November 14 to 18 marks the return of the Reel Asian International Film Festival. Last night, the Japan Foundation played host as filmmakers and media types gathered at a press conference to kick off the 11th annual incarnation of the fest. And with more than 70 independent works from all over the world, this year’s [...]

So, what’s scarier: a zombie infestation or the melting of the polar ice caps? This is an urgent and legitimate question! And later this week, Toronto cineastes can compare and contrast, for just as the After Dark Festival winds down, the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival springs up. Running from October [...]

Last week, because we were completely distracted by Dock in a Box, we didn’t mention our sadness at the loss of both Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. We also couldn’t think of a Director bad enough to lament the continued existence of in the same breath. Thanks to a viewing of Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour [...]

The 7th annual Planet in Focus International Film and Video Festival starts tonight at the Royal Ontario Museum, 7pm with a screening of Grant McLean’s 1953 short Farewell Oak Street before feature Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox, Sara Lamm’s documentary on the strange Dr. Emmanuel Bronner, a gentleman who (quite absurdly) escaped a psychiatric hospital and [...]