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    Radheyan’s first assignment for NOW was reviewing the Ice Cube heist comedy First Sunday. That was back in January 2008, while he was completing his MA in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and working as a TA in film history. He’s been covering Cube and much more ever since. Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Scarborough, Rad currently lives in Leslieville with his wife and two adorable kids. He is also the film critic for CTV’s national breakfast show Your Morning and the pop culture columnist for CBC Syndicated Radio.

  • Podcast: Reframing the brutal history behind The Woman King

    Ilze Kitshoff The Wikipedia entry for the history behind The Woman King gave me pause. I was ready to champion the movie in a TIFF...
    Viola Davis and Thuso Mbedu lead the way in The Woman King, an alternative take on the history of Dahomey
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  • TIFF 2022: The Blackening is horror comedy, not trauma porn

    Courtesy of TIFF TIFF Midnight Madness title The Blackening is a horror comedy finds that situates itself somewhere between Scary Movie and Cabin In The...
    Dewayne Perkins brings horror comedy The Blackening to TIFF
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  • Review: Nas and Wu-Tang Clan bring a NY state of mind to Toronto

    NY State of Mind Tour with Wu-Tang Clan and Nas at Budweiser Stage, Sunday, September 4. Rating: NNNN We’re late into the NY State Of Mind tour stop...
    Nas and Wu-Tang Clan are together on stage in Toronto for their NY State Of Mind tour
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  • TIFF 2022: Black Ice honours the people trying to save hockey

    Kishan Mistry Black people have been playing hockey in Canada since the beginning of the game. They formed the Coloured Hockey League in Nova Scotia...
    Producer Vinay Virmani and director Hubert Davis bring Black Ice to TIFF.
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  • TIFF 2022: This Place is about community and allyship

    Nick Lachance With This Place, V.T. Nayani became the first Tamil-Canadian filmmaker to bring a feature to TIFF. But what’s remarkable about her Toronto-set love...
    Director and co-writer V.T. Nayani and producer Stephanie Sonny Hooker bring This Place to TIFF.
    Movies & TVNews & FeaturesTIFF 2022
  • TIFF 2022: I Like Movies has sympathy for the film bros

    Nicholas Lachance Chandler Levack derails the film-bro-to-incel pipeline in I Like Movies. Her debut feature, which is premiering at TIFF, is a smart and sweet...
    Chandler Levack takes in the wares at Eyesore Cinema while discussing her TIFF 2022 movie I Like Movies
    Movies & TVNews & FeaturesTIFF 2022
  • Brother brings Scarborough to the world

    Samuel Engelking Brother, Toronto’s answer to movies like Boyz N The Hood and Moonlight, opens with two siblings daring to climb a hydro tower. It’s...
    Brother stars Kiana Madeira and Lamar Johnson will be bringing their Scarborough story to TIFF
    Movies & TVNews & FeaturesTIFF 2022
  • 10 Canadian films to watch at TIFF 2022

    Clement Virgo and Sarah Polley are premiering their big, urgent and hopeful movies taking on anti-Black racism and conversations about #MeToo in Brother and Women...
    Brother is among the Canadian films to watch at TIFF
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  • 10 hot tickets at TIFF 2022

    Courtesy of Elevation Pictures Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda) Bong Joon-Ho fans accustomed to seeing Memories Of Murder and Parasite star Song Kang-ho in twisted genre fare...
    Bros is a hot ticket at TIFF 2022
    Movies & TVNews & FeaturesTIFF 2022
  • Reservation Dogs is made for community by community

    Shane Brown / FX RESERVATION DOGS created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, with Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Paulina Alexis and Lane Factor. Season two...
    Devery Jacobs in Reservation Dogs Season two
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  • What’s new to theatres and streaming this weekend: August 12-14

    Gwen Capistran / A24 Bodies Bodies Bodies (Halina Reijn) Imagine the teens from Euphoria hacking each other to bits. That’s what Bodies Bodies Bodies goes...
    Day Shift starring Jamie Foxx is a disappointment according to our movie reviews
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  • Maitreyi Ramakrishnan discusses NHIE’s uncommonly mature new season

    Lara Solanki / Netflix Never Have I Ever season three has an uncommonly healthy depiction of teen sex; where safe spaces and enthusiasm come out...
    Maitreyi Ramakrishnan discusses healthy sex and intimacy in Never Have I Ever
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  • What’s new to theatres and streaming this weekend: August 5-7

    David Bukach Prey (Dan Trachtenberg) The premise to Prey, a Predator prequel, is pretty appealing. The movie goes back in time to the early-18th century,...
    Amber Midthunder stars in Prey, a Predator prequel covered in our movie reviews
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  • Jo Koy: There would be no Easter Sunday if he listened to Netflix

    2022 is the year of the Asian tiger mom. First there was Sandra Oh voicing an overbearing Toronto mother in Domee Shi’s Turning Red. Then...
    Jo Koy stars in Easter Sunday, which expands jokes about his mother seen in his Netflix specials
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  • In Photos: 2022 Toronto Caribbean Carnival Grand Parade

    Nick Lachance After the pandemic grounded the Toronto Caribbean Carnival for two years, revellers in bright and colourful costumes returned to the road Saturday (July...
    Toronto Caribbean Carnival Grande Parade 2022 left people deflated
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