Sarah Polley is having a kickass month as her debut directorial feature, Away From Her, racks up the accolades. On Sunday, the Los Angeles film critics gave Polley a New Generation Award for up-and-coming directors. Then, on Monday, the New York film critics felt Away From Her was 2007's Best First Film. In addition, earlier this month Polley was named one of the "50 Smartest People in Hollywood" by Entertainment Weekly. She's the youngest...

Recycling plant fire closes the 407. Officials commented how deeply ironic the fire was. “It’s a recycling centre and it’s contributing to smog!” (Not ironic: rain on your wedding day, good advice you just didn’t take.) Canadian soldier killed near Kandahar, two wounded in roadside bomb blast. Trooper Darryl Caswell brings Canada’s military death total [...]

It’s the last day of Inside Out, and this afternoon, the gay and lesbian film fest presented a pretty exciting Q&A session with director Laurie Lynd. Lynd directed, among other things, gay-friendly fare like the film version of Torontoist-fave Daniel MacIvor’s House as well as episodes of Queer As Folk, Degrassi: The Next Generation and [...]

American playwright Tony Kushner is one of the most important playwrights of contemporary theatre. He also remains conspicuously under-produced in our fair city. His landmark play Angels in America (since adapted into a popular HBO miniseries) has received only one Toronto production in CanStage’s 1996 season, noticeably absent from any season at Buddies. It’s unsurprising [...]

Starting September 1, the Hamilton television station known as CH will be rebranded as E! Entertainment Television. E! is an American entertainment and lifestyle cable broadcaster best known for its wildly successful E! True Hollywood Story series. CH corporate parent CanWest MediaWorks will license the E! trademark and manage Canadian content programming, including online, mobile, [...]

What do Colonel Sanders, Charlie Chaplin and the Anti-Christ have in common? They’re all backing members of Tenacious D, the self-professed “greatest band in the world,” who brought us all down into the pits of hell on Monday night at the Ricoh Coliseum. Love him or hate him, Jack Black (JB) is comedy’s “it” boy [...]

How unusual! Not a lot of festivals this week. Just the Indie Can Film Festival this weekend, and the Toronto Arab Film Festival starting on Wednesday. Of course, Cinematheque Ontario continues with their exhaustive Roberto Rossellini retrospective and the Toronto premiere of the acclaimed Au-Dela De La Haine (given glowing reviews in both Eye and [...]

Performing tonight at The MOD Club is Australia’s gorgeously enchanted, lushly tuned Sia – full name, Sia Furler. Her name may not be familiar to most but her incredible vocals undoubtedly will. She’s earned much recognition from singing backing vocals on a few Zero 7 tracks a couple years back and more recently Torontoist’s favourite [...]

Strongbad goes to space! Cronenberg goes to HBO! The po-po go back to wearing their regular hats! Power finally (maybe) goes to the city! [Torontoist has this to say: It's about freaking time!] Birds go south, smack into office towers! Fox goes to hell in a handbasket! And on this day in 1889, Nellie Bly [...]