Malena’s halibut cheek cakes, with horta, pickled shallots, and lemon crema. Gourmet food in the name of alleviating hunger. It’s a bit of a high-wire act, the fine-dining food fundraiser. One the one hand: well-heeled guests enjoy a seemingly endless array of delicacies prepared by many of the most accomplished restaurants in town, accompanied by [...]

Sometimes in life things happen and there isn’t a clear lesson to learn. Perhaps you’ll find yourself absolutely destroyed by a case of the flu for a couple of weeks and think “I should have had a flu shot” is the lesson, and then you’ll remember that you were on the other side of the [...]

Hunger—which we caught at TIFF and again at the European Film Festival—is perhaps the most tactile movie we have ever seen. The impressionistic docudrama chronicling the prison hunger strike by IRA soldier Bobby Sands and the conditions leading up to his decision to take such extreme action, is all about the body and the things [...]