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Butcher’s trip to Canada is now nothing more than an everlasting memory. The big guy arrived on Wednesday night and before we got to Sunday, we had managed to polish off 66 beers, ½ a small bottle of Canadian Club, ½ a small bottle of Cognac (all Butch there), two Canadian Caesar’s and six Monte Cristo #3 cigars. Not bad considering that every day we were out and about town without an opportunity to sit down and just drink until our liver’s hurt.

We ate well – thank you Canyon ...

Day one of The Butcher and GMO Toronto Chronicles is now in the books. Butcher and the GMO wedges themselves onto a train heading to the city yesterday where they embarked on an adventure of Biblical proportions (not really).

When in Toronto, we stopped at the X-Men Master: Gordon Smith exhibit at the TIFF Lightbox theatre. There, we perused this new exhibition devoted to the work of makeup artist and special effects designer Gordon Smith. An Ontario native and a graduate of the ...

Horror films don’t leave any noun unexploited. It seems as if every type of person, place or thing has had its word splattered across the top of a horror one-sheet. The latest such attempt at making something scary out of a common non-threatening object is ATM now available on VOD. And no, ATM does not stand for anything cool like Atrocious Terrorizing Meateater.

The idea behind the IFC Film Production is, on a late night visit to an ATM machine in a cold and isolated parking ...

I’m getting older. This is becoming inherently clear in my assessment and understanding of some of the more popular and successful films in recent years. Movies such as Prometheus and The Dark Knight Rises were huge summer blockbusters, of that, there is no debate. But both films had me scratching my head during plot developing scenes desperate to connect dots that were not overtly apparent to my aging eyes. These lapses in understanding did not deter me from appreciating both films in their ...

There is something eerie about The Whaley House. Penny Abbot (Stephanie Greco) sure thinks so. Penny works as a role playing tour guide to the famous haunted house in San Diego and after only a few months on the job, she witnesses a visitor to the house collapse after claiming to have seen ghostly events in many of the home’s rooms.

Penny’s mentor in the house tries to console her after the traumatic event and gives her some advice on working in a designated haunted house. Don’t ...