After attending the world premiere of Mitch Glazer’s directorial debut, the romance-fantasy-gangster flick Passion Play, I can’t help but feel that TIFF Director and CEO Piers Handling gave the most impressive performance of the evening. In the presence of the film’s director and principal cast, Handling introduced the film with such enthusiasm and conviction in its tribute to love and fantasy that I actually began to think we might be in for an unexpected treat.
While it could have been an uneventful and boring one-man show, director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) easily makes 127 Hours into an inspiring story about determination and the quality of life.
Excalibur delivers some one-line movie reviews of the films at TIFF 2010.
What are you willing to sacrifice in the name of freedom? Rachid Bouchareb’s intense historical drama Outside the Law, which premiered to some controversy at Cannes earlier this year, poses this very question, and wraps it in the context of Algeria’s struggle for independence from France.
Facebook, Twitter, cell phones and various other forms of modern social networking devices represent the unprecedented pinnacle of superficial communication technology, promoting the ludicrous idea that people need to be in contact with each other at all times.
Violence takes many forms and can be conducted in endless ways. When an individual suffers at the hands of a partner who is supposed to embody love and devotion, the experience is detrimental to one’s emotional and overall health.
A new study out of Carleton University found that up to $10.7 billion can be saved from the annual $25-billion drug bill if a national pharmacare plan is implemented.
Fourth-year defenceman Jamaal Smith knows a thing or two when it comes to playing soccer against the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks. Sunday’s showdown went down exactly as he expected.
York headed to its 41st annual Red & Blue Bowl Sept. 18, but unfortunately came up short after the final blow from the whistle.
It’s been a quiet week in sports lately, largely because a lot of attention has been directed to female sports reporter Ines Sainz, who was allegedly sexually harassed by several athletes from a major league football team.
