Much of these past two months has been consumed by research into Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, its supposed author and the clergymen who perpetrated ...

Out of context, it’s one of the strangest viral videos going right now: a digital avatar of Kurt Cobain not only singing tracks from ...

Barbara Kay and Lev Grossman seem cut from the same cloth. Both of them, in their own ways, disdain what they perceive as “difficult” novels ...

The following is intended as a handy guide for first or second year undergrads in Cultural/Film/Women’s studies looking to put one over ...

In the past couple of days, there’s been considerable kerfuffle regarding the Toronto International Film Festival’s decision to spotlight Tel Aviv in its ...

The Canadian publishing industry was scrambling yesterday to understand the implications behind the surprise announcement that two of the industry’s heaviest hitters – Random House ...

I have a book of medical poems coming out with the Porcupine’s Quill in the Spring of 2010. As usual, I had trouble coming ...

Toronto's Yarek Waszul discusses his illustration for Chris LaVigne's article on open-source software "Free For All," which appears in the Fall issue of ...

It's nice to see an Canadian comedy get a (relatively) major release. Opening at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto tomorrow is Simon Ennis's ...

My eyes hurt. Between the 2009 Toronto After Dark Festival, getting caught up on recent releases, and sitting slack-jawed through Tarantino’s maybe-masterpiece, I feel ...

Poor Mike Judge. The guy just can’t seem to catch a break. King of the Hill, admittedly in decline for the its past few ...

Lately I feel like I’ve been acting like the Toronto International Film Festival is the only thing in the whole begotten universe worth getting ...

Last night’s Hoodstock in Montreal North was hardly “the entertainment equivalent of a time bomb”—more like a family affair with fuck-the-police sentiment. Kids ...

While I may be a day late on this (after all, it does take an extra 24 hours for news to reach us up here ...

The biggest non-Glenn Beck joke in American political circles goes thusly: When a male Democrat has an affair it’s with a woman, and when ...

Two weeks ago I posted here about the first round of Toronto International Film Festival announcements. While the initial curtain call had plenty to get ...

I am a Canadian-born American citizen. I can live and work in the United States, vote in American elections, and even, if I wished to ...

As the world lies in wait for Judd Apatow’s third feature, Funny People, to hit multiplexes nationwide this Friday, the film’s clever viral ...

The phrase “guy movie” stirs up a familiar cluster of on-screen images. You know: films that use explosions for exposition; films that scatter bullets, shrapnel ...

Excuse me for being a day-or-so late on this, but on July 14 the Toronto International Film Festival unrolled around twenty films set to screen ...