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Q&A With Filmmaker Nelofer Pazira On Her Latest Film, ‘Act of Dishonour’
Posted on July 14, 2010 | No Comments
Acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, author, and journalist Nelofer Pazira was born in India and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan before immigrating to Canada with her family in 1990. She made waves onscreen...
TIFF 2010 Tickets Now On Sale
Posted on July 12, 2010 | No Comments
While VISA cardholders have been able to purchase tickets for the 35th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) since July 5, the box office opens for cash and debit shoppers beginning...
Opening Weekend: Despicable Me, Predators, The Kids Are All Right, and The Girl Who Played with Fire
Posted on July 9, 2010 | No Comments
Despicable Me (pictured) is one of the biggest surprises of the summer. From the trailers and clips I watched online I was expecting something along the lines of last year’s...
2010 DGC Nominees Announced
Posted on July 8, 2010 | No Comments
The Directors Guild of Canada announced the nominees for the 2010 DGC Awards today and Atom Egoyan’s Chloe (pictured), Jacob Tierney’s The Trotsky, Ruba Nadda’s Cairo Time, and John N....
Movies Under the Stars at Downsview Park this Summer
Posted on June 30, 2010 | No Comments
Seems that free outdoor movie screenings are popping up all over Toronto this summer. I wrote about the series that the Entertainment District BIA and TIFF are putting on in...
MIFF 2010 Brings Independent Film to Mississauga
Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
When I heard that Mississauga has a film festival geared towards Canadian independent filmmakers I was dumbfounded. Why hadn’t I heard of this before? Especially with a lineup that includes...
Blu-ray Review: The Book of Eli
Posted on June 13, 2010 | No Comments
It’s nice to know that if the Apocalypse happens first-generation iPods, copies of O Magazine, and KFC handy wipes will still be around 30 years after. Ridiculous annoyances like those...
Is Sebastian Bach ‘Bitter’?
Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
Remember the ’80s metal band Skid Row? They had hits like 18 And Life and Youth Gone Wild. They also had Sebastian Bach — a wild frontman from Peterborough, Ontario...
30th Annual Genie Awards Announced
Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
Denis Villeneuve’s film Polytechnique — based on the true events known as the “Montreal Massacre” that happened at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique in December 1989, leads the 30th Annual Genie Awards...
Review: The Crazies (2010)
Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
George A. Romero’s The Crazies (1973) is the exact type of film that should be getting remade in this day and age of remake-crazy Hollywood. To begin with it was...
Review: Shutter Island
Posted on February 19, 2010 | No Comments
Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Casino, and The Departed come to mind when I think about some of the amazing films director Martin Scorsese has made in his...
Review: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Posted on February 12, 2010 | No Comments
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is directed by Chris Columbus — the director behind the first two Harry Potter films, so it’s not a surprise that the...
Review: Sherlock Holmes
Posted on December 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
Leave it up to director Guy Ritchie to make Arthur Conan Doyle’s usually stuffy Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson characters cool. They’re smart, funny and tough. Maybe the sugar in...
Review: Nine
Posted on December 25, 2009 | No Comments
You’d think that casting a slew of hot, exotic female actresses along with Daniel Day-Lewis in a big screen adaptation of a hit Broadway musical (itself based on the classic...
Review: It’s Complicated
Posted on December 25, 2009 | No Comments
What’s more annoying than watching Meryl Steep sing and dance in Mamma Mia? Watching her try to be a comedian in It’s Complicated. Streep’s fabulous portrayal of Julia Child in...