Let's talk new Star Trek movie, shall we?

I was talking about this on Twitter, but nobody's on right now and I feel like I'm just ranting into a vacuum or something.

ANYWAYS.

As fun as the new Star Trek movie was, it's pretty damn weak. Pushing aside the more technical problems (WTF is red matter? Why are all the Romulans bald and sporting ( Read more... )

But over all, the movie was okay. Kind of oddly paced. There were some boring parts. ( SPOILERS )

Well, according to this, all Harper had to do was make a phone call to the Governor General to suspend Parliament.

This is ridiculous, and so very wrong. There is no justifiable reason for proroguing the government at this time. What this will allow the Conservatives to do, however, is run away from the Afghan detainee torture issue, and appoint a ( Read more... )

You know, sometimes the problems I have with how female characters are treated in comics seem so nebulous and plentiful that they are hard to pin down and explain properly. ( But I found a way! Cut for length. )

[Some months back I got into a bad habit of writing posts but never actually getting around to posting them. I hate leaving things unfinished, so I'm going to try and post a few, despite their being a little dated now ( Read more... )

I wish I could put it more eloquently than that, but Don Newman is retiring.

No doubt he was offered a nice retirement package, given that the CBC is underfunded (while CTV-Global and other media corporations get bailout money).

Politics with Don Newman is probably the best Canadian politics show in existence. You get to hear from intelligent and ( Read more... )

Thanks to the preview of Cry for Justice I know that the comic does not interest me in any way.

I bought Slumdog Millionaire on DVD (haven't finished watching it yet), and one of the trailers that's on the DVD before the movie is for Bride Wars.

You can watch the trailer for it hereThis was my somewhat hilarious and sad thought process in ( Read more... )

(NOTE: This post contains spoilers for Oracle: The Cure.)

I read Newsarama's BoP retrospective, and this stuck out at me:

Platinum Flats served as the backdrop for the second confrontation between the Joker and Oracle in the pages of Birds of Prey. Unlike the first confrontation, this encounter was purely physical. Although the Joker defeated ( Read more... )

Is this one of those weeks where the previous weekend's holiday has bumped our regularly scheduled new-comics-Wednesday to Thursday?

Because if not...has anyone read Oracle: The Cure #2?

Morbid curiousity, I has it.

I just discovered the Preview on IGN, which had previously slipped under my radar ( Read more... )

I just came across this via Sequential's C-List.

There's a news story about a school in Ontario which separated the Grade 7 boys and girls as a part of a pilot project to improve the gap in literacy skills which apparently runs along gender lines.

Guess what they're reading?

In Bourne's class, the boys read the graphic novel Batman: the Dark ( Read more... )