Moonlight, dir. Barry Jenkins – This urban tale of a boy growing up disadvantaged on so many levels, is counter intuitive and that’s why it works. The music is anything but urban, it is classical, new age and choral. The film’s lyricism imbues the inner city with the beauty of a rural landscape, contrasting powerfully with the gritty street level… View Post
It took three years of my life to get Underdog – part memoir, part insider’s view of politics from a right-wing point of view – to print. If you’d asked me in the fall of 2013 if I wanted to invest the kind of time that was needed to write the book while working full-time at an already stressful newspaper… View Post
The Toronto Fall Home Show, at Exhibition Place September 23 to 25 in the Enercare Centre, promises to be a great event with hundreds of innovative products, services and celebrity experts to help you shape your space. Swing by Colour BLOCK-IN, an interactive and creative space featuring the modular building block system EverBlock®. Focusing on small space concepts and incorporating… View Post
An unexpected jewel arrives in the form of a dark family story with a twist. The 9th Life of Louis Drax isn’t for everyone but adventurous viewers will be amply rewarded. Louis is an accident prone boy whose over protective mother constantly worries and hovers preventing him from leading an authentic life. He retreats into imagination, dreams and nightmares and… View Post
The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived, yet photographs of what they look like underwater are exceedingly rare. This is partly because our oceans are so vast, but mainly because they are an endangered species. The BBC was so frustrated with having to make do with surface clips taken from boats that they funded a crew… View Post
If you had to explain the sounds of “The 6ix” to the rest of the world in just 10 songs, playing 7Sould’s music would be the way. HOME TO YOU, 7Sould’s debut album, released in late July, is currently tracking in the top 10 on the charts across Canada. While the album has a single thread with a specific sound from… View Post