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Reality television creates ethical conundrums

  Reality shows have become a staple of television programming over the past few years. They range from survival-of-the-fittest to toddler beauty pageants, and they’re far from waning in popularity. The Real Housewives franchise, for one, has been the crown jewel in Bravo’s lineup for quite some time, spawning spinoffs,[Read More…]

Funny against all odds

collider.com   Imagine how difficult it must be to hear your doctor say you have cancer. Now imagine how you’d feel if you asked the perfunctory question, “I’ll be okay though … right?” only to get an evasive mumble in return. That’s the story of Adam Lerner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a[Read More…]

INNI: getting intimate with Sigur Rós

onethirtybpm.com   Dark, ominous, and haunting aren’t the words one would first associate with the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós, but their new concert film, INNI, confronts viewers with something far from the spirited, jovial, and delightfully eccentric band that many know. Vincent Morisset, the film’s Quebecois director, projected the[Read More…]

Fantasy Hockey

  With the start of the NHL season just days away, fans and players alike are gearing up for a new season of hockey. While the 30 NHL general managers have their rosters all filled out, millions of fantasy managers are sitting at their own computers studying for their drafts. [Read More…]

The Pack a.d.: Unpersons

  Just 17 months after the release of their third album, we kill computers, The Pack a.d. dropped their fourth album, Unpersons. Of the 13 tracks, four are well suited to livening up any bloody-knuckled bar fight montage: “Lights,” “Rid of Me,” and “Haunt You.” Also “8,” which perfectly showcases[Read More…]

Einstein’s theory under fire

  One of the brightest scientists of all time may have made some mistakes. Recent research conducted at CERN suggests that it could be possible for particles to travel faster than the speed of light, something Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity specifically prohibits. This finding, if correct, pokes a hole[Read More…]

Toronto International Film Festival tidbits

   Twixt  Like a fantastical nightmare cut short by wakefulness, Francis Ford Coppola’s ghost story Twixt gives us a wild, imaginative ride but cuts to black before it all makes sense.  The protagonist is Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), a bargain-basement horror writer making the rounds on his latest book tour.[Read More…]

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