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Hook Rules! Disney’s NEW Live Action Peter Pan Can Only Drool

May 11, 2016

The humdrum Cinderella and half-assed Jungle Book weren’t enough — Disney is continuing with its program of turning old cartoons into new live action CGI films with a live action adaptation of Peter Pan. Wait, didn’t we just do this? No, that was Pan, the awkward and unpopular ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Opinion

Jillian Tamaki’s Sex Coven Is Back in Print: Go Buy It! [Review]

April 29, 2016

Frontier #7: Sex Coven Jillian Tamaki Youth In Decline April 2015 Late last year the Loser City crew invited me to participate in making a giant list of comics that don’t suck. I wrote several blurbs for their The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s, including one on Jillian ...

Comics

Frontier #11: BDSM, by Eleanor Davis

April 28, 2016

Frontier #11: BDSM Eleanor Davis Youth In Decline February 2016 BDSM takes place on a porn set. Two women, one a dom the other a sub, are playing out a mistress/maid scene while an all-male crew — save the makeup artist — directs and shoots. The director calls for a halt: the sub is ...

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Free Films! It’s National Canadian Film Day

April 20, 2016

April 20th is Canadian National Film Day and in honour of it, theatres and film clubs all over the country are hosting free and low cost screenings of recent and classic Canadian films. Cable providers Bell and Rogers have switched up their on demand movie listings with packages of free to ...

Roundtables

Surviving #BatmanVSuperman: A Food and Drink Guide

April 18, 2016

You’ve read the bad reviews. You’ve heard all your friends moaning and groaning. You know it and you accept it. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a bad movie. But you’re gonna see it anyway. Don’t worry friends, we’ve got your back. Here’s how ...

Roundtables

Orphan Black: Back to the Beginning – 3 Takes on the Season 4 Premiere

April 15, 2016

Orphan Black returns for season four by taking viewers to a place we did not expect: the past. The episode opened by throwing us right into the mystery that started it all, but from a whole new angle and through the eyes of a brand new clone, and the clone who started us down this rabbit hole: Beth.

Roundtables

That Dr. Strange Trailer Sure Is Awful

April 13, 2016

The Dr. Strange trailer. So… it’s here. We hated it. Here’s why: Megan Purdy: This seems like a trailer for four movies in one: The Matrix, Inception, Eat Pray Love and a watery wuxia ripoff for white America. It’s visually confused and so derivative that it makes no argument for its own ...

Opinion, Roundtables

Good Girls Like Gambit

April 13, 2016

First, Fox delayed the planned Channing Tatum Gambit movie; now it looks like it won’t be made at all. Fox seems so impressed by Deadpool‘s monster box office that its interests have shifted: a Deadpool franchise looks like a sure winner, a Channing Tatum-led Gambit solo film like ...

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#BatmanvSuperman: A Breakfast Cereal Civil War

March 31, 2016

After I reviewed General Mills’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice tie-in cereals, there was much crying and moaning from WWAC staff and Twitter passersby.

Comics

Teen Trees Get Knowledge: Michael Deforge’s Big Kids

February 26, 2016

Big Kids Michael Deforge Drawn & Quarterly Janurary, 2016 The new graphic novel from Michael Deforge, his first since Ant Colony, is a queer coming of age story with a fantastical, metaphysical edge. Like a lot of Deforge’s work, Big Kids exists in a world that’s slightly ...

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Hook Rules! Disney’s NEW Live Action Peter Pan Can Only Drool

Jillian Tamaki’s Sex Coven Is Back in Print: Go Buy It! [Review]

Frontier #11: BDSM, by Eleanor Davis

Free Films! It’s National Canadian Film Day

Surviving #BatmanVSuperman: A Food and Drink Guide

Orphan Black: Back to the Beginning – 3 Takes on the Season 4 Premiere

That Dr. Strange Trailer Sure Is Awful

Good Girls Like Gambit

#BatmanvSuperman: A Breakfast Cereal Civil War

Teen Trees Get Knowledge: Michael Deforge’s Big Kids

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