Sam Simon, 59, a prolific television producer, director, writer, philanthropist, and animal rights activist, passed away on March 8, after a three-year battle with cancer. He was diagnosed as terminally ill in 2012 and given three to six months to live. He proved those estimates wrong and showed the world how much one person can truly give back to society.
I’ve always had a soft spot for literature that captures life through the eyes of a child, because children are weird. Childhood is a framework that offers so many opportunities—life to a child is simultaneously light, surreal, frightening, and important in ways that adults so easily forget.
The gulf between script and performance is invariably wide, and seeing something played before your eyes is very different than just reading about it. Like the circus, perhaps you have to experience it in order to fully appreciate it.
You may be asking yourself why I would be reviewing the third book in a series. Well, the answer is it’s in honour of illustrator Stephen Sadowski, who is coming to Vancouver Fan Expo in April, and who didn’t join the project until the third volume. Unfortunately, it’s probably the worst of the series.
Will Smith returns with his cool, confident attitude in Focus, a film about professional con artist Nicky (Smith) and his protégé Jess (Margot Robbie), who struggle to find love and trust in a world of lies.
I wouldn’t have thought we’d get a sequel to 2010’s sci-fi, dude comedy Hot Tub Time Machine, but if there was any comedy that was good enough to deserve a sequel, it was that one.
Nerdy Words has put a new spin on birthday cards, with retro designs and geeky phrases to appeal to individuals with an interest in science. Whether your passion lies in physics, chemistry, biology, statistics, or computer science, there’s a nerdy birthday card for you.
Gamers outside of Japan are finally able to get their hands on the latest entry of Capcom’s Monster Hunter series. The series is an unforgiving action game where you forage for supplies in a contained area while being tasked with taking down a giant creature.
On a cold, stormy night, a nervous Martin Luther King Jr. enters Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel on the night before he is assassinated. Actor Dion Johnstone commands the stage as he portrays the civil rights activist’s final evening in that room in Arts Club’s production of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, directed by Janet Wright.
There are lots of games that have stood the test of time. Then there are new, award-winning games that can find their way into that elite circle.
