I spent a lot of time over the years writing about my love of the Humber Cinema and even started a failed petition to save the cinema from demolition, arguing that it should be a historic landmark since it was the last remaining of the original five Odeon cinemas in Toronto. The cinema was sadly…
A moment that I have dreaded for the past three years has finally come to pass, as the Humber Cinema will be closing its doors for good tonight at midnight. Like many such closures in the city, the Humber is closing down to make way for a new condo development at the intersection of Jane…
While I stated in last night’s community meeting recap that I am not really the activist type, I am also not going to sit back and allow a local cinema that I love to be destroyed by condo developers. As such, I have officially launched the #SaveTheHumber campaign, where I’m going to encourage film lovers…
It was an incredibly emotional night as I attended a “pre-application” community meeting at the Humber Cinema. The purpose of the meeting was for a condo developer to make their pitch for a new development on the site of the cinema and field questions, comments and concerns from the people in attendance. The meeting was…
Here I am again, posting about the fate of a cinema that I have loved so much. The resurrection of the Humber Cinema has been a very rough ride, particularly involving the very nasty feud over the management of the theatre. Despite all of that, the Humber has flourished over the last five years or…
If you recall, back in July I wrote that the Humber Cinema had lost me as a patron after the incident, which saw the landlord Claude Bitton essentially hijack the cinema away from manger Rui Pereira, after Pereira spent a lot of work refurbishing the cinema. At the time I thought the cinema had lost…
Last week I wrote about the apparent reclosing (and subsequent reopening) of the Humber Cinema. I didn’t really know what to think at the time. I just knew that the Humber was still open. Well, some more news has since surfaced and it is almost the type of story that you only see in the…
Before I move onto about a half dozen posts about last weekend’s Shindesai Cinema Festival, I thought I would chime in on an interesting development in the saga of my local cinema the Humber. As you may know from my many posts, the Humber was reopened last year, by Kingsway Cinema manager Rui Pereira, after…
My last post, in which I reminisced on the many different Toronto-area cinemas I frequented, was quite well-received so I decided that I would write a follow-up post, listing more of the theatres that I have been to. Like I’ve said in the last post, I’ve probably been to most Toronto cinemas at least once (though there’s…
I’ve been going to cinemas for pretty much my entire life. I can probably say that I’ve been to most cinemas in Toronto at least once and there’s many that I still go to on a regular basis. I thought that after all the posts I made about the Humber Cinema last year, I should…
