropped the “Of War,” but Microsoft’s Gears 5 is still a mostly worthy addition to the series. We take a close look. Firstly, I’d like to offer Gears 5 my sincerest condolences for the loss of its “GOW” acronym. There’s no “Of War” in the franchise’s title anymore, having been claimed by…
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Blu Ray Review: Child’s Play
Chucky is back for 2019, replacing the legendary Brad Dourif with the talented Mark Hamill as the killer doll. We look at the blu ray. Chucky the killer doll is reborn for today’s kids in a 21st century Child’s Play – for a certain audience, that’s damn near blasphemous to announce. The possessed and demented…