The truth is out there. If you’re in or around Toronto, you’d be well-served to check out the offerings of The 2011 Hot Docs Festival, North America’s largest documentary film fest which is now eighteen years old. And if you think that the films being offered up are tiny passion projects that will never become…
It was time to revisit my childhood this past weekend with a screening of GREMLINS at The Lightbox. The screening was part of TIFF’s ‘Back to The 80’s’ series, which has given me great joy in the way that it has been a rousing success. On the one hand, it’s been fun to see a…
There isn’t a whole lot of modern film noir, but sometimes you can find noir in the darndest of places. For instance, my interest in WINTER’S BONE was sparked the first time I heard a fellow blogger discuss the film in the early summer of 2010. It was the term he used to describe it…
I’ve been hearing about events like these for years…I just never had any true desire to get off my duff and go. Here in Toronto, as happens in many other major film markets, certain theatres set aside a screen once or twice a month to broadcast a feed of a live event. It’s usually ballet…
My dvd renting tendencies found a wonderful new source this week. After multiple suggestions by Bob Turnbull and matthew Price, I finally decided to hit Filmfest DVD’s just one block past my regular subway station. To quote Homer Simpson, “I felt like a kid in some kind of store”. They’ve got an awesome supply of…
Three posts in a day coming up! Seems as though the incomparable Castor Troy wants to put my playlist skills to the test, and ask which dozen songs would be on that magical indestructible iPod that would survive a crash on a desert island. Course, this sort of question could keep me shuffling through tracks…
Today, I Feel Like This…
