CityNews and the Toronto Star are reporting that Canada’s Wonderland has closed its free-fall ride, the Drop Zone (named after the Wesley Snipes skydiving movie) due to a grisly accident on a similar ride in the States. On Thursday, a cable snapped on the Superman Tower of Power at Louisville’s Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom and [...]

Last night at the launch of SCENE, Cineplex and Scotiabank’s new reward point program, most buzz overheard by Torontoist was about the marquee outside. What was once The Paramount is now the Scotiabank Theatre. Following the lead of our new opera house and almost every arena in professional sports, Cineplex Entertainment has entered into a [...]

Gala 12:00pm – For Your Consideration (Visa Screeing Room (Elgin)) 6:30pm – Away From Her (Roy Thompson Hall) 9:00pm – The White Planet (Cumberland 2) Discovery 12:15pm – Reprise (Paramount 4) – See our review. 3:15pm – The Art of Crying (Cumberland 3) Dialogues 2:15pm – The Beales of Grey Gardens (Al Green Theatre) Midnight [...]

Gala 11:30am – Babel (Visa Screening Room (Elgin)) 1:30pm – Never Say Goodbye (Roy Thompson Hall) 6:30pm – For Your Consideration (Roy Thompson Hall) Short Cuts Canada 11:45am – Programme 4 (Cumberland 3) – See our Short Cuts coverage. 5:45pm – Programme 1 (Cumberland 3) – See our Short Cuts coverage. Featuring Ninth Street Chronicles [...]

Masters 12:00pm – The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Visa Screening Room (Elgin) 9:00pm – Rescue Dawn (Ryerson Theatre) Discovery 12:30pm – King and the Clown (Paramount 1) – See our review. 6:00pm – The Art of Crying (Paramount 3) 8:15pm – Reprise (Varsity 2) – See our review. Gala 12:45pm – Penelope (Ryerson Theatre) [...]

Well, with day one done and dusted, this morning perhaps many people will still be sleeping off the opening night party, but for others (not least the staff and volunteers) it been another early morning to get the festival up and running. This is the first full day of the festival and as such it’s [...]

As a movie-going experience, last night’s opening of Snakes on a Plan would be hard to beat. The audience at the Paramount was down: from the crew wearing afros (presumably a reference to star Samuel L. Jackson’s role in Pulp Fiction) dancing in the aisles before the show to the heckling on trailers (On Texas [...]