If you're looking to binge on dark movies this weekend and you live in Toronto, consider this double-header at the Royal: Sin City and Old Boy!

I've written about Sin City before, and pointed to an article about Oldboy's director.

Neither film is perfect, but in general, they were both well-accepted by the critics. Both are definitely worth a look.

As Bruce Springsteen said, they pass you by. And as this Globe and Mail story notes, what a difference 33 years, a publisher and an editor can make.

Gee, you'd think it was pre-9/11, the way the neo-cons are talking about China these days. Here's the latest blast from U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

A move to give the pornosphere its own domain suffix -- .xxx -- has not been received well in some quarters.

Some big institutional shareholders are saying Wal-Mart has to improve its employment practices. They've written a letter to the giant retailer urging it to shape up.

If I had the power to send people to re-education camps, I'd start with whoever said blogs would replace journalism.

Then I'd send every journalist who based all or part of a column or article on chortling about that statement to re-education camp as well -- although a different classroom.

Which brings me to the insightful mind of Ivor Tossell.