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Toronto Outdoor Summer Movie Nights

Tonight is the launch of 10 weeks of free movies in downtown Toronto.  The Outdoor Summer Movie night event is a partnership between the Toronto International Film Festival,  the CN Tower and the Toronto Entertainment District Business Improvement Area.  Sure, it’s a mouthful of, but over the next couple of months, every Wednesday at 9pm you can go to Metro Square (map) and watch a pretty wide variety of films, from Casablanca to Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, and special menus from many local restaurants. The opening night events, featuring the…

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Walking Dead blog: Robert Kirkman and Greg Nicotero interviews

It’s pretty obvious why AMC is going all out on the official Walking Dead blog.  It’s mainly publicity, and a dash of assauging the fear of some fans that an adaptation of the comic into TV format might water down the gruesome contents.  On the latter, I think there’s little to fear now, as they’ve been pretty open that this isn’t going to be a PG show.  Of course, fans of AMC’s other shows, Mad Men, and the absolutely brilliant Breaking Bad probably guessed this right out of the gate….

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The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is now an annual event!

A few days ago Christopher Butcher, the TCAF Festival Director & Co-Founder, posted his festival wrap-up on the TCAF website, Torontocomics.com. In this he thanks everyone who attended, and “some of the organizations and individuals who worked to make TCAF 2010 such an unprecedented success”. We can attest to this — this year’s TCAF was the best ever, and you can see all our coverage here. However the biggest news in his post was the announcement that the Festival would be returning in 2011, and would be occurring annually from…

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Superboy – The Boy Of Steel review

Publisher:  DC Comics Writer:  Geoff Johns Artist:  Francis Manapul A Brief History of The Boy Redundant OK, so for those not in the know, the current incarnation of Superboy was conjured into life as part of the “Death of Superman” storyline, and his “big reveal” was that he’s a clone of Superman, but with powers based on ‘tactile telekinesis’ (it’s comic book physics dude, live with it). Of course, the whole clone thing naturally resulted in several years of “Oh my god, I’m a clone” moping, which Superman tries to…

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TCAF 2010: Interview with Wondermark’s David Malki

In the latest of our TCAF interview series, Alex talks with David Malki about the Wondermark web comic, his vast collection of source images and much more. If you haven’t been to wondermark.com to check out the strip, I highly recommend it. At the end of the video we talk about beards…judge for yourself where in the Hierarchy of Beards chart Paul’s whiskers fall.

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DSLR talk back from RED founder Jim Jannard

Just last week, I was having a discussion with with a co-worker about video recording on the new breed of DSLRs, and mentioned that if RED doesn’t get it’s butt in gear, they could very well concede the prosumer market to the likes of Canon and Nikon.  As more pro filmmakers start putting the DSLRs through stress tests, they’ve finding time and again that the results are much better than initially expected. It’s not surprising that a similar discussion has been going on in the reduser forums, in which RED…

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Jaws turns 35, still looks fake

It was on June 20, 1975 that audiences first bore witness to perhaps the greatest opening sequence in cinematic history: that of Christine Watkins taking her drunk boyfriend down to the shores of Amity Island for a little moonlight skinny dipping. We all know how that turned out, and audiences became so horrified and fascinated that some, even today, have trouble going into the water. Jaws was a watershed film, a monumental success born of monumental failure. The well-documented reports of problems with writing, staffing, production, and pretty much everything…

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NXNE daily dispatch

There’s so much to see at NXNE that it’s hard to pick and choose, so here’s a daily look at what’s happening.  Starting with the free stuff, NXPO is a free-to-the-public music-lifestyle exposition which includes a daystage, vendors, and a bar, the latter not free, is open the 17th and 18th from noon to 8pm at the Hyatt Regency Toronto – 370 King St. W. The free Yonge-Dundas Square shows start at 6pm today, and include headliners Mudhoney at 9pm, and So-Cal punk legends X at 10pm.

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Crowd sourced funding and distribution brings Pioneer One TV series to life

It was just yesterday at NXNEi that we were talking with Perry Chen, one of the founders of Kickstarter about how the site has really helped facilitate crowd sourcing funding for creative projects, and how it can really help independent creators off the ground.  Even as we were talking to him, a Kickstarter funded TV project called Pioneer One saw the premiere of it’s pilot episode (includes .torrent link), via crowd sourced distribution network VODO.net. Pioneer One, which is political thriller with a science fiction element as it’s jumping off…

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Rock Band 3: Rock Out with your Natural Talent Out

Remember when Rock Band first arrived on the scene? It, along with the venerable classic Guitar Hero, proved that it is possible to get up off the couch and interact with a game in a way that no Wiimote could ever hope to deliver. And the world lost its friggin’ mind. Suddenly people who had no interest in gaming had a way to channel their inner rock star without feeling like some pimply-faced teen or the pressure to be Teh Pwnerer; it was just a fun piece of kit that…

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NXNE – fairly interactive

As the inaugural year for NXNE interactive (NXNEi), the annual festival played it fairly small, with the focus being on a number of panels and conferences leading into the much larger music and film component.  With a number of fascinating panels, from brain-computer-interfaces by Interaxon to established internet artists such as zefrank and a presentation from Kickstarter, which crowd sources funding for art projects across many disciplines, NXNEi was definitely about establishing online connections, not just in the business sense, but on a more personal and human level. Sometimes it…

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