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Alison Murray retro at The Royal

Although she’s made only two feature films to date, it seems safe to say that Alison Murray is preoccupied with lives lived on the margins. The Nova Scotia–born filmmaker, whose 2005 feature Mouth to Mouth featured a pre-stardom Ellen Page as a runaway who hooks up with an activist group/cult — a story that the director ...

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Fighting words

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David Mamet has never been a softy. The plays that made his reputation in the ’70s and ’80s — Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow — were swift, brutish and often ...

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Toronto Jewish Film Festival

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Cannes adores Egoyan

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Get ’em while they’re Hot

Everybody’s favourite documentary fest keeps it real for a few more days. And as LL Cool J might’ve put it, this rhyme ain’t done: the last part of Hot Docs includes many more premieres.

All the president's memes

A new Revue Cinema screening and lecture series explores the historical connections between Hollywood and the Oval Office

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