Without a doubt, this week we’d be letting cheapskate cinephiles down by failing to mention the CNISSU’s Free Friday Film of the week, which isn’t just one but three, starting at 6:30 p.m. tonight at Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex) with the remarkably hard-to-see The Monster Squad, followed by Toronto classic The Brood, and finished off with the excellent blaxploitation nonsense The Human Tornado, starring, of course, Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore). Check out the trailer,......

Now in its 7th year, the ImagineNative Film and Media Arts Festival opens tonight at the Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor W.) with the international premiere of the Kanakan Balintagos drama, Tuli. “The directors show a solid command of composition, lighting and pace”, commented Andrew Dowler in his review in last week’s NOW magazine. The festival continues until Sunday, closing with Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises, a documentary by Alanis Obomsawin, at the......

Special Presentations 11:45am - Pan's Labyrinth (Varsity 8) 12:00pm - The Dog Problem (Ryerson Theatre) Dialogues 2:30pm - Velvet Goldmine (Al Green Theatre) Vanguard 3:00pm - Sleeping Dogs Lie (Paramount 1) 6:00pm - Election 1&2 (Al Green Theatre) Contemporary World Cinema 6:00pm - Starter For Ten (Ryerson Theatre) Visions 8:00pm - Zidane: Un Portrait du XXIe Siècle (Varsity 4&5) 9:30pm - Bugmaster (Paramount 3) Midnight Madness 11:59pm S&MAN (Ryerson Theatre)......

Special Presentations 10:30am - The Last King of Scotland (Paramount 2) - See our day 4 round-up. 6:00pm – The Fountain (Visa Screening Room (Elgin)) Contemporary World Cinema 11:45am Offside (Paramount 1) Real to Reel 12:00pm – The Killer Within (ROM Theatre) Dialogues 2:30pm – La Haine (Al Green Theatre) Midnight Madness 4:45pm – Black Sheep (Paramount 1) Gala 6:30pm - Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (Roy Thompson Hall) Mavericks 8:30pm – Vanguard Cinema:......

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 Madness 2:45pm – All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (Paramount 2) 11:59pm – The Abandoned (Ryerson Theatre) Real to Reel......

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) 1:30pm – The White Planet (Roy Thompson Hall) 9:30pm – Babel (Roy Thompson Hall) Real to Reel 3:00pm – Manufactured......

- Is Altoids behind what is rumoured to be the summer comedy of the summer? If not, the mint manufacturer's geekchic campaign of a few summer's back and Carrell's gradeschool portrait poster are a little too close for comfort. Which makes us wonder whether The 40 Year-Old Virgin will be better or worse than a curiously strong peppermint. Better we hope, and the reviews seem to give faith to that fragile hope. - Not......

The Last Mogul, the story of MGM's Lew Wasserman, or He Who Never Wrote Anything Down, opens today, and though the previews for this movie are absolutely horrendous (boring talking heads, worse music), we're inclined to say that we won't mind if it's a bit dry. Toast is a bit dry, and we eat it on a regular basis. But movie mogul machinations are something that we don't get to eat for breakfast every day.......

The Al Green Theatre, a nice film space located in the Miles Nadal JCC (at Bloor and Spadina) will soon see greater usage as regular theatre. It's now going to be operated by Capri Releasing (or Capri Films), who say they will "program first-run, specialized films from leading distributors, and will also present special cinema programs with leading filmmakers and panels that feature experts on a wide range of cinematic subjects." The whole thing will......