Media Impact: young adult fiction adaptations
In 1997 when Harry Potter and his fantasy world of wizards, creatures and fighting the evil of He Who Shall Not Be Named landed on bookshelves it ignited a fire for reading that hadn’t been seen in the...
View ArticleInterview with Adriatico My Love director Nikola Curcin and star Valerie...
Adriatico My Love is a sweet story about a mother trying to reconnect with a daughter she has lost touch with, even though her daughter is right in front of her. The story, written, produced and...
View ArticleWhat prom queen movies say about us
Carrie frightened audiences because it told the truth. Not only truth about being a victim, but about the traditions of high school and rights of passage. The movie, which stars Sissy Spacek, uses the...
View ArticleWhat movies have taught me: computer geeks are bad ass!
Have you been led to believe that computer enthusiasts are typically lacking in fashion sense? Do you call them “computer geeks” because you picture a pocket-protector toting nerd who brags about...
View ArticleQ&A with Christie Pits Film Festival Festival Director Emily Reid
Toronto is a world-class film city. We have so much going on in the film department all the time, but not every awesome film event, screening or even theatre is readily accessible (or affordable) to...
View ArticleComing of age in Hollywood: a look at the gateway to adulthood in the movies
The coming of age genre can be easily defined as simply movies about being a teenager, but in fact that is not what the genre is. The coming of age genre is a specific set of films about youth (most...
View ArticleAmerican Pie: porn for teens
In the British series Spaced, Simon Peg’s then-speed-addled-nerd-slacker asks his roommate to buy him some porn. In response to the question, “Why can’t you get it from the railway sidings like...
View ArticleTFS Questions: Sharon Corder, Artistic Director of REEL CANADA
It is not a secret that Canadians aren’t typically fans of our own cinema. We want to like it, but somehow we just don’t. The problem is, many Canadians don’t know when they’re watching Canadian film,...
View ArticleEssential Canadian Cinema: New Waterford Girl
Despite the fact that the list of Canadian teen films is not that long, there were still a solid number of films that we could consider for this month’s Essential Canadian Cinema. The Trotsky is an...
View ArticleAn interview with Aaron Yeger, director of A People Uncounted
Josef Mengele was a physician stationed at concentration camps during the holocaust. He performed operations without anesthetics. Mengele forcibly inserted metal rods into fragile bodies for the sake...
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