Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'georgeclooney'
April 4, 2008
As we may have mentioned before, here at Torontoist we’re terrified of zombies—terrified! But yet we still love zombie films enough to not run out of the theatre screaming (usually). However, we’re not sure we could deal with the the Rolling Stones in IMAX, as seen in Martin Scorsese's concert film Shine a Light, released this week. A giant Mick Jagger looming over us, ready to eat our brains for sustenance! Horrifying! (We’ve been......
Continue Reading "Film Friday: You Can Shine a Light On Them, So They're Not Vampires"December 18, 2007
Every November and December, a handful of current and former Toronto International Film Festival employees make the trek to the United Arab Emirates to help run the Dubai International Film Festival. Its fourth year having wrapped up on Sunday, DIFF—like most everything else about Dubai—is an experiment in accelerated postmodernization, an attempt to create a world-class film festival (this year's opening movie was Michael Clayton, with George Clooney in attendance) from scratch. One of......
Continue Reading "Don't Say Dubai To The Dubai Girl: Just Say "See You Soon""October 5, 2007
Slightly different beginning to our Film Friday today, because we’d like to highlight the fact that our favourite film in ages, Reprise (pictured above), was released on DVD this week. We really feel it should have been given the same kind of cinematic release it’s getting right now in the UK, rather than an astonishingly bare-bones DVD transfer with burned-in subtitles, but what are you going to do? You really have to see it......
Continue Reading "Film Friday: A Reprise for Reprise"September 24, 2007
Seriously, who cares about Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt or George Clooney or Ben Affleck or whoever? Jerry Seinfeld––one of the greatest comedians, one of the greatest television actors, and owner of 47 Porsches––is coming to Toronto on Wednesday. He'll be at the Manulife Centre (55 Bloor Street West) at 9:45 a.m. to promote Bee Movie, the new animated movie that he directs and stars in. According to IMDB, the plot summary is thus: "Barry......
Continue Reading "This Bee Suit Is Making Me Thirsty"September 10, 2007
Photo by TerraS. The Toronto International Film Festival has only been on for four days and Torontoist is already sick of overhearing conversations like: "I saw George Clooney walking down Bloor Street!" "Oh my God, no way! I walk down Bloor Street all the time!" But that's probably because we haven't had any of our own celebrity encounters as of yet. In fact, contributors to our Flickr Pool seem to be having better luck......
Continue Reading "Famous Faces At The Fest"April 12, 2006
Mayor Miller and Toronto get it right according to Vanity Fair, he gets it so right that the mag saw fit to include him in their Green Issue portfolio. He shares the page with the mayors of San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore, Chicago and Miami. The spread also means that Miller shares the pages of VF with celebrities like Edward Norton, Bette Midler and cover boys and girls George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Torontoist would......
Continue Reading "Mayor Miller in Vanity Fair's Green Issue"November 28, 2004
Remember when Val Kilmer was a Top Gun actor? Quentin Tarantino even wrote hip pop-culture dialogue about his character. Well Iceman, you're not so hot anymore. Maybe it started with your second-rate Batman (although George Clooney seems to have recovered just fine.) Or perhaps it was when you chose to play William DeKooning to the far more interesting Jackson Pollack (specious Toronto segue: The AGO presents Willem de Kooning: A Painters Painter. The lecture is......
Continue Reading "Mr. Mojo Falling"