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“Last week one of our regular commenters, Derek Jensen, said he’d be going to see District 9 again rather than anything new. Perhaps this week we can convince him (and you?) to go and see In the Loop, because it’s still playing and still fantastic. It’s at the Cumberland (159 Cumberland Street) daily at 1:30 [...]
August 28th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Officially, there is one film you need to see this week. It is In the Loop. Now, we know you’ve heard about nothing but Inglourious Basterds for weeks—if not months—by now, and I admit it’s easy to be swayed by such an obvious option: a clever, entirely fictional take on a defining moment in history, [...]
August 21st, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“If there’s one thing that Torontoist thought when we saw the trailer for District 9, it was “we can’t wait to play that video game; it looks awesome.” It wasn’t until some time later that we put together that the director, Neil Blomkamp, was indeed the director originally attached to direct the (ill-fated) Halo adaptation [...]
August 14th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Recently we’ve—rather randomly—been reading someone’s blog reminiscing about the highs and lows (mostly lows) of living with a scholarship basketball player in college, Livin’ Large. It was after reading about ten or so entries we realized that we were, most likely, reading the blog of the film we’ll probably be writing about in five years [...]
August 7th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Viral marketing, eh? It’s generally annoying, but sometimes genius. In fact, sometimes it’s too genius, because Funny People’s viral pièce de résistance, Raaaaaaaandy is clearly ten times funnier than the film it’s supposed to be promoting. Starring Aziz Ansari and supposedly not a razor-sharp takedown of comedy’s bête noire, Dane Cook (hmm, we’ve gone a [...]
July 31st, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Are you sick about being told to watch The Room, yet? If you’d personally known us across the last few years—and you still hadn’t seen it—you would be. An almost personal crusade of Torontoist is to show it to as many people as possible (heck, we even asked Edgar Wright about it, just to be [...]
July 24th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“The problem with discussing a new Harry Potter film—such as the just-released Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince—is that there’s no way to win. If you’re in favour of the series, you’re an adult in arrested development reading poorly written nonsense for kids. If you think it’s poorly written nonsense for kids, you’re a heartless [...]
July 17th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Though we’ve been known to take a bit of an interest in Susan Cole’s writing in this column, it almost seems untoward to add to any more fuel to the still roaring Susan Cole–fire (see what we did there?). But it’s impossible to talk about any of this week’s film coverage without noting the strange [...]
July 10th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Though Michael Mann has many fans, it would be inaccurate to call us one. Sure, we consider his version of Manhunter to be pretty much the best (Brian Cox’s chillingly reserved Hannibal ‘Lecktor’ far better than Anthony Hopkins’ later scenery chewing). Mann’s recent thrillers have all been turgid, reaching an absolute nadir with Miami Vice—the [...]
July 3rd, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“What an incredible week for cinema it is if you’ve got a genuine interest in the representation of women in film. It’s the kind of week you could write an entire research paper on. First of all we’ve got Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which uses Michael Bay’s ever-so-male gaze to stare at Megan Fox [...]
June 26th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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