Waves eroding the tip of the Toronto Islands. A project to keep it from eroding will cost around $14 million, thus reminding us all once again that attempting to combat the effects of Mother Nature is a horribly costly experience, as anybody who has ever bought a jar of Oil of Olay knows full well. Golden Globes without writers turn out to be massively boring. Number of people surprised by this: zero. In revenge......

Really not much on in terms of Christmas films this week. The Bloor is showing National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (which is about as far away from a Christmas classic as we can imagine without being a film about aliens from another galaxy that have never heard of Christmas) and White Christmas. We’re still happy to recommend Enchanted (we just saw it, and it was absolutely lovely), but for those of you who want to......

Doo Doo the clown. If you're not afraid of clowns, you might know someone who is. Several celebrities, for instance, are decidedly anti-clown: Johnny Depp had nightmares of clowns as a kid, and, of course there's Bart Simpson, who said, "Can't sleep, clown will eat me." Clowns like Bozo and Ronald McDonald are, without a doubt, the "Oh, my God—that clown's kind of freaky!" clowns. And then there's the story of John Wayne Gacy,......

Torontoist isn’t paid by the word, which is why we can allow ourselves long, rambling posts where we complain about the things that annoy us. Sorry, did we say “allow ourselves?” We meant “subject you to”. And here we go again. Now, Toronto is a lovely place, and as places go, it’s done a lot for film. It’s cheap to film here! We’ve got the Toronto Film Festival! David Cronenberg. And… Keanu Reeves got his......

Last week, CTV.ca reported on Liberal MP Sarmite Bulte's suspect fundraiser that's taking place at the Drake on January 19th. For those of you unfamiliar with this scandal du jour, or too sick of crooked MPs to read the article we just linked to, or wondering when the hell we're going to get to the pirates already, here are the Cliffs' Notes: Bulte has evidently been playing a key role in reforming copyright laws, and......

The good people over at Spacing.ca have directed our attention to arts collective Year Zero One's latest project, which launches tomorrow night in Yonge-Dundas Square and runs throughout August. This month, video artists Manu Luksch and Jillian McDonald will have their one-minute installations broadcast on the 29th and 59th minutes of each hour, respectively. Luksch's Movie Stars impressively involves hundreds of trained starfish, while McDonald's Screen Kiss features the artist enviably inserted into romantic......

So last night, through the vexing snow of a channel we don't get, we heard a perky, entertainment-tonight sorta gal say that Owen Wilson thinks an Oscar will bring him true happiness. Now if this koan is meant to illustrate that Wilson is a serious actor, it falls flat. The critical affirmation of your peers won't make you happy, Owen! You need a summer hit. Will the Wedding Crashers be one? Most likely, which is......