Hello readers! If you were lucky enough to win tickets to the screening of There Will Be Blood last night you will have already made your mind up about the film (well, we hope), but we’re going to subject you to our opinion of it anyway. Quite good, wasn’t it? Contrary to a lot of things we’ve heard, it did seem to be identifiably a Paul Thomas Anderson film (strong performances, non-traditional story arc,......

At left: stills from Dr. Strangelove. At right: re-creations by Kristan Horton. Today's Morning News has an interview with Toronto's Kristan Horton, an artist whose...uh...unique work, "Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove" is on display at The Art Gallery of York University (AGYU; Accolade East Building 4700 Keele Street) until June 24, in conjunction with the release of a 200-page book of the same name (also published by the AGYU). Horton "has recreated each scene of......

Michael Ignatieff is a popular guy. He has 171 friends in Toronto, 66 at Queen's and 60 at McGill. His favourite music is by Glenn Gould and his favourite movie is The Godfather Part I. He's married, interested in women, and looking for friendship. Online friendship - on Facebook, the ever-expanding online social network. In daily human contact, social networking has replaced awkward introductions the way that instant messaging replaced casual phonecalls, and obviously......

We here at Torontoist thought we’d try out a new weekly feature listing the best (and worst) films to be hitting Toronto’s screens in the following week, as a city which features both multiplexes, second run theatres and blessed with several vintage single screen movie houses, there’s a lot that can be missed. Released yesterday, Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha has received a cinema adaptation universally derided by reviewers. Golden’s novel is, much......