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The Social Network

With over 16 million Facebook users in Canada, it’s no surprise that narcissism has led to websites, films and total pop culture domination.  And if anyone was paying attention to the genius rambli...

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Easy A

Emma Stone has saved cinematic feminism – at least when it comes to teen films targeted at an easily-influenced audience recovering from years lacking adolescent “classics”.  However, while 200...

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    The Town

    All big cities have their day, but while some of us once saw Boston as merely a Mecca of Ivy League schools and historical conflict, the likes of Martin Scorsese and Ben Affleck have shed some light on its gritty, crime-ridden reality.  And in the spirit of iconic big cities, the Toronto International Film Festival was used as the setting for the triumphant premiere that served as a testimony to ...

    Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

    When the stock market crashed in 2008 – following another decade of excess, entitlement and inflated capitalism – the economies of Canada and the US took an almost unprecedented hit.  Years before, Oliver Stone released a film that was poignant, interesting and succeeded in accurately commenting on the excess-driven 80s and its societal extremes.  Since then, Wall Street has become a catalys...

    You Again

    Every so often a film comes along that’s poignant, funny, relatable and an accurate portrayal of most people’s painful high school experiences.  But unlike 2005’s Toronto-filmed Mean Girls, You Again is the opposite of such a film. A waste of A-list talent to the highest degree, this shallow and meaningless movie not only perpetuates vapid stereotypes, but wastes both the time of the cas...

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