April 8, 2013 5:58 pm
With a prize of $1 million in funding and a release in Cineplex theatres across Canada going to the most creative independent film, CineCoup is diving straight into the creative heart of Canadian cinema.
April 2, 2013 5:01 pm
While Affleck has gained worldwide recognition for his latest movie due to this past award season, the film is also getting a bad rap for knowingly minimizing Canada’s role during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis and the extraction operation that followed.
March 19, 2013 5:45 pm
Horror films, and, more specifically, the slasher films of the 1970s and ’80s were representations of Conservative political policies, albeit cartoonishly over-exaggerated ones.
March 8, 2013 9:46 pm
Save B.C. Film, the lobby group that organised January’s rally, has been advocating on behalf of an estimated 25,000 industry professionals whose livelihoods they claim are being threatened by increased government support for the film industry in Ontario and Quebec.
March 5, 2013 3:08 pm
A recent article in Jezebel, raised the question if there is such a thing as colour-blind casting in North America’s multi-ethnic society. Writer Laura Beck concluded that there isn’t.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz has just released a new collection of short stories titled This Is How You Lose Her, which he read from at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) last weekend. The Strand sat down with him to discuss his new work.
I didn’t think much of you the first time we met. I was young and ignorant and you were just amongst the other 26 letters hidden somewhere in the middle, quiet and passive. I apologize now for the way I neglected you. Remembering all of those hours wasted with vowels — those damn popular vowels.
In October 2011, 85 per cent of students who voted said yes to a redistribution of $10.35 from their tuition to help fund and support a new radio station. Despite an attempt to reclaim the 88.1 FM frequency, which included what Ryerson President Sheldon Levy called “a huge amount of work,” Radio Ryerson lost the bid.