Today’s Contest: For your chance to win one of three pairs of tickets to tomorrow’s screening of Reclaim Your Brain, starring Run Lola Run’s Moritz Bleibtreu (at 12:30 p.m. at the Scotiabank 2) email us your name at contests@torontoist.com. Winners will be randomly selected and notified by the morning of the screening with ticket pick-up information. Today’s Reviews: No Country For Old Men BY DANU MANDLSOHN The villain is Javier Bardem, looking like a......

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve teamed up with the Toronto International Film Festival Group to run a contest each day until the end of the festival for tickets to next-day screenings. Today’s Contest: For your chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to tomorrow’s Doc Talks panel discussion Covering War (at 4:00 p.m. at the ROM Theatre), featuring directors Michael Tucker, Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro debating filmmaking in war-torn nations,......

Today’s Reviews: Juno BY MATHEW KUMAR It sounds unfair to hold directors who are the children of directors to a higher standard than other new filmmakers—but is it really? There is such a wealth of connections and expertise within a phone’s reach that it’s utterly disappointing when someone like Jason Reitman just poops out the latest in Hollywood’s line of safe, fake “indie” films that have absolutely nothing indie about them. Juno MacGuff, a......

The Toronto International Film Festival have announced 73 films today, which is, er, a lot. Too many for us to even pretend to give them even coverage, so as usual we’re just going to pick and choose from today’s announcements, which are made of films from international filmmakers, and tell you about the ones that interest us personally. Gala Presentations gains Blood Brothers, the debut of director Alexi Tan. Produced by John Woo, it’s......

Pope Benedict XVI asserts that Catholicism is the only true church. The document he approved states that other Christian churches are "defective" and not true churches. Pope Benedict also plans to bring back the Spanish Inquisition and witch burnings later this year. Canadian Olympic Committee wants Toronto to try yet again to get the Olympics. Because if lackluster support for bringing the Olympics here twice wasn't enough the first two times, surely the third time......

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! With the quality of a product shot, this photo by Flickr pool contributor gp0256 is beautifully composed to focus on the water bottle instead of the runner. Framed by the vibrant green trees and haloed by a gorgeous summer sky, the......

On your mark, get set, go register for Run The ROM! The 5km run is scheduled for May 12 and it’s the latest in the Run With Art series from The Movement Movement. The main movers of The Movement Movement, dancer/choreographer Jenn Goodwin and artist/curator Jessica Rose, are inviting the public to run laps of the museum for public art’s sake. You could be running through Ancient Peru or perhaps Heaven or Hell. Sounds exotic!......

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......

It's always risky to see a band when they're not promoting a new album. There's always the possibility of finding a lot of new songs thrown into the mix, which can seriously hamper, if not altogether halt, what might have been a really fun show. So it was no surprise that Saturday night's Cuff The Duke show, a sold out affair infront of a well-liquored audience, was lopsided, filled with new songs from the third......

In the post-Christmas period, there aren’t usually a lot of films released, and this year it's no different; really we’re all just twiddling our thumbs waiting for the new Cinematheque season, right? Well, there’s still some things of note this week; this Wednesday the first Doc Soup screening of the year hits, with a screening of Jesus Camp at the Bloor (506 Bloor W.) at both 6:30 & 9:15 pm. The filmmakers will be present......

For nigh on a decade now, Torontoist has stood firm in her conviction that a fridge without a head of broccoli is like an island without an airport, which here means, "almost no one feels ambivalent about it." Former republican presidents hate it. Catherine de Medici made it a star. All we can do is tell you how to choose and care for it, and try to keep the controversy swilling. What's most important for......

In response to the collapse of an overpass in Quebec, the provincial and municipal government will look at overpasses in this province. They reassure us that none of this province's overpasses have the same design as the one in Quebec and are regularly checked. Just hours after thousands of people stumbled home after looking at hours of art, 30,000 people take part in the CIBC Run For the Cure on Sunday. The annual event raised......

Everyone sufficiently recovered from Word on the Street? Over 200,000 people braved the wind and rain and descended upon Queen’s Park for a celebration of books. I have a book hangover, thus the lateness of this week’s listings. Tomorrow night, This Is Not A Reading Series goes Hollywood! Journalist and filmmaker Bruce Yaccato launches Screen Legends, a chronicle of the “Canadian film pioneers who helped build the Hollywood we know today.” Joining Bruce will be......

After a cancelled show earlier in the year due to Gary Lightbody's ailing vocals, Snow Patrol finally made it to Toronto to entertain the packed-in crowd at the Kool Haus last evening, in support of their new album 'Eyes Open'. Admittedly, I'm a big fan of their music and had been looking forward to this show for a few months. The thing about seeing one of your favourite bands live for the first time......

A quick update to an old story before we get onto all the new releases that are going to make us as depressed as ever – Remember You, Me and Dupree? We hypothesised that movie-execs came up with the title “while explaining what was going to happen during some sick, cocaine fuelled orgy”. Turns out we were right, as long as during the sick, cocaine fuelled orgy was to the tune of Steely Dan’s Cousin......

This month's installment of the WSFF's world of shorts program is 'Full Time Job,' a series of films about working to live, living to work, or just going along for the ride. Films include TEMPO, JOB STREET, RIDING SHOTGUN WITH JACK MCCONAHA, TOKYO EXPRESS, HONEY, IRIS, AWAKEN, GLENDA MARY’S GLENDA GLOSS and THE CARPENTER AND HIS CLUMSY WIFE. And the program screens twice, at 6:30pm and 8:30pm, at the NFB. - And also! Tom Twyker......

The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice. God, fame, escaping prejudice, qualifying for the Francophone Games/Jeux de la Francophonie: All valid reasons for running in this Sunday's Toronto Waterfront Marathon. There's that, and of course the mega-concert of "Canadian classic rock band......

There's both a huge ad and an article in today's Globe about the 6,500 pairs of Adidas trainers, replicas of the ones worn by Terry Fox on his run, that go on sale today. The shoes, sold exclusively at Sportchek, will retail for $100 and sales of the retro navy kicks are expected to raise $500,000 for cancer research. The Orion was launched in 1979, and though Terry went through nine left shoes, he......

It’s not that these indie designers are anti-Fashion-Week, but you definitely won’t find them on the Liberty Grand runway next month. They’re out in full force tonight instead, at the multi-tasking, multi-media Collective Independence Party, with fashion finds created by Crinoline, Gnosis, Goblin & Crumb, B-Love, Nathalie-Roze, Nude Clothes, O’Belly Accessories, Passenger Pigeon, Samira Khattak Designs, She She and Yasmine Louis. Think dark fantasy leatherware, organic clothing and reconstructed pieces (plus jewellery), with DJs Medley......

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......

It's a question that comes up on almost a nightly basis: Where can athletic supporters hear the best whorish pop and classic hip-hop? Well, consider tomorrow night a no-brainer. Several Eye writers, including but not limited to Dave "D-Mo" Morris, will be playing an athletic supporter-centric mix of Run DMC, J.Timberlake, Spoon, Serge G., X-Tina, tatu, Public Enemy, De La Soul and so much more. Starts at 8PM TOMORROW night at a little place we......

Love it or hate it, LOLA, the 'free' visual arts mag that went belly up a couple of years back, was a boon for Toronto's visual arts scene. It got people talking, writing and going to see art. And unlike other publications (ahem, Canadian Art) didn't have to deal with institutional history, a national/international mandate, or pander to senior artists/board members/advertisers/etc. LOLA could stay local, stay fresh and stay true to its readership of local......

In some respects, British music has the same pitfalls as the Christian genre; both take from the American charts while adding their own thematic elements. There's a history of U.K. musicians who wish they were American, and similarily there's a glut of Christian musicians who wish they were popular. The most original music coming from Britain today is grime, a mix of American rap and U.K. electronica. And this weekend, grime comes to Toronto with......

At last October's Run For Cure, Torontoist couldn't help but notice more than 100 per cent of women had a coloured stripe across their bums. Even women not participating in Breast Cancer fundraising run were wearing the black pant avec stripe-across-the-cheeks garment. Upon further inspection, Torontoist found that some of these female runners did not appreciate us inspecting their bums. Upon even further inspection, the athletic wear-slash-uniform turned out to be from the heavily popular......