Slightly different beginning to our Film Friday today, because we’d like to highlight the fact that our favourite film in ages, Reprise (pictured above), was released on DVD this week. We really feel it should have been given the same kind of cinematic release it’s getting right now in the UK, rather than an astonishingly bare-bones DVD transfer with burned-in subtitles, but what are you going to do? You really have to see it......

JEWS: The Toronto Jewish Film Fest is on, which means for the next week the Bloor Cinema will be Bubbes a Go Go. Now likes Watermarks, Eye likes Campfire, and TOist likes it when our Bubbe remembers to unwrap her candy before the start of the film. But don't count on it. CUES: Go For Zucker. A German Jewish black comedy about pool. Nuf said. BOOS: Some things are so bad they go past good......

Today, the provincial government announces a much needed relief package for the city's flailing film industry. The news drops at the Toronto Film Studios, and you can bet the usual ACTRA activists will be on hand. - Meanwhile, Torontoist offers up a film relief package for all you holiday filmgoers. A few day's back we reported (ahem) that the Toronto Film Critics Association had voted Sideways as the year's best movie. We erroneously attributed this......

With New Order's "Ceremony" featured prominently in the The Life Aquatic trailer, one might assume that Wes Anderson had updated his soundtrack cuts from the late 60's pop gems of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums to now include like-minded pop gems from the late 70's. With this week's release of The Life Aquatic Origninal Soundtrack, that assumption proves only half right. The soundtrack does hover around the latter half of the disco decade,......