Author: Chris Duncan

Podcaster / Guest Contributor: With a sordid past involving illustrations, libraries, and subtitles, Chris has reinvented himself as a specialist in the liberal insertion of puns. Like anyone working with words, he hides an embarrassing novel in his drawer but not in his drawers.
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Roundtable 9: HBO Versus Sesame Street

Spooking everyone with family-friendly fare! With half the panel on vacation, Chris and Dimitri discuss a series of disturbing yet family-oriented project in Hollywood, including a sequel to

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Contributor Picks: Labour

Happy Labour Day! To celebrate hard work across the globe, our contributors give their labour-themed recommendations, touching on a wide range of jobs, from…

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Contributor Picks: Gods Among Us

What with the Norse god of mischief tearing New York asunder last year and his brother, the god of thunder, now saving London from…

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Contributor Picks: Horrifying High School Experiences

Forget Frankenstein’s monster, vampires, mummies, and werewolves. Nothing scares our socks off more than a mob of hormone-fueled teenagers on the prowl. To commemorate…

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Expository Dialogue: Marvel Versus DC on the Tube

In light of ABC’s Agents of SHIELD breaking new ground in terms of synergy and the CW’s Arrow setting up a Flash spinoff

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Expository Dialogue: Pixar Delays, Spinoffs, and Expended Grammer

Phil couldn’t make it this week, so Frank and Chris join Dimitri to ramble about Bob Peterson’s firing from The Good Dinosaur (2015), JK Rowling’s Harry Potter prequel, AMC’s Breaking Bad and

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Contributor Picks: Ass-Kicking

In the eternal words of Red Foreman, “You are about to read a book that my foot wrote. It’s called On the Road to…

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Contributor Picks: Giant Robots

If you were to look up the definition of “awesome” in the dictionary, you’d find a picture of Optimus Prime punching Megatron in his…

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Contributor Picks: Zombies

Despite the trailers’ arduous efforts to hide the central premise of World War Z (2013), anyone who’s so much as glanced at the cover…

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Contributor Picks: Space Travel

With J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek into Darkness (2013) coming to theatres this week, our contributors thought now would be a good time to tackle…

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