This Thursday night sees Toronto being graced with a performance at Trinity-St Paul's Centre by one of the finest singer/songwriter/guitarists on the face of the earth, Mr Richard Thompson. Since emerging onto the scene in the 1960s with British folk revivalists Fairport Convention, Thompson has consistently turned out masterful and wholly underrated albums of dark, character-driven songwriting and inhumanly good (but never ostentatious) acoustic and electric guitar work. Practically the very definition of a cult......

So many docs, so little time. But if we could single out just a few films from the piles of Hot Docs offerings, we'd definitely see: Don't Fuck With the Lewises: A Day in the life of Frankie Jean Lewis, sister of Jerry Lee, and proprietor of a drive-through liquor bar in Louisiana. Friday, 11:30pm. Preacher With an Unknown God: Reverend Billy thinks he's cooler than he is (or at least that was the consensus......