A Life in the Death of Joe Meek Highly influential in the UK rock and roll scene, controversial figurehead and record producer and brilliant sound engineer Joe Meek broke away from the pack in the late 50s and early 60s by becoming one of the first big name independent record producers in the world. The […]
Alive Inside Michael Rossato–Bennett’s look at the effects of music therapy on the minds of patients with Alzheimer’s disease is a terrible made and constructed film, but it makes up for its lack of subtlety and tact (and the fact that it’s essentially product placement for the core organization involved) with a great amount of […]
The Possibilities Are Endless After suffering a hemorrhagic stroke, Scottish singer-songwriter Edwyn Collins ended up slipping into a coma. After waking, it was discovered quite quickly he had suffered acute aphasia, a condition that affects the brain and leads to problems using language. Other than yes and no, the only other phrases Edwyn could use were […]
Folk Folk takes a well travelled formula for a music doc and looks a three very different sets of musicians as they continue to try and live the dream of playing folk music with hopes of making a living at it. With the landscape of the music industry changing almost at an hourly rate, it’s […]
Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty chronicles the highs and lows in the life of a blues icon and a man who certainly never looked the part that he played so well on stage. Through interviews with friends and contemporaries likes Joe Perry, James Cotten, Susan Tedecshi, Billy Gibbons and Tommy […]
Björk soars, Mudbloods sinks.
Pleasing from a musical standpoint, God Help the Girl has it's heart and mind in the wrong place.
Once you get over the lengthy title, get ready for one of the most charming movies of the year.
In honour of the TIFF Bell Lightbox's Back to the 90s series, our 90s raised film editor tries to remember when he saw each of the films playing and how he felt back then (complete with a special "mixtape").
It's actually a really charming, funny, surprising, very good movie.
It probably should have stayed that way.
The Judge feels as if it were created by robots in a laboratory that were programmed to exactly pin-point the kind of legal drama that would slay in the sticks.
Despite a great leading performance from Jeremy Renner and a relatively untold true story, Kill the Messenger is a bit of a missed opportunity.
TIFF kicks off their inaugural Short Cuts short film series with some major star power.
Daunted by the enormity of TIFF's retrospective of the challenging late cinema of Jean-Luc Godard? Here are five great places to start.
