As a means of rounding up Toronto’s various cinematic goings-on each week, Movie Mondays compiles the best rep cinema and art house screenings, special presentations, lectures, and limited engagements. Guten Monday, cine-folk! And after a crummy, rainy weekend, we’re almost happy to see a new week. So spring ahead into some quality moviegoing, why don’t [...]

Really not much on in terms of Christmas films this week. The Bloor is showing National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (which is about as far away from a Christmas classic as we can imagine without being a film about aliens from another galaxy that have never heard of Christmas) and White Christmas. We’re still happy to [...]

Canadian music fans might have heard of Sherrie Lea Laird. She covered Sade’s “No Ordinary Love.” She has a band, Pandemonia, and they just released a classic rock CD called Left to Die…In the Wide Open. Oh, yeah—and she married Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, had an affair with JFK, and starred in Gentlemen Prefer [...]

Hopefully the success of the Dupont-Spadina message board that Torontoist previously reported on will spur some other neighbourhoods to have a go. In the meantime, with the original board filled to the brim, it’s kindly been replaced by a fresh canvas. That’s right—part deux is up and running, and it’s another good medley of confessionals, [...]

Eye film critic Jason Anderson knows show business. Not only is he a long running film critic but prior to losing sleep watching dozens of films a week, Anderson was the weekly’s music editor. It’s no surprise then that Anderson’s first novel, Showbiz, tells the story of Jimmy Wynn, an all-but forgotten presidential impersonator in [...]