Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset. This past June, Urbana Coffee (1033 Bay Street) quietly opened at Bay and St. Joseph, diagonal from Film Fest......

Torontoist heard through the grapevine that three Festival Cinemas were going to be closing down. The rumour was confirmed by the Star this morning. The Fox, the Royal and the Revue will be closed by June according to their story. With the Uptown being torn down and the fate of the Metro up in the air Toronto's old-time movie houses are more threatened than a baby seal in Newfoundland. (too soon?) We agree that it......

Our regular Film Friday writer Mathew Kumar is absent so I'll be filling in for his very big (size 13, right Mathew?) shoes. We're still not sure why anyone would remake 1972's the Poseidon Adventure, but they gone and done it. Director Wolfgang Petersen must really making movies with a lot of water in it and we agree with Now in thinking that it's way too soon for a movie with big waves. Insensitive Holywood......

JEWS: The Toronto Jewish Film Fest is on, which means for the next week the Bloor Cinema will be Bubbes a Go Go. Now likes Watermarks, Eye likes Campfire, and TOist likes it when our Bubbe remembers to unwrap her candy before the start of the film. But don't count on it. CUES: Go For Zucker. A German Jewish black comedy about pool. Nuf said. BOOS: Some things are so bad they go past good......

The ads have been running in NOW for over a month, and yet every time we see them we can't help but chuckle aloud while pointing to the goofy cartoon of Mr. Olivia Chow. Why a turtleneck and beret? Is there some band of evil conservatives trying to paint Layton as a baguette drinking, wine eating John Kerry type? Layton, who may or mayn't have invented the municipal bike lock, has invented the party chairman......

Although the 'reel-real' pun is one of the few jokes that sends Torontoist co-editor Sarah into a frenzied rage, the closing night of Amnesty International's Reel Reality Film Fest makes the reediculous play-on-words worth the mention. Screening at Humber College today are two excellent Amnesty friendly films, Life and Debt and Stolen Childhood. Stephanie Black's Life and Debt, in particular, is a hand-over-mouth, hyper-compelling look at the vicious circle created by North American free trade......