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As most “top ten” lists are purely subjective, so is everyone’s taste in music, and how well music is utilized and incorporated into film stories also evokes a very personal reaction and experience. Far be it for me to force my opinions down your throat, but since I’ve done it so often in the read more

As most “top ten” lists are purely subjective, so is everyone’s taste in music, and how well music is utilized and incorporated into film stories also evokes a very personal reaction and experience. Far be it for me to force my opinions down your throat, but since I’ve done it so often in the read more

The new true crime documentary WHITEY: United States of America v. James J. Bulger opens in Toronto on Friday, July 4. Enter below to win a free double pass to see WHITEY: United States of America v. James J. Bulger at the Bloor on Saturday, July 5 at 9:15 pm!   read more

To his great credit, rock musician Frank Zappa liked to think he could do anything. In his lifelong pursuit of strangeness for the sake of being strange, Zappa quickly branched out from avant-garde rock albums into making independently financed and intentionally incoherent feature films such as 200 read more

Within my formative years of cinephilism, watching the works of Andrei Tarkovsky somehow escaped me. I had heard of his films through random name drops in conversations with fellow film enthusiasts and had intended for years to watch at least one film of his. In fact, Stalker and Solaris have been read more

As a typical American teenager growing up in the 1980’s, I was confused by Reaganomics, terrified by the Cold War (although certain we would win the Arms Race), gushed over the British Pop Invasion, wanted my MTV, and wished I lived in a John Hughes movie. The series of films Hughes made in that de read more

There may still be a chill in the air where you are, but here in Cali where I call home, you can see ‘em wearing’ their baggies, Huarachi sandals too. From documentaries to sexy, sandy action flicks, there may be miles of surf movies, but these Top 5 Surfing Movies are the very best. &n read more

The woman staring back at you from the page was a fashion icon and a rising star in her own right. By all accounts, she was a kind soul; sensitive, prone to being hurt and deeply affected by the sadness experienced by her loved ones. Yet, despite all this, the tragedy is that it’s almost next read more

Enter now for a chance to win The Grand Budapest on Blu-ray from Pretty Clever Films and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment! WES ANDERSON’S THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL COMES TO BLU-RAY AND DVD JUNE 17 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of legendary concierge Gustave H. and Zero read more

The bizarre stabbing of a 12 year old girl by two other classmates in Waukesha, Wisconsin, motivated, claim the alleged offenders, by an attempt to make a sacrifice for the “Slender Man,” has the world and the web in a frenzy, and has focused the spotlight on an enigmatic meme. Slender Man is part read more

Regardless of his many artistic achievements, Walerian Borowczyk will likely be remembered for making pretentious European skin-flicks during the sexual revolution of the sixties and seventies. Before he became the master of the historical smut genre with feature films like Goto, Island of Love (19 read more

Black Sunday is currently available on Mubi. Sign up for a free trial here. Before gore, atmosphere has to be right when it comes to making an effective horror movie. Gore is often disgusting, but rarely the cause of fear and terror. Nausea, maybe, but blood and guts don’t have the same impac read more

“This is a cinema of personal vision, social commitment and poetic responsibility from which we’ve all learned and which sets a high standard that, as a filmmaker, I strive to achieve with every film, every time out.” — Martin Scorsese In December 2011, Martin Scorsese traveled to Poland to read more

Enter now for a chance to win Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on Blu-ray from Pretty Clever Films and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment! THE GREATEST STORY THAT SCIENCE HAS EVER TOLD COMES TO BLU-RAY AND DVD JUNE 10 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents a fantastic journey through the un read more

Enter now for a chance to win Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on Blu-ray from Pretty Clever Films and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment! THE GREATEST STORY THAT SCIENCE HAS EVER TOLD COMES TO BLU-RAY AND DVD JUNE 10 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents a fantastic journey through the un read more

The Sacrament, from director Ti West, opens at The Carlton Cinema on Friday, June 6. Enter below to win a run-of-engagement double pass to The Sacrament, courtesy of Video Services Corp! A new steam trails a man as he travels to an undisclosed location to find his missing sister. Upon entering R read more

It’s June 1st as I write this, and in my book that means SUMMER! What better way to spend our time lounging in the sun than with Esther Williams? She is our ultimate Bathing Beauty and we owe her a great deal of admiration for being a strong beautiful sportswoman who showed us that being feminine read more

Dinner with my dad means that at some point it is only natural that our conversation shifts onto the topic of movies. And so the question is posed in my direction: “Who do you think is the hottest male star at the moment?’ Now while I can think of plenty of actors’ names that poss read more

In 2009, the Ontario legislature passed the Ontario Green Energy Act with the lofty goals of expanding renewable energy production, encouraging energy conservation and creating green jobs. Among many other stipulations, the GEA is known for creating a number of “feed-in” tariff rates, b read more

Summer’s here and the time is right, for sweatin’ in the streets! As we shed those hipster turtlenecks, and swap out snowcaps for sunblock, it seems fitting to pay homage to those films that have stories set in the most sweltering of scenarios.   In what seems like the hottest day of the summe read more