York shines in the lowlights at TIFF
You’ve been hearing it for weeks: it’s TIFF time in Toronto, and that means glitz, glamour and whatever other buzzword bullshit will get stargazers flocking to the ticket booths.
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TIFF tid-bits
TIFF’s primary nod to Canadiana this year was its opening night presentation of Michael McGowan’s Score: A Hockey Musical (the title is self-explanatory), whose red carpet guests included Walter Gretzky, Ron MacLean and George Stroumboulopoulos. However, the festival also showcased multiple Canadian short films, as well as some Canadianfeatures.
Hyped film failed to impress
After attending the world premiere of Mitch Glazer’s directorial debut, the romance-fantasy-gangster flick Passion Play, I can’t help but feel that TIFF Director and CEO Piers Handling gave the most impressive performance of the evening. In the presence of the film’s director and principal cast, Handling introduced the film with such enthusiasm and conviction in its tribute to love and fantasy that I actually began to think we might be in for an unexpected treat.
A whiff of TIFF
While it could have been an uneventful and boring one-man show, director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) easily makes 127 Hours into an inspiring story about determination and the quality of life.
TIFF one liners
Excalibur delivers some one-line movie reviews of the films at TIFF 2010.
TIFF film inspires controversy
What are you willing to sacrifice in the name of freedom? Rachid Bouchareb’s intense historical drama Outside the Law, which premiered to some controversy at Cannes earlier this year, poses this very question, and wraps it in the context of Algeria’s struggle for independence from France.
Social networking hazardous to social skills
Facebook, Twitter, cell phones and various other forms of modern social networking devices represent the unprecedented pinnacle of superficial communication technology, promoting the ludicrous idea that people need to be in contact with each other at all times.
Breaking the cycle of abuse
Violence takes many forms and can be conducted in endless ways. When an individual suffers at the hands of a partner who is supposed to embody love and devotion, the experience is detrimental to one’s emotional and overall health.
Study recommends new national drug plan
A new study out of Carleton University found that up to $10.7 billion can be saved from the annual $25-billion drug bill if a national pharmacare plan is implemented.
Lions defend domain against rival Laurier
Fourth-year defenceman Jamaal Smith knows a thing or two when it comes to playing soccer against the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks. Sunday’s showdown went down exactly as he expected.