It’s been a while, but it’s time to return to the grind of posting what’s playing this week. Wide Releases:
Limited Releases in Toronto
Toronto Film Events/Screenings:
Sean Patrick Kelly is a Toronto-based freelance film critic and blogger with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and Media Studies from York University. Since founding his site in 2004, Sean has shared his passion for cinema through insightful reviews and commentary. His work has also been featured in prominent outlets, including Toronto Film Scene, HuffPost Canada, Screen Anarchy, ScreenRant, and Rue Morgue Magazine.
Here it is. After eight years, I still consider this to be my favourite all-time film. I credit this film for helping to develop my interesting in analyzing film, which eventually resulted in me going to take Film Studies in University. I was interested in the film ever since it was recommended by the IMDb…
The 86th Academy Awards have come and gone and, even though 12 Years a Slave ended up with the award for Best Picture (as well as Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong’o), the big winner of the night was Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, which won 7 awards, including Best Director. Matthew McConaughey…
We are less than a week and a half away from the start of the 41st annual Toronto International Film Festival. Last week, I had posted my frustrations about TIFF being one of the only festivals I can’t get media accreditation for. It was a few days later when the TIFF schedule was released and…
There is an article in Variety linked by AICN talking about how there is chain in the U.S. that is planning to open a high-end line of movie theatres and will plan to charge $35 a show. I have to say that is just plain ridiculous. The closest I have ever gotten to paying that…
There was a question going into the 2017 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival on how the popular Midnight Madness programme would fare after longtime programmer Colin Geddes stepped down to move on to other endeavors. However, Midnight Madness seems to be under very capable hands with new programmer Peter Kuplowsky and there are…
Even though film is my main pastime, I still occasionally check out Toronto’s bustling theatre scene. Usually I am attracted to productions that fit my genre-loving tastes, such as Evil Dead: The Musical and Ghost Stories. In the same vein, this evening I checked out Night of the Living Dead Live, which is a stage…
