reviews

The Dork Shelf Guide to Rendezvous With Madness 2013

Dork Shelf looks at seven films from this year's line-up at the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival, a blend of fictional films, documentaries, and more, devoted to breaking down stigmas that surround mental illness and strengthening the dialogue around them.

The Dork Shelf Guide to Reel Asian 2013

The 17th annual Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival kicks off this week, and Dork Shelf is here with a look at many of the film's playing this year's line-up dedicated to bringing some of the best in Asian Cinema to local screens every November.

This Week at The Bloor: 11/1/13

This week, the Bloor showcases the off the mark, but well meaning look at the widening gap between the rich and poor in the US, Inequality for All and the delightful and poignant look at artists in love, Spring & Arnaud

TAD 2013 Review: The Last Days on Mars

The Last Days on Mars On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member on Tantalus Base believes he’s made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an […]

The Dork Shelf Guide to Toronto After Dark 2013

Here it is! Your guide to this year's eight annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival, bringing Toronto some of the best genre filmmaking from around the world to the Scotabank Theatre this October 17th-25th. Check back daily for new film reviews and updates!

imagineNATIVE at a Glance

The indigenous and aboriginal devoted film festival imagineNATIVE kicks off its 14th year in Toronto this coming Wednesday (October 16th through the 20th), and we take a look at several of the high profile features playing in what's shaping up to be a banner year for the festival.

Reel Indie at a Glance

Dork Shelf checks out a selection of the features playing at this year's inaugural music themed film festival Reel Indie, which kicks off this Wednesday at The Royal and runs through Sunday, running the gamut of music from Rockabilly to jazz to emo pop and beyond.

This Week at The Bloor: 10/11/13

This week at The Bloor, a look back at the hardest moments in Muhammad Ali's career in The Trials of Muhammad Ali and a pair of married designers responsible for a wide range of products get their due in Design is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli

Blu-Ray Round-Up: 10/7/13

It's been a while, but we're back with looks at new Blu-Rays for Iron Man 3, Psycho II, Psycho III John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Seconds, The Croods, Pain and Gain, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing.

This Week at The Bloor: 9/20/13

The week at The Bloor, an inside look at The Beatles rise and fall from told from the perspective of the secretary that was with them from the start in Good Ol' Freda and the haunting POW mystery of Unclaimed.

The Dork Shelf Guide to TIFF 2013

Here it is! Your one-stop guide to all of our reviews, interviews, and features for anything and everything involving the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Keep checking back throughout the day as new reviews, interviews, and features are being added all the time!

TIFF 2013: Focus On: Short Cuts Canada

We turn the TIFF 2013 spotlight on the Short Cuts Canada program, looking at all but one of the shorts showing across all six programs designed to bring the best in Canadian short form filmmaking to festival audiences.

Blu-Ray Round-up: 8/19/13

This might be our best Blu-Ray review round up yet, including The Muppet Movie, The Sword in the Stone, Wes Craven's Swamp Thing, John Carpenter's The Fog, Mel Brooks' The Producers, and The Kentucky Fried Movie.

This Week at The Bloor: 8/16/13

This week at The Bloor: the powerful and distressing Call Me Kuchu looks at LGBT human rights abuses in Uganda (now more timely than ever given the current landscape in Russia that's eerily similar), and Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp takes a look at how a "street poisoned" criminal found catharsis in confessional writing to become one of the most vital African American literary voices in history.