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Canadian Darkness: The Dead Zone

David Cronenberg’s creepyily atmospheric film—from the novel by the original master of horror, Stephen King—sees Jonny Smith, a content New England school-teacher, leading a normal existence, alongside the love of his life he plans to soon marry. Until an accident puts him into a coma for five long years. On awakening nothing is what it was, yet everything is terrifyingly normal. Soon, Jonny realizes that this is the very least of his problems: something from the coma is apparently More

Secret Agenda?

Crime Drama: murders, stabbings, gun fights, assassinations—pretty much all the things us reasonable people tend to shy away from in our day to day lives. So how come we love it so much on the box? Because of the drama, I’d say, not because of the politics. But just like all good crime TV, Law & Order has its fair share of political influence.

Is there too much political agenda on TV? And could that be dangerous?

I understand this More

Antique Curse

David Dickinson: not a name that anyone under the age of fifty should have on the tip of their tongue. Maybe it’s just me, but I find the whole antique-show-taking-over-TV thing a bit disgusting. Every time I turn on the TV to watch the news I am assaulted by either D.D. or someone purporting to be a new kind of him.

I don’t recall the day it all began, but I suppose it had to have begun properly somewhere. And More

Keeping up Appearances – the art of smiling and nodding

I laughed when I saw a Keeping Up Appearances forum topic over at the Universal-Playback forums that asked whether you could survive as the husband or even neighbor of the hilariously awful Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced, according to dear Hyacinth herself, Bouquet, with a rather falsely plumy English accent, for those not in the know).

When I was younger, I would sit and watch Keeping up Appearances with my parents, and we would all groan and shake our heads at Hyacinth’s More