Since 2001, the start of the new year has always marked a special period for Canadian cinema. Founded in 2001 by TIFF, Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival celebrates the best Canadian films (both short and feature-length), and this year marks its 15th anniversary. In a world dominated by Hollywood films, it is exhilarating for people […]
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The Helson Art Gallery in Georgetown, Ontario was dressed in unusual décor on the evening of January 2nd, 2016, when about 70 chairs filled the gallery space to face the on-site grand piano. Stringed instruments—including several guitars, a violin, viola, and mandolin—contributed to the visual backdrop of a special night for local performing arts: the
Since its beginning, YouTube has been an informal audition space for aspiring artists. In the age of Internet celebrity, those of vlogger fame have reversed the usual process by debuting their music in the peak of their online careers. One of them is Troye Sivan, a 20-year-old Australian with over 3 million people subscribed to
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“We all want to be gangsters,” says Ali Moman of his new movie , which loosely chronicles the life of infamous 1990s Indian-Canadian gangster Bindy Johal. “I mean you listen to hip-hop,” Momen continues. “Everyone wants to be like ‘I’m a gangster… you’re a gangster…’” Moman portrays Nep in Beeba Boys, a young Indian-Canadian guy
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Friday, November 27 marked the opening night of the 143rd production of The Bob at the Isabel Bader Theatre, which runs out of Victoria College and is one of Canada’s longest-running comedy sketches. Some of the University of Toronto’s most famous alumni, including Margaret Atwood and Lester B. Pearson, have performed in the student production.
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Cary Fukunaga’s newest film, Beasts of No Nation, released through Netflix this past October, follows Agu, a child soldier from an unnamed west-African country, through the trials of civil war. Based on Uzodinma Iweala’s 2005 novel of the same name (which itself was based on an Afrobeat album by Fela Kuti), the film is violent
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UC Follies’ production of Legally Blonde opened this past weekend, and I had the privilege of seeing the musical on opening night. It can be difficult to critique a show, especially on opening night, when there are often little hiccups, which are usually smoothed over by the end of the show’s run. There were minor
On the night of November 20, I ventured inside the Cat’s Eye to see the hopeful start of the student-run comedy show, Adorable.
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VCDS’s production of Trojan Barbie, which was written by Christine Evans and directed by Veronika Gribanova, is a modernized take on Euripides’ Trojan Women. It is told from the perspective of prominent female characters in the classical epic, The Iliad, and Trojan Barbie addresses the horror and trauma brought upon these women in times of war.
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The dawn of a new Star Wars era is upon us, but some fans are worried the new movie is going to be shit, just like the prequel trilogy. Well, live long and prosper, because I’m here to tell you that the new movie won’t be shit, and the reason is that the prequel franchise
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