Legends Of Tomorrow Season 2, Episode 14: Moonshot
This week's Legends Of Tomorrow was filled with the usual Silver Age insanity and goofiness (in a good way), and a hell of a lot more fun than this week's dour and depressing The Flash.The best part...
View ArticleIt Came From The Cineplex: Logan
Whew! It was touch and go there for a while, but we all put our heads down, pushed ourselves to the limit and made it through the horrible, horrible January/February Film Dumping Ground! Finally! It...
View ArticleThe Naked And The Streetcar
Next time you're feeling a bit down, you can always console yourself with the fact that at least you're not the poor schlub named "Kevin," who, on a recent episode of Wheel Of Fortune, guessed a "K" at...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Season 7, Episode 14: The Other Side
This week on The Walking Dead, we get something that literally no one who watches the show has ever asked for— an episode devoted almost entirely to Sasha and Rosita, the two least interesting...
View ArticleRECORD-BREAKING ANTI CHRISTMAS CREEP UPDATE: R.I.P. The Neighbor's Xmas Tree
It is with the deepest sadness that I must report that the neighbor's Xmas tree, which has been shining merrily away in their living room window since November 8, 2016, has finally been taken down.I...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 3, Episode 17: Duet
Sigh... let's just get this over with, shall we?I'll be honest here: I don't care for musicals. I don't hate 'em like I do some genres, and I don't begrudge anyone else their love of them. They're just...
View ArticleWho's Setting Off The Irony-O-Meter This Week: Brett Ratner
This week film director Brett Ratner lashed out at aggregate movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, saying it was destroying Hollywood. Uh-oh. The Irony-O-Meter's starting to beep!In an interview at the...
View ArticleLegends Of Tomorrow Season 2, Episode 15: Fellowship Of The Spear
This week on Legends Of Tomorrow we get another batsh*t insane (but in a good way) episode, in which the team finally recovers the Spear Of Destiny, visits WWI and meets J.R.R. Tolkien (yes, that...
View ArticleIt Came From The Cineplex: Get Out
Whew! It was touch and go there for a while, but we all put our heads down, pushed ourselves to the limit and made it through the horrible, terrible, no good, very bad January/February Film Dumping...
View ArticleANOTHER ANTI-CHRISTMAS CREEP UPDATE!
Back on November 8, 2016, I wrote that I spotted the first Xmas tree of the season in the window of a home in my neighborhood. That was almost two full months before Xmas, which seemed way, wayyyyy to...
View ArticleManiac Remake
This week director Nicolas Winding Refn announced he plans to remake the 1988 horror film Maniac Cop.The original film is considered a grindhouse classic, and starred the late Robert Z'Dar as a New...
View ArticleIt Came From The Cineplex: The Belko Experiment
The Belko Experiment was written by James Gunn and directed by Greg McLean.Gunn is a prolific writer & director, whose films are some of my favorites. He previously wrote the live action...
View ArticleEnd Of An Era, Or The Writing's On The Wall
On March 26, 2017, my hometown newspaper, The Evansville Courier & Press, was printed here in Evansville for the last time. Don't worry, Courier subscribers (all fifty of you)! The Courier's not...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Season 7, Episode 15: Something They Need
Oh, The Walking Dead. Your patterns are oh so familiar to me by now, yet I'm still continually surprised by the bizarre ways in which you tell your stories. Every season it's the same thing. Start with...
View ArticleOverheard At Work: Second Hand Smoke
It's been a long time since we've had an Overheard At Work episode here at Bob Canada's BlogWorld! Time to remedy that immediately!I work in a typical office, surrounded by many other employees in...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 3, Episode 18: Abra Kadabra
This week on The Flash, we get the long-awaited first appearance of Silver Age villain Abra Kadabra, although he's criminally underused, another hare-brained "Save Iris" scheme from Barry, and the...
View ArticleLet's Spend Way Too Much Time And Effort Dissecting The Walking Dead Season 7...
A few seasons ago I was watching The Walking Dead, and noticed that the opening credits featured a series of images that were seemingly appropriate for each actor and their character.Well, almost....
View ArticleLegends Of Tomorrow Season 2, Episode 16: Doomworld
This week on Legends Of Tomorrow, the Legion Of Doom finally gets to use the Spear Of Destiny and rewrite reality in their own image.Oddly enough it's a curiously low-key reality, that's not all that...
View ArticleA Short Trip!
Have you ever seen Roger Corman's 1983 scifi classic Space Raiders? It's not bad, as Corman movies go. It's about a kid who stows away on a ship full of space pirates, and ends up becoming part of...
View ArticleIt Came From The Cineplex: Kong: Skull Island
Kong: Skull Island was written by Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly and John Gatins. Yep, that's right— it took a whopping four people to write this script. It was directed by Jordan...
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