Check out 13 Tzameti, at the new, soulless Royal Theatre!

Some excerpts from the three-star Globe and Mail review by Liam Lacey:

Take 13 Tzameti for what it is: a tightly screwed shocker, a suspense tour de force that proceeds through a harrowing chain of events with alarming confidence.

Whether the movie is about something more — a metaphor for capitalism gone insane, or the desperation of immigrant workers in the new global economy — is debatable. Social commentary isn't really the strong point of this malicious and meticulously crafted little cinematic nightmare. ...

The harshest criticism of 13 Tzameti is that the film is nihilistic, a meaningless exercise in showy cruelty. Though it's admittedly not the most redemptive story, 13 Tzameti provides the exhilaration of a skilled filmmaker. Rather than nihilistic, its moral is one supported by the Bible, about the love of money and the root of evil.

From the BBC:

Dink's murder has provoked widespread shock in Turkey

A prominent Turkish-Armenian editor, convicted in 2005 of insulting Turkish identity, has been shot dead outside his newspaper's office in Istanbul.

Crowds of Hrant Dink's colleagues and supporters gathered at the scene, chanting their outrage at his murder.

Dink was given a six-month suspended sentence in October 2005 after writing about the Armenian "genocide" of 1915.

The US, EU and Armenia have condemned his murder and Turkey's leaders vowed to bring those responsible to justice.

"A bullet has been fired at democracy and freedom of expression," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a hastily convened news conference.

Wow: Bill O'Reilly and Stephen Colbert, together on the Colbert Report.

Who would have thought that would be so lame?

Now, Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor was much spicier!

Host Bill O'Reilly introduced the segment by saying: "... In the Culture War segment tonight,  The Colbert Report, a very sucessful show on Comedy Central, that owes everything to me."

The first words out of Colbert's mouth: "This is an amazing honor. I want you to know that I spend so much time in the world that is spinning all the time, that to be in the No Spin Zone actually gives me vertigo."

From the Daily Show: Ever-popular footage of TV reporters getting tasered with 50,000 volts to see if it indeed hurts: