posted Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, offers an outstanding selection of over 200 films from Canada and around the world, so navigating through this awesome collection can sometimes be overwhelming. So theBUZZ has compiled a list of LGBT-themed films that will be of interest to our readers, as well as a selection of music-themed documentaries […]
posted Monday, April 22, 2019
The Birdseye Music Festivaltakes place on Saturday, April 27th in Toronto, and is a fundraiser for bladder cancer. We all know someone with cancer, and I discovered that one of my best pals, Ann, is currently dealing with this type cancer. It’s the fifth most common form of cancer, and 9000 people in Canada will be diagnosed this year alone. […]
posted Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Daddy Issues, made its Canadian premiere at last year’s Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival. Now it’s getting a theatrical and VOD release. Maya (Madison Lawlor) spends her days escaping into her drawings and social media, where she cyberstalks the enigmatic Jasmine (Montana Manning), an aspiring sexually-fluid designer in an emotionally charged, co-dependent relationship with […]
posted Friday, April 12, 2019
Record Store Day and Vans, are teaming up to release a special edition soundtrack for the award-winning music documentary Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records on Record Store Day, April 13, 2019. The album, which features previously unreleased songs by Wax Trax! artists, (see track listing below) will be available at independent record stores across the United States […]
posted Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Gordon Lightfoot’s music touches the listener on more levels and in more ways than most musicians could ever dream of. He is a national treasure, a cultural icon whose time-defying style and legendary hits have made him one of Canada’s most anticipated live performers. Having celebrated his 80th birthday last year, he will once again […]
posted Tuesday, April 2, 2019
FOUR CHORDS AND A GUN is a comic and explosive new play about the infamous punk band the Ramones, that’s written by John Ross Bowie (actor from “The Big Bang Theory”, “Speechless”). The Canadian premiere is directed by long-time Toronto Star theatre critic and director Richard Ouzounian, and runs at the Fleck Theatre April 2 – 28, 2019. On May 1, […]
posted Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Franky Winter (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas Kohl (Darren Mann) have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life – until the night of Franky’s epic 17th birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected […]
posted Friday, March 22, 2019
Part pop-up restaurant, part outdoor oasis, Dinner With A View delivers an exclusive gastronomic adventure under the stars at The Bentway in Toronto and La Grand Roue in Montreal come spring 2019. Attendees will be situated in heated, clear and frameless geodesic domes, each designed to stimulate the senses by marrying an elevated culinary experience […]
posted Thursday, March 21, 2019
Now in its eighth year, Water Docs Film Festival runs until March 24, 2019 is where to see films about our most precious resource, H2O (water). There are short and feature films with incredible cinematography, passionate filmmakers in attendance and on panel discussions as well as informative speakers. You would think that the fact that […]
posted Wednesday, March 20, 2019
234 DOCUMENTARIES AND 18 INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS FROM 56 COUNTRIES FEATURED AT NORTH AMERICA’S LARGEST DOC FEST Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival has announced its full film lineup for the upcoming 26th edition, April 25–May 5, at a press conference this morning at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. From 2951 film submissions, this year’s slate will […]
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