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How unusual! Not a lot of festivals this week. Just the Indie Can Film Festival this weekend, and the Toronto Arab Film Festival starting on Wednesday.

You may wish to go to the cinema, but nothing you saw in the Film Friday really tickled your fancy. You may wish to go to the cinema, but you don't actually want to spend money to do it. Or, perhaps, you may wish to go to the cinema, but you actually want to go and see something genuinely good. Starting .

So we’ve already covered Who Killed The Electric Car? then. That’s good. Unfortunately, in the world of general release movies, there’s basically nothing happening, so…

news, we almost want to yell 'Terrible news, everyone!' Just to be contrary. And no, we're not talking about new episodes of Futurama on Comedy Central. This good news is far better than that - the Royal is going to continue being a theatre. Bought up for $2.3 million by Theatre D Digital, which currently operates the Regent Theatre on Mt. Pleasant, much like the Regent it will be used as a post-production facility during the day, and they will use the money from that to operate it as a movie theatre in the evening. We're told that whether it will remain a rep theatre is unclear - The Regent merely shows second-run movies at first-run prices.

Crippled Avengers stars the Five Deadly Venoms, the heroes (and villains) of one of the most famous and popular Kung Fu films of all time (The Five Venoms). Torontoist almost can’t do the plot justice, but let’s just say it’s rip-roaring revenge flick with the Five Venoms each crippled (for some reason or other) before learning ‘differently-abled kung-fu’ to teach their crippler a lesson. A lesson they will learn through being beaten up with kung fu.

So, did anyone see the article in today’s Eye about the imminent death of the Festival cinemas? A nice article reminding us that it’ll take someone with a good deal more money than business sense to save the Royal (at a cool $2.7 million) but it more timely in reminding us that while our cinemas might be dying, we at least still have the Toronto International Film Festival Group’s Cinematheque Ontario to keep us in going. It might be in the Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas West), admittedly not the most exciting of venues, but it might soon be one of our only choices to see some rarely shown films on the big screen.

When it comes down to it, we should all be glad Niagara Falls exists. Yes, it’s a gash in the landscape surrounded by tack, but on the other hand, it’s a guaranteed day you don’t have to look after your friends or relatives when they come to visit. Just put them on a bus and forget about them. The George F. Walker penned film, Niagara Motel could probably do some damage to this tourist trafficking, featuring Glaswegian (and Drew Carey renegade) Craig Ferguson as a drunken janitor, lamenting the death of his wife, who fell off the Maid in the Mist. Intriguingly, the film faces direct competition from Escape from Happiness, the George F. Walker penned play starting on Saturday at the Factory Theatre (125 Bathurst) that has far better reviews.

New contributor Mathew will be posting regular on all things TIFF. Here goes: