Movies
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter One of the silliest and most unlikely premises – it’s all there in the title – turns out to be terrific and very funny mash-up fun. See review.
Brave Pixar’s latest film, about a Scottish princess who learns the meaning of tradition and family, was the weekend’s big box office winner. See review and interview with director Mark Andrews and producer Katherine Sarafian.
Stage
Dora Mavor Moore Awards Ragtime’s Thom Allison hosts the annual event honouring the best of theatre, dance and opera. At the Bluma Appel. See listing.
Music
Robert Glasper Experiment You’ve got two chances to catch hip-hop jazz experimentalist Robert Glasper playing the Toronto Jazz Fest tonight: first at Enwave Theatre, and then again at midnight at Wrongbar (if you were looking for more of a club vibe than a theatre setting).
Art
PUBLIC Launch The York U art magazine celebrates the release of issue 45, edited by Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher, on the subject of Civic Spectacle – including Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Halifax and Paris, plus other art events, both the officially sanctioned kind and outlaw acts of resistance. At Bar Italia. See listing.
