This week at The Bloor brings the strangely charming, entertaining and informative look at the Hadron Super Collider Particle Fever and a sadly scattershot and uneven look at a pin-up icon in Bettie Page Reveals All .
Thanks to some mid-week openings, the first of our two columns this week about what's playing at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema looks at the love letter to street photography Everybody Street , the Doc Soup selection for March La Maison De La Radio (a misfire looking into the inner workings of public broadcaster Radio France), and a look at a one night only screening of the exceptional music documentary Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This is Stones Throw Records .
We take a look at six exceptional films playing at this year's Human Rights Watch Film Festival, starting tonight at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, designed to shine a light on societal problems around the world and to foster necessary dialogues, discussions, and hopefully change for the future.
We take an overview of this year's Toronto Irish Film Festival (starting this Friday and running through Sunday at the TIFF Bell Lightbox) and review the delightful opening night documentary The Irish Pub and the not so delightful indie drama Made in Belfast .
One woman, her dune buggy, and her a gorilla: GoGetters is an unabashedly fun comic out February 19th.
Since all three of this week's major releases all press screened at the same night and time during the week, here now are our reviews of the smart and funny remake of About Last Night and the astoundingly and laughably awful Winter's Tale. Also, an explanation as to why we don't have new reviews for Endless Love or Gloria , we double back on last week's never press screened Vampire Academy , we a look at Pussy Riot: A Punk Rock Prayer , which was the only new film at the Bloor this week, a special sneak at The Bloor tonight, family day offerings at The Bloor and the TIFF Bell Lightbox, and a look ahead to a Lightbox retrospective of some of Jean-Luc Godard's favourite Hollywood films starting on Thursday.
We take a look this weekend's teen oriented and teen selected TIFF Next Wave film festival, with reviews of six of this year's offerings.
We take a look at the second annual Toronto Black Film Festival - kicking off Tuesday and running through this Sunday evening - bringing some of the best in Black Cinema to the city, including reviews of several of this year's entries.
This week at The Bloor, entertaining looks at some hard headed intellectual icons that are often talked about in hushed reverential tones: atheist pundits Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins in The Unbelievers and the the late, controversial American writer and wit Gore Vidal in Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia .
Playing catch up from last week (still), here are looks at two great Canadian films ( Rhymes for Young Ghouls and Three Night Stand ), a great documentary ( 12 O'Clock Boys ), and a pair of middling romantic dramadeys ( At Middleton and Brightest Star ).
This week at The Bloor Cinema, films and stories about children featuring Nina Davenport's First Comes Love and film scholar Mark Cousins' more literally titled A Story of Children and Film
We play a bit of catch up looking at the found footage horror Devil's Due , the animated animal heist flick The Nut Job , Ralph Fiennes look at Charles Dickens The Invisible Woman , a Stephen King retrospective at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, a screening of the Lebanese war drama Zaytoun , the continued popularity of the documentary Nicky's Family , and free return engagements from some films that played the European Union Film Festival last year.
A positively stacked week at The Bloor brings the harrowing and rightfully Academy Award nominated look at the Egyptian revolution, The Square , the poignant look at "Eskimo culture," Arctic Defenders , and a slew of special screenings worth consideration, including classic documentary On the Bowery and the fun look at creativity From Nothing, Something . It's such a good week, we decided to run the column a day early for a change.
Due to our Film Editor being down for the count this week (tearing tendons in his foot and having the flu at the same time), there will sadly be a few reviews missing this week, including the Bloor Cinema column, but he did want to pass along these thoughts for the films he saw but couldn’t write about: I am Divine , Persistence of Vision , Gabrielle , and Ms. 45 .
The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema kicks off 2014 with a trio of new films looking at the American educational system (in the perceptive, but flawed and skewed American Promise , extreme marathon runners (in the crowd pleasing Desert Runners ), and the plight of the modern honeybee (in the gorgeous looking More than Honey ).
