Reeling at Reel Asian: Clement Cheng and “Gallants”
Posted by Jef in Film, Interviews, Reeling on 12. Nov, 2010 | 2 Comments
“The reason our movie was really hard to finance was because [our actors] are all 60 years-old or over. And our movie is like Cocoon meets Karate Kid. And that’s really weird.” – filmmaker Clement Cheng The 2010 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival kicked off Tuesday with one of the best films I’ve seen [...]
Toronto’s Anti-Rob Ford sign maker speaks up. Secretly.
Posted by Simon in Interviews, Toronto on 13. Oct, 2010 | 2 Comments
Apparently it wasn’t George Smitherman after all. Identifying only as “a concerned, 33 year-old Torontonian,” the Ashcan spoke Tuesday to an individual taking sole responsibility for creating and planting Anti-Rob Ford signs that appeared along University Avenue earlier that morning. The signs were also posted at a handful of other downtown locations, but most were [...]
Flying Lotus releases Pattern+Grid World EP, makes parties happen
Posted by Anupa in Interviews, Music on 21. Sep, 2010 | 2 Comments
Three weeks ago I saw Flying Lotus play a live show at the Opera House in Toronto. It was packed with all kinds of people, from frat boys to forever ’90s junglists to girlfriends in stilettos. My favourite person was this older guy, in the center of his own circle created to make way for [...]
Mary HK Choi tackles dude-ish superchick Lady Deadpool
Posted by Anupa in comics, Interviews, media on 26. Jul, 2010 | 2 Comments
Deadpool, that churlish, craggy-faced Marvel anti-hero will be hitting the big screen some time in 2012—played by dreamboat Ryan Reynolds, no less—so like me, if you didn’t know, you’ll be hearing the name and bandwagoning very soon. His gender bender counterpart, Lady Deadpool—girly-churl, blonde and babely—demanded a writer who knows that this is funny, hyper-meta [...]
