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Die Mannequin

Alison Lang

Die Mannequin want you to know that they’re all grown up now. The Toronto dirt-rock band’s first full-length album Fino + Bleed is a slick, polished affair, with the now-foursome’s sound filled out by big shiny keyboards and extra guitars. The biggest change is lead singer Care Failure’s voice—although she still maintains a slight rasp, […]

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Channelling Jonathan Torrens

Hillary Titley

“The challenge with making a show in Canada,” says TV’s Jonathan Torrens, “is that everything you shoot goes on the TV, so people are watching your learning curve week after week after week.” In conversation with one of the most recognizable faces in Canadian television about his new show, TV with TV’s Jonathan Torrens, the […]

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Zombieland brainless fun

Mark Palermo

It’s to Zombieland’s benefit that it pays no mind to the most obvious questions it poses. 1) Didn’t Shaun of the Dead already perfect the zombie comedy? 2) Is Jesse Eisenberg’s career relegated to playing neurotic 20-something virgins in movies with the suffix “-land”? Zombieland uses its redundancy as attitude—even the poster tagline wants you […]

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The Coast returns from Toronto’s Nuit Blanche

Sue Carter Flinn

Jeff Koons’ Rabbit Balloon, in the Eaton Centre When I go to Toronto, I binge on cheap noodles, beer, burritos and art, so for me, Nuit Blanche, the city’s all-night contemporary art festival, is an art mess dream come true. Vanity Fair, 1991 Wisely, I decided to visit the galleries during the day, guessing that there was no way you could get close to the Vanity Fair photos (an extensive collection of iconic photography from the mag) at the ROM with millions of other art-lovers, or observe all the nuances of the paper fish-penises created & worn by Isabella Rossellini

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The Moore you know

Hillary Titley

For every action in Michael Moore’s career as a left-wing polemicist, provocateur and rabble-rouser, there’s been an inevitable and equal reaction. Moore’s films—Capitalism: A Love Story, out Friday (see page 21 for review), is his latest—inflame passions and debate on both sides of left and right divide. One could credit Moore for the explosion of […]

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Beautiful Bright Star

Hillary Titley

Achingly beautiful, romantic and wonderfully observed, Jane Campion’s Bright Star is the tremendously tragic love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Young, starving poet Keats meets equally young fashion seamstress Brawne, and begins probably the most openly romantic chaste relationship put to film. Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish go a long way in making […]

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