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Chris Marker retrospective comes to the TIFF Bell Lightbox
Posted on May 15, 2013 | No Comments
In conjunction with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival that has a full exhibition of the photography of Chris Marker, the TIFF Bell Lightbox is launching a mini-retrospective of some of...
‘Lil Bub & Friendz’ wins Best Feature Online at Tribeca Film Festival
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No Comments
Online cat culture is an obsession uniting besotted fans from around the world who love cats. Cats have come out of the closet in recent years and so has our...
What’s hot this weekend at ReelWorld 2013
Posted on April 13, 2013 | No Comments
Toronto’s own Tonya Lee Williams, who many will recognize as Olivia from the Young and the Restless, founded the not-for-profit ReelWorld Film Festival in 1999, running this weekend at the Famous...
A look at TJFF 2013
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No Comments
The Toronto Jewish Film Festival is always an exceptional week in the city’s cultural calendar, with so much ante being upped that other fests have their work cut out for...
Cineplex kicks of Sinister Cinema series this week with ‘John Dies at the End’
Posted on March 26, 2013 | No Comments
With independent cinemas forced to close in the face of switching to digital projectors, the venues for genre and alternative theatrical releases were beginning to get pretty darn thin. Thankfully,...
Carell, Carrey, and Arkin make on-screen magic again
Posted on March 11, 2013 | No Comments
Although taking place against the glitz, glamour, and backstabbing of the Las Vegas showman industry, the duelling magician tale The Incredible Burt Wonderstone was less of an exercise in acrimonious...
Top 10 Hilariously Bad Accents
Posted on March 10, 2013 | No Comments
Bad accents in films are unforgettable, and not in a good way. Even if the film in question is good, the memory of a bad, unauthentic and frankly embarrassing accent...
Top 10 Most Embarrassing Early Roles
Posted on March 2, 2013 | No Comments
We all have some relic of the past that we live in constant fear of people discovering, whether it’s that school photo that so perfectly captures our ‘awkward phase’, or...
Get your cat on with VICE
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No Comments
The number one thing searched on the Internet is pornography. The second most popular search target is cats. It’s not surprising. People love sex and cats and that’s just a...
You can watch the Oscars online this year!
Posted on February 22, 2013 | 1 Comment
We complained last year that we could not stream the Oscars live on the Internet and questioned whether we ever would get to the point where we’d be able to....
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema
Posted on January 30, 2013 | No Comments
TIFF Cinematheque celebrates Black History Month with a retrospective of films that define the important, but little known, cinematic movement the L.A. Rebellion. In 1969 Life magazine photographer turned filmmaker...
Long live the short film!
Posted on January 15, 2013 | 1 Comment
Covering film doesn’t always just mean looking at what is new at the various multiplexes across our great country or what is hitting the video store and retail shelves...
Packaged Goods: The Year’s Best at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
Posted on December 11, 2012 | No Comments
Ah, the holidays – a time for eyeing and buying all that glitters, amazes or comes with surround sound. Even the grinchiest grinch, the snarkiest of cynics, can stand to...
TIFF Bell Lightbox celebrates the films of Werner Schroeter
Posted on November 8, 2012 | No Comments
On this particular weekend not only in the city of Toronto but across North America most film fans are swept up into the mania of the brand new Bond film...
A look at Reel Asian 2012
Posted on November 6, 2012 | No Comments
Life is full of rare and precious moments that you very often don’t want to let slip away as they may never come again. It could be for a birthday...