TIFF Platform 2021: Drunken Birds Flies High
Surveying TIFF's Platform competition devoted to auteur cinema.
TIFF 2021: Jagged Review
Canadian ‘90s grunge queen Alanis Morissette gets a deep dive into her career, rise to stardom and more in Jagged, a new HBO doc entry into Bill Simmons’ Music Box series.
TIFF 2021: Listening To Kenny G Review
Penny Lane’s film takes an oft-light-hearted look at Kenny G and his polarizing saxophone while asking the broader question of “what makes music good?”
Toronto’s Open Roof Film Festival Announces its 10th Anniversary Lineup
Toronto’s Open Roof Film Festival returns for its 10th year with a lineup that will put smiles on movie-lovers’ faces.
Toronto Comicon 2019: Obsessive Fandom at Its Best
Toronto Comicon kicks off this afternoon at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
TOJam 9 Descends on Toronto
Developers have three days to make a game. Dork Shelf has the details.
A Beginner’s Guide to Studio Ghibli
With the return of TIFF's retrospective of the works of Studio Ghibli returning to the Lightbox starting this Thursday (and running to January 3rd), lets look back at our Beginner's Guide to the works of possibly the best animation studio operating today.
Weekend Gamer: Bit Bazaar and Archive, Memoria Technica
Archive, Memoria Technica is one of the dozens of video games appearing at this weekend's Bit Bazaar Winter Market.
Gamercamp 2013: The Legacy of TOJam
The Gamercamp Honours Ceremony told the story of one manic weekend that helped spawn an entire gaming community.
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!
The Nic Cage Project: Wild at Heart
To celebrate TIFF’s ongoing Bangkok Dangerous: The Cinema Of Nicolas Cage series, Alan Jones has resurrected his retrospective of the actor’s work entitled The Nic Cage Project. In this edition, Jones analyzes David Lynch's violent road trip Wild at Heart – playing tonight at the Lightbox.
Futurama Trivia Set to Debut at Gladstone
Starting a new season of trivia, Woo Hoo! Simpsons Trivia will be matched by its closest living relative: Futurama. "You Guessed It! You Can't Unguess It! Futurama Trivia" premieres Tuesday, September 27th at 8:00pm in the Melody Bar of the Gladstone Hotel for anyone willing to take their trivia know-how into the year 3000.
A Dork’s Guide To
Nuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche is upon Toronto once again. The all-night urban art extravaganza, which spans most of downtown, has some extraordinary exhibits this year, but there is also no shortage of boring and pretentious bullshit. It's going to be cold out there tonight, so make the most it! Here are some dorky things that are well worth checking out:
Toronto After Dark Film Festival Announces First 8 Titles
The Toronto After Dark Film Festival showcases the best in horror, cult and sci-fi films from around the world. The festival has announced the first 8 titles on this year’s schedule, and there are some great ones. Trick ‘R’ Treat (Dir. Michael Dougherty, USA) Grace (Dir. Paul Solet, Canada) Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (Dir. […]
Ubisoft to Open Toronto Studio
French developer Ubisoft announced plans to open a major game development studio in Toronto. Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat; who will head the new Toronto studio, held a press conference earlier today with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to make the announcement. The provincial government is set to invest $263 million over 10 years with Ubisoft […]
