festivals

TIFF 2022: Sick Review

Director John Hyams’ vicious slasher movie Sick takes place early in the pandemic and mines horror from society’s COVID-era anxieties.

Friendly Festivals: Shinsedai and STANP

Programmers for two Toronto based film festivals and series, Chris MaGee from the Shinsedai Japanese Cinema Festival (at the Revue through Sunday) and James McNally, curator of the short film series Shorts That Are Not Pants (Friday night at the Revue) talk about their co-existence in the city's landscape of cinema culture and attempt to put to rest the question asking if there's simply too much going on in the city.