Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'infernalaffairs'
October 6, 2006
A brief aside; The London Film Festival is currently running and our sister site Londonist are covering it, and have already given a sterling review to one of our favourites from TIFF, Reprise. You might want to check it out. But back here on home turf (well, if not Toronto’s, at least making our way across the Atlantic as far as Nova Scotia) Trailer Park Boys has made it to the big screen, and the......
Continue Reading "Film Friday: The Trailer Park Boys or The Chelsea Girls?"September 29, 2006
Yeesh; another week, another pile of movies which were at the Toronto International Film Festival. Considering there are, oh, 32,064 or so films at each TIFF we should probably get over this as soon as possible, otherwise every week our column is going to sound the same. Still! At least this week we’ve seen some of them. Burtynsky doc Manufactured Landscapes is the big dog of the week, having been covered heavily and given glowing......
Continue Reading "Film Friday: Open Season on Terrible Actors"September 22, 2006
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 tonight with The Long Goodbye. Thank goodness, then, for Free Friday Films, held by......
Continue Reading "Free Friday Films Thanks to the Cinema Studies Student Union"November 26, 2004
Though this film sat on the shelf for nearly as long as a recently auctioned piece of holy toast, like the Mary-faced Wonder bread, Infernal Affairs looks as if it hasn't grown the slightest bit of mold. The Hong Kong thriller, which stars Andy Lau and Tony Leung, is a tightly-paced, tightly-written mole on mole story. In it, Lau and Leung (who wowed in Wong Kar Wai's dreamscape of a film, In the Mood for......
Continue Reading "Friday Flickage: Infernal Affairs Appeals"