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“Yes, we’re being very obvious by leading with Iron Man this week, considering that it’s everywhere anyway as this year’s first big “summer” blockbuster. However, and we have a feeling we might have mentioned this before, we’re sold on any film which recognizes that a trademark way to make your hero look as awesome as […]
May 2nd, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Harold & Kumar are back! Oh glorious day—how on earth could we not lead with the return of this generation’s most important stoners? Their original quest for White Castle burgers (which we’ve never tried, and still wonder about) was maybe a little patchy but (for some reason) completely rewatchable in the way the best quick-fire […]
April 25th, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist
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“We were interested to see Ben X as a result of its award-winning status and heavy use of MMORPG Archlord as part of the story, but despite not having any sort of preconceptions we were still sorely disappointed. It’s a mess of a film in form (mixing up first-person narrative with TV-style interviews) that tried […]
April 18th, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Read our Sprockets preview? Don’t have kids—or don’t care? Well, there’s… Not a great deal we can genuinely recommend instead, but there is some stuff. Obviously, the Images Festival continues, ending this Sunday night with closing night gala Trading the Future at 7 p.m. and Cinematheque Ontario is running The Latest Wave: New Romanian Cinema, […]
April 14th, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist
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“As we may have mentioned before, here at Torontoist we’re terrified of zombies—terrified! But yet we still love zombie films enough to not run out of the theatre screaming (usually). However, we’re not sure we could deal with the the Rolling Stones in IMAX, as seen in Martin Scorsese’s concert film Shine a Light, released […]
April 4th, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Well, there have been a lot of films made about the ongoing conflict in Iraq and its effect on soldiers, and here’s another one! Stop-Loss is probably the glossiest, most-Hollywood looking attempt so far (no mean feat, considering Paul Haggis has had a shot already) and it remains to be seen if anyone in America […]
March 28th, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Couple of things going on with the films released this week. With Shutter, most interesting is that it’s based on a Thai horror film, but has been, in its Western remake, transplanted to Tokyo. Reasons? Well, either ‘all of Asia is basically the same thing, right?’ or ‘people always think of scary pale girls with […]
March 21st, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Is anyone else disappointed that the dystopian future promised in 1980s films isn’t here? If there’s one thing we’ve learned here at Torontoist, is that en masse, humans are terrible at predicting our future. It’s always so much more mundane than we expect it to be.”
I don’t talk about it at length in this article, […]
March 14th, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist
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“If there’s something that all critics know, it’s that it’s great fun to rip apart something that’s incredibly bad. Especially if you know the person who made it deserves it. So as a result there’s a regular bounty of great criticism thrown at Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 B.C. The guy has foisted some of the worst, […]
March 7th, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist
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“The Other Boleyn Girl, then! The only film this week to star two actresses that basically no one can remember being good in anything* but still coo over because they’re, like, totally hot, Wilner says, “The Other Boleyn Girl wants to be both a royal power fantasy and a bodice-ripping yarn, and succeeds as neither.” […]
February 29th, 2008 : Columns, Torontoist
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