Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist.......

Attention basement dwellers: on Wednesday, February 6, OCAD is hosting a free presentation by SWEAT, a collaboration of game designers, programmers, and artists dedicated to bringing socially aware video games to the general public. SWEAT has already produced games like Crosser, a Frogger-esque game about illegal crossing at the US/Mexico border, and is currently developing Juan & the Beanstalk, a game about the societal effects of illegal drug production in Colombia. The presentation will......

So, who else remembers that Rambo III was about Rambo going to Afghanistan to help the Taliban, huh? We do (and apparently the Sun’s Jim Slotek does too). It’s rather a shame that Sylvester Stallone hasn’t seen fit to continue from that point and deal with the consequences of the conflict, instead jumping straight to Burma/Myanmar for, as far as the reviews tell us, an absolute ton of incredibly graphic (and meaningless) violence. Eye’s......

Well, it's about time. Two years after launching downloadable television shows south of the border, Apple has finally flipped the switch here, albeit with a dearth of content. Single television episodes are available via iTunes for $1.99, and full seasons range from about $10–$30. Most of the shows currently available are for domestic productions, like CTV's Degrassi: The Next Generation and the CBC series Little Mosque on the Prairie, but non-Canadian shows, like South......

It's not entirely clear how or when R. Kelly's hip-hop opera "Trapped in the Closet" became a Zeitgeist. Part music video, part soap opera, it—while verging on self-parody throughout—has spawned parodies by everyone from South Park (which used it to make fun of Tom Cruise and John Travolta, among others) to Weird Al (who used it to make fun of fast food. Oh Weird Al!). What is clear is why it's been embraced by seemingly......

All right, time to face reality: Valentine's Day is 2 days away, and you're still single. Dateless. Planless. You got nothin'. You've perused Torontoist's list of fun, naughty Valentine's events, but you're really not into going to any of them alone. You're figuring you just won't leave the house on Wednesday. You hate Valentine's Day even when you're not single: who wants to be surrounded by nauseatingly cute couples fawning over each other? Blech!......

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? Austinist was in an entertainment state of mind as they covered the dickens out of the Austin Film Festival, depicted all the Big 12 football coaches as South Park characters, and interviewed Jose Gonzalez. Chicagoist talked about the passion as they bid adieu to Bell......

If you haven't heard of Kenny vs. Spenny, stick this in your pipe and smoke it: after only two seasons, the show is the largest selling format series in Canadian history. DVD sales are through the roof. The show or licensed versions of it play in almost twenty countries, from Turkey to Iceland to Colombia. Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice have intensely dedicated followings, including fans like Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South......

There’s something strangely amusing about the fact that as we write this the “Film Festival” episode of South Park is playing on TV, something amusing but not actually meaningful. We’ve had yet another quiet night in (it’s now that we realize that the reason most publications have people who cover the parties and people who cover the films is that one person just can’t do both) but we do know as usual there were several......

First off, two thoughts. One. Directly before writing this someone called us to let Torontoist know it was ‘National Break-Up Day’. We declined to break up largely because we hypothesised that it was a holiday invented because they’ve just released The Break-Up, the new film featuring a woman who Brad Pitt didn’t impregnate for whatever reason, and a man who looks like he never sleeps (that joke is stolen from Family Guy, but come on,......

A woman was caught using a fake baby in a car seat as a decoy to fool cops patrolling HOV lanes. While we're appalled at this woman's behaviour we are totally impressed by OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley for being so pop-culture savvy: "It looked like Kenny from South Park was strapped in the child seat," he said to the Star. and for really caring about kids in this quote from the Sun: "We should have......

Howdy! It’s Christmas time again, that time of year where you’re either so insane with loneliness that you’ll choose to be in a cold dark cinema just to feel like you’re near people, or that you’ve been driven so mad by the constant attention of your family that you’ll choose to be in a cold dark cinema just to feel like you’re alone. So what will you see? First up is Brokeback Mountain, which......

New contributor Mathew will be posting regular on all things TIFF. Here goes: With only a few days to go until individual tickets go on sale for the Toronto Film Festival (7am on September 7th) and tickets hitting the heights of $20 when you factor in GST (over $35 for Gala tickets, which should be sold out by now, actually) it's definitely time for film lovers to begin their research into which films to......