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The Toronto International Film Festival begins tonight with opening-night gala Creation, a controversial choice not because of the subject matter (Charles Darwin) but because it's only the third time a non-Canadian film has opened the festival. Surprising, but Festival Co-director Cameron Bailey stated that they "fell in love with this movie," and we felt it was the one that set the tone to have the kind of conversations they "hope will happen around the film fest."

Reel Asian is a festival that, we must admit, we've never made it out to before. Along with a couple of the other fall festivals (imagineNATIVE, Planet in Focus), we make a point of browsing the lineup for something worth making an appointment to see and then, whether we find something or not, inevitably forget about it. Hopefully, this time will be different. It has to be. Reel Asian, entering its twelfth year, has now reached the level of institutional maturity at which it possesses the resources to branch out and appeal to people outside of its traditional constituency.

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This Thursday marks the premiere of Toronto's Hip-Hop Karaoke night. Brought to you by Never Forgive Action and Earwaks, and hosted by local rapper More or Les (who was interviewed by Torontoist last spring) and local DJs Dalia, Numeric and Ted Dancin', this party promises to be more than your basic karaoke night. First of all, it's hip-hop, so you may want to practice ahead of time or do the track you've known since you were in Grade 6. Secondly, the DJs will be spinning live instrumentals under your rhymes, so there will be no cheesy MIDI track playing or words that highlight as you go (This means you have to know your song really well!). Thirdly, it's all rap all night long, so no one will be singing Meatloaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light."

Each of these exclamations could be questions due to their outright absurdity, don't you think?