One of my favourite days on our national film calendar is just a month away. National Canadian Film Day (NCFD) is April 17. Prepare to be entertained by Canadian films to be shown in community spaces, free of charge from sea to sea to sea in “the world’s largest film festival”. Eight hundred …
The Hummingbird Project – Kim Nguyen’s All-Star Study of Corporate Greed Sounds the Alarm
Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Salma Hayek star in Kim Nguyen’s latest film, a gripping business thriller about two cousins who set out to do the impossible, no matter what it takes. Vince and Anton have discovered a genius way to get crucial trading information from Kansas to New York in …
Invisible Essence: The Little Prince. Toronto’s Charles Officer Deconstructs a Literary Masterpiece in a New Doc
The literary world changed for all time in 1943 with the release of The Little Prince by French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The provocative, metaphysical, hand-drawn novella on human existence was considered a children’s book about two people talking …
Marvel Reveals Its Female Superhero, Ben Affleck and Charlie Hunnam Chase What They Think They Deserve, Double the Martin Clunes and What to Do with Those Kids on March Break
D.C. has Wonder Woman but Marvel evens the score with the introduction of its first female superhero - Captain Marvel. Brie Larson stars in the titular role in this origins yarn of ...well, I don’t want to give anything away but … of something BIG. Larson’s Carol is a creature of nascent power …
Akram Hamdan’s Incredible Story: How He Worked on Netflix ‘The Umbrella Academy’ and No One Knew Except His Mum
Unbeknownst to most of us, Netflix’s sci-fi series phenom The Umbrella Academy shot here in Toronto last spring under a strict veil of secrecy. The location was the historic Massy Mansion, transformed into a lavish, richly eccentric home of superheroes. The cast included, among others Ellen Page, …