If you can complete that lyric, then you need to be at the Royal Cinema next Tuesday to unabashedly sing along to a special screening of The Sound of Music. The CBC is hosting the event to celebrate next weekend's debut of How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, the new series that seeks to cast the lead role of Maria von Trapp in the upcoming staging of The Sound of Music, produced by......

We’ve mentioned the Bicycle Film Festival a few times before, but we’re going to give special mention to it again today because tonight at 7 p.m. is the screening of the festival’s first shorts programme, featuring Warriors: The Bike Race. The Warriors is basically one of the most excellent films ever, and in August of 2002, 89 gangs of bicycle riders took an all-night race from the Bronx to Coney Island in a sort......

Last night, Teletoon's The Detour held a small event in the Royal Cinema to celebrate their upcoming fall lineup, showing a selection of the adult-orientated animation that will soon be on the channel. The lineup includes the long-overdue Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo (from the creators of Sealab 2021), Moral Orel (created by Mr. Show alumni, including Jay Johnston), and Metalocalypse, which was created by Brendon Small (who is best known for Home Movies) and......

Remember Makeout!? You can see what happened with the roomful of 200 people smooching at the Ryerson University Film Festival. This weekend RUFF will showcase films by about 40 graduating Image Arts students from May 10-12 at Royal Cinema. Eat popcorn to Billy Bites People, in which, well, Billy bites people, claymation in Happy Endings Sanatorium, and Jesus’ second coming in Zombie Jesus!. A man steals sounds from existence and catalogues them in Even With......

It's been over a year since local über-activist Dave Meslin took his grass roots political activism to the next level by co-ordinating the City Idol competition. Rather than entering the municipal election himself, Meslin chose to direct his efforts at increasing civic participation in the terminally under-attended municipal elections. Aside from some minor bumps (including having to change the logo, lest he infringe upon the rights of Ryan Seacrest, et al) the effort yielded......

Going to see all three films in Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher Trilogy, one after another in one night, is one of this Torontoist’s most treasured cinema memories, and although we did it at 2005’s Toronto International Film Festival, anyone who missed that chance can now do it at the Brunswick Theatre (296 Brunswick Avenue) tonight and tomorrow night starting 7 p.m. It’s $10 for one film or $15 for the lot, so obviously you......

March 8th marks International Women's Day each year, though it's sadly not yet a national holiday in Canada, as it is in a few countries. But official holiday or not, there are still a tonne of events happening in Toronto to mark the occasion. Here are some of Torontoist's best bets for celebrating feminism this week: Today The National Film Board and Amnesty International present a free screening of Killer's Paradise, a documentary about the......

Fresh from their holiday break, the fine folks at This Is Not A Reading Series kick off the Winter/Spring 2007 season with…a film? Well, partly. This evening, join TINARS at the Royal Cinema as they celebrate the launch of Annabelle Gurwitch’s new book, Fired! Tales of The Canned, Canceled, Downsized & Dismissed. As the title would suggest, the book is comprised of tales of getting the axe from a host of contributors, from Bill Maher......

Just as the best place and time one can panhandle in Toronto is outside the Princess of Wales Theatre when the show letting out is Les Misérables, there are likely few more effective or appropriate locations to stage a union protest than outside a movie theatre screening a certain film about agitated simians/urban revolutionaries targeted squarely at a hip, leftist audience consisting primarily of agitated simians/urban revolutionaries. Anyone ambling along College Street between Clinton......

Yes, a few weeks after our initial confusion over the Toronto International Latin Film Festival at the Royal Cinema, it's confirmed: The Royal Cinema (at 608 College St.) is re-opening its doors officially on December 15th, with the exclusive Toronto engagement of Monkey Warfare. Now, although we didn't like Monkey Warfare much (if at all), this is only good news. The aim of the new Royal cinema is in line with the other Theatre D......

Let’s start with the film festivals for a change, huh? Most intriguing has to be the Toronto International Latin Film Festival, because it’s… on at the Royal Cinema? Que El? It’s interesting to see the old girl is in use again; until now we haven’t heard anything about it, and don’t even know if it’s been renovated yet. Maybe? The film festival starts tonight at 7pm with the Chilean film For Rent, and runs until......

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......

This week the Hot Docs box office has opened, and with luck we’ll soon have some early coverage of our picks of the festival to help you with your ticket buying decisions, advising you to find 37 uses for a dead sheep, perhaps? Of course, if the schedule has got you all fired up for some documentaries, this week Cinematheque Ontario is exploring the documentary films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the first North American......

It's been nearly a week since the Oscars, so the question is, have you supported those poor souls in Hollywood by going to the cinema yet? Don't you understand that by watching a DVD you're probably supporting terrorism, or something, and just not getting the film experience you deserve? Yes, you'd be a right idiot to watch films on anything but the big screen. Which might beg the question why they now rush DVDs out......

Torontoist hates Valentine's Day as much as the next corporate holiday defying curmugeon, but who doesn't love having something to hate? Join in on the anti-love brigade by hitting the Royal Cinema (606 College) at 9pm tonight for Be My Vile Valentine, a showcase of 'the flipside of love', with four short films including Christian propoganda Footprints (pre-marital sex is a sin, kids), and a special mystery film (ooh). So, if you're either in a......

You've probably seen them and may even be curious. They are the coloured dots that consistently appear along each subway platform wall. Be curious no longer! I've done a haphazard investigation into these mystical circles of colour, and this is what I've come up with: Green Dot: like all things green, this dot means go. It lines up with the 5th Car, 1st Door, otherwise known as the Designated Waiting Area Orange Dot: this......

Kung Fu Fridays starts again tonight after a hiatus for the Toronto Film Festival, with a blistering October Schedule and a new location. Due to the (recently) traditional Royal Cinema being hired out regularly for festivals and so on this month, tonight the biweekly dose of Kung Fu action is being shown at the Revue Cinema at 400 Roncesvalles Ave (that’s 3 blocks south of Dundas West Station, for anyone unfamiliar with it). And......

New contributor Mathew will be posting regular on all things TIFF. Here goes: With only a few days to go until individual tickets go on sale for the Toronto Film Festival (7am on September 7th) and tickets hitting the heights of $20 when you factor in GST (over $35 for Gala tickets, which should be sold out by now, actually) it's definitely time for film lovers to begin their research into which films to......

"So I said to myself, 'If they can do it with a photograph, why can't I do it with a bar of chocolate?'" - Willy Wonka And if he could do it with a Wonka bar, why can't Robert Kennedy do it with Joel Gibb and the The Hidden Cameras? Following up last night's Hidden Cameras show, their biggest Toronto club gig to date, Toronto's evil evil gay-folk-church-pop 15-piece gets split up into millions of......

At the last Resfest, some "slamming" music video's by artists such as Dizzee, Interpol and RJD2 kept things appropriately "popping" at the Royal. This time around, the global digital film festival kicks out more of what you came for, with new GONDRY directed BECK VIDEOS, Can-favourites PIZZA SHOP, and shorts by JARED HESS of that much-loved NAPOLEAN DYNOMITE film. And after Res, watch the feature premier of Autodestruct: One Man's Obsession with William Shatner. Can......