This Magazine’s December Film Club Newsletter is now up here. This month’s edition includes a chance to win a copy of the new book “Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen.” It’s a collection (with lots of pictures) examining East and Southeast Asian Canadian contributions to independent film and video. December film highlights include two highly […] More »
This Magazine’s October Film Club Newsletter is now up here. The much-anticipated Shake Hands with the Devil opens today. It recounts Romeo Dallaire’s fruitless struggle to secure more UN troops to help stop the Rwandan genocide. On a much lighter note, the 8th annual Darryl’s Hard Liquor & Porn Film Festival hits Toronto’s Bloor Cinema […] More »
This Magazine’s August Film Club Newsletter is now up here. Highlights include a special Toronto run of Run Robot Run!, a new comedy set in the future about an office drone who declares war on a handsome robot that stole his job, and the theatrical release of A Stone’s Throw, a drama set in Nova […] More »
July’s Film Club newsletter is now up here. While July is a bit of a slow month for new Canadian releases, Away from Her is still going strong. It’s Sarah Polley’s directorial debut about a woman suffering from Alheimer’s disease who forgets her husband, the love of her life. Bring the tissues. If you’re in […] More »
This Magazine’s May Film Club Newsletter is now up here. May highlights include Sarah Polley’s directorial debut with Away From Her, based on an Alice Munro short story and starring Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie. Civic Duty also opens next month. It’s about a man who becomes paranoid about terrorism after watching too much — […] More »
This Magazine’s April Film Club Newsletter is now up here. Try to check out Fido while you still can. The fun zombie flick was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival. A lot of money has been poured into promoting it — let’s help it break even! Radiant City (see above photo) opens across […] More »
This Mag’s March Film Club newsletter is now out. You can check it out here. And, as always, if you’d like to receive the monthly email newsletter, email me at filmclub[at]thismagazine.ca, with “subscribe” in the subject line. March highlights include the release of Fido, a horror/comedy about a boy and his pet zombie, and Congorama, […] More »
After a bit of a break, This Magazine’s Film Club is back — now as a monthly dose instead of weekly. Check out our December 2006 newsletter, now posted here. And, of course, you can sign up to receive the Film Club Newsletter by emailing filmclub[at]thismagazine.ca. Highlights include December events like the Whistler Film Festival, […] More »
Time to give you Film Clubbers a fix while we get the club back up and running (expect a return in November, by the way). If you’re in or around the Toronto area, the Toronto Public Space Committee’s Streets to Screens project has two Canadian premieres this Thursday for their Transit Tales night. The first […] More »
When the Canadian government introduced Canadian Content rules for radio, listeners from coast to coast to coast were made to endure the strains of Gowan, Glass Tiger and Platinum Blonde. Today, many Canuck acts are critically acclaimed and commercially viable—hitting the Billboard charts on a regular basis. Could screen quotas do the same thing for our homegrown filmmakers? More »