In 1983, Quiet Riot became the first heavy metal band to have an album at the top of the Billboard charts, based on the strength of their hit single “Cum on Feel the Noize.” However, the band quickly found themselves falling into obscurity and in 2007 lead singer Kevin DuBrow was found dead of a […]
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Channing (Kestrin Pantera) and her husband Chaz (Jonathan Grubb) are preparing to hit the road with their “RVIP” mobile karaoke project. Chaz also wants to use the trip to have a baby with Channing, but she feels that motherhood would ruin everything good that’s going for her. When Chaz gets hired into his dream job
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12 years in the making comes director Richard Linklater’s chronicle of a young man’s life from childhood to college. Six year old Mason Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) is a young boy, who lives with his divorced single mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette) and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater), with the kids receiving regular visitations from their father
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This dark British comedy focuses on the couple of Rose and Dave Clements (Elaine Glover and Philip Rowson). Rose is an immensely clumsy woman and has the grisly habit of accidentally murdering people she comes into contact with, often leaving her stressed out husband Dave to clean up the mess. Even though Rose and Dave
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In the town of Trenton, NJ, there was a ramshackle club called “King Tut’s City Gardens.” The club’s main concert promoter during its heyday was Randy “Now” Ellis, who booked over 4000 bands at the club. During its lifetime, City Gardens hosted everything from underground punk bands to upstart alternative rockers. Riot of the Dance
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The NXNE film line-up begins with the modern silent film La Voz de los Silenciados (The Voice of the Voiceless), which is inspired by actual events. Olga (Janeva Adena Calderon Zentz) is a deaf teenager from Central America, who travels to New York under the false pretence that she is attending a “Christian Sign Language
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The NXNE festival of Music, Film, Interactive, Comedy, and Art begins its 20th year tomorrow, which includes a diverse film line-up playing at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. For the first time NXNE will be screening non-music films at the festival, with this year’s film line-up being headlined by the Canadian premiere of Richard Linklater’s
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After missing the film when it played last month at Hot Docs, I was happy to get another chance to see the film Mistaken for Strangers when it played as part of the film portion of the NXNE festival this weekend in Toronto. At the centre of the film is the indie rock band The
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