If today’s column title gets Rachel Sweet’s Hairspray stuck in your head for the rest of the day, good! Because then we’ll have made our point that the version of Hairspray hitting this weekend isn’t as good as the John Waters original. Though the music not being as good is only part of it. There’s also the inherent irony about making a musical in which one of the central themes is integration through a......

A brief aside; The London Film Festival is currently running and our sister site Londonist are covering it, and have already given a sterling review to one of our favourites from TIFF, Reprise. You might want to check it out. But back here on home turf (well, if not Toronto’s, at least making our way across the Atlantic as far as Nova Scotia) Trailer Park Boys has made it to the big screen, and the......

Though this film sat on the shelf for nearly as long as a recently auctioned piece of holy toast, like the Mary-faced Wonder bread, Infernal Affairs looks as if it hasn't grown the slightest bit of mold. The Hong Kong thriller, which stars Andy Lau and Tony Leung, is a tightly-paced, tightly-written mole on mole story. In it, Lau and Leung (who wowed in Wong Kar Wai's dreamscape of a film, In the Mood for......