posted Tuesday, May 15, 2018
VENUS tells the tale of Sid (Debargo Sanyal), a South Asian transitioning woman whose life is turned upside down when Ralph (Jamie Mayers), the “white” 14 year-old biological son she never knew she had, shows up unexpectedly at her door. Shot in Montreal, the upbeat film also deals with the hardship of transition and how […]
posted Sunday, May 13, 2018
All-female punk meets dub combo The Slits were an important part of the late ’70s/early ’80s UK scene. Their fascinating career is explored in a documentary film, Here To Be Heard. It gets a screening at Toronto’s Royal Theatre on May 14, the only Canadian screening. “HERE TO BE HEARD” The Story of The Slits” is a film about […]
posted Wednesday, May 9, 2018
The 28th annual Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival takes place May 24 to June 3, 2018, and includes both feature and short film programming championing innovative LGBTQ filmmakers from across the globe. Opening the festival is the international premiere of Silas Howard’s A KID LIKE JAKE, and to close is the Canadian premiere HEARTS BEAT […]
posted Monday, April 30, 2018
April has been a record-breaking month at the box office this year! Impressively starting the month off was John Krasinski’s directorial debut, A Quiet Place. The white-knuckle horror is performing monstrously, prompting Paramount Pictures to announce the beginnings of a sequel just two weeks after it opened. The monster-movie dropped from number one to number two at […]
posted Sunday, April 22, 2018
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 25th edition, April 26–May 6, this year’s slate will present 246 films and 16 interdisciplinary projects from 56 countries in 14 screening programs, with work by female filmmakers representing 50 per cent of the 2018 program. For the Festival’s 25th anniversary, Hot Docs will thank Toronto audiences for their support […]
posted Friday, April 20, 2018
The name Gilda Radner puts a smile on the faces of people who remember watching her as one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live (1975-1980), where she created and portrayed such now-classic comic characters as Roseanne Roseannadanna, Emily Litella, Baba Wawa, and Lisa Loopner. She quickly rose to meteoric fame in television, […]
posted Monday, April 16, 2018
An Orthodox or Hassidic Jew would likely argue that being openly homosexual and remaining Jewish is a contradiction in terms. Or so it would seem to most people – until they encounter filmmaker Sandi Simcha DuBowski and his remarkable doc, Trembling Before G-D. Over a period of five years, DuBowski filmed gay and lesbian Orthodox […]
posted Friday, April 6, 2018
The first weekend of April has sprung and movie traffic is hot on the heels of an impressive Easter weekend at the box office! Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel, Ready Player One, broke personal records for Spielberg and debuted in the number one spot worldwide, making it the second biggest opening of the […]
posted Wednesday, April 4, 2018
After Louie follows Sam (Alan Cumming), an artist and activist from ACT UP who lived through the early years of HIV/AIDS — a man scarred and still struggling with survivor’s guilt. Cemented into an oppressive past, he is bewildered by a younger generation of carefree gay men with their uninhibited use of social media, sexting, and […]
posted Friday, March 30, 2018
“March Movie Madness” has become an alternatively popular time of year at the movies. More and more production studios are releasing big budget blockbusters in the month that brings us Spring Break, and in 2018, there’s been no exception: Love, Simon derailed stereotypical teen rom-coms, Lara Croft tried her best at raiding the big screen […]
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