Starring Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Erica Ash and Molly Shannon. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee. At GTA theatres. 85 minutes. You want to see something really scary? If so, you’ve come to the wrong film with Scary movie 5, the latest ghastly emission from the horror parody franchise that refuses to die. It’s not...
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When I say Our Man in Iraq is likely to be the best novel you’ve ever read by a Croatian writer, I’m not just cynically gambling that you’ve never read any Croatian novels; or rather, I’m doing it secure in the knowledge that Robert Perisic’s first novel (originally published in 2007) is also terrifically...
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A room of one’s own is good, a room with a view even better. The just completed Bridgepoint Health Care Centre boasts the best of both. The 462-bed facility — the 10-storey mirrored landmark overlooking the Don Valley west of Broadview and Gerrard — is a pioneering example of a new way of designing...
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Roger Ebert gets his final sign-off both in the real and virtual worlds this morning, and it’s no doubt exactly as he would have wanted it. A Twitterverse salute to the late Chicago Sun-Times movie critic, who died from cancer last week at age 70, has been organized for exactly 11:59 a.m. Toronto time...
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Travis Fleetwood was surrounded by a hostile, hooting crowd, staring into the face of Dizaster. It was October 2009, and Fleetwood’s year-old Toronto-based battle rap league, King of the Dot, was being routinely ridiculed by Dizaster, a ruthlessly vulgar freestyler from Los Angeles, seat of the famed West Coast rap scene. King of the...
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Heeding the call of shivering hordes of concert-goers, Canadian Music Week 2014 will be held in May, marking the first time in more than three decades that the annual festival takes place in spring rather than frigid winter. “After 31 years of freezing our asses off, we’re heeding your advice and moving to warmer...
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Standing front and centre on stage at the new Jazz Bistro is a lustrous one-of-a-kind Steinway grand piano in ebony with a shocking red top. The $ 100,000 beauty, nicknamed Red Pops, was recently shipped from a Steinway showroom in Vancouver. When its keys are played notes tinkle upward through the open ceiling to...
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Plus, there’s Silver Rush on Discovery and Man Behind the Thrones on CBC News Network TORONTO STAR | ENTERTAINMENT Tweet
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Also: Scrutinizing The Hobbit, toothless celeb, and Lana does Leonard. TORONTO STAR | ENTERTAINMENT Tweet
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Peter Mettler artfully argues that nature doesn’t need watches, clocks and calendars. TORONTO STAR | ENTERTAINMENT Tweet
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