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Daniel Garber talks with Kevin Hegge about his new
film SHE SAID BOOM: THE STORY OF FIFTH COLUMN
I interview filmmaker KEVIN HEGGE about Fifth Column’s legacy, Queercore,
JDs, G.B. Jones, Caroline Azar, Beverly Breckenridge, Bruce LaBruce,
feminism, post-punk music, zines, cassette tapes and more...(read more)
Inside Out and Upside Down. Movies
Reviewed: The Dictator, The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche, Bullhead PLUS CFC
Short Film Fest
Back in the present, Jackie is taking the testosterone that let him grow
to manhood, and he and Diederik are working together again. Jackie wants
to talk, one more time, to the girl from that fatal day, who now works in
a perfume shop in the French part of Belgium. And Diederik, meanwhile, has
a bro-crush on his ball-less, boyhood buddy, even as the police are
looking for people to blame for a shooting...(read more)
European Jewish Cinema at the TJFF. Movies Reviewed:
Simon and the Oaks, My Best Enemy, My Dad is Barishnikov, Let My People
Go! PLUS Cabaret-Berlin
In "Let My People Go!", Ruben (Nicolas Maury) is a postman who lives in a
log cabin in a Finnish village with his blond boyfriend Teemu.
Squeaky-voiced Ruben looks like a gay, French, Peewee Herman riding around
on his bike. But one day, when he delivers a package filled with cash to
an old man, it’s shoved back at him: “You take it — I don’t want it” and
in the struggle, the guy drops dead, and Ruben’s left holding the 200
thousand euros. But when he tries to explain it all to Teemu, they have a
fight, and Ruben flees home to...(read more)
High and Low. Hotdocs Films Reviewed:
Finding North, Off Label, The Queen of Versailles
In The Queen of Versailles, Jackie’s an impossibly
aerodynamically-breasted, smart floozie, whose biggest problem is deciding
if it’s a purple zebra or a hot pink cheetah day. Alongside her husband,
the time share king, they fly around in a private jet, and are so excited
when they see the Palace of Versailles, that they decide to build their
own, the biggest house in America, right in the Everglades, complete with
a bowling alley, a sushi bar and a health spa, and Italian marble floors.
It’s going to be a rococo kitsch-fest, and it’s going up, brick by brick.
And then the stock market collapses...(read more)
An Interview With Derek Hayes, Author of the New
Book “The Maladjusted”
I've read all of your stories many times, but now I'd like to hear you
talk a bit about them. There's a tone of black humour in this book, Derek,
but would you say most of the short stories in your new collection, The
Maladjusted (October, 2011, Thistledown Press) are comedies or
tragedies... and why?
Derek Hayes: I think they are tragic for some of the characters, but not
in any way that matters to anyone but themselves. And for this reason I
hope readers will find the stories funny. I'm interested in characters
that for their own personal, deeply-rooted reasons... (read more)
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May 19 - Daniel Garber talks with Kevin Hegge about his new film SHE SAID BOOM: THE STORY OF FIFTH COLUMN
May 17 - Inside Out and Upside Down. Movies Reviewed: The Dictator, The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche, Bullhead PLUS CFC Short Film Fest
May 12 - European Jewish Cinema at the TJFF. Movies Reviewed: Simon and the Oaks, My Best Enemy, My Dad is Barishnikov, Let My People Go! PLUS Cabaret-Berlin
May 5 - More Hotdocs! We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, Black Block, Tchoupitoulas
April 28 - High and Low. Hotdocs Films Reviewed: Finding North, Off Label, The Queen of Versailles
April 21 - Are All Men Cads? Movies Reviewed: The Deep Blue Sea, Damsels in Distress
April 20 - Interview: Sylvia Caminer talks to Daniel Garber about "An Affair of the Heart" her new documentary on Rick Springfield and his devoted fans
April 13 - Interview: Simone Rapisarda Casanova talks to Daniel Garber about his film The Strawberry Tree at Images Festival
April 13 - Cabins in the Woods. Movies Reviewed: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, The Hunter, The Cabin in the Woods
April 7 - Interview. Filmmaker Nisha Pahuja talks to Daniel Garber about her new documentary The World Before Her
April 6 - The Dispassionate Eye. Movies Reviewed: Images Festival, Strawberry Tree, The Pettifogger PLUS Bully v. Fightville
March 31 - Lovers in a Dangerous Time. Daniel Garber talks to May Charters about her new film
March 31 - Battles Royal Movies Reviewed: the Hunger Games, The Raid: Redemption, Gerhard Richter -- Painting.
March 24 - Interview: Daniel Garber talks to actor Louis Negin about his role in Guy Maddin's Keyhole.
March 24 - Revisiting the Past. Movies Reviewed: Under African Skies, 21 Jump Street
March 17 - What is a piece of popcorn worth? Movies reviewed: Payback, Jeff, Who Lives at Home
March 9 - If You Love This Planet. Movies reviewed: The Lorax, John Carter
March 2 - Daniel Garber interviews Julia Ivanova about her documentary Family Portrait in Black and White
March 1 - California Dreamin'. Movies Reviewed: Project X, Rampart
February 25 - Hiding in Plain Sight. Movies Reviewed: The Secret of Arrietty, In Darkness, The Prodigies
February 17 - Interview with David Soll about his new documentary Puppet
February 17 - Movies Reviewed: Monsieur Lazhar, Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
February 10th - How Do We Communicate? Movies Reviewed: A Dangerous Method, Chronicle, Safe House
February 3rd - Inside Lara Roxx: Daniel Garber interviews Director Mia Donovan and Lara Roxx
February 3rd - Movies to Stay Home With. DVDs reviewed: Dream House, Point Blank
January 28th - Airplanes and Wheelchairs. Films Reviewed: Red Tails, Moon Point PLUS Oscar nominations
January 20th - Unromantic Romances. Movies reviewed: The Iron Lady, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Not Since You.
January 19th - Daniel Garber Interviews Noemi Weis, Producer of the new docmentary "Teaching the Life of Music"
January 12th - Genre Mash-ups. Movies Reviewed: Contraband, The Devil Inside, Renzo Martens’ Episode 1
January 6th - New Year's Resolutions for Guys Who Won't Grow Up. Movies Reviewed: Jeff Who Lives At Home, Dark Horse, Starbuck
December 30th - More X'mas Movies. Films Reviewed: The Artist, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close PLUS My Choice of 2011 Best Eleven Movies
December 24th - Christmas Flicks. Movies Reviewed:
The Adventures of Tintin, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, War Horse
December 17th - Resolutions. Movies reviewed: Young Adult, Margin Call, Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
December 10th - Daniel Garber speaking with Nelson George about his new documentary. "Brooklyn Boheme"
December 9th - Couples. Movies Reviewed: Shame, Salsa Tel Aviv, Carnagee
December 3rd - Movies Reviewed: Surviving Progress, The Descendents PLUS VTape
November 26th - Movies Reviewed: Hugo, The Muppets, Ma Part du Gateau
November 19th - Eurasia. Films Reviewed: Almanya, Piercing 1, Kevin Hart: Laugh at my Pain PLUS EU and Reelasian Film Festivals.
November 12th - The Real ReelAsian Film Festival. Movies Reviewed: Bleak Night, Full Metal Alchemist, Saigon Electric, Buddha Mountain, Amphetamine.
November 5th - Hallowe'en! Films Reviewed: Paranormal Activity 3, Rabies, Anonymous PLUS Guillermo del Toro's Devil’s Backbone & Cronos, NFB, Face-Off 40th Anniversary re-release, and Stop
Concussions!.
October 29th - Another Rendezvous with Madness. Films Reviewed: UFO, Corridor, 22nd of May, Gods of Youth, Take Shelter, Like Crazy.
October 22nd - The Calm Before the Storm. Movies Reviewed: Restoration, Weibo's War, 50/50 PLUS ImagineNATIVE.
October 15th - ImagineNATIVE! Movies reviewed: On
the Ice, Wapos Bay, Footloose.
October 8th - Changes. Solar Taxi, Waking the Green
Dragon, Restless, PLUS Planet in Focus.
October 1st - Palestine. Films Reviewed: (No) Laughing Matter, Children of the Revolution, Pomegranates and Myrrh PLUS
TPFF, We Were Here, Resurrect Dead
September 23rd - TIFF aftermath. Films reviewed:
Where Do We Go Now?, Drive, Limelight
September 16th - Women Directors at TIFF. Films
Reviewed: Union Square, Elles, UFO in Her Eyes, Hysteria, PLUS Road Movie
September 9th - TIFF it! I Am a Good Person, I Am a
Bad Person, Melancholia PLUS TIFF
September 2nd - Families. Movies Reviewed: Blue
Collar Boys, Colombiana, Our Idiot Brother, and Don’t be Afraid of the
Dark PLUSS TIFF and Toronto Indie Film Fest
August 27th - End of Summer. One Day, Spy Kids: All
the Time in the World in 4D, We Were Here PLUS TIFF
August 13th - Temperatures Rising. Movies reviewed:
Devil’s Double, The Help, Rise of the Planet Of The Apes, Final
Destination, Gun to the Head
August 6th - Things Inside Other Things. Movies
Reviewed: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The Change-Up, Cowboys and Aliens
July 29th - Multiculturalism Not Dead! Movies
Reviewed: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Rocksteady: the Roots of Reggae
July 22nd - Final Fantasy. Movies reviewed: Captain
America, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Shirome
July 15th - Things Fall Apart. Movies Reviewed:
Horrible Bosses, Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times, Hospitalité
July 8th - Films Without Superheroes. Movies
Reviewed: The Tree of Life, Blank City PLUS Shinsedai, Toronto After Dark,
HotDocs
July 1st - Planes Trains and Automobiles… and
Submarines! Movies reviewed: Submarine, Transformers: Dark of the Moon,
The Trip
June 23rd - Women at Centre Stage, Men at the
Fringe. Movies Reviewed: J.X. Williams' Cabinet of Curiosities, William S
Burroughs A Man Within, Bridesmaids, Bad Teacher
June 23rd - Women at Centre Stage, Men at the
Fringe. Movies Reviewed: J.X. Williams' Cabinet of Curiosities, William S
Burroughs A Man Within, Bridesmaids, Bad Teacher
June 17th - Indie Enough for You? Movies reviewed:
Hip Hop Mom, Notes from the Kuerti Keyboard, 6 Ft Hick , You Can’t Sing it
for Them, Below New York, Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry: the Life of Norman K.
Collins.
June 9th - Guy Pictures: Movies Reviewed: Cell 213,
X Men: First Class, Super 8.
June 2nd - Inside-Out Festival: The "L" Word. Films
Reviewed: Circumstance, The Evening Dress, PLUS L'Amour Fou
May 28th - Inside Out Festival. Renee, Lost in the
Crowd, Gun Hill Road, Black Field, Harvest, We Were Here
May 21st - All the Lonely People. Movies Reviewed:
The Collapsed, Bobby Fischer Against the World, Resurrect Dead: The
Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles PLUS Inside Out Festival.
May 14th - History, Geography, Language TJFF 2011
Films Reviewed Acne, Jewish Girl in Shanghai, Names of Love, Between Two
Worlds,Little Rose PLUS Meek's Cutoff, Modra.
May 7th - More Underdogs at Hotdocs! Weibo's War,
The Guantanamo Trap, Draquila: Italy Trembles, Hot Coffee, Bury the
Hatchet, Melissa-Mom and Me.
January 1st - Top Ten Movies of 2010! Top Ten Movies
of 2010! Black Swan, Winter’s Bone, Fish Tank, You Are Here, True Grit,
Enter the Void, The Kid s Are All Right, Kick Ass, Mother, Nowhere Boy.
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