One of the longest lasting traditions in the Toronto theatre scene are the annual holiday shows put on by the team over at legendary institute Second City. Started in Chicago …
With Christmas just around the corner, ’tis the season for another great holiday fright to get the blood pumping, and writer-director Mike P. Nelson is here to deliver just that …
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution is going to be a strange film to talk about, and not just because I went into reviewing it with next to no prior knowledge about the …
Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz has created something both monumental and intimate with her latest feature, Measures for a Funeral. Boasting links to other works she has produced over the years …
In Jamal Burger and Jukan Tateisi’s documentary Still Single (which opens in Toronto at TIFF Lightbox this weekend), legendary, visionary, and still relatively young culinary artist Chef Masaki Saito opens …
Joseph Kahn’s batty sci-fi horror comedy Ick finds the cult favourite filmmaker and legendary music video director on familiar, combative territory, but with mixed results this time out. The director …
The Canadian drama Calorie is the kind of unsuccessful film that I don’t love writing about. In so many respects, writer-director Eisha Marjara’s film is admirable and respectable. It’s made …
Zootopia 2 is an madcap animated sequel that nicely serves as a follow-up to its highly enjoyable predecessor. It also does a fine job of aping the kinds of action …
With the film Meadowlarks (in Canadian cinemas this weekend), filmmaker Tasha Hubbard makes the leap from documentary to drama by tapping into something familiar. Meadowlarks, co-written by Hubbard and novelist/playwright …
Like many great stories involving people in and around the film industry, this one begins with a trip to the movies. Although this time it doesn’t begin with a wide …