Kids have wanted to be stars for as long as they’ve had stars to aspire to be. These days though, the drive to be famous seems to have found a new gear, what with shows like American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance? ready to pluck young talent eagerly awaiting their shot and…
I consider myself someone fascinated by history – especially athletic history – and a proud Canadian, so the fact that I knew nothing about Harry Jerome prior to last week was pretty darned shameful. Luckily, MIGHTY JEROME – a fantastic film playing this year’s Hot Docs festival – has arrived to take me from the…
We now interrupt this regularly scheduled blog to talk documentaries… Today begins a special series of my regular Matineecast, talking about all thing festival related. The format will be a little different than usual, namely episodes will be a bit shorter, and sometimes more raw as I won’t be finessing all of them through editing…
Know how I have a tendency to say “Watch It Again”? The folks at Toronto Underground Cinema have taken that to a whole new level. Back in March they began a series called Defending the Indefensible; a screening series where badly received films are given a second go-round. But not without encouraged discussion. After letting…
Saturday afternoon, Lady hatter, myself and The Turnbull Clan all headed down to King Street West to catch a screening of BACK TO THE FUTURE. Happily I brought my camera with me, because when we arrived at the corner of King & John…a certain suped up car was waiting in all its splendour. Check out…
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…
