The Los Angeles city council recently passed a controversial ordinance requiring all porn performers to wear condoms during film shoots to reduce the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The 9-1 vote was a significant victory for the LA-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an organization that has been tirelessly lobbying for years for mandatory condom use in pornography…
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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..
This week on Forum M, we have a guest review by Jesse Porter. This is the second guest-review in Forum M’s history with the first being an old-school Tetris review by Jason McLean. On tap …
It seems Martin Scorsese has put me in an awkward position, the ingenious little man that he is. His new film Hugo is indeed very good but sadly it’s not great. And the reason why it isn’t great is hard to explain without spoiling what is basically the big middle-of-the-movie twist. I could always write my review dancing a merry jig around the issue and end up not actually telling you why this is an enjoyable piece of film making and not much more…
With revolution in the streets from the Middle East to middle America, a major power shift in Ottawa and a smattering of other events that would have stolen the headlines in any other year, 2011 will be largely remembered as the year that got the ball rolling for the future, good or bad…
With such a crazy New Year, the last thing I expected to hear was anything about the Wii U. My good friend in Los Angeles who works for a software developer claims Nintendo approached them and offered them assistance in porting and publishing some software from iOS to the Wii U so it can be played on the Wii U’s touchscreen controller. Due to non-disclosure agreements, I can’t get into full details of what was discussed because it would reveal my source…
The New Year always seems to bring about the need for change. People commit to their new year’s resolutions in order quit smoking or drinking, lose weight or better themselves in some particular way. Rarely do you see these types of changes taking a place at a national or international level, after all, you never hear of a government resolving to spend less or be more accountable for their actions…
2011 was a great year to be a sex columnist… oh who am I kidding, any year is a great year to cover all the things that turn us on, make us wet and get us off! The best part about writing this column is my in the field work covering sex-related events. This year, I rode a bike naked with about a hundred others for the Midnight Naked Bike Ride, donned a PVC corset…
