A great show called Parks and Recreation features a great mustachioed man named Ronald Swanson. He is a libertarian government official, a lover of breakfast food, a high-and-tight haircut enthusiast, and an all-around man's man.

Predators is coming out! Predators is coming out! Wait, you're not as excited about that as I am, are you? Okay, go read this interview and then dare tell me that you are not excited to see Predators. Adrien Brody is Danny Trejo's hog, man. Also, Topher Grace is still making movies (yay!).

If you don't want to see aliens kill a bunch of apparently dangerous humans (plus Topher Grace), I'm sure you could do worse than Despicable Me, a cartoon about a villain (v. Steve Carrell) who plans to steal the moon until three little orphan girls decide to adopt him as their dad instead.

At Coliseum Ottawa, which apparently is where all the Bollywood movies go, you can check out I Hate Luv Storys, starring Sonam Kapoor and Imran Khan.

Paul Bettany weekend! Fans, I know you're out there, so it's time to get excited that Bettany has two (2) movies opening this weekend: Creation, about Darwin's (Bettany) theory of evolution and its effect on his family, and Legion, in which Bettany plays an angel so enamoured of humanity that he throws in with us against the angelic host. Castiel? No, apparently it's Michael this time around. I'd like to tell you that he's also in Tooth Fairy for the hat trick but no dice. Still, you've got Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews. You know, if that's your thing.

At ye olde Bytowne, Mary & Max is still playing along with Richard Linklater's Me & Orson Welles (don't let the Zac Efron throw you: Christian McKay's performance is one of the best of the year) and The Yes Men Fix The World.

Over at the Mayfair, in addition to punk islam, there's the so-so The Men Who Stare at Goats, Bond movies The Living Daylights and GoldenEye, and new midnight movie in the making The Room.

Last night's fall finale of Glee (our top new comedy pick) was exactly the whirligig of drama, comedy, and singing that we've come to expect. While Glee may pretend that it's a parody of musicals and after-school specials, as Troy would tell you, it's actually a show that uses singing and comedy to disguise exactly how depressing it really is. Of course, music and laughter are necessary components for most humans to make it through their banal-to-soul-crushing days, so who can hold it against the 12 students that make up McKinley High's show choir? It's the best part of Santana's day!

In thinking about how awesome last night's entry was, though (and it was awesome), the very things that made it awesome also got me thinking about some stuff they should really straighten out before the show returns April 13 (yes, April 13. Try to hold it together). Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, and Ryan Murphy, could you meet me over at camera three?

Okay, that's better. Three things:

The AV Club released their best film performances of the decade list yesterday, and I dismissed their first entry for Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married as a coincidence. But as I scrolled down as saw both Mark Ruffalo in You Can Count on Me and Laura Linney in said same movie, it was hard not to call the shout out. Didn't I just tell you guys how great they are in that movie just a couple of weeks ago? Sure did. I call shout out, even though they have been compiling their list for some time and likely unaware of my similar opinion. I am the queen of specious shout outs. Also, three makes a rule.

I just read the AV Club's road-trip mix-tape suggestions (I was very excited to see Josh Modell's answer because I would run away with him if given the opportunity and Nathan Rabin's because he doesn't drive). While their responses are wonderful, especially the road/location specific ones, there is something missing from their list. For some time now, all of my road trips have begun with the same song: Kansas's "Carry on My Wayward Son." The melodic to electric build is well suited to pulling out of the driveway and getting on the road.

It's also the first song of a very specific road trip mix based entirely on songs from Supernatural, which sounds dorky and ridiculous, but consider this: it's almost entirely classic rock, which is the very basis of all good road trip mixes (that, and country, because it is so readily available on radio regardless of location). What's more, if you watch Supernatural (and you should), cross-country trips are a regular part of the show. If you had a cherry '67 Chevy Impala at your disposal, wouldn't they be a regular part of your life?

Why does "Carry on My Wayward Son" have to come first? Since the penultimate episode of first season, each season finale begins with a montage set to that very song. And I kid you not, the fine editing folk behind Supernatural give great montage. See for yourself after the jump.

Every Wednesday (Cult)ure shares with you one of the internet's best webcomics. 

Okay, dear readers, I have a confession to make. I've been doing this weekly Wednesday Webcomic feature for over twenty weeks now, and... well... I've run out of Webcomics!

There are still lots of big name webcomics out there that I haven't covered, PvP, Dr. McNinja, and Achewood (to name a few), but try as I might, I've never gotten into them. All of the webcomics I really dig, I've already covered in the last twenty weeks.

So... I'm turning to you (Cult)ure readers! Please, share with me your favourite webcomics, so that they can be featured in our Wednesday Webcomics posts in the weeks to come. You can list them in the comments section of this post, or email me at kevin@culturemagazine.ca.

Could it be? Are there movies worth seeing playing again in Ottawa? Saints be praised!

The Hurt Locker is playing in Ottawa! I repeat, critically-acclaimed, award-winning, best-damn-Iraq-war-movie-yet The Hurt Locker is finally here!  Consider the question of what to do this rainy Friday night resolved. You're spending it with Jeremy Renner and Kathryn Bigelow. You're welcome! The plot revolves around an expolsives ordinance disposal unit, and, uh, yeah. That's what you're getting.

The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson's sophmore feature, is finally here as well.  We dig our Rian Johnson at (Cult)ure, so we'll be checking this one out even if the critical reception has been less than warm. It's an one last heist movie, but it involves Rachel Weisz as a recluse that collects hobbies and the only good part of Babel, Rinko Kikuchi.

I don't suppose they call it July 2-4 in the US, do they?

Ugh, I am once again at a loss for what to recommend to you. Having seen Public Enemies, I can personally attest that it's pretty but boring. If you're into that (and I believe one of our esteemed film critics is), then it delivers the goods. Also, if you are into hot people looking fly in period costume (which I am), it delivers the goods par excellence. 

If there's a recurring feature from any other mag that I love, it's the A.V. Club's New Cult Canon. I've linked to it many times in the past, and I'm sure I will again in the future. Naturally, when I see a movie that I love and champion make the cut, it's makes the read a little more gratifying that usual.*So you can imagine how exciting it was to read last week's entry on Brick, which is probably among my top movies. 

 Since we're here, let's watch the trailer:

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Every Wednesday (Cult)ure shares with you one of the internet's best webcomics.

When I was a teenager, my father lived in San Francisco. He used to cut out interesting articles and other items that caught his eye in the local underground and independent SF newspapers and then send them to my sister and I in packages stacked full of interesting reading. These packages always included at least a couple of strips of a comic called Red Meat, which I just loved. Imagine my surprise and delight, then, when I learned the strip is available online over at The A.V. Club!

Red Meat often contains static images with no background for all three panels, and its dark/absurdist humour was a huge influence on my own comic strips published in my University paper from time to time. Created way back in 1989, Cannon's Strip is now twenty years old, but as good as ever.

When I first saw that Crank: High Voltage had a 70% rating on Rotten Tomatoes this morning (it has since fallen to 64%), I was a little surprised. Given that the trailer's approximately 12 hours long and that I've seen it before pretty much every movie since January, I didn't think there was any movie left to see. This afternoon, I read the review on the A.V. Club, and now I'm more confused than ever. A -? A frinkin' minus? They hate everything over there! Apparently the movie's a rousing success on its own gonzo terms. I'm still not convinced I'll ever want to see it. 

We've finally hit that mid-winter wall where literally nothing of interest is coming out in theatres. Which is fine, really, given that it's mid-winter, and I can see even more snow coming down as I type this. So, you've got options:

 If you do want to go out, Dan Campbell has a one night only exhibit from 7-10 pm tonight at La Petite Mort Gallery (306 Cumberland). As Campbell explains, "I try to show the human body and the emotions it conveys in as simple and striking way I can, being high contrast. Contrast in the shapes and colours, but also with the sharp lines of the subjects on the hand weathered and distressed backgrounds where they find themselves." 

 If you only want to go as far as your local video store, do yourself a favour and pick up Zombie Strippers!. I cannot recommend this little parody enough. Strippers become zombies, which makes them super-strippers, so no one cares when they start eating the patrons. If you don't laugh at the rapid-fire patter between the soldiers in the opening minutes, I don't know what to do with you. 

Actually, if you'd rather read something than go out (not that these things take a equivalent time, mind, but it's a starting point), I'd recommend the latest entry in "The New Cult Canon:" The Limey. Scott Tobias' weekly feature rocks my world anyway, but this entry especially vibrates with a love of film. It's the kind of writing that gets you excited to see the movie, listen to the track, and then go back to see if you really agree with Tobias. He's just on.