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News Shelf: 3/1/14

To wrap up the week, we talk about some places in Toronto where you can get together to watch the Oscars tomorrow, we look ahead to next week's Canadian Screen Awards, we look at two TIFF Bell Lightbox series about books and food on film, and talk a little bit about how TIFF's Paul Verhoeven retrospective is just starting to get really good.

Sucker Punch Trailer

Leave it to director Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) to find a reason to put five beautiful young actresses in leather school girl outfits and have them fight everything from mecha-samurai to dragons and fighter planes. Snyder has described his new film Sucker Punch as “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns”, which judging by the trailer […]

Thoughts on Watchmen

I’m not going to write a full review, since at this point I feel that I can’t add much that hasn’t already been said in dozens of other reviews.  So instead I’ll just post a list of the things I liked, the things I disliked.  I have a laundry list of things I wish they […]