The ’Toban staff’s holiday favourites
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Yes, Stanley Kubrick’s uncanny, erotic psychodrama Eyes Wide Shut is indeed a Christmas movie. The obviously fake New York City streets…
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Gimme Some Truth documentary festival returns
Returning for its 13th run, the Dave Barber Cinematheque plays host to the 2022 Gimme Some Truth documentary film festival held from Dec. 7 to…
Give animation its flowers
I was introduced to animation as a kid. I grew up watching animated movies and shows from Pixar, Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. For that…
Phantom of the Cinematheque: Aurora Gorealis returns
Aurora Gorealis: Canadian Horror Marathon returns Oct. 29 at the Cinematheque for another spine-chilling year, with a lineup of four more films to frighten moviegoers…
A Social-ly awkward scenario
The Manitoba wedding social — an iconic tradition to some, a tacky social scourge to others, but something unique to our province, and one of…
TDJ, ‘SPF INFINI 2’ — 4/5 Stars
TDJ is the pseudonym of Montreal-based producer and artist Geneviève Ryan-Martel. Specializing in a retro brand of Eurodance and trance, her music is glossy but…
A small portrait of Cliff Eyland
Cliff is a dreamy, reflective work that follows a series of interviews Eyland gave during the years before his death in 2020
David Cronenberg’s past futures
As our own reality becomes more and more of a techno-dystopia, Cronenberg’s films offer an exhilarating and disturbing perspective on the intersection between biology and technology.
NFB receives 76th Oscar nomination
As a national institution pushing toward its 90th anniversary, it may not come as a surprise to some that the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has officially picked up its 76th Academy Award nomination, considering the Board’s remarkable tenure. The recipient of the NFB’s Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film is Affairs of the Art, a short created by United Kingdom filmmakers Joanna Quinn and Les Mills with their production company Beryl Productions International and co-produced by the NFB’s own Michael Fukushima.
All hail ‘the Queen of Basketball’
The Queen of Basketball by Canadian filmmaker Ben Proudfoot is the inspiring story of Lusia “Lucy” Harris from her childhood in Minter City, Miss. to her induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame.