Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. One [...]

Ah, the noble failure. We see a lot of those. Brain Candy is generally recognized, even by the Kids in the Hall faithful, as somewhat less than perfect. In fairness, it was produced during a period when the guys basically hated each other’s guts and Dave Foley only did it because he had to. And [...]

Straight out of the soul-sucking suburbs of Mississauga come Animal Faces, a band that doesn’t blast Eurotrash beats. Nor do they have canned tans, wear Randy River flame shirts, or tool around the clubbing district in their parents’ Mitsubishis. Believe it or not, these 905ers play mind-meltingly brilliant post-hardcore, and their eruptive debut EP, Analytical [...]

Ah, what a breath of fresh air The Freshman is! (No pun or linguistic symmetry intended there, really.) If you read this column and/or have ever seen The Godfather, you simply have no excuse if you’ve never seen it. It’s an amusing movie in its own right, but the obvious selling point is Marlon Brando [...]

Source: Ontario Association of Art Galleries Magazine, Winter 1978-1979. We’re surprised historians have never jumped on the amazing fact uncovered in today’s ad: Leonardo da Vinci learned about the fine arts not from observing his fellow Italian Renaissance craftsmen but by crossing the ocean to discover the riches (and coffee talks) of the Mississauga Library [...]

There was quite a hullabaloo surrounding The Kennedys from the get-go. Firstly, everyone got in a tizzy because Mrs. Tom Cruise was in town for the shoot, going berry picking and otherwise attracting paparazzi. When the miniseries was finished, the History Channel dumped it, essentially under pressure from people thinking it portrayed the family poorly (i.e. like real, flawed people instead of Democratic superheroes). It got picked up, got some bad reviews, and then a bunch of reviews saying it wasn't so terrible after all.

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. The [...]

Source: the Toronto Sun, December 14, 1979. While the gift of economical furniture from IKEA might earn a round of thank yous on Christmas morning, it’s easy to imagine the warm smiles of those on the receiving end fading when assembly time rolls around. All it takes is one mishap with an Allen key or [...]

When Paul Vazquez posted a video of his excessively jubilant reaction to witnessing a double rainbow at Yosemite National Park, it unsurprisingly became an instant internet classic. The meme went supernova when the Gregory Brothers of Auto-Tune the News remixed it into the catchiest ohrwurm since Keyboard Cat (R.I.P.), releasing it on iTunes and spawning [...]

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. INT. [...]

Gayngels? All good for Toronto. Image courtesy of Virgin. You may have seen the posters around town hocking low-cost cellphones and Blackberrys in the most appealing way possible: with hot, ass-grabbing, face-sucking angels. But now, two Canadian cities—Calgary, not surprisingly, and Mississauga, somewhat more so—have decided that Virgin Mobile’s steamy “Hook up fearlessly” ad campaign [...]

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo or (two) from a photographer in Torontoist’s Flickr Pool, our way of showing off their great work and starting the day off as prettily as possible. •1 BY LYS”