Screening Series of the Week
Samuel Engelking
Toronto Black Film Festival spotlights emerging talent
The annual event opens with Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story and features special tribute and discussion with #MeToo Founder Tarana Burke Read more
George Gardiner
Dissecting the design in Elizabeth Taylor's camp classic Boom!
Critic Nathalie Atkinson's screening series about art direction, sets and costume design is going deep into the notorious 1968 drama Read more
Samuel Engelking
The upstart Pendance Film Festival is aiming big
The second annual event prides itself on curating new films that haven’t screened at other Toronto festivals – namely TIFF Read more
Columbia Pictures
Toronto really likes Penny Marshall's A League Of Their Own
Podcast We Really Like Her! is hosting a memorial screening of the late director's baseball comedy classic Read more
Grasshopper Film
Blake Williams's 3D film Protoype gets a rare screening at the Royal
The Toronto filmmaker's hypnotic experimental feature is playing locally for the first time since 2017 Read more
New movie series wants to make you feel like you've stayed up all night
This weekend at the Royal Cinema, get an adrenaline rush by watching After Hours, Before Sunrise and other films that all take place in one night Read more
The six films you need to see at TIFF's James Gray retrospective
The director's sci-fi epic Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt, opens in May. But here, in order of must-see-ness, are a half dozen of his best films to watch before then. Read more
American Genre Film Archives
Holiday horror movie Dial Code Santa Claus returns to Toronto
Laser Blast Film Society is screening a newly remastered version of René Manzor’s 1989 film – essentially an R-rated Home Alone – at the Royal Read more
Samuel Engelking
What to watch at the 2018 Jayu Human Rights Film Festival
Seventh annual event to screen documentaries on transgender people in the U.S. military, three violent years in Baltimore and the aftermath of a hate crime Read more
Samuel Engelking
Seminal Toronto punk scene doc The Last Pogo turns 40
The expanded version of Colin Brunton's short doc about an infamous Horseshoe Tavern concert in 1978 celebrates a milestone at the Revue Cinema Read more
Samuel Engelking
Screening spotlight: Shorts That Are Not Pants morphs into a film fest
The short film series goes big with 50 films screening over two days, including Oscar hopeful Souls Of Totality starring Tatiana Maslany and Tom Cullen Read more
Samuel Engelking
Film festival of the week: Regent Park Film Festival
Toronto’s longest-running free community film fest tackles gentrification, community building and inequality Read more
Film festival of the week: Bloody Mary Film Festival
Two-day event at the Carlton Cinema showcases genre films directed by women Read more
Samuel Engelking
Film festival of the week: Diaspora Film Festival
The 18th annual event promotes diversity, tolerance, and understanding among different cultures through cinematic storytelling Read more
Samuel Engelking
Film festival of the week: Planet In Focus
The eco-focused film fest has broadened its scope to include films about the ways politics and human interests intersect with the environment Read more
Film festival of the week: ImagineNATIVE
The Indigenous cinema showcase kicks off on October 17 with Darlene Naponse’s Falls Around Her Read more
Film festival of the week: Toronto After Dark
Fans and filmmakers of horror, sci-fi and action films have a bloody good time at the Scotiabank this week Read more
Samuel Engelking
Film festival of the week: Cinéfranco
Toronto's festival devoted French-language cinema kicks off at the Carlton Cinema on October 5 Read more
Screening series of the week: Royal Stompbox
The music-on-film series presents a doc about funk icon Betty Davis – and then her band will perform Read more
Samuel Engelking
Screening series of the week: No Future
Critic Angelo Muredda's series devoted to films about "uncanny children" revisits the 1984 adaptation of Stephen King's Firestarter starring Drew Barrymore Read more