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Welcome to the grand opening of the That Shelf Video Store, your one stop shop for all reviews of the latest DVDs, Blu-Rays, classic re-releases, box sets, Netflix originals, and VOD debuts that you can watch at home!
This Week at The Bloor: 8/1/14
This week at The Bloor, looks at the landmark Anita Hill sexual harassment suit and the ins and outs of breastfeeding both miss their intended marks.
Films in Brief: 7/25/14
The low key thriller The Privileged and the food advocacy documentary GMO OMG return to the city after a festival screening and a previous engagement, respectively. One isn't very good, one is unconscionably terrible.
This Week at The Bloor: 7/25/14
This week at The Bloor, looks at music therapy for Alzheimer's patients in the uneven, but moving Alive Inside and a rallying cry against the rich American right wing in Citizen Koch .
Shorts Weather
Beat the heat with some shorts as the Shorts That Are Not Pants screening series returns to the Carlton in Toronto this Thursday.
This Week at The Bloor: 7/4/14
This week at The Bloor brings the premiere of the latest from Paradise Lost director Joe Berlinger, the solid Whitey: The United States v. James J. Bulger and the rousing sports drama Next Goal Wins .
Now in Theatres: 6/22/14
Following a bout with a busted computer, our Film editor goes back and takes brief looks at Think Like a Man Too , Jersey Boys , I'll Follow You Down , Uvanga , How to Train Your Dragon 2 , The Immigrant , and The Double .
This Week at The Bloor: 5/30/14
This week at The Bloor, a frightening and fascinating look inside the world's first "internet addiction treatment camp" in Web Junkie and the rightfully Oscar nominated foreign film The Missing Picture .
Fast Five: Best Bets from Inside Out 2014
With the 24th annual Inside Out Film Festival kicking off tonight, here are five films you won't want to miss at this year's showcase of the best in LGBT themed films.
The That Shelf Guide to Hot Docs 2014
The 21st annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival is upon us - running Thursday, April 24th to Sunday, May 4th - and here's your one stop shop for all of our reviews, interviews, features, and festivities from the largest festival of its kind in North America.
Films in Brief: 4/18/14
It’s been a busy week with all of us gearing up for our massive Hot Docs coverage, but here’s a look at what else is playing on local screens this week that we haven’t gotten around to reviewing yet, including the Disneynature documentary Bears , the romantic drama The Face of Love , the Canadian teen road flick Hold Fast , the psychological thriller Stress Position , the literary minded Meetings with a Young Poet , and the ballet documentary Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq .
This Week at The Bloor: 4/10/14
This week at The Bloor brings the hilarious, heartbreaking, and touching anti-rock doc crowd pleaser Mistaken for Strangers and the somewhat disappointing and frustrating historical mystery The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden .
Home Entertanment Round-Up: 4/7/14
We kick off this Home Entertainment round-up with two Martin Scorsese comedies - The King of Comedy and The Wolf of Wall Street - before looking at new releases for Sam Raimi's Darkman , Howard Hawks' El Dorado , Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues , and Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People . There's also some B-movie goodness with looks at Alec Baldwin in The Shadow , the 1980s horror flick Night of the Demons , and the made for TV 1973 thriller The Horror at 37,000 Feet
This Week at The Bloor: 4/4/14
After a few weeks away, our Bloor Cinema column returns with new looks at Errol Morris' look at Donald Rumsfeld in The Unknown Known and the gorgeous experimental documentary The Great Flood .
The That Shelf Guide to CineFranco 2014
We take a look at 8 of the features playing at this year's whopping 17th annual CineFranco French language film festival, kicking off this Friday at The Royal Cinema in Toronto.