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    Norman Wilner

    A life-long Torontonian, Norman became the senior film writer for NOW in early 2008. Previously he had reviewed films for Metro newspapers across Canada and covered every video format imaginable (yes, even Beta) for a Toronto Star column from 1988 to 2006. He served as secretary and vice-president of the Toronto Film Critics Association from 2008 to 2016 and has been a member of the features jury for Canada’s Top Ten. A member of the international film critics’ organization FIPRESCI, he’s sat on festival juries in Toronto, Montreal, London, Vienna and Palm Springs.

  • Review: Apple TV’s The Afterparty is bursting with comic performances

    THE AFTERPARTY (Christopher Miller). First three episodes available to stream Friday (January 28) on Apple TV+, with new episodes weekly through March 3. Rating: NNNNN...
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  • Review: Don’t waste your time on The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window

    THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE GIRL IN THE WINDOW (Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf). All eight episodes available to...
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  • What to watch on Crave in February 2022

    Our picks for the best new movies and TV shows hitting Crave in February 2022 include Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber, the return of...
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  • Tallboyz tackles the cancellation of Trickster in its season premiere

    TALLBOYZ SEASON 3 premieres tonight (Tuesday, January 25) at 9:30 pm on CBC and CBC Gem. TallBoyz returns for its third season on CBC tonight,...
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  • Cineplex and TIFF set to reopen January 31 and February 3, respectively

    When Ontario relaxes its COVID-19 restrictions at the end of the month, movie theatres will be able to reopen at 50 per cent capacity –...
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  • What to watch on Disney+ Canada in February 2022

    Our picks for the best new movies and TV shows coming to Disney+ Canada in February 2022. Pam & Tommy This Hulu series – produced by Seth Rogen...
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  • What’s new to VOD and streaming: January 21-23, 2022

    A HERO (Asghar Farhadi) Oscar-winning writer/director Farhadi (A Separation, The Past, The Salesman) continues to explore complex moral dilemmas in modern Iran with this drama...
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  • What to watch on Netflix Canada in February 2022

    Here’s everything that’s coming to and leaving Netflix Canada in February 2022, including The Cuphead Show!, Inventing Anna, more Space Force and new seasons of...
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  • Kayla Grey, Amanda Parris and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan are among the Canadian Academy’s special awards honourees

    Journalists Kayla Grey, Kathleen Newman-Bremang and Amanda Parris and Netflix star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan are among the recipients of the Academy Of Canadian Cinema & Television’s...
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  • Toronto film critics hitch themselves to Drive My Car

    The Toronto Film Critics Association has named Drive My Car the best film of 2021. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s intimate study about the connection that forms between...
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  • What’s new to VOD and streaming: January 14-16, 2022

    Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror (Kier-La Janisse) What is folk horror cinema, exactly? Janisse argues the genre truly came into...
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  • Review: James Gunn’s Peacemaker show finds the humanity in a cartoon villain

    PEACEMAKER (James Gunn). Premieres Thursday, January 13 on Crave, with new episodes weekly through February 17. Rating: NNNN The challenge of a Peacemaker series is...
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  • The Golden Globes tried to tweet its way back to respectability. It got weird.

    The Hollywood Foreign Press Association celebrated the 79th annual Golden Globes last night. If you weren’t on Twitter, you might not have noticed. That’s because...
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  • Podcast: Andrew Phung, Rakhee Morzaria and Scott Townend on making Run The Burbs

    If you’ve read this week’s NOW’s cover story on Andrew Phung’s new CBC sitcom Run The Burbs, you know how hard Phung and co-creator Scott...
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  • What’s new to VOD and streaming: January 7-9, 2022

    King Richard (Reinaldo Marcus Green) If you missed this moving sports biopic when it played theatrically last fall, it's now available on VOD. And it's...
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