There’s nothing quite like the deafening noise of thousands of rowdy concertgoers the moment a favourite band from their past kicks into a set. For Floridian nu-metal icons Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst and company had plenty left in the tank…
Jazmin Bean, the enigmatic 20-year-old alt star from across the pond, was quite intent on disrupting expectations and giving concertgoers something certainly eye-catching recently. Performing their first-ever headlining show in Canada at Toronto’s Velvet Underground, it marked a perfect introduction…
It was quite the dance party at The Axis Club in Toronto with a headlining performance by ATARASHII GAKKO! The four-piece Japanese girl group offered up a killer, pop-infused mix of hip-hop and jazz that delighted the sold-out crowd of…
At Toronto’s Opera House, Utah-raised musicians The Aces took to the stage in what turned out to be a memorably energetic evening. Consisting of sisters Cristal Ramirez (vocals), Alisa Ramirez (drums), bassist McKenna Petty and guitarist Katie Henderson, the four…
Hollywood action icon Sylvester Stallone made an appearance at the Toronto Film Festival to coincide with his Netflix career-spanning documentary Sly, from director Thom Zimny, which is set to close the festival. Since it is a streaming title, the film…
He looks worn down. Something is weighing on him. A cold case he’s been assigned is 20 years old. And now here he is, in the middle of the Australian outback, an arid landscape of opal mines and an unsolved…
Director Ava DuVernay’s newest movie Origin made its Atlantic crossing from the Venice Film Festival to TIFF for its North American premiere earlier this week. Based on a adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the Long…
Leave it to 50-year-old Harmony Korine to bring the most experimental and derided film to TIFF. AGGRO DR1FT is unintelligible, irritating, deliberately one note and careless of the ways in which people watch movies. Yes, pushing the envelope is part…
As Hollywood continues its war on the future of cinema, cult American filmmaker Harmony Korine descended upon TIFF with something completely different. Included as part of the festival’s popular Midnight Madness programming, the director was accompanied by a crew of…
Boy Kills World is an arcade game for the multiplex screens, a bruising orgy of violence that goes for some of the same beat-em-up high octane found in today’s superhero franchises. Bloodier for sure – but not much better. Inspired…