Even before the Scream franchise came along, the “slasher” sub-genre of horror had been wallowing in the pit of self-parody for quite some time. The Friday the 13th films had become toned-down camp and A Nightmare on Elm Street’s headliner Freddy Krueger had made the (admittedly small) leap from figure of menace to sweater-clad punchline. In lieu of innovation…
Read the full story »On January 18th, Forget The Box made its homepage dark, in solidarity with American sites like Wikipedia and Reddit. This was to protest SOPA and PIPA, two pieces of legislation before the US Congress that threaten to forever alter the web, destroying the free and open internet we have all come to know and love.
For more on how Canadians can help out, please visit openmedia.ca/SOPA
Americans can find out more by visiting americancensorship.org
Last Friday I found myself entering Igloofest for the first time. My friends were surprised to learn it had taken me so long to actually attend this winter gathering. I could never picture myself dancing …
Wednesday’s blackout of over ten thousand sites small and large has got everyone chatting about SOPA. But what is SOPA? And will it lead to the total destruction of the internet we know and love? SOPA is The Stop Online Piracy Act, a law going up the “series of tubes” also known as Congress. It was introduced by Senator Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) and co-sponsored by both Democrat and Republican members alike…
The 90s was a strange decade, known for producing two things in particular (where America is concerned anyway). The first is some of the finest Saturday morning cartoons ever conceived by man (I mean Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, need I say more) and Angry Young Men. The young men (and women) who were coming into adulthood in the 90s were best described by Tyler Durden as the middle children of history. The roles of those who came before them seemed so clear. Their grandparents were the hero-gods of WW2. Hard to live up to that, and while some of their parents tried to replicate that glory with disastrous results, many others spent their time spreading peace, love and LSD…
Thankfully, living in Montreal means there’s always interesting opportunities to expand your horizons. Beginning as a way for dancers to connect and evolving into a full blown festival, Bouge d’ici is now in its third year. The festival not only serves as a way for new and established Montreal dancers and choreographers to collaborate and showcase their work, but allows newcomers like this arts writer a fun and accessible way to learn about the world of dance…
Dubbed North America’s best adult consumer show, the Everything To Do With Sex Show, aka Le Salon de l’Amour et de la Séduction, is back at Place Bonaventure this weekend. Last year, to amuse ourselves, we played Sex Bingo, a treasure hunt of sorts of scintillating, scandalous and sexy products we thought we’d find. Based on the results and on what’s online, here’s what you might find at this year’s convention…
If you are a young mover ‘n shaker in Montreal there is one hot ticket event you should know about. Les Jeudi D’Apollo is a monthly event thrown by Eric Sicotte and l’Agence Apollo and it’s a networking event unlike any other in Montreal. The evening features local up and coming Montreal artists and entrepreneurs and gives them the opportunity to present their latest projects to a room full of other young affluent Montrealers. This Thursday’s event marks the 1 year anniversary of Les Jeudis D’Apollo.
It’s January. We’ve spent the last month taking part in festivities that were more mandatory than celebratory, blew our vacation days, “oh crapped” on our resolutions before the week was out and stepped bleary eyed into the snowy fresh start disoriented and aimless, yet again. Happy New Year, by the way. We’re still saying that, right? You’d think we’d have the hang of this by now: we’re in vitamin D withdrawl, our friends have turned from real people to miniaturized thumbnails of themselves as we all slip into the Season of the Long Blah…
The winter of 2012 is still less than a month old and if you had turned on a television since the New Year, you’d have found two seemingly different stories being covered on the news networks. The first being the Republican Primaries that got underway a couple weeks ago, the other would be Iran. In the past, I would have said that sabre rattling and a looming American election went together like peas and carrots…
Recently, it came up over drinks with fellow FTBer Steph Laughlin that I hadn’t seen any of the seminal 70s porn films including the notorious Deep Throat. I decided it would be a double feature, paired with the 2005 documentary Inside Deep Throat for insight into the background and social climate of the time…
Whaaa, Thomas is writing about some weird, obscure Japanese movie? What strange universe have we stumbled into. Yes, Captain Sarcasm, the review today is Gantz, a strange Japanese film based of a strange Japanese comic that was also made into a strange Japanese cartoon and I really should just move on from this joke shouldn’t I? In a stra….bizarre way, Gantz reminds me of the recent film Drive, in that it takes a premise that sounds like a cut-and-dry action film and approaches it with more of a quiet, subdued atmosphere than you would really expect given the setup…
Here at Forget the Box, we made some New Year’s resolutions. One of them is to have our playlists back on a monthly basis. I guess the summer’s festivals were pretty rough on our livers but no worries, dear music lovers, we’re back for good! We’re starting the year with a subjective guide on what not to miss during the three weekends of Igloofest…
Hockey is probably the easiest sport to translate into a video game. It’s action-packed, it’s fast-paced and the physicality of the sport itself can make for some incredible moments. Enter NHL 12, EA’s newest hockey video game. I’ve reviewed NHL 10 and NHL 11 these past two years, and now, here we are again. Each game has been better than its previous incarnation, but does NHL 12 warrant a purchase if you already own the former games? Find out in this review…
Forget The Box loves to go out onto the streets of Montreal and shoot photos of local shows and events. Over the course of the last year we’ve gotten some pretty good shots, so we wanted to collect a few of them for you all in one spot. Let us know in the comments below which ones are your favorites!
I know that these year in review columns, annoying though they may be, are all the rage around New Years (apologies for the lateness). Also, that they remain a cheap way for hack journalists and bloggers to basically recycle the past years work while, at the same time, attempting to pass it off as new content. So, without further ado, here are my personal top Canadian legal highlights for the year 2011 (in no particular order)…
During a campaign stop in New Hampshire the other day, Rick Santorum said “What elitist snobbery out of this man!” referring to Barack Obama’s statement that every child should go to college by 2020. I have no idea why Santorum is opposed to giving every student a chance to go to college as it is central to improving our standard of living and our economy…
The first time I ever shaved off all my pubic hair I was 18 years old. I don’t know if that’s young, old or average, though I do know that I’ve never been much of a shaver. There have been times in my life when I could have practically braided my leg hair. I suppose it’s because of my inner hippie that no matter how much my mom made fun of my “European armpits” growing up, I just didn’t give a shit.
BUST magazine once featured a formative piece for my post-adolescent self, How to Be as Horny as a Guy. It was a 10-point list of practical, easy tips, many I was following already..
