Elsewhere in the Ist-A-Verse
SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake…at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war...
View ArticleFilm Friday: Bill and Ted and Its Sequel Were Brilliant, But That’s No Excuse.
Torontoist isn’t paid by the word, which is why we can allow ourselves long, rambling posts where we complain about the things that annoy us. Sorry, did we say “allow ourselves?” We meant “subject you...
View ArticleElsewhere in the Ist-A-Verse
Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word “Jackass” in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we’re going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For...
View ArticleMutually appreciated
Friday, we caught the 9:15 pm show of Mutual Appreciation at the Bloor Cinema. Shot in grainy black and white, we follow the story of Alan, a musician who’s just relocated to New York from Boston....
View ArticleFilm Friday: Let’s Go To See Let’s Go To Prison!
Let it never be said that Torontoist’s fearless Film Friday column doesn’t use its peerless powers of precision to pick out the perfect film for your viewing pleasure! Yes, the other rags might have...
View ArticleFilm Friday: Unaccompanied Kids (in the Hall)
Can you believe that Unaccompanied Minors features three out of five Kids in the Hall? Neither can we! Or that the film is directed by Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig and features lots of other...
View ArticleRep Cinema This Week: Before Midnight, The Great Gatsby, I Am Breathing
The best repertory and art-house screenings, special presentations, lectures, and limited engagements in Toronto. At rep cinemas this week: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy stroll through the southern...
View ArticleRep Cinema This Week: The Act of Killing, This is the End, Before Midnight
The best repertory and art-house screenings, special presentations, lectures, and limited engagements in Toronto. Still from The Act of Killing. At rep cinemas this week: A powerful documentary on...
View ArticleRep Cinema This Week: Boyhood, Stranger Than Paradise, and When Pigs Fly
The best repertory and art-house screenings, special presentations, lectures, and limited engagements in Toronto. Still from Boyhood. At rep cinemas this week: Richard Linklater’s look at American...
View ArticleRep Cinema This Week: Finding Fela, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Boyhood
The best repertory and art-house screenings, special presentations, lectures, and limited engagements in Toronto. Still from Finding Fela. At rep cinemas this week: a documentary about Afrobeat pioneer...
View ArticleRep Cinema This Week: Level Five, 20,000 Days on Earth, and Boyhood
The best repertory and art-house screenings, special presentations, lectures, and limited engagements in Toronto. Still from Level Five. At rep cinemas this week: Chris Marker’s playful essay film on...
View ArticleTall Poppy Interview: Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman, senior editor at Spin and living, breathing rock and pop culture encyclopaedia went on a 6557-mile (or 10,556-kilometer), soul-searching, navel-gazing odyssey through rock star demise...
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