Beyond the Rhetoric

AMC has some of the best TV shows on air right now. Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Walking Dead… These guys truly know how to produce amazing TV shows that tell more than just a story. So, it wasn’t really a surprise when they started a re-telling of the original Danish TV show The Killing. The [...]

The Cabin in the Woods (2011) There are some horror movies out there that take themselves quite seriously, but The Cabin in the Woods is not one of them. While it doesn’t go quite as far in its self-parody as a franchise like Scary Movie, it is purposefully “campy” (bad pun intended) in its approach [...]

This past weekend, the Vancouver Home + Design Show was held at BC Place Stadium, offering a space where all sorts of vendors could show off all kinds of products and innovations as it relates to the home. While many of these were related to home improvement projects, to be sure, there were also vendors [...]

When I first heard about Once Upon a Time, I wasn’t 100% sold on the concept. I mean, a TV show based on a re-telling of well known and well loved fairy tales… I wasn’t sure it’d succeed, much less if I’d like it. But since Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin and Robert Carlyle were cast [...]

Continuing on the sci-fi trend, I’ve gotta say that Fringe is one of my favourite science fiction TV shows on air right now. They’ve taken this show to many different places and while the first season wasn’t filmed in Vancouver, seasons 2 through 5 were. If you’re familiar with J.J. Abrams’ previous work (like Alias, [...]