Esks look for first road win of season

The CFL season is almost two-thirds over, and the mighty Esks have yet to put a road win on the board.

When did we become the Roughriders?

Update

The Esks went on to lose 27-22 to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. They are now 4-8, in last place in the West and poised to break their streak of 36 straight years in the playoffs.

When it hits the theatres, go see Severance, which has been described as The Office meets Deliverance.

This film was screamingly funny. If you liked Shaun of the Dead, this trumps it.

Director Christopher Smith (last at TIFF with Creep) worked in way too many clever sight gags to even count!

Princess was a dud. The story, largely animated, is about some Danish guy (a pastor, by the evidence) raising his dead sister's five-year-old daughter and discovering evidence the child had been sexually abused.

Sis was a porn star ("Princess" was her nom du mattress), and bro goes on a violent rampage against the porn world types who exploited her and her daughter.

However, the subject is too bleak to be played for laughs (at one point, Mia, the little girl, tells some other kids who are playing that she could be "the whore" -- ha! ha! ha!), and the film didn't have the energy level of a prototypical Midnight Madness film -- nor the hallucinogenic quality of a MM animated flick. While some might call it a "superbly crafted achievement in adult animation" (TIFF programmer Colin Geddes' words, not mine), it didn't work for me.

Has one of the better lines ever about Dubya: "That man gives C students the world over a bad name." :)

While there's occasional hilarity in Lee's four-hour documentary about the destruction wrought on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, there's a much higher proportion of affecting and outright tragic scenes in it.