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Movie Review: Fast & Furious 6

Andrew Parker — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:14:01 +0000

I doubt anyone would have expected to say that the Fast & Furious franchise would only be getting better after six entries, but here we are, and Fast & Furious...

Movie Review: The Rep

Dave Voigt — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:12:23 +0000

The process of movie-making is an arduous and hard process even at the best of times, but make no mistake that being an exhibitor, especially an independent one trying to...

Blu-ray Review: Side Effects

Dave Voigt — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:56:22 +0000

It is never too early to be talking about the best movies of the year, especially when one is hitting the store shelves this week. In one of his last...

DVD Review: 7 Days in Havana

Dave Voigt — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:40:28 +0000

Always an interesting idea on paper, the concept of the anthology film never quite lives up to its potential. 7 Days in Havana is a contemporary portrait of Havana, a...

Win passes to the Toronto premiere of NOW YOU SEE ME (+ more!)

Criticize This! — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:25:03 +0000

Our good friends at eOne Films have sent over 10 double passes to the Toronto premiere of NOW YOU SEE ME on May 29 to give away! To make this...

Movie Review: Greetings from Tim Buckley

Dave Voigt — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:50:22 +0000

It’s never an easy thing to live up to the expectations that everyone else has for you. It’s that much worse when your father was one of the musical voices...

Good Music Videos are Everywhere – May 20, 2013

Jack Pereira — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:07:26 +0000

Why not spend some of your Victoria Day watching some good new music videos? Here are five videos that span the globe and genres, enjoy! Germany’s Stefan Kozalla, better known...

Movie Review: Fight Like a Girl

Isabel Cupryn — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:37:21 +0000

Filmmaker Jill Morley found herself irresistibly drawn to boxing, much like the four other women whose stories are interwoven in this documentary. The film spans a five year period in...

Listen to This! – May 18, 2013

Jack Pereira — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:47:06 +0000

A picture perfect EP from Wild Nothing steals the spotlight of this week’s Listen to This!. Wild Nothing – Empty Estate Release date: May 14 Empty Estate is a neat...

Songs about Crack

Jack Pereira — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:49:30 +0000

No, that’s not the title of a new Leonard Cohen album. In light of the news everyone in Toronto is talking about^, I thought I would put together a little...

Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

Andrew Parker — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:14:14 +0000

An improvement over the already fleet and fun J.J. Abrams re-boot, Star Trek Into Darkness delivers a solid story with very little superfluous material to drag it down and a...

Chris Marker retrospective comes to the TIFF Bell Lightbox

Dave Voigt — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:58:39 +0000

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...

Blu-ray Review: The Great Gatsby (1974)

Dave Voigt — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:26:11 +0000

Big screen adaptations of beloved literary works are usually dicey affairs and with Baz Lurhman’s latest version currently in the theatres, I decided that it might be time to look...

Interview: Simon Helberg talks ‘The Big Bang Theory’

Anne Brodie — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:03:41 +0000

Simon Helberg calls Howard Wolowitz, the nerd he plays on The Big Bang Theory, the James Bond of the show (and we totally believe him). Wolowitz has the smooth confidence...

Movie Review: Graceland

Dave Voigt — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:09:41 +0000

Graceland is a gritty crime-drama that takes us into a father’s desperate quest to keep his family together by any and all means necessary. Family man Marlon Villar (Arnold Reyes),...

Movie Review: Still Mine

Andrew Parker — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:16:11 +0000

In the almost disarmingly great Canadian romance and drama Still Mine, James Cromwell finally gets a chance to have a leading role for a chance and he ends up delivering...

Good Music Videos are Everywhere – May 13, 2013

Jack Pereira — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:00:56 +0000

Good artists continue to churn out some great music videos as of late, here are four which caught our eye recently. I recently wrote about Bibio‘s stellar third album Silver...

Interview: John Cho talks ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’

Andrew Parker — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:38:12 +0000

It spoils nothing of the long awaited Star Trek Into Darkness – the sequel to the returning J.J. Abrams’ highly successful 2009 re-boot of the beloved and highly lucrative science...

Movie Review: I Declare War

Dave Voigt — Sun, 12 May 2013 15:59:50 +0000

I Declare War is a unique action-thriller that is a fascinating and occasionally disturbing look at the games children play and how quickly they can turn dark when some real...

Movie Review: Skull World

Dave Voigt — Sun, 12 May 2013 15:41:17 +0000

Skull World rocked the recent edition of the Canadian Film Festival with its unique blend of metal and cardboard that looks at a worldwide movement of fun filled carnage. It’s...