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Review: Bettie Page Reveals All

Bettie Page is, to our celebrity-crazed culture, an enigma. “She’s lasted because she has that rare quality that’s hard to define,” raves fashion designer Todd Oldham. “It’s that sort of ultimate star...

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Review: Like Father, Like Son

The complexities of each individual family unit are boundless. Both child and parent interact in unique ways, forging memories and developing routines. We make plans. We make promises. We form...

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Review: In Fear

The trailer for In Fear, Jeremy Lovering’s feature film debut, is grossly misleading. The tension is palpable, and the terror is real. Elegant, and subtle, it comes across as an edge-of-your-seat...

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Extended Thoughts: A Field in England

Ben Wheatley has asserted himself as the new face of avant garde cinema. From Down Terrace’s darkly comedic family crime story in 2009, to 2012’s bleakly hilarious Sightseers, nothing is by-the-book....

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Extended Thoughts: The Grand Budapest Hotel

The highly stylized and ever whimsical Wes Anderson has struck again with his latest gem, The Grand Budapest Hotel. A delectably decadent treat, the film unfolds as a kind of matryoshka nesting doll: a...

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Review: Nymphomaniac Volumes I and II

At first glance, much of Lars von Trier’s work seems disrespectful, antagonistic, self-aggrandizing, and unapologetically brutish. His latest piece, Nymphomaniac, the nearly 5-hour-long story of a...

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Robert Lepage: Possible Worlds at TIFF Bell Lightbox

Dreamscapes and fluid transitions dominate the otherworldly aesthetic of Robert Lepage’s oeuvre. His seamless transitions across time are stunning, while he allows a kind of whimsy to seep through even...

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Cinéfranco Francophone International Film Festival Hits Toronto

Cinéfranco, arguably the most significant International Francophone Film Festival in English Canada, has started. Running from March 28th through until April 6th, the Toronto-based film festival...

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Review: Captain America The Winter Soldier

The Marvel universe has been beautifully brought to life, repeatedly. While some adaptations have been more successful than others, Captain America: The First Avenger pleased comic book fans, critics...

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Review: Bears

Nature is a beautiful thing. Vast and expansive, it is home to thousands of different species. As a child growing up, I was raised with a keen understanding and respect for nature. In spite of vague...

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Hot Docs 2014: Opening Night and The First Day

The 2014 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is upon us. North America’s largest Documentary festival is about to take over Toronto, showcasing some of the best documentaries from...

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Hot Docs 2014: Doc of the Dead, The Nose, Divide in Concord, and More…

Doc of the Dead Director: Alexandre Philippe Program: Nightvision Run Time: 82 minutes Campy, fun, and tongue in cheek, Alexandre Philippe’s Doc of the Dead surely entertains. Tracing the history of...

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Hot Docs 2014: I Am Big Bird, The Condemned, and Watchers of the Sky.

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story Director: Chad Walker and Dave LaMattina Program: Special Presentations Run Time: 85 minutes From Bozo the Clown to Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney has been...

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Hot Docs 2014: Art and Craft, Mad as Hell, Red Lines, and Advanced Style.

Art and Craft Director: Jennifer Grausman, Sam Cullman, and Mark Becker Program: Nightvision Run Time: 89 minutes Mark Landis is a fraud. One of the world’s most prolific and successful art forgers,...

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Hot Docs 2014: Sleepless in New York, The Case Against 8, Songs For Alexis,...

Sleepless in New York Director: Christian Frei Program: Love, Factually Run Time: 92 minutes Love hurts. Rejection hurts more. Enter New York City, where thousands of people wander the street in...

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Hot Docs 2014: A Chat With Kris Kaczor and David Regos of Divide in Concord

It was a sunny afternoon, and the temperature was finally starting to inch upwards of ten degrees when I met Kris Kaczor and David Regos. Director and Producer respectively of Hot Docs 2014 feature...

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Hot Docs 2014: Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer Talk About Food Waste and...

Halfway through Hot Docs 2014, I had the great pleasure to sit down with filmmakers Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer to discuss their call to arms Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story. Number fourteen of...

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Review: Blood Glacier

Back in September, Marvin Kren’s The Station made its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival through Midnight Madness, a programme dedicated to the dark, the twisted, and the horrific in...

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The Highs and Lows of Toronto After Dark 2014

Sixteen days ago, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival drew to a close with a resounding gasp. The Babadook ended the genre-themed film festival with outstanding strength, uniting many in the belief...

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Hot Docs 2016 Review: League of Exotique Dancers

“Feminism wasn’t about burning your bra and not shaving your legs. Feminism was shaving your legs and working in a bar as a sex object, but knowing that you were. […] And not selling your pussy and...

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Hot Docs 2016 Review: The Last Laugh

When I was 15 years old, I worked at the local movie theatre. One of my coworkers, who wasn’t Jewish, decided he wanted to tell me a joke about Jews. Against my better judgment, I told him to go...

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Critical Mess: Spoilers and Censure

The first rule of Tickled is you don’t talk about Tickled. The second rule of Tickled …. YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT Tickled. Such was my experience, and that of conceivably every other media outlet, in...

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Review: A Bigger Splash

We all, at one point or another, would love the luxury of escaping; from our personal problems, our physical woes, our responsibilities, our history, or our future. The wealthy elite have this...

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Interview with Tickled Director David Farrier

This year, Hot Docs was rocked by an unconventional star; a documentary laced with conspiracy, intrigue, and tickling. The New Zealand doc, directed by David Farrier and Dylan Reeve, initially...

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TIFF 2016 Review: Free Fire

One of the most wonderful things about Free Fire is its simplicity. Coming from a filmmaker who has more often than not leaned on the edge of cerebral, this proves as a magnificent departure. A...

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