Despite an excellent leading performance from Denzel Washington, Robert Zemeckis' Flight is an odd duck of a movie, lurching wildly between crowd pleasing Oscar bait and an intense and far better look at the nature of addiction.
Some books were just not meant to be made into movies, and despite the best efforts of director Deepa Mehta, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children happens to be one of those books.
Despite forgetting to add in a certain degree of sincerity that 80s and 90s cheeseball replicas need to succeed as comedies, the ultra low budget Manborg from Winnipeg's Astron 6 has enough funny moments and interesting stop motion effects to spare.
Next year is shaping up to be massive for Toronto video games. Gamercamp turns the spotlight on the distinctive art styles of 2013’s big three: Guacamelee, Ubisoft Toronto’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist, and Capy’s Super TIME Force.
We talk to award winning Canadian filmmaker Deepa Metha about her most ambitious project to date: a sprawling, epic adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.
Dick Wolf's television institution goes up north with Law and Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, a new installment that fits comfortably into the franchise's signature mold.
Enter for a chance to win one of 10 Disney Holiday Blu-ray prize packs including copies of the 20th Anniversary Edition and Blu-ray debut of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Prep and Landing: The Total Tinsel Collection.
He can fix it! We talk to the voice of Fix-It Felix from Wreck-It Ralph and 30 Rock stand-out Jack McBrayer about his memories of video games growing up, always playing a nice guy, why he's afraid of playing a villain, and a little bit about where the hit TV show he's on might end up at the end of its final season.
Keeping with today's Halloween theme while looking ahead to next month, we take a look at and talk to Twitch's Todd Brown about his upcoming Birth of a Villain series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, tracing the history iconic horror movie villains of the 70s and 80s.
Just in time for Halloween, resident film writers Phil Brown and take a look at some of their favourite, less iconic horror films of the 1980s. No Shinings, Evil Deads, Freddys, Jasons, Pinheads, or Chuckys allowed.
Video games began as an emerging technology but have mostly been perceived as a toy. Pixel by pixel, however, games are making a huge cultural comeback.
This week at the video store, we check out the timely comedy of The Campaign, the out of time Oliver Stone thriller Savages, the zombie apocalypse of [REC]3: Genesis, the romantic dramedy stylings of A Little Bit of Heaven and Ruby Sparks, and the goings on in the world of Mad Men.
By asking his students to create analogue versions of video games, OCAD instructor and indie game developer Benjamin Rivers forced them to look at games from a designer’s perspective rather than a player’s. See the results after the jump.