For decades Louis Theroux has mounted a one-man study of all the strangest subcultures in America for the BBC, in My Scientology Movie he goes after his most difficult group to date with results ranging from creepy to hilarious.
We spoke with filmmakers Louis Theroux and John Dower about their new documentary My Scientology Movie and some of the strange challenges they faced while making it.
We're giving away a passes to some of Hot Docs 2015's hottest tickets!
A celebration of Transformers G1 unlike any other is set to take place this weekend at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, with a viewing of the classic 1986 animated film Transformers: The Movie and a performance by the band that's more than meets the eye, The Cybertronic Spree.
Courtesy of Mongrel Media, we're giving away run of engagement passes to see Merchants of Doubt at the Bloor Hot Docs cinema in Toronto!
We talk with Ian Cheney, director of this month's Hot Docs Doc Soup entry, The Search for General Tso.
Last Days in Vietnam is a harrowing and balanced look at the waning days of losing a war.
With only two new releases for the rest of the year (Advance Style and National Gallery, both of which are good), we look at all the remaining events at The Bloor in 2014.
There's never been a look at the world's most mysterious continent quite like the documentary Antarctica: A Year on Ice.
Enter for a chance to attend The Bloor's Dude's New Year's event on December 31st, courtesy of Dork Shelf and Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.
We look at this week's new Bloor documentaries, the mostly decent, but dry The Wandering Muse and the very problematic, but well meaning Awake: The Life of Yogananda.
Three great docs - The Last Impresario, Getting to the Nutcracker, and Evolution of a Criminal - cap off a stacked week of programming at The Bloor.
Point and Shoot and Hermitage Revealed have very different subjects, but both manage to be interesting, but not insightful.
This week at The Bloor another strong pair of docs with the musical biography Keep On Keepin' On and the ecologically minded Emptying the Skies.
This week, The Bloor offers films looking at the ethical and legal problems of security certificates in The Secret Trial 5 and misunderstood urban communities in Slums: Cities of Tomorrow.
