The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema closes out their programming year with the stunning and thoughtful Expedition to the End of the World and the problematic Maidentrip . We also look at a bunch of special screenings happening over the holiday season, including the quadruple-feature of holiday classics going down today!
We close out the year with a final Blu-Ray column looking at The Great Muppet Caper (one of the greatest comedies of all time), why Bill Murray never cared for Scrooged (even though its awesome), the 50th anniversary of Mary Poppins , and the home video debuts of The Lone Ranger and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters .
Our Film and Performing Arts Editor counts down what he thinks are the 25 best films of 2013.
The guys behind MDFF return to Double Double Land in Toronto tonight for a free screening of a pair of films from Brooklyn microbudget filmmaker Nathan Silver.
This week at The Bloor brings the dry Israeli history documentary The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers and the exceptional and heartbreaking Blood Brother .
A trio of new films hit The Bloor this week: Jingle Bell Rock is a well made bit of holiday nostalgia. The Italian Character can never quite find an even handed way of showcasing one of the world's best orchestras. And InRealLife is a well made, but oddly fear mongering look at how teenagers approach the internet.
The abysmal CBGB is about as appropriate and fitting of a tribute to the sadly lost NYC Bowery dive and punk rock Mecca as playing a Jock Jams album over pallbearers carrying a casket to a hearse.
This week at The Bloor, one of the most harrowing and unflinching documentaries of the year, Narco Cultura , takes a look at the lesser seen sides of the Mexican drug trade, while the much lighter, but still great Tokyo Waka: A City Poem examines how one city deals with a large number of pesky crows with equal parts admiration and annoyance.
We take a look at several of the films playing this year's 7th annual Brazil Film Fest, kicking off tonight in Toronto at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and running through Sunday.
That Shelf runs down some of this year's offerings at the all Canadian horror movie festival Blood in the Snow, running from November 29th to December 1st at the Carlton Cinemas in Toronto.
Jay Batzner and his 8 year old daughter "Big D" review some great all-ages titles out recently!
This week at The Bloor, the chilling and balanced look at true believer missionaries in Africa God Loves Uganda is worthy, but stay as far, far away from GMO OMG .
The 14th annual environmentally minded Planet in Focus film festival kicks off today and runs through Sunday, and here's a look at some of the film's playing as a part of this year's line-up!
Lots to go through this week on the home entertainment front including the coal in the stocking that is the Paul Rudd/Paul Giamatti team-up All is Bright , the Blu-Ray debut of the exceptional astronaut drama The Right Stuff , John Carpenter's ill fated TV pilot Body Bags , the toothless political drama The Attack , charming Irish creature feature Grabbers , the passable Dolph Lundgren/Randy Couture drug actioner Ambushed , and the gleefully sick Canadian sleaze flick, Junkie
With a whole lot of catching up still to be done, our film and arts editor gives brief reviews of the Calvin and Hobbes documentary Dear Mr. Watterson and the teen drama Geography Club , and tells you where to check out his reviews of the British dystopian drama How I Live Now and the WWII fable The Book Thief .
