With the Robocop reboot about to kick down the doors, it’s time for a retrospective of Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch provocateur responsible for the original and a handful of other … Continue reading Agent Provocateur: The Films of Paul Verhoeven
Steve McQueen’s powerful drama 12 Years a Slave is one of the most talked about films of the year. The unflinching true story of a free man kidnapped and sold … Continue reading Songs of Solomon: Music From and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave
A hard-hitting, harrowing and realistic portrayal of a young brother and sister suffering the ravages of Japan’s losing World War II ordeal. A film that Roger Ebert calls one of … Continue reading This Cartoon Is Trying To Break Your Heart: Grave of the Fireflies
With Inside Llewyn Davis hitting theatres this month, the cineasts at TIFF found time to roll out a retrospective of some of the best flicks in the Coen brothers canon. From … Continue reading A World of Pain: Tall Tales from the Coen Brothers
Quick, name another physicist that’s been on The Simpsons. They’ve had a Nobel prize-winning chemist (Dudley Herschbach), and a renowned paleontologist (Stephen Jay Gould). But in the public mind one … Continue reading A Brief History of Steven Hawking
Last week I wrote about TIFF’s wide-ranging retrospective From Within: The Films of David Cronenberg. It’s a superb series showcasing all of his films, with several special screenings featuring talks … Continue reading Flesh Under Glass: The David Cronenberg: Evolution Exhibition
You hardly have to know much about wine to know Bordeaux. The renowned growing region with its eponymous wines has been at it for hundreds of years, growing grapes in … Continue reading Red Obsession: How China Conquered Bordeaux
The changing of the guard for Apple nation is hard to miss. The annual rite of the new iPhone is a harvest feast of social jubilation, hand-wringing, and eye-rolling for … Continue reading The Future is Your Friend: Welcome to Apple’s iOS 7
If you’ve had enough of our grievously brief Canadian summer, you can get a jumpstart on deep wintry chill with The Oxbow Cure, on at the TIFF Bell Lightbox for … Continue reading Cold In Your Bones: The Oxbow Cure
This weekend, TIFFÂ is running a retrospective of the films of Leos Carax called Modern Love. L’amour fou is what the French call it, crazy love, and a jumbled madcap romanticism … Continue reading Escape Velocity: The Films of Leos Carax
It’s amazing to think how it’s grown. The first Toronto International Film Festival, or, as it was known back then in 1976, The Festival of Festivals, played to 35,000 people, … Continue reading The Batch is Back!! (and 369 other reasons to hit this year’s TIFF)
For over two months, I’ve been buried alive. As it turns out, being buried alive is actually pretty exciting. All-consuming for sure. Back in February, when director Paul Thompson pitched … Continue reading The Grind: Starkers Digs Deep for CineCoup
