The Scene

Finalists for TUFF announced

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Many in the city are gearing up for this year’s TIFF season, but have you heard about TUFF? That’s the Toronto Urban Film Festival, and it runs at the same time as TIFF, from September 10 – 19. Today, they held a press conference where their guest judge director Deepa Mehta announced the film line [...]

Camp’s almost out at The Drake’s mess hall

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The Exhibition is on, the Jays are out of the playoffs and official TIFF schedules are popping up on just about every TTC commute. All this, of course, means that summer in Toronto is just about done. And, along with it go the summer film series that give Torontonians a different look at the films [...]

DVD Tuesdays: August 31, 2010

Harry Brown on blu-ray

This week’s releases all feature death as a significant element in the stories’ plots, whether it’s caused by vigilante justice, psychotropic murder, zombie hunger or vampiric necessity.

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Upcoming in Toronto

Free NFB Screening: Worst Case Scenario

This Wednesday, September 1st at 7pm, the NFB Mediatheque... 

Fresh at the Bloor

Everyone’s talking about it, Fresh, the newest food... 

Julian Schnabel Live at TIFF Cinematheque

It isn’t often that you get to be in the presence... 

No Heart Feelings: Toronto Premiere at the Royal

You may have noticed the posters for No Heart Feelings... 

Planet in Focus Presents Green Pitch Competition

The Planet in Focus International Environmental Film... 

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Reviews

Review: Teenage Paparazzo

Teenage-Paparazzo

Adrian Grenier was in town Tuesday promoting his latest documentary Teenage Paparazzo. How fitting that the actor who plays Vincent Chase on HBO’s Entourage is the director of a doc that examines cult celebrity and the paparazzi that follow them. The film’s main focus is on 13-year-old Austin Visschedyk who Grenier first noticed snapping shots [...]

Review: Takers

A shootout in Takers

Takers is a heist movie. It’s full of spectacular explosions, adrenaline-fueled chase sequences, a hardened cop (Matt Dillon) on the tail of a motley crew of rich, handsome robbers (Hayden Christensen, Michael Ealy, Idris Elba, Chris Brown and Paul Walker), and a former collaborator (T.I.) who will ultimately be their undoing. Unfortunately, even though it’s [...]

Review: Piranha 3D

Killer fish go wild on Spring Break in Piranha 3D

The Piranha films, while they aren’t as famous as other horror franchises, have quite a pedigree. The first was directed by Joe Dante (the brilliant mind behind films like Gremlins, Explorers and Innerspace). The second, which is way more fun than one expects of a  film about flying (yes, flying) killer fish is directed by [...]

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