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Happy Birthday #MorenaBaccarin! Today’s #TalkyTuesday pairs well with birthday 🎂. From MSL #297 — Morena talks about working with Peggy who played Dogpool in #DeadpoolAndWolverine. (Peggy hit @FanExpo last year. This June hubby #BenMcKenzie visits Toronto. It’s all happening.)

Am I the only one who finds Deadpool challenging? It's the final weekend for M&M'S x Marvel Hero Studio pop-up experience at 938 Queen St. West in Toronto. Enjoy Marvelous challenges: She-Hulk's Smash Machine, Wolverine's Reflex and...Deadpool’s Target Practice. Sweet #PantsWorthy!

Starfleet has First Contact Protocols...& that works in the future. For now we have @neildegrassetyson who has written Take Me To Your Leader: a practical guide for dealing with Alien visitors. This #NewBookSmell Pairs well with Voyager's Golden Record. Out now via @simonbooks.

A #MemorialDay Moment I asked producer Caroline Marsden about #Vietnam. Growing up in the 80s the unspoken rule was don't ask about Nam. Has that ""social policy"" evolved? 📺 Now on @AppleTV: #Vietnam: The War That Changed America a fascinating 6-part docuseries. #SetTheVCR

All this week #TheCrow is celebrating its 30-year redemption arc. The dark mythology is fading. The movie stands on its own. Is there a hope that Poltergeist will undergo a similar Crow redemption? I asked @reveneshen producer of She Was Here - The Heather O'Rourke Story.

“I don't like the term guilty pleasure. I don't think any guilt should be associated with pleasure.” I asked @hertzbarry is the Fast and Furious franchise or even his book Welcome To the Family...is it all a referendum on taste? The Lowdown on the Lowbrow: #ThrowbackThursday.

Imagine robots doing the grunt work; So we get more time for great work. 🤖 As we embrace a future with AI and robots and more strange tech — taste is the way to John Connor save yourself and most humans. A sample from my recent appearance on the Sleepless Studios podcast.

“#FastAndFurious is the greatest franchise in film history,” according to #ElijahWood in Bookworm. I opened this #MSL convo with filmmaker Ant Timpson asking: Considering you came up with the story, Is there any biography in that statement? #TalkyTuesday mysummerlair.com/podcast/ant-...

#HotDocs gave the #CNTower its flowers: Now give Ontario Place its moment. Dive into this classic landmark & enjoy untold stories with Ali Weinstein’s doc #YourTomorrow. Head to TVO Docs' on YouTube to check out. Like the CN Tower Ontario Place was about hope. #TalkTuesday

Renny Harlin's #DeepWaterMovie is firmly a freshtastic B-Movie. For true there's some decent 90s action movie moments (i.e. the airplane crash!). And 3 shark kills that are Top Shelf. So good. It's actually a lot of fun to watch with an audience. It makes the corny cool. #PantsWorhy

A #Lorne behind-the-scenes documentary would be like Moses coming down the mountain with compelling commandments. And...what does the Morgan Neville doc reveal about the inscrutable SNL producer? Well, that he's the inscrutable producer of Saturday Night Live, lol. #PantsWorthy

#FROM Season 4 drops tonight on @mgmplus (& @paramountplusca). This season is a nimble return to the #StephenKing nightmares that made Season 1 so terrifyingly fun. Unlike Jade, I'm not obsessed with discovering #FROMville's unified theory. I'm happy with return of the horror. #SetTheVCR

John Woo's explosive and influential action thriller The Killer returns to US theaters in a new 4K remaster on April 5, 6 and 8th.

What if you don’t have a Brat Pack? Andrew McCarthy set off a long Weekend at Bernie's road trip, “over nearly 10k miles behind the wheel.” He’s not just catching up with old pals; he’s performing a cultural autopsy on male loneliness. Class is in session. #NewBookSmell

"Live From London...it's Saturday Night!" sounds so weird. @CraveCanada & @Peacock are showing #SNLUK: a 6-ep Bob’s your uncle adaptation kicking off with guest Tina Fey. #SetTheVCR if this is your cuppa. 📼 Is this Oct 11, 1975 all over again… or a joke that doesn’t travel?

I promise you’re safe! I'll be at #TorontoComicon hosting the @canpodawards booth from 1-4pm. It's #PantsWorthy, yo! I swear no radiation or #Fallout from @welcome_to_the_wastes. Though…if you start to see Double that just means you had a good time at @FANEXPOCANADA.

🎷4 notes. A prayer. A masterpiece. A Love Supreme is a revelation. In 1965, Coltrane turned 4 notes into a spiritual experience. 2026 marks the centennial of John Coltrane. #Coltrane100 is a year-long global celebration of an artist who didn’t just play jazz — he expanded its universe.

🍿A @hollywoodsuite Free Preview Recommendation: Fun Friday the 13th...once you check in, you can never check out. A limited series from the same dudes that created @SlasherSeries. We got Eric McCormack & Paula Brancati trapped in #HellMotel. Who is gonna die first? #SetTheVCR

Gonna replace #PantsWorthy for this recommendation with: “Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go!” This is a Gen X Roll Call with Vanilla Ice who is celebrating the 35th anniversary release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. The glorious era of the #JimHenson Turtles.

Wait...was that really Richard Branson hanging out with Nash The Slash in...a graveyard? For this absurd #TalkyTuesday I wanted to confirm that odd trivia with the @nashtheslashdoc filmmakers. You can hear more & see the doc this Friday at @hotdocs_ #PantsWorthy screening.

On March 10, 1997, Buffy Summers moved to Sunnydale CA and the world has never been the same. Here's to 29 years of our favorite vampire slayer saving the world. A lot. 🧛🏻‍♀️👹🗡️ (Also, someone track down that girl's pager number bc we're pretty sure another apocalypse is nigh.💥) #btvs

40 years ago, Frank Miller & Klaus Janson dragged Batman out of 66 & restored the shadows with The Dark Knight Returns. Now Janson’s legendary linework—including #Daredevil—gets the gallery spotlight at @philippelabaunegallery. Super #PantsWorthy if you live in Gotham City.

This March: declare war on algorithms that keep recommending the same 5 movies. Discovery used to mean stumbling onto something weird, comforting or forgotten post-Midnight. Enjoy a curated mix of cult classics, deep cuts, blockbusters & new discoveries across Hollywood Suite's 4 channels.

I hope #SCTV now streaming on @primevideoca is brought to us by Tex and Edna Boil’s Organ Emporium... Canadian sketch comedy wasn’t just content...it was Must See TV. And yeah...we really did hafta #SetTheVCR for this. Follow if you believe our comedy history isn’t disposable.

Lawd Have Mercy: Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: @ElvisPresley in Concert lives up to its name. It deftly restores Elvis as an American superhero along with Harry Houdini, Evel Knievel & Muhammad Ali. Elvis was/is magic. #EPiCMovie

This Is Not A Test offers viewers a radical premise: Sometimes the instinct to survive is stronger than despair. And sometimes there are zombies. Tomorrow: #ThisIsNotATest with all of the infected opens in Canadian cinemas. Zombies are always #PantsWorthy fun.

🎙The REC button isn't an ordinary button. It’s a portal. A gateway into a dynamic world you architect with your voice. @podcamptoronto is where REC pushers gather — ready to cross the threshold. Record these #PantsWorthy dates: Feb 28–March 1 for Creators. Community. Conversation.

Go beyond the TV glow. Go beyond the myth. She wasn’t just a horror icon. She was a child. Heather O’Rourke: She Was Here tells the heartbreaking true story behind the "They're heeEEEeere..." face of Poltergeist. The doc is out today on VOD & DVD. (But not VHS?! Yo.) #CouchWorthy

Having seen #ParadiseHulu Season 2 can I make a sweet suggestion? Everyone will blindly binge Episode 1 next week. The smarter play? Season 1: Episode 7 first then Season 2 Episode 1. Episode 7 is the apocalypse and that death and doom feeds neatly into Episode 1. #SetTheVCR

Speaking of hoes... @LisaRideout5's Degrassi: Whatever It Takes is playing tonight at @hotdocs_ so that's #PantsWorthy.

Abortion, AIDS, bullying, addiction...and Drake and Kevin Smith! Come see @LisaRideout5's Degrassi: Whatever It Takes and you’ll instantly understand how soft Euphoria is. The Canadian kids were never alright. #PantsWorthy

“Bridge over Troubled Water is a good song. When Elvis gets ahold of it and does it, it becomes a great prayer.” Baz Lurhman back at #TIFF talking about the majestic raw power of Elvis. The Spirit’s in the house with this truly EPic #PantsWorthy documentary. Elvis, yo.

🎬 Watch The Throne: Hollywood used to be run by The Moguls. Then it was run by The Movie Brats: Coppola Lucas Spielberg The Last Kings of Hollywood dives into the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema. (Yo: where's Scorsese? Brother is royalty.) Out Now from @celadonbooks.

“This is some horrific repugnant shit, man. I have never seen anything like this in my entire goddamn life and I’ve seen some crazy shit.” ~ Joe Keery in a cold sweat. Georgina Campbell is his cold comfort. Liam Neeson is ice cold. This Friday #ColdStorage heats up.

#BAL games have been scrappy fun. The cultural challenges (especially the play by play announcers clearly coming outta soccer) has deepened my #NBA gratitude. Today on @ESPN's App & on @CraveCanada: Origin. The 4-part doc chronicles the inaugural season of @theBAL. #SetTheVCR