Blade Runner is no longer showing at the Regent, which in many ways is lucky, as otherwise it was going to turn into a weekly, Rocky Horror Picture Show-style event for us—well, without all of that tedious audience interaction, which now we think about it, would make it not very like the Rocky Horror Picture Show at all. If you’re still hungry for more vintage Harrison Ford, though, they are showing Raiders of the......

With the Images Festival and Hot Docs just around the corner, AGYU has another event to add to your undoubtedly awesome viewing calendar. Hot…New…Video…Art is a one-evening screening that will focus on Canadian and International experiments in short film and, appropriately, video art. Featured artists include Gwenael Belanger, Nadine Bariteau, Lesley Loksi Chan, Joe Hambleton, David Han, Miriam Heller-Sahlgren, Jesika Joy, Scott Kildall, Alison S.M. Kobayashi, Su-Ying Lee, Julie Lequin, Otto Mogren, Rasmus Albertsen Ottosen,......

Carolee Schneemann is an artist whose work refuses a tepid response: in a career that has addressed contentious topics such as American imperialism and the implications of living in a sex-phobic society, Schneemann has solidified her position as a pioneer in what is now known as multi-media/disciplinary art. Schneemann began her career as a painter in the late 1950’s and later applied the medium's physical properties to installation, performance, filmmaking, the written word, and assemblage.......

Our title this week of course refers to Catch and Release, a film which has been so endlessly trailered on TV (and we don’t even watch that much) that Torontoist feels like we could recite the whole bloody film right now. “The man I was going to marry is dead! I’m sitting wearing my wedding dress and moping – it’s a girl thing! Kevin Smith is fat and talentless, but friends with Ben Affleck......

The Toronto Star has reported that filmmaker and executive director of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, Roberto Ariganello, drowned while swimming in Halifax this past Sunday, where he had brought donated editing equipment, and was to show two of his most recent films, Contrafacta and Non-Zymase Pentathlon. He was 45. Image taken from the Images Festival website.......

So, for cinema goers who aren’t moved by the idea of Sprockets as described below (perhaps you don’t have children, perhaps you hate children, perhaps you hate children when they’re in cinemas, which Torontoist can understand), what is on offer for you loves? What about… Silent Hill? It’s not really the most high profile film out this week, but Torontoist has a bit of a soft spot for video game adaptations from, you know, actually......

Should you have had your fill of matzo (or Cadbury Creme Eggs for that matter) and need a brief respite away from the familial table this long weekend, Torontoist would like to point you in the direction of The Images Festival taking place in and around Toronto starting today and running until the 22nd of April. The Images Festival is "a celebration of light and motion, a showcase for all things new and extraordinary in......

So, did you enjoy last year’s hit documentary Mad Hot Ballroom, in which a bunch of elementary school kids take part in a ballroom dancing competition? No? We’ll you’re in luck, because Hollywood have seen fit to create Take the Lead, a movie ‘inspired by a true story’; the story of, uh, Mad Hot Ballroom, but they’ve changed everything, changing it into yet another film in which an idealistic teacher fixes the lives of disenfranchised......

Maybe Torontoist is getting old, but turning up at a gig at doors and waiting an hour and fifteen minutes for anything to happen at all seems an unfair punishment for an eagerness to see the first band to play. The first band at the Images Festival Fundraiser, of course, being Final Fantasy, one of the most hyped bands of the year, and it’s barely started. Despite being utterly captivated by The CN Tower......

Actually there's really good music too and the Images that we're talking about is actually the dozens of films shown every year at the Images Festival. Last year's fest had groundbreaking film from the Arab world and from a little closer to home Clive Holden's Trains of Winnipeg. We're not sure what's going to be at this year's Images Fest in April but we DO know who's going to be playing at tonight's Images fundraiser......

- Is Altoids behind what is rumoured to be the summer comedy of the summer? If not, the mint manufacturer's geekchic campaign of a few summer's back and Carrell's gradeschool portrait poster are a little too close for comfort. Which makes us wonder whether The 40 Year-Old Virgin will be better or worse than a curiously strong peppermint. Better we hope, and the reviews seem to give faith to that fragile hope. - Not......

Enough with the summer blockbusters already! The preview for Fantastic Four would leave anyone except a weapons expert bored silly - explosion after explosion, punctured only infrequently by terrible dialogue and worse acting. So no, we probably won't be tripping the light Fantastic. Instead, we're cautiously optimistic about another ensemble movie (how do the characters' lives always intersect so neatly? Why is the policeman connected to the kneebone connected to the anklebone?), Chris Terrio's Heights,......

Two pics for this week's FF. You could go Fancy, Furry, Sticky and moderately pretentious with the Images Festival's Friday Night Short program, or you could go for a modern classic by way of Bob Roberts. The former shows artists attacking our understanding of all things slimey. The latter shows Tim Robbins acting well, instead of winning Oscar's for acting poorly. The Slimefest promises you free grill cheese, and says these 'films and video have......

As long as people have been dying, there have been others claiming that they can communicate with them from the great beyond. One of the most interesting manifestations of this belief was the spiritualist movement of the late 19th century. Hundreds of men and women emerged in North America and Europe claiming that they were 'mediums' attuned to the souls of the dead. The movement's rise coincided with the early days of photography and there......