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Chef Ted Corrado preps the half-chicken, one of the few bargains at the art-conscious Drake One Fifty.

Going One better The Drake has another big hit in One Fifty, even if it is pricey By Steven Davey DRAKE ONE FIFTY (150 York, at Adelaide West, 416-363-6150, drakeonefifty.ca, @thedrakehotel) Complete dinners for $75 per person (lunches $45), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $28/$22. Open Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to midnight, Thursday 11:30 am to 1 am, Friday 11:30 am to 2 am, Saturday 5 pm to 2 am, Sunday and holidays 5 to 11 pm. Reservations accepted. L icensed. Rating: NNNZ David Laurence

From the Douglas Coupland op art wallpaper and the Micah Lexier in stallation over the circular marble bar to the weird Guy Madden videos in the washrooms, Drake One Fifty

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wears its art on its sleeve. One-Fifty’s the financial district spinoff of Jeff Stober’s wildly popular Drake Hotel. Opened three weeks ago, the eclectically decorated room – think Lime Rickey’s 50s kitsch meets the Silver Rail saloon – has been wallto-wall suits in head-to-toe Harry Rosen ever since. “I’ve never seen a response like this,” says executive chef Ted Corrado. “We thought we’d get a trickle at first, but we’ve been doing 500 to 600 cov ers a day.” Gone are the pork belly tacos and lobster nachos he serves at the Drake, replaced here by a carte aimed square

ly at the Bay Street expense-account crowd. Who can afford $150 seafood platters and $89 34-ounce steaks ex cept someone who’s just successfully unloaded her BlackBerry stock? Small wonder my vintage Nehru jacket sticks out like a sore thumb. Being of a more frugal bent, our group starts with a small plate of blis tered shishito peppers and cherry to matoes finished with sea salt and fried garlic ($9), the same overplayed capsicum you’ll see at Bar Isabel, Woodlot and Patria. Tasty, mind. Cor rado’s grandmother provides the re cipe for Nonna’s meatballs, three meaty rounds of very ground pork

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Retail on Queen West between University and Spadina may be dying, but fast food restaurants are doing better than ever – Banh Mi Boys and the Burger’s Priest will agree. Too late to be included in NOW’s recent search for Toronto’s most incendiary food, Hot & Spicy (226 Queen West, at McCaul, 416-792-8877) is the latest addition to this once hippest of strips. The card of Asian fusion dishes like Cajun Tuna Tatakiand and Penang Pork Chops isn’t all that different from the menu at the now defunct all-youcan-eat Spring Rolls a few doors down. Across the street, Japanese import Touhenboku Ramen is about to open in the old Bang On space at 261 Queen West. Down the block, the

Add Hot & Spicy to the fast food outlets taking over Queen West.

rapidly expanding Gelato Pizza (200 Queen West, at Duncan, 416 540-4700, gelatopizza.com) chain has opened its fourth outpost, this one specializing in serviceable late-night slices and what the sidewalk sign out front calls “artisian” gelato.

Big-beat meet One of the top foodie events of the year, the 18th Eat To The Beat is being

held at Roy Thomson Hall on Tuesday (October 22). Alexandra Feswick of Samuel J. Moore and Donna Dooher of Mildred’s Temple Kitchen are just two of the 60 female Canadian chefs taking part in the annual benefit in aid of Willow Breast Cancer Support Canada. Ticket info at eattothebeat. ca.

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Once home to such legendary boîtes as Fluid and Susur Lee’s Oceans, the basement of the Fifth complex of restaurants is now occupied by the Fifth Pubhouse and Café (225 Richmond West, at Adelaide, 416-979-0390, thefifthpubhouseandcafe.com). Besides 14 beers on tap, look for a downmarket mishmash of tacos ’n’ nachos, Subcontinental curries and SD wiener schnitzel.

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menu at the Drake 10 years ago. Retro calf’s liver and onions ($26) comes cleverly updated with seared foie gras, roasted chanterelle mushrooms and a smattering of pickled cherries, while the pie du jour à la mode – today an apple crumble that borders on butter tart, with housemade vanilla-bean ice cream ($9) – makes a perfect last act. By far the biggest bargain on hand is Corrado’s rotisserie chicken ($22 half at lunch/$40 whole at dinner). Crispy of skin, tender of flesh and sided with a heap o’ fries, a gravy boat of jus, textbook coleslaw and a flaky biscuit, it reminds us of a certain Swiss Chalet. “That’s the idea!” 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com | @stevendaveynow

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and veal in a thick Strianese tomato sauce laced with n’duja sausage and dressed with smoked ricotta and a few basil sprouts ($14). Chef switches to a slightly less pulpy San Marzano tomato sauce for his Margherita pizza ($16), a thincrusted and moderately charred pie in the Neapolitan style – i.e., soupy in the middle – topped with fresh bufala mozzarella, basil leaves and a handful of tiny pickled Peruvian peppers. And regulars will recognize the substantial house cheeseburger piled with Perth County bacon, pickled onion, bibb lettuce and Russian dressing ($21 with chunky handcut fries) if only by the chopstick that’s been holding it together since David Chrystian first put it on the

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Archive909 Dundas West, 647-748-0909, archive909.com Torontonians are realizing that sipping even the finest wine is not a euphoric experience when it’s served with a side of snivelling arrogance. Fortunately, a refreshing new wine culture is emerging in which both oenophiles and bright-eyed (v)infants can comfortably bend elbows over twin glasses of Pinot. When co-owners and brothers Josh and Joel Corea opened Archive less than a year ago, they were inspired by the tapas bars of Spain, where vino is traditionally enjoyed in a relaxed atmosphere with a steady stream of snacks. At their Dundas West spot, cicchetti – Venetian-style bar nibbles – are served till late, giving guests the best possible excuse to spend some quality time with any of 30-plus wines by the glass. After all, “wine without food is as uncivilized as food without wine,” Josh laughs. Agreed. Archive stocks an intriguing range of Old World wines, with

plenty of space on the chalkboard devoted to homegrown pours. Josh curates mindfully, letting taste and variety headline his list. Whether you spring for a stemmed steal from the Douro region or treat yourself to a VQA offering from Pearl Morissette or Tawse, there’s something to appeal to every palate and pocket (glasses range from $8 to $14). Though Josh is a self-professed wine geek, Archive is a showcase for anti-snobbery. With its laid-back vibe and pared-down decor, the bar extends an open invitation to engage with life’s subtleties, allowing you to focus on your company or ponder the deliciousness swirling in your glass. Signature drink Wine, of course Hours 5 pm to 2 am daily Patio None Access No steps at the door; washrooms in the basement

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60 Richmond E, at Church, 647-9309517, hawthorneto.ca, @hawthorneto Cowbell owner/chef Mark Cutrara re surfaces at this under-appreciated bistro in the downtown core. A locally sourced seasonal carte, rock-bottom prices and polished service deserve a larger audience. Those standing in line for tables at the very similar Richmond Station two blocks away, take note. Best: shareable starters like quinoa salad with roasted eggplant, garlic and goat feta in a VQA Riesling vinaigrette; pan-seared Lake Erie perch with crispy polenta fries and caper-rich sauce gribiche; chicken liver mousse “brûlée” with caramel sauce and stewed blackberries; larger plates like grass-fed beef-cheek ravioli; smoky Memphis-style side ribs with roasted fingerling potatoes in chicken schmaltz; preserved cherry panna cotta with candied ginger. Complete dinners for $40 per person (lunches $28), including tax, tip and a glass of VQA wine. Average main $18/$12. Open for lunch Monday to Friday 11 am to 3 pm, and for dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5 to 10 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. A ccess: barrier-free. Rating: NNNN

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1051 Bloor W, at Havelock, 416-5364162, thesteadycafe.com All-day café, late-night alterna-queer dance club and early-evening supper spot, this modest Bloordale storefront is one of the few beaneries in town with a card that caters to both herbivore and carnivore. Ex-Hogtown Vegan chef Vanessa Robak’s colourfully plated mains more than make up for the lack of decor. Best: baseball-sized crab cakes with mustard ’n’ dill dressing; grain-fed cheeseburgers laced with oatmeal and spinach sided with jalapeñostudded fingerling potato salad; vegan pizza (no, really!), a barely there kidney bean crust dressed with peppers, tomato, onion and faux cheese; slow-cooked side ribs in bourbon barbecue sauce with cashew carrot slaw; for dessert, key lime pie with sea-salted chocolate sauce. Complete dinners for $35 per person, including tax, tip and an UnSteady cocktail. Average main $12. Open for dinner Wednesday to Sunday 5 to 11 pm. Café open daily from 9:30 am, bar till close. Closed Monday, Tuesday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. A ccess: bump at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN

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geared to the small fry, most noticeably his virtually spice-free spaghetti and meatballs in classically simple San Marzano tomato sauce splashed with olive oil (both $7 small/$12 large). The exception would be his East ender sandwich ($12). Based on the popular Down East late-night drunk food, Newfoundland native Bowers’s somewhat upmarket take starts with a Boulart Bakery onion bun layered with spicy shredded slow-roasted beef. Chef next adds grilled poblano peppers, sliced tomato, smoked provolone and that contentious sweet garlicky sauce, crisping the lot in a sandwich press to finish. Authentic? Not really, but most definSD itely delish.

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Rodney Bowers’s latest, Hey Meatball! (912 Queen East, at Logan, 647-3406439, heymeatball.com, @TeamHeyMeatball, rating: NNNN), in Leslieville is his most polished takeaway yet, the room slicker, the card more focused. No surprise, meatballs take up a large chunk of it, whether filler-free ground Rowe Farms beef and pork or Gasparro’s chicken. There are even vegan meatballs made from sweet potato, lentils and garlic. They all pop up in his signature Rodfather ($12) sub and on top of kid-friendly macaroni and cheese. In fact, most of the Meatball! lineup seems Steven Davey

From Little Italy to Old Montreal, my food tour in Montreal began in Quartier des Spectacles, a cultural centre of public art, art collectives, students and gourmet cuisine. My first dinner was like finding love in a seemingly hopeless place at La Societé Des Arts Technologiques (SAT) Foodlab (Labo Culinaire) with chefs Michelle Marek and Seth Gabrielse, a fantastic pairing of buttery and

delicious Provence-themed steak and greens. Finding snacks in Montreal is as easy as picking up a rock and just throwing it haphazardly in any direction. Fou D’Ici , St. Viateur bagel, a melange of spiced nuts from Les Noix du Marché, and why not, a chunk of Québec sheep’s milk cheese from Bergerie La Moutonnière, to name a few. Culinary options are found in the Mile End, the Plateau, Old Montreal – these are packed with middleto-high end outposts, complete with Edison bulbs and reclaimed barn wood. I went to Old Montreal for smoked jerky and an intensely floral house-made Ninja IPA at Les Soeurs Grises microbrewery. What is most compelling is that even in the most isolated areas, there is still something, if even one thing, for the hungry self-proclaimed “foodie” masses. And in case you thought you’d miss out on your favourite local(s), even Montreal has a snack bar where young kids play 90s hip hop all night and serve shared plates and bourbon cocktails at SuWu.

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24 Wellesley W, at St Nicholas, 647-3450905, teppankenta.com Ex-Guu chef Kenta Taniguchi trades his gong for a teppanyaki griddle at this difficult-to-find izakaya (hint: it’s around the back of the condo and across from Northbound Leather). And while the snackable carte and bare-bones room might look like you-know-Guu, it’s noticeably less noisy. Best: to start, oldschool guacamole made tableside; doublefried chicken wings splashed with mirin and lemon juice; blood-red slices of barely seared Angus strip loin brushed with sweet soy sauce; ebi cheese, an offbeat mix of home fries, fava beans and grilled shrimp in molten mozzarella cheese sauce; Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki omelettes layered with shrimp, squid, pork belly and dried bonito flakes that literally dance on the surface; cheesy chan-pote potato pizza with “spicy fish innards;” to finish (what else?), French toast. Complete dinners for $35 per person, including tax, tip and an imported beer. Average main $8. Open for dinner Tuesday to Sunday 5 pm to midnight. Closed Monday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNN 3

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WATAIN and IN SOLITUDE at the Opera House, Saturday, October 12. Rating: NNN

Swedish black metallers Watain brought out a not huge but mighty legion of fans for their Toronto stop in support of August’s The Wild Hunt. The crowd chanted and moshed from the first note onward, even though the Opera House’s acoustics buried the complex songs’ nuances and lead guitar, and the set felt overly long. Those expecting the kind of spectacle for which the band is known – buckets of animal blood, the smell of burning flesh – might’ve left disappointed. Neither were seen or smelled; the venue has allegedly banned the use of either on its stage. But we did get inverted crosses, an un-

settling backdrop and smeared grey makeup that makes the members look like they’re rotting. Openers and fellow Swedes In Solitude, who also joined Watain when they came to Toronto a year ago, were the real highlight. Lithe and energetic, the Mercyful Fate-loving five-piece walloped us with tunes from their fantastic new Sister LP, which brings more post-punky dissonance and moody atmosphere into the traditional metal formula. Riveting singer Pelle Ahman enhanced the former, and burning inCARLA GILLIS cense the latter.

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week fine silhouette in front of a giant, bulbed light screen, executing 45 minutes of high-energy rhymes including Rotation (complete with onstage blunt-smoking in a designated National Historic Site of Canada) and twerk anthem Clappers. Massey Hall is an interesting choice for a rap show, and the gamble paid off. When J. Cole appeared at 9:15, the stage had been transformed, with a proper live band and a screen showcasing visuals selected and arranged by Cole himself. His show began with a (fake) news report of a critically injured Cole, setting the scene for a theatrical journey through the MC’s dream-like reality. Tracks from Born Sinner were spat back at him, but the crowd liked mix-

tape tunes Blow Up, In The Morning and Lights Please just as much – if not more – and the show bounced along at a solid clip. Ninety minutes seemed like 45. Too soon, he slowed things down and closed out with two of his biggest hits, Crooked Smile and Power HOLLY MACKENZIE Trip.

KAE SUN at the Rivoli, Thursday, October 10. Rating: NNN

People try to categorize Kae Sun’s music. His latest album, Afriyie, has elements of folk, R&B, reggae, soul and pop. Sometimes he gets tagged as “urban-folk” or “neo-folk” or “folksoul.” Or something. Thursday night at the Rivoli, backed by a five-piece band and two laptops, the genial Ghanaian-Canadian singer

produced a variety of sounds wonderfully difficult to pin down. With so many people on a small stage, the band at first seemed to dwarf him (and drown out his vocals). But by song two, Sun was in command – loud and clear on the upbeat Heart Healing Pulse and for the rest of the set, sounding like a vocal hybrid of Ziggy Marley and Ben Harper. The band came alive on Ship And The Globe, a tune with a singalong chorus and grabby bass line that had almost a grunge quality. Nothing could top Blackstar Rising, though, an achingly pretty song Bob Marleyan in its music and message. As far as genres go, Sun eventually clarified it for us: “It’s music. Pure and simJULIA LECONTE ple.”

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clubs&concerts hot MARTHA JOHNSON Campbell House Museum (160 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, October 17) See preview, page 50. THE WEEKND, ANNA LUNOE, BANKS Massey Hall (178 Victoria), tonight (Thursday), Saturday and Sunday (October 17, 19 and 20) See Anna Lunoe preview, page 54. PUP Sneaky Dee’s (431 College), tonight (Thursday, October 17) Pissy, catchy singalong punk rock.

UMA NOTA FESTIVAL w/ Gord Sheard Brazilian Jazz Quintet, Alice Russell, Tio Chorinho, Heavyweights Brass Band, Os Tropies & more Various venues, tonight (Thursday) to Sunday (October 17 to 20) Four days of tropical expressions. ROSE COUSINS, LAURA CORTESE Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington), Thursday (October 17) Achingly beautiful folk. FIONA APPLE, BLAKE MILLS Queen Elizabeth Theatre (190 Princes’), tonight (Thursday, October 17) Anguished jazzy piano rocker. X AVANT VIII w/ A Tribe Called Red, Ensemble SuperMusique, William Parker & more

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Music Gallery (197 John) and Blk Box (1087 Queen West), tonight (Thursday) to Sunday (October 17 to 20) Experimental music fest continues. FIDLAR, THE ORWELLS Hard Luck Bar (772a Dundas West), Friday (October 18) L.A. skate-punk. MAN MAN, XENIA RUNBINOS Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Friday (October 18) Experimental Philly indie rock. WOODKID Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Friday (October 18) FOOTWORK CLOSING PARTIES w/ Addy, Deko-Ze, Casualties of Sound, Jamie Kidd, Nitin and others Footwork (425 Adelaide West), Friday and Saturday (October 18 and 19) See preview, page 58.

SUUNS, WE ARE WOLVES Adelaide Music Hall (250 Adelaide West), Saturday (October 19) Krautrock-influenced neo-psych. JANELLE MONÁE Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Saturday (October 19) Eccentric, playful future/retro-soul. SKYDIGGERS Winter Garden Theatre (189 Yonge), Saturday (October 19) Roots-rockers celebrate 25 years. SHAD Opera House (735 Queen East), Saturday (October 19) Juno-winning hip-hop. BELIEFS, IS/IS The Piston (937 Bloor West), Sunday (October 20) Gorgeous local dream pop.

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LAMB OF GOD Be sure to buy lots of merch at Lamb of God’s highly anticipated Toronto shows, which grew from one to two after the initial Kool Haus show sold out fast. Back in July, drummer Chris Adler admitted that singer Randy Blythe’s recent legal troubles have pretty much bankrupted the band. If you haven’t heard, Blythe was arrested last summer in the Czech Republic on manslaughter charges, accused of being responsible for the death of a fan at a 2010 concert. In March he was acquitted, but not before spending five months in a Prague prison and ac-

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cumulating massive legal bills. Things are looking up, though. Besides the sold-out tour, the Virginia groove metal band are releasing a deluxe reissue of their masterful second album, As The Palaces Burn, to celebrate its 10th anniversary on November 11. In addition to the remastered original tracks, it’ll include unreleased demos and a documentary about the making of the record. Tuesday (October 22) at Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), 6 pm, all ages. $38. TF. And Wednesday (October 23) at Sound Academy (11 Polson), 6 pm. $38-$177.75. RT, TF.

Record release Drake Hotel 8 pm. $5-$15. November 12.

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Album launch Royal Cinema 8:30 pm. November 13. ICON FOR HIRE Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 6 pm, all ages, $15. LN, RT, SS. November 14.

SEPULTURA, UNEARTH, KATAKLYSM, ANCIIENTS, DARK SERMON

Phoenix Concert Theatre 7 pm, $24. TF. November 15.

THE STANFIELDS, THE TOWN HEROES Bovine Sex

Club, November 15. Rivoli. November 17.

THE REASON, THEE ATTACKS, ZERBIN Adelaide

Music Hall 8 pm, $15. NT. November 16.

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Wrongbar doors 11 pm, $15. LN, RT, SS. November 16. SHAWN DESMAN Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $29.50. LN. November 16. KING LOS Phoenix Concert Theatre 8 pm, $24.50. PDR, RT, SS, TW. November 22. NAGATA SHACHU 15th-Anniversary Concert Enwave Theatre 8 pm, $20-$35. November 22 and 23.

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Opera House 7 pm, all ages, $23. TF. November 29.

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doors 8 pm, $18.50. December 13.

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tre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre 5:30 to 6:30 pm, free. December 4.

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$10.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. December 5. Jason Collett’s Basement Revue Dakota Tavern doors 8:30 pm, $25. RT, SS. December 5, 12 and 26. The Great Hall doors 8:30 pm, $25. RT, SS. December 19.

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doors 7 pm, all ages, $29.50. LN, RT, SS. January 14, 2014. PIXIES, FIDLAR Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $44.50-$79.50. LN, RTH, TM. January 15, 2014. CATE LE BON Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF. January 21, 2014. SHAD The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $18.50$23.50. PDR, RT, SS, TM. January 31, 2014.

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Martha and the Muffins singer finds her place in Toronto’s current landscape By Samantha Edwards

MARTHA JOHNSON at Campbell House Museum (160 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, October 17), 7:30 pm. $20. campbellhousemuseum.ca.

Martha Johnson’s first solo album comes 34 years after her seminal Canadian new-wave band, Martha and the Muffins, released their international hit song, Echo Beach; and 13 years after she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. And from the top, Solo One considers her relevance in today’s music world. “I’m up to date with the future. / Ahead of the past. / Just can’t fit in with today,” she sings on opener See Saw Eyes. Sitting down to chat in a Danforth coffee house, she explains. “I see where I’ve been and I have an idea of where I’m going. But how do you manoeuvre a career like mine when it’s all about social media and touring?” Johnson, now in her 60s, carries herself with the same poetic confidence she had in her Muffins days, but the Parkinson’s means she can’t embark on long tours any more. And she admits she’s still getting the hang of using Twitter to interact with fans. The rest of the album – a quiet yet powerful collection of jazzy, melodic and ambient songs – is just as autobiographical. On Garden Of Stone, as her voice fluctuates from commanding to lithe overtop a slow rockabilly riff, she describes her grief in the aftermath of a close friend’s death. The most personal song of all, though, is I Shouldn’t Be This Happy. “The last verse is about when I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease,” says Johnson. “It was a Friday afternoon. The coldness of the doctor who told me – I could tell he was anxious to leave the office. I was by myself. It

was quite devastating.” Thankfully, Solo One – much of which was composed in the middle of the night during bouts of insomnia – was a therapeutic experience. “It was a way to incorporate these things that have been difficult in my life into something of value that other people can share, rather than carrying it around forever on my back.” The album’s also helped Johnson realize she fits into Toronto’s music scene better than she initially thought. She wrote with Ron Sexsmith and Wilderness of Manitoba’s Will Whitwham, and she recently played with shoegazers Beliefs for a special recorded performance of Echo Beach. “When I saw the performance, it wasn’t like, ‘Oh, she looks like this verging-on-senior-citizen singing with these kids.’ I felt like I incorporated into the band,” she says. “Because of my illness, I knew I was going to have to find new ways to make music a part of my life.” We’re glad she did. 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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Thursday, October 17 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Alleycatz Evan Kuhn (acoustic singer/songwriter). Boat Teethmarks, Pyres, Dead Ranch, Pretty Mouth, Loviatar doors 8 pm.

Bovine Sex Club Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com).

Brooklynn Bar Indie Week (See canada.

indieweek.com). The Cage 292 Indie Week This Is War, Second Pass, Mouth, King George, the Bloody Five, Shift-D, JOJETO, the Johnnys doors 8 pm. Campbell House Museum Listening party Martha Johnson (Martha & the Muffins) 7:30 pm. See preview, this page. The Central Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla Indie Week Arcane Saints (See canada.indieweek.com) 11:30 pm. Crawford Indie Week (details online at canada.indieweek.com). Czehoski Indie Week (canada.indieweek.com). Drake Hotel Lounge The Digs (funk) doors 11 pm. Firkin on King Niki Kennedy 9:30 pm. Free Times Cafe Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). Hard Luck Bar The Front Bottoms, the World Is a Beautiful Place, I Am No Longer Afraid to Die doors 8 pm, all ages. The Hideout Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). Horseshoe Delorean, Superhumanoids (alt dance/rock from Spain) 8:30 pm. Kool Haus Frightened Rabbit, Augustines doors 8 pm, all ages. Lee’s Palace Summit Series, Cauldera, James Gilbert 9 pm. Linsmore Tavern Arman 10 pm. Lola Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm. Massey Hall The Weeknd, Anna Lunoe, Banks doors 7 pm, all ages. See Anna Lunoe preview, page 54. Monarchs Pub Indie Week (See canada.indieweek.com). Opera House Alexis Von Kraven On Fire! 25 Years Of Hard Drumming MOXY, Heavens Fire, Mother’s Green, Twisted Alibi, Inner Turbulence, Eunice Kei-Kei Tan, Donna Makeda and others. The Painted Lady This Is the Shoes, Corey Abell. Parts & Labour Teen Daze, Camp Counsellors (dream pop/chillwave) 9 pm. The Peacock Bar Indie Week (See canada.indieweek.com). The Piston Kensington Hillbillys, the Northern Empties, the Punching Nuns 9 pm.

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Rivoli Indie Week MOOD, Future History, Ash

Before Oak, Brothers of North, the Rathburns, Trouble & Daughter, viseMenn, Julian Taylor Band, Orianna doors 7 pm. Silver Dollar Indie Week Falls, Goodnight Sunrise, Shaky Knees, the C’mons, the Lad Classic, Kulas, Millar & Henry, Mickey Loves Mallory 8 pm.

Sneaky Dee’s Record release PUP. ñ Southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.

Supermarket Funk Spectrum Thursdays/Indie

Week The Soul Motivators (soul/funk) 9:30 pm. Velvet Underground Indie Week (See canada.indieweek.com). Victory Café Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). Virgin Mobile Mod Club The Sounds doors 7 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Aspetta Caffe Open Mic Night El Faron 8 pm to midnight.

Cafune Trevor Giancola & Henrique Matulis

6:30 to 8:30 pm.

Cameron House Jane’s Party w/ Ferraro 10 pm, Fish & Bird 6 pm.

Cameron House Back Room Zachary Lucky. Dakota Tavern Rose Cousins, Laura

Cortese 7 pm, all ages. ñ Dominion on Queen The Wee Folk Club 7 pm. Gladstone Hotel Ballroom Uma Nota Festival Launch Party Os Tropies, Gord ñ Sheard Brazilian Jazz Quintet, DJ Firecracker doors 9 pm.

Grossman’s The Thrillharmonic 10 pm. Habits Gastropub Cougars in America (alt/

The Hoxton Vitalic. Midpoint I Hate My Job (80s Vs 90s). WAYLA Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (70s/80s) 10 pm.

Friday, October 18 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Adelaide Music Hall Indie Week Bed of Stars, Still Life Still, the Rural Alberta ñ Advantage. Alleycatz Lady Kane. Bovine Sex Club Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com).

Brooklynn Bar Indie Week (See canada.

indieweek.com).

Cadillac Lounge The Blushing Brides (Rolling Stones tribute band) 10 pm. The Cage 292 Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). Castro’s Lounge The Untameable Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm. The Central Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla Indie Week (See canada.indieweek.com). Crawford Indie Week (See canada.indieweek.com). El Mocambo Downstairs Robert Gordon w/ Teenage Head (rockabilly/surf/R&R/punk) doors 9 pm. ElRCM_NOW_1/2_4col_4c_Oct17__V Mocambo Upstairs The Doorsmen (Doors 13-10-16 12:07 PM Page 1 tribute). continued on page 54 œ

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folk) 9 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Kevin Kralik, Cailean Lewis,

Stan Simon, the Mountain & the Trees Orkestar (folk) 8 pm. Hugh’s Room My Soul Alone Tour Chris Duarte Group 8:30 pm. Joe Mama’s Blackburn, DJ Carl Allen (blues/ soul/R&B) 9 pm. Lake Affect Lounge Homeless Band (blues) 8 pm. The Local Sarah Jane Scouten (roots) 9 pm. Relish Bar & Grill R Shelley 7 pm.

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Koerner Hall Music Mix Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin 8 pm. 3030 Dundas West Album release party Dan Gooch, Young Running, Emily Jill West doors 9 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Bluegrass Thursdays Rucksack Willies (bluegrass) 10 pm, Houndstooth 7:30 pm. Wise Guys Open Jam Jimmy James 10 pm.

Chris Thile FRI., OCT. 25, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Hear the mandolin genius who first won awards as part of the Grammywinning trio Nickel Creek perform works from his new Bach recording and his own compositions.

David Broza and Yemen Blues SAT., OCT. 26, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Hear Broza, the "Israeli Springsteen,” alongside the funk infused groove of Yemen Blues.

World Blues Featuring

Taj Mahal Trio

Vusi Mahlasela, Fredericks Brown featuring Deva Mahal WED., OCT. 30, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Presented in association with Batuki Music and Small World Music.

Vesuvius Ensemble and The Sicilian Jazz Project SAT., NOV. 2, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL An evening of traditional Italian music and Mediterranean jazz.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Emmet Ray Bar Vokurka’s Vicarious Virtuoso Violin (Gypsy swing) 9 pm.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Chamber Music Series Yegor Dyachkov (cello) noon to 1 pm.

Gate 403 Annie Bonsignore & Dunstan Morey

Duo 9 pm, Faith Amour Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Swing Night Combo Royale 9 pm to midnight. Kama Thursdays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet, William Carn 5 to 8 pm. Music Gallery X Avant VIII: This Is Our Music Not the Wind Not the Flag, William Parker, Eucalyptus 8 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Thursday Night Jazz Party Fern Lindzon, Chris Gale, Ross MacIntyre 7:30 pm. Old Mill Inn The Return Of The Kings Of Swing: Ken Page Memorial Trust Jazz Fundraiser Harry Allen, Jim Galloway, Ken Peplowski, Russ Phillips, Rossano Sportiello, Don Thompson and others 5:30 to 11 pm. Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). Reservoir Lounge Beverly & Her Swell Fellas 7 to 9 pm. Rex Mark Eisenman Quintet 9:45 pm, Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm.

“Fantasia on Themes by Rush” with the KitchenerWaterloo Symphony SAT., NOV. 9, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Three incredibly skillful and creative composers defy every rock/classical music cliché: Nicole Lizée, Dan Deacon, and Bryce Dessner of The National.

Bruce Hornsby THURS., NOV. 14, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Thirteen-time Grammy nominee Bruce Hornsby performs the songs you know and love, from “The Way It Is” to “Mandolin Rain” and “Every Little Kiss.”

Ramsey Lewis Quintet with Cécile McLorin Salvant SAT., NOV. 16, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Chicago jazz legend Ramsey Lewis is “one of the great musicians of his generation.” (The New York Times) “Ms. Salvant has it all.” (The New York Times)

Anoushka Shankar SAT., NOV. 23, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Hear Anoushka Shankar perform songs from her newest CD, produced by Nitin Sawhney. Presented in association with Small World Music.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Annex Wreckroom Get Up! DJ Serious, Supernaturalz Crew (hip-hop) 10 pm.

BassLine Music Bar Tropical Disco Lively O.

nes (afrodisco). Dance Cave Transvision DJ Shannon (rock) 10 pm. EFS Untitled Thursdays Soundbwoy doors 10 pm. Goodhandy’s T-Girl Parties DJ Todd Klinck.5

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SNEAKY DEE’S The Caravan, Shark Week,

Eclectic doors 9 pm.

Philly Moves & Juice doors 9 pm. SOHO HOUSE Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S The Doubts (rock) 10 pm. SUPERMARKET Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). UNDERGROUND GARAGE Indie Week Arcane Saints (See canada.indieweek.com) 11 pm. VELVET UNDERGROUND Indie Week (See canada.indieweek.com). VICTORY CAFÉ Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com).

GUVERNMENT Reggae Cafe Black Chiney, DJ

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FLAMINGO’S Enzo Simone (oldies/60s/surf) 9:45 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com).

THE GARRISON Uma Nota Festival World Soul Party Alice Russell, Phil Motion & ñ the Easy Lo-Fi, Marques Toliver, DJ General Whitebwoy, Renegade Squad, Steenie, Jungle Junkee, DJ Zee, MC Worm. HARD LUCK BAR Fidlar, the Orwells doors 8:30 pm, all ages. THE HIDEOUT Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). HORSESHOE Man Man, Xenia Rubinos (indie rock) doors 8:30 pm. IZAKAYA SUSHI HOUSE Godstopper, Ayahuasca, Hammerhands, Black Iron Prison doors 9 pm. JOE MAMA’S The Grind, DJ Carl Allen (Motown/soul/R&B) 10 pm. LAKE AFFECT LOUNGE Parkside Drive (rock) 8 pm. LEE’S PALACE Cancer Bats, Bat Sabbath, Dance laury Dance doors 9 pm. LINSMORE TAVERN The Legendary Castaways (ZZ Top tribute) 9:30 pm. MASSEY HALL Thick As A Brick 1 & 2 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull singer/flautist/ composer) 8 pm, all ages. MEASURE Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre Fundraiser Dirty Rumours, the Cautioneers, Kira May doors 8:30 pm. MONARCHS PUB Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). THE PEACOCK BAR Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). RIVOLI Indie Week Wildheart, the Ascot Royals, TJ Hollywood, the Beaches, Jutes, Lumberjunk, Angela Saini, Oyane, Danielle Knoll doors 8 pm. ROCKPILE Hope In Hell Tour Anvil 8 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Indie Week Maladies of Adam Stokes, Sue Newberry & the Law, Liam MacKenzie, Suxess, Waxmen, Boy & Kite, Daniel Kosub, Ninja Funk Orchestra, Milo McMahon 8 pm. THE SISTER New Company, Adam’s Mind.

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CAMERON HOUSE Freeman Dre 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM David Celia

(folk/rock) 11:30 pm, More Please 10:30 pm, Mike Celia 9:30 pm. THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL Woodkid (neofolk) doors 8 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN Swamperella (cajun/ zydeco) 9 pm, Gary Kendall Band (blues) 7 pm. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Valerie June doors 8 pm. GATE 403 Fraser Melvin Blues Band 9 pm. GROSSMAN’S James Doolin & the Jaguar 10 pm. HUGH’S ROOM CD release MonkeyJunk (blues/ roots) 8:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE Roberto Linares Brown (salsa) 8 pm. THE PADDOCK Sugar Brown Blues Band 9 pm. RELISH BAR & GRILL The Danger Bees 9:30 pm. SOCIAL DANCE SPOT Festival del Diluvio Jay Vazquez Sugar Heat. 3030 DUNDAS WEST Rock-A-Billy Shake-Up: Lucky 13 Edition Cousin Harley, Tennessee Voodoo Coupe, Rockin’ Dave Faris, DJ Tim Hanna doors 9 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Clara Engel, Animalia 10 pm, John Kamevaar, Paul Dutton & Glen Hall 7:30 pm, the Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm. VALENTINA Evaristo (Cuban Trova) 8 pm. WINCHESTER KITCHEN & BAR Barbarosa (folk/ rock) 10 pm. WINTER GARDEN THEATRE Justin Rutledge (alt country) 8 pm.

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BY THE WAY CAFE After Dinner Jazz Chris

Adriaanse & Liam Stanley Duo 8 pm. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Rubix (jazz) doors 7 pm. EMMET RAY BAR Croque Monsieur (Gypsy swing) 7 to 9 pm. GALLERY 345 The Art Of The Piano Beatriz Boizan (classical music with Cuban passión) 8 pm. GATE 403 G Street Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. GOETHE-INSTITUT Open House At Goethe: A Taste Of Germany Adi Braun & David Restivo (jazz) 5 to 8 pm. HABITS GASTROPUB Kohen Hammond Quartet 8 pm. HARLEM The Mike Field Jazz Quintet. HART HOUSE ARBOR ROOM Jazz At Oscar’s Michael Davidson Septet 9 pm. MAY CAFE Art Of The Trio Cruzao Latin-Jazz Trio 9 pm. MUSIC GALLERY X Avant VIII: This Is Our Music Ensemble SuperMusique 8 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Fridays To Sing About Ori Dagan Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). REX Mark Eisenman Quintet 9:45 pm, Sara Dell (vox/solo piano) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. TRINITY ST. PAUL’S CHURCH Swedish Folk Baroque The Toronto Consort 8 pm.

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Aussie DJ/producer embraced by North American dance pack By JULIA LECONTE ANNA LUNOE opening for THE WEEKND and BANKS at Massey Hall (178 Victoria), tonight (Thursday, October 17), Saturday and Sunday (October 19 and 20), doors 7 pm, all ages. $45-$75. LN, RTH.

The hypnotic beat of Anna Lunoe’s September-released single, Breathe, pulses along for one minute and 17 seconds before pausing. The song briefly inhales, and then at one minute and 25 seconds, Lunoe’s voice: “Can’t breathe, can’t can’t breathe,” she sings over and over. It’s impossibly catchy, partystarting, sweaty big-room dance music. And it couldn’t be further from Lunoe’s reality at this moment. “It’s very sweet outside, fall weather, orange leaves, New England vibe,” she says via cellphone on a train from New York City to Boston, a welcome bit of slow-motion serenity in the midst of a fast-paced career. In April 2012, Lunoe – a headlining electronic DJ/producer down under – made the leap from Sydney to Los Angeles, abandoning her established celebrity for a chance to ride North America’s current EDM wave. “I had played in America quite a bit, so I knew what was available to me and I knew that America was really getting behind dance music,” she says. “And also, it’s very normal for Australians to live overseas. It’s

just something we do.” Turns out it was a smart move. It’s only been 18 months, and Lunoe has been all over the Beatport charts and played heavy-duty festivals – like Electric Daisy Carnival last month in Chicago. She’ll release her first EP in February, and the lead single, Satisfaction, comes out in December. (“I’ve been sitting on it for a minute, so I’m excited to have it out in the world.”) In the meantime, she’s landed on one of fall’s most anticipated North American tours with Toronto’s own the Weeknd. It seems the enigmatic R&B star is rubbing off on her. “Touring with the Weeknd and Banks has inspired me to put more emotion in my vocal content. I’m so consumed with sound and dance music and trying to make it bang that maybe I’m not thinking about the core songwriting as much,” she says. “So I’m hoping to really push that in the future.” This week, the tour hits Massey Hall for a trio of tour-ending hometown shows. Lunoe seems bummed at the prospect of wrapping, but knows exactly what she’s doing after. “I’m going back to L.A., sleeping for a week, hanging out, eating good food and working on my music.” In other words, she gets to breathe. julial@nowtoronto.com | @julialeconte

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IN THE SIMILKAMEEN/ SIMILKAMEEN CROSSROADS By Tyler Hagen 9:00PM Empire of Dirt by Jennifer Podemski (Canada) Cinema 3

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Artist talk Friday, October 18, 8:00PM imagineNATIVE and Vtape proudly present the stunning video installation in Pursuit of Venus, a live-action masterwork that unbinds the shackles of colonialism and brings forth visual poetics of Maori and Pacific cultures and knowledge. GHOST DANCE Curated by Steven Loft September 18 – December 15 Ryerson Image Centre 33 Gould Street Curator talk + screening of Time Traveller™ by Skawennati Fragnito Friday, October 18 11:00AM – 1:30PM This multi-media group exhibition examines activism as a conceptual “culture of resistance” in contemporary Indigenous art. Using a combination of works by contemporary Indigenous artists, as well as the Ryerson Image Gallery’s Black Star Collection, Ghost Dance examines the role of the artist as activist, as chronicler and as provocateur in the ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights, self determination and sovereignty.

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FOOTWORK’S T.O. MUSIC NOTES LAST DANCE ICE, ICE BABY

The Adelaide West party wraps up after almost a decade of beats and bass By BENJAMIN BOLES

THE LAST DANCE ROUND 1, WITH ADDY, DEKO-ZE, JELO, THE JUNKIES, GREG GOW and many more, at Footwork (425 Adelaide West), Friday (October 18), 10 pm. footworkbar.com.

THE LAST DANCE ROUND 2, WITH SYDNEY BLU, BABY JOEL, JAMIE KIDD, NATHAN BARATO, NITIN and many more, at Footwork, Saturday (October 19), 10 pm. footworkbar.com.

The streets surrounding late-night party palace Footwork are very different than when Stephan Philion and Joel Smye opened it eight and a half years ago. Most of the clubs that were once its neighbours have been replaced by high-end steak houses, design firms and, of course, condos. Until recently, Footwork felt like the last trace of edgy nightlife in the Entertainment District, and it seemed inevitable that it would also be pushed aside by the massive wave of development sweeping through the downtown core. But despite the new residential tower just a few feet from their back-alley entrance, this isn’t a story of noise complaints shutting down yet another world-famous underground dance music venue. Ad_Now 1/5th 111013 “People think we’re moving for various reasons, but no one seems

to get it right. We’ve actually been looking for a new spot for a couple of years now,” explains Philion. “We wanted to grow, and we felt a bit confined here,” Smye adds. “Our new condo neighbours haven’t actually been a major issue yet, other than a few complaints, but the area just isn’t a good fit any more.” While fewer venues in Toronto can accommodate it, the market for big bass beats in dark rooms is growing thanks to the crossover between the mainstream EDM boom and the remnants of the traditional house and techno scenes. This cultural moment is a huge opportunity for a venue that can successfully bridge those worlds. Philion and Smye think they’ve finally found the spot to do so, in the second-floor Bloor and Bathurst club most recently known as the Annex Wreckroom. At twice Footwork’s capacity, it should suit their crowds even better. “There’s been a real surge the last couple of years, and we want to be part of that wave,” says Smye. “We have events here where 200 people are being turned away at the door, and they get mad about that. We’re able to get some great bookings, but people want to

be able to actually see their favourite artists.” Identifying a demand is one thing, but finding the appropriate space is another. The days of cheap downtown warehouse spots are long gone, and zoning restrictions prevent more creative solutions to the nightlife dilemma. “It’s pretty hard to find a nightclub to buy within the area of the city allotted,” Philion says. “I don’t think you can really get a new nightclub licence outside the Entertainment District, and everywhere there has a condo next to it now,” adds Smye. “You basically have to take over someone else’s spot.” Fortunately, their new spot has everything they were looking for; they’ll be launching the still unnamed new club October 26 with a series of events before shutting down to fully renovate in the winter. “I feel like we milked every single square inch of this place as much as we could have,” Smye reflects. His partner is equally ready to move. “As soon as we walked in the door of the new space, we started seeing possibilities.”

The former Maple Leaf Gardens, now the Mattamy Athletic Centre (50 Carlton), is about to host a different kind of hockey game. On Saturday (October 19), a bevy of local musicians will play a “friendly” game against the Toronto Police Service team. That’s right: entertainers versus cops. Organized by the Canadian Artists for Civil Liberties and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the inaugural event aims to “cultivate a greater understanding and mutual respect between law enforcement and artists.” Players include CCLA’s Nathan Lawr (also of Minotaurs), members of Rheostatics, City and Colour, Cuff the Duke, Beams, the Wooden Sky, the Cash Brothers, filmmaker Andrew Frade, actor Greg Thomas and others. The free event also features installations, live music and a postgame (7 pm) panel discussion at the 519 Church Street Community Centre about the relationship between art, censorship, freedom of expression and authority. The puck drops at 5 pm. ccla.org.

WALE ❤ T.O. More evidence that Toronto is becoming a destination city for musicians. We’re used to seeing New York, L.A. and Miami skylines in music videos. Aside from clips made

by our native artists, though, T.O.’s shiny silhouette doesn’t usually get much love. But this past summer, Washington, DC, rapper Wale shot a video for his song Simple Man in Toronto, and in it shows off our city like it’s his own. Released last week, the video opens with Wale’s OVO Fest performance in August (look closely, you might see yourself in the audience) and goes on to include very familiar Toronto sights: the CN Tower, the Rogers Centre, the skyline view from Polson Pier and a “Spadina and King closed” sign. Construction woes. What’s more Toronto than that?

LOST FUTURE After saying some not so nice things to Billboard about Drake’s new album, Future – the Atlanta rapper/man of 1,000 guest features – has been booted from Drizzy’s Would You Like A Tour tour, replaced by Nothing Was The Same collaborator Jhené Aiko. After the interview was posted, the rapper said he was misquoted and semi-apologized to Drake via Twitter. About Drake’s songs, Future was quoted as saying “They don’t make you feel, the way I do.” Wonder how Future’s feeling now.

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goblin at the Opera House, Friday, October 11. Rating: NNN

Throwing up metal horns at a Goblin show is an odd thing. The Italian electro-prog band best known for their soundtrack work on 70s horror films Suspiria, Profondo Rosso and Dawn Of The Dead seem only tangentially connected to metal, mostly through a genealogy of T-shirts. Broadly speaking, the same kind of person who likes heavy metal likes classic zombie and giallo movies, and Goblin allows hardened heavy music fans to unself-consciously enjoy layered synth lines that veer precariously close to straight-up disco. This incarnation, technically called “New Goblin” but always referred to as just “Goblin,” has long-time members Massimo Morante, Claudio Simonetti and Maurizio Guarini reunited for their first-ever North American tour, playing their greatest hits: Mad Puppet from the Profondo Rosso soundtrack, the themes from Phenomena, Dawn Of The Dead and Suspiria (accompanied by a whirling ballet dancer). Most of the crowd-pleasers were stacked toward the end, which had everyone shifting around all “When are they gonna play Suspiriaaaa?” before then. But when it came, Simonetti led the audience in a guttural singalong, and it felt more or less John Semley worth the wait.

flatbush zombies at Wrongbar, Sunday, October 13. Rating: NNN

Toward the end of their set, Flatbush Zombies cut their own music and played Kurt Cobain’s anthem for disenfranchised youth, Smells Like Teen Spirit. An apt choice for the Flatbush, Brooklyn crew – rappers Meechy Darko, Zombie Juice and producer/sometime rapper Erick Arc Elliott – who make scrappy, mosh-pit-inducing hiphop imbued with punk spirit. In three years together they’ve aligned themselves with rising rappers including A$AP Rocky (Bath Salt was a highlight on the otherwise mediocre A$AP Mob mixtape Lords Never Worry) and Danny Brown, but don’t expect to hear their songs on the radio. Playing a selection of tunes from their two mixtapes – 2012’s D.R.U.G.S. and the recently released BetterOffDEAD – they had the audience crowd-surfing and spilling their drinks with reckless abandon. Unlike Walking Dead zombies, the three would rather have a cornucopia of drugs than brains, which made for a highly energetic, though slightly repetitive 40-minute set. It might have been Canadian Thanksgiving, but the trio brought Amerikkkan Pie (a BetterOffDEAD max mertens standout) for dessert. NOW October 17-23 2013

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Kool Haus The Electric Lady Tour Janelle Monáe doors 8 pm, all ages. ñ Lake Affect Lounge Universal Boogie Band w/ Stacey 8 pm, The Pie Guys 4 to 8 pm.

Lee’s Palace Peter Tosh Tribute House of David

Gang, Friendlyness & the Human Rights, jahbudah, Bloom, DJ (reggae) doors 9 pm. Linsmore Tavern Jerry Leger & the Situation 9:30 pm. The Local Jimmy Byron (rock ’n’ roll) 9 pm. Magpie Taproom The Cheap Speakers, Chang-a-Lang. Massey Hall The Weeknd, Anna Lunoe, Banks doors 7 pm, all ages. See Anna Lunoe preview, page 54. Monarchs Pub Indie Week (details online at canada.indieweek.com).

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Whale doors 7 pm, all ages. Pogue Mahone The Barnacles 8 pm. Product Nightclub 90s Night Sisqo. Queen Elizabeth Theatre Roxy & Elsewhere 40th Anniversary Tour Zappa Plays Zappa doors 7 pm, all ages. Rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. Rivoli Indie Week Courtney Wells Band, Alert the Medic, the Novaks, Breached, the Joy Arson, Lost Cause, Mad June, the Treble doors 8 pm. The Rockpile East Hope In Hell Tour Anvil 8 pm. Silver Dollar Kontravoid, Doom Squad, Beta Frontiers, Prince Innocence, Nyssa, Tarantula X, Sex Merlin, Cell Memory, DJ Evg doors 9 pm. The Sister Joel Wasson Band, Miracle Whip. Sneaky Dee’s Ken Mode, Full of Hell, Bird Death (tech metal) doors 7 pm. Soho House Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). Southside Johnny’s Moonshine (rock) 10 pm, the Bear Band 4 to 8 pm. Supermarket Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). Underground Garage Indie Week (See canada.indieweek.com). Velvet Underground Indie Week (See canada.indieweek.com). Victory Café Indie Week (See canada. indieweek.com). Virgin Mobile Mod Club Senses Fail, For the Fallen Dreams, Expire, Being as an Ocean doors 6 pm, all ages. Working Dog Saloon The Rave 8 pm. Wrongbar Power Trip, Terror, Counterparts, Code Orange Kids, Vehement Serenade.

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Bloor Street United Church Christian Songs & Hymns Linnea Good 7:30 pm. Cadillac Lounge Mary & Micky (country) 3:30 pm. Cafune Attila Fias & Henrique Matulis 8 to 10 pm. Cameron House Devin Cuddy 10 pm, Whitney Rose 8 pm. Cameron House Back Room Blue Sky Miners. Castro’s Lounge Big Rude Jake (blues shouter) 4:30 pm. Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm. Dominion on Queen James Anthony 9 pm. Du Cafe Open Mic 3 to 7 pm, all ages. Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Open Mic Saturdays Loren Hicks 1 to 4 pm. Gate 403 Bill Heffernan (folk/country/blues) 5 to 8 pm.

Humble Mike, MC Bookshelf, Guv’nor General doors 9 pm. Grossman’s Beggar’s Banquet 10 pm. Habits Gastropub Cody McMillan (singer/ songwriter) 9 pm. Hugh’s Room Harry Manx, Clayton Doley, Kevin Breit 8:30 pm. Liberty Market Bldg Art Fusion Carnival The Red Moon Music Collective, No Band Required, Firedance Drum Circle, Drummers in Exile and others 4 pm. The Local Arthur Renwick (blues) 4 pm. Lula Lounge Moda Eterna 10:30 pm. Mambo Lounge Evaristo (traditional Cuban music) 8:30 pm. Relish Bar & Grill New Music Night Bill Wood & the Woodies (alt country rock) 9:30 pm, Songbird Sessions James Clark, Maria Ryan, Mandipal 1 to 4 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Compilation release party Fruits 10 pm, Gillian Nicola 7:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm. Winter Garden Theatre All Of Our Dreaming 25th-Anniversary Concert Skydiggers, Peter Cash, Andrew Cash, Oh Susanna 8 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Chalkers Pub Fern Lindzon, Dan Fortin, Ernesto Cervini 6 to 9 pm. Gallery 345 The ‘Almost’ Complete Sonatas of Brahms Jacques Israelievitch, Benjamin Smith (violin/viola, piano) 2 & 5 pm. Gate 403 Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Rhythm 9 pm. Grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm. May Cafe Prince Enoki’s Insect Orchestra, Prince Nifty 10 pm. Measure Proud To Be Portuguese Louis Simão, Susana d’Amour 2:30 to 6 pm. Music Gallery X Avant VIII: This Is Our Music: Ensemble SuperMusique Workshop noon. Nawlins Jazz Bar Sam Heineman (piano) 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Jazz Masters Hilario Duran Trio (Afro-Cuban Latin jazz) 7:30 pm. Paul’s Churrasco The Tavares Trio/Botos (jazz/Latin) 7:30 to 11:30 pm. Reposado Bob Bradley & the Bouncers, Rob n Bob Power Duo. Rex Kollage 9:45 pm, Justin Gray’s Rubix 7 pm, Tall Grass (vocal harmony) 3:30 pm. Roy Thomson Hall From Dvo ák to Tchaikovsky Toronto Symphony Orchestra 7:30 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall TD Jazz: Celebrating Dinah & Sarah Joe

Sealy, Jackie Richardson, Arlene Duncan, Ranee Lee 8 pm. St James Cathedral Snell Hall The Naomi Skerrett Recital Series The Jim Clayton Trio 12:30 pm. St Patrick’s Catholic Church Splendours Of The Sistine Chapel Tallis Choir 7:30 pm. Trinity St. Paul’s Church Swedish Folk Baroque The Toronto Consort 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Annex Wreckroom Can’t Stop Esther – The

Madonna Marathon 15th Edition DJ Doctor Baggie 10 pm. BassLine Music Bar The Techno Cup Kilowatts, Farruhk. Black Eagle DJ Neill MacLeod (electro/funk/ house/rock) 10:30 pm.5 Bunda Lounge Solid Garage Tambor Party Stan Zeff, Groove Institute (Afro deep/Latin/soul). Club 120 Sodom Mummy Dearest DJ Sumation 10 pm.5 Dance Cave Full On DJ Pat (alternative) 10 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Quatro Conor

Cutz & Rouge doors 11 pm. Emmet Ray Bar DJ Serious (hip-hop/soul) 10 pm. Footwork Closing Party Part Two Baby Joel, Conz & Wonka, Jamie Kidd, Jay Force, Jeff Button, Matt C, Mike Gleeson, Nathan Barato, Nitin, Rafwat & Chorniy, Sydney Blu, Terence Kissner doors 10 pm. See preview, page 58. Guvernment Laidback Luke, D.O.D., Mark Oliver, Manzone & Strong 10 pm. Harbourfront Community Centre The Blackout Party DJ B-Power (tech house/top 40 dance/hip-hop mashup) doors 7:30 pm, ages 13 to 18. Holy Oak Cafe Nite Flights DJ Sandro Peri 10 pm. Johnny Jackson Deep & Soulful Nick Holder, Junior Palmer, Tyrone Solomon doors 10 pm. Parts & Labour Party & Bullshit DJs FBomb & Ry-Fi (hip-hop/trap/pop) 10 pm. The Piston Love Handle (80s funk/R&B) 10 pm. Revival Midnight Mix 3 Year Anniversary Skratch Bastid, Wristpect, J-Class, JB Allen (hip-hop/R&B/mashup/reggae/electro). Round cirQlation JPod the Beat Chef, Farbsie Funk, DBoom doors 10 pm. Sneaky Dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm. Sound Academy IKINK: Northbound Leather doors 9 pm. Supermarket Do Right Saturdays DJ John Kong 10 pm. Tryst Trysted Saturdays DJ Marky D. WAYLA Bar NYC 90s Scarlet Bobo & DJ Relentless (90s NY club) 10 pm. Zoom Bar DJ Geezy G, Cityflame Sound, JLee, Marlon (reggae) 10 pm.

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Cameron House Jeff Beadle (acoustic rock) 10 pm.

Dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch The

Cosmotones 11 am-3 pm.

Hotel Underground Au Revoir Simone, Selebrities doors 8 pm. ñDrake Horseshoe The Men, Purling Hiss, S.H.I.T. doors 8 pm. ñ Lake Affect Lounge The Meteors, Jessica Speziale 4 to 8 pm.

Lola Nick Picking & Doug 3 pm. Massey Hall The Weeknd, Anna Lunoe, Banks doors 7 pm, all ages. See Anna ñ Lunoe preview, page 54.

Measure The Known Unknown: Indie R&B

Part II DANA, Zino, Erin Reese, Jennie Laws, Kyara T, Natosh, Toya Diamond doors 8 pm. Nathan Phillips Square Toronto Marathon Motion Device. Opera House Minus the Bear, INVSN, Slow Bird doors 7 pm. Opticianado Chris Burek & Band 1 to 4 pm. Parts & Labour Junior Battles, !Attention!, Wank for Peace, Deforesters (poppunk) 9 pm, all ages. Phoenix Concert Theatre The Smokers Club Tour Ab-Soul, Joey Bada$s, Chevy Woods, the Underachievers, Pro Era, Jimmy B, DillanPonders doors 8 pm, all ages.

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Before Oak, Field Study, Stargroves, Marcio Novelli doors 9 pm. Sound Academy Hoodie Allen, Moosh & Twist, OCD, Mod Sun, D Why doors 6:30 pm, all ages. Tattoo Rock Parlour Indie Week Finals (See canada.indieweek.com). Virgin Mobile Mod Club Kodaline 7 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Black Bear Pub Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm. Cameron House My Mess Melissa Lauren 7 pm. Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm. The Danforth Music Hall Hugh Laurie & the

Copper Bottom Band doors 7 pm, all ages. Emmet Ray Bar Union Duke (bluegrass/altcountry) 9 pm. Eton House Whiskey Jack (bluegrass/country) 4 to 7 pm. Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Full of Beans Sunday Matinee Pete Janes 2 to 4 pm. Gate 403 Blues & Troubles 5 to 8 pm, Music & Youth: A Classsical Music Concert in support of the Scadding Court Community Centre Scholarship program Susan Spier, Catherine Maguire (violin, piano) 2 pm. Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Acoustic Family Brunch (bluegrass) 10 am-2 pm. Grossman’s The National Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm. Holy Oak Cafe Rosia Montana Fundraiser 9 pm. Hugh’s Room Harry Manx, Clayton Doley, Kevin Breit 8:30 pm. Lee’s Palace Lou Doillon doors 8 pm. The Local Young Running (indie folk) 9 pm, Ivan Rosenberg (dobro/roots) 5 pm. Lula Lounge Uma Nota Festival Community Cultural Fair Tio Chorinho, Rick Udler, Heavyweights Brass Band, Forrallstar 2 pm to 11 pm, Jorge Maza Group 1 pm. Opera Bob’s The Ole Fashion 9 pm. Placebo Space Singer Songwriter Circle 7 to 9 pm. Relish Bar & Grill Stir It Up Sunday Open Mic 9 pm.

White Gallery, N.L.P., Rainbow Spit, Len Lamanna doors 9 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge The St Royals (soul/ Motown/R&B) doors 10 pm. Hard Luck Bar Fall City Fall, A Sight for Sewn Eyes, Kennedy w/ Constellations, We’re Doomed, Lead By Legacy doors 7 pm. The Hideout Big Otter Creek (acoustic rock) 10:30 pm. Horseshoe Sir Sly doors 8:30 pm. Lola The Big 3 6 pm.

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Dora Keogh Open Stage Julian Taylor (folk

rock) 10 pm.

Grossman’s Jam No Band Required 9 pm. Hawaii Bar Will Gillespie w/ Mark Martyre

(singer/songwriters) 9:30 pm. The Local Hamstrung String Band (bluegrass/ country) 9 pm. The Painted Lady Open Mic Mondays 10 pm. Relish Bar & Grill Bentroots (New Orleans blues) 8 pm. continued on page 64 œ

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts Memories Of Scotland The Richmond Hill

Centennial Pipe Band, Claidhmor, Liam McGlashon 2 to 4:30 pm. Rose & Crown Music City North Open Mic 9 pm. Southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. Winchester Kitchen & Bar Open Mic Porter 9 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Dominion on Queen Wintergarten Orchestra (jazz) 4:30 pm.

Edward Johnson Building Walter Hall

Mooredale Concert Il Giardino d’Amore (baroque band) 3:15 pm. Gallery 345 Peter In The Gallery: Children’s Tales For Wind Ensemble Musica Reflecta (chamber orchestra) 2 pm. Gate 403 Jason Wilson Jazz Band 9 pm. Grossman’s New Orlean Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm. Morgans on the Danforth Allyson Morris & Michael Shand (jazz) 2 to 5 pm. Music Gallery X Avant VIII: This Is Our Music Gurpreet Chana, Alaniaris, Scott Good (multicultural music) 8 pm. Rex CD release Harley Card 9:30 pm, Laura Hubert Band (jazzy pop) 7 pm, Club Django (gypsy-swing) 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon, Roy Thomson Hall From Dvorák to Tchaikovsky Toronto Symphony Orchestra 3 pm. Saint Luke’s United Church Info-Disco Jazz Vespers Concert Jazz-Tonic Band w/ Denis Leslie, Josie Abate, Julie McGregor, Tresor Ot shudi, Koli Style (jazz) 5 to 6:30 pm.

Toronto Centre for the Arts George Weston Recital Hall Musical Diamonds Orch estra Toronto (classical) 3 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Tania Gill, Dave Clark & Scott Peterson 10 pm, ñ Monk’s Music 5 pm, Alaniaris 3 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BassLine Music Bar Monkey Biznuss Advizer, Love@582Hz, Jack of All Funk, DJ Decibel. Bovine Sex Club Metal Health 9 pm. Graffiti’s Black Metal Brunch 11 am-4 pm. Time Nightclub BOI1DA Party Charlie B, Jig.

Monday, October 21 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Castro’s Lounge Rockabilly Mondays The Cosmotones 9 pm.

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The soundtrack to running (or spectating) a successful 42 km With this Sunday’s Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon in mind, we compiled a playlist of running songs, whether you’re competing to break records or were dragged out of bed early on a Sunday morning to watch a loved one race.

Who: Joey Bada$$ Song: Killuminati Pt. 2 Perfect for: Pre-race stretching With all due respect to Eminem and Survivor, listening to Lose Yourself and Eye Of The Tiger to get pumped up before physical activity is old hat. Joey Bada$$’s Killuminati Pt. 2 – the “Beast Coast” rapper’s response to Kendrick Lamar’s Control verse – is locker-room music for the next generation. Joey Bada$$ plays the Phoenix on Sunday (October 20) with Ab-Soul, Pro Era, the Underachievers and others. Who: Janelle Monáe Song: We Were Rock & Roll Perfect for: The starting line Live, the R&B singer/songwriter can bust a move with the best of ’em. You might get some odd looks for dancing to this before the starter pistol goes off, but you’ll have the last laugh when the guitar solo kicks in – staying loose is key to starting strong. Janelle Monáe plays the Kool Haus on Saturday (October 19). Who: The Men Song: I Saw Her Face Perfect for: Midway mark Your pace bunny is still in sight and the Lake Shore crowds are buoying your spirits. But you’re cramping, and that guy from your running club is closing the gap. Dig deep. This rousing, Neil Young & Crazy Horse-esque track by Brooklyn punks the Men should help. The Men play the Horseshoe on Sunday (October 20) with Purling Hiss, S.H.I.T. and Solids. Who: Woodkid Song: Run Boy Run Perfect for: The final stretch This one’s pretty self-explanatory, but the song’s marching drums and cinema tic strings make it the perfect choice for boys (and girls) making their last push toward the finish line. Woodkid play the Danforth Music Hall on Friday (October 18) with Black Atlass. Who: Minus the Bear Song: Hey, Wanna Throw Up? Perfect for: Post-race cool-down The long-running Seattle outfit make electronic-tinged math rock good for reflecting on life or your marathon results. Just don’t take the title literally. Grab a banana, wrap yourself in a space blanket and keep your Gatorade down. Minus the Bear play the Opera House on Sunday (October 20) with INVSN and Slow Bird.

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album reviews sor (both are 45 minutes), but it is emotionally more expansive. Practically punkrock Love Of My Life makes the heaviest impact; Carry Me Over’s trembling strings and swirling xylophone crescendo into tripped-out catharsis; while the final songs’ eerie choral parts vanquish the violent mood swings like a desert wind. Top track: Cry KEVIN RITCHIE

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Big Wheel And Others (Domino) Rating: For a guy who told NOW last year that he hopes there won’t be records in the future, Cass McCombs records a lot of music. His “seventh and a half” album is nearly an hour and a half long and spans two discs, its 19 songs interspersed with audio clips from a 1970 documentary called Sean (in which a four-yearold talks about dogs, cops and drugs). It even opens with a song about heavy machinery, masculinity and driv-

Pop/Rock ROYAL CANOE Today We’re Believers (Nevado) Rating: NNN Judging by their moniker, you might think you know what Winnipeg six-piece Royal Canoe sound like. But you’re wrong. Royal Canoe isn’t a Canadianaobsessed folk band inspired by their scenic Prairie surroundings. Far from it. They’re a pop-rock band equally influenced by neosoul and hip-hop, Prince and psychedelia (which, actually, isn’t out of line with their city’s current musical landscape). The result is a smorgasbord of sound that’s all bongos, keyboards and languorous breakdowns that creep into repetitive territory. Keeping it all mostly together are Matt Peters’s vocals, which contort and stretch in every imaginable direction. While ambitious, the over-the-top mixing can be overwhelming. On Light, it sounds like the band opened up two YouTube videos at the same time, adding weird vocal samples overtop. At times, some restraint would have improved the album. Less can be more. Top track: Today We’re Believers SAMANTHA EDWARDS

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One Breath (Domino). Rating: For her second album, London-based singer/guitarist Anna Calvi headed to Dallas to work with producer John Congleton (a key

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ing long distances alone (Big Wheel). Thankfully, listening to the record doesn’t feel like a long haul. This is because McCombs’s songwriting has become less opaque and more direct, without losing any of his signature poetry, mystery and dark humour. Late actor Karen Black (who sang on McCombs’s 2009 song Dreams Come True Girl) takes lead vocals on the beautiful and moving Brighter! – the clear standout. Top track: Brighter! feat. Karen Black Cass McCombs plays the Great Hall December 4. SARAH GREENE

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collaborator on St. Vincent’s last two solo albums). The resulting differences from the tightly coiled, cinematic sound established on her 2011 self-titled debut are conversely subtle and glaring. The Texas connection might be behind the distinctly old-school western vibe on songs like Sing To Me and Bleed Into Me. Calvi’s high-drama aesthetic still rests on intimate and icy vocals, precise guitar lines and serene classical interludes, but she is more willing to dirty up her pristine Fender Telecaster with torturous distortion and reverb-drenched rawness. The album is as focused as its predeces-

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Brotherhood Of The Ram (Pre-Rock/Easy Rider) Rating: Remember when you thought the heaviest kind of music was the fastest and most technical, full of feats of guitar virtuosity and completely brutal singing? Actually, the heaviest music is often the opposite of all that. Take Shooting Guns’ second album, a slow-motion tsunami of relentless, pummelling sonic groove. What’s so effective about the instrumental psychedelic-doom five-piece from Saskatoon is their dedication to simplicity. One great idea – usually a monster riff set against motorik drumming – gets repeated for five or seven or sometimes 10 minutes, contoured and shadowed by woozy synths and more guitars, and somehow constantly growing larger, like a menacing storm cloud seeping across the sky. Maybe it’s the lack of vocals, but the entire project – including the band’s workmanlike live show – is refreshingly free of attitude, ego and posturing. Produced by Monster Magnet’s John McBain, the album’s also hella loud. Go Blind stands out for its suspenseful yet calming softness, and the epic air-horntinged Motherfuckers Never Learn for its charging urgency. Top track: Motherfuckers Never Learn CARLA GILLIS

From The Ages (Tee Pee) Rating: Earthless are the missing link between Sleep and Phish, between the Allman Brothers and Black Sabbath. And P-Funk. They’re the jam band metal heads are allowed to like, and vice versa. On their third studio full-length, the San Diego psych/stoner band ditch the side-long suites of 2005’s Sonic Prayer and 2007’s Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky for four tracks ranging between five and a half minutes (Equus October) and the half-hour title track. The album cracks open with Violence Of The Red Sea, a raging 15-minute guitar solo courtesy of Isaiah Mitchell and one of the most headbangingly fun tracks of the year. It is unsullied intensity, a forward thrust of widdly-widdly riffing. From there, the band is more interested in dynamics, exploring the interplay between spaced-out droning and full-on shredding. It never really achieves the celestial heights of Cosmic Sky, every song after the opener feeling too much like an extended comedown, but From The Ages is an essential record for anyone who likes the sound of guitars sounding like guitars. Top track: Violence Of The Red Sea JOHN SEMLEY

Folk ZACHARY LUCKY The Ballad Of Losing You (Missed Connection) Rating: NNN The third album from Saskatoon folkie Zachary Lucky plays like a sustained road-weary lament; as much an album about longing for home as it is about losing someone. Sparsely backed by fingerpicked guitar, banjo, fiddle and a generous amount of pedal steel (care of Aaron Goldstein),

Lucky’s gentle baritone relates intimate stories. On Woke Up, he imagines listening to Townes Van Zandt on the car radio with his love, or singing Bob Dylan’s Song To Woody together (he covers Van Zandt’s Waitin’ For The Day later in the album). The record is straightforward and confessional, yet its most surprising moment happens at the end: on Sun’s Coming Up, Lucky takes an imaginative leap and dreams about what it would be like to be sent away to war. Top track: Sun’s Coming Up Zachary Lucky plays the Cameron House tonight (Thursday, October 17). SG

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Hunt + Chase (Nevado) Rating: Megan Bonnell’s first full-length album walks the line between reverie and reality. The more dreamlike, the better – like opening track Coming Home, which combines surreal lyrics, almost tribal chanting and ethereal, echoey flourishes. Or the strange title tune, which bubbles over with musical-theatre-worthy drama. All of this is enhanced by Bonnell’s husky, versatile voice. In her upper register she sounds more than a little like Joni Mitchell, though the artist most immediately called to mind is Damien Rice. We Are Strangers Now is so very O-like, and even the vocals on Say My Name nod to the Irish singer/songwriter. Bonnell isn’t nearly as depressing, but she does channel Rice’s “once heartbroken never healed” melancholy, which, via affecting piano and guitar melodies fleshed out with spooky, fantastical production, grows more interesting with each listen. Top track: Coming Home Megan Bonnell plays the OCFF Conference in Mississauga on Friday (October 18). JULIA LECONTE

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MUST-SEE SHOWS BARBARA EDWARDS CONTEMPORARY

Painting/sculpture: Eric Fischl, to Nov 30. 1069 Bathurst. 647-348-5110. BAU-XI PHOTO David Leventi, to Oct 19. 324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400. CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Painting: Dennis Burton, to Oct 30. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566. CITY HALL ROTUNDA Photos: The Port Lands Experience, to Oct 18. 100 Queen W. 416-338-0338. CLINT ROENISCH Drawing: Marcel van Eeden, Oct 17-Nov 16, reception 7-9 pm Oct 17. 944 Queen W. 416-516-8593. DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Painting: Francine Savard, Oct 17-Nov 16, reception 6-8 pm Oct 17. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972. FINE & DANDY Painting: Jim Anderson, Oct 17-31. 2017 Dundas W. GALLERY 44 Photos (ImagineNATIVE): Tyler Hagan, Oct 18-Nov 23, reception 6-8 pm Oct 18. Photos: Melissa General, Oct 18-Jan 4, 2014, reception 6-8 pm Oct 18. 401 Richmond W, unit 120. 416-9793941. GALLERY TPW Video: Wu Tsang, to Nov 16. 1256 Dundas W. 416-645-1066. JESSICA BRADLEY GALLERY Hadley + Maxwell, to Oct 19. 74 Miller. 416-537-3125. JULIE M. GALLERY Gideon Tomaschoff, to Nov 24. 15 Mill, bldg 37. 416-603-2626. LE GALLERY Sarah Clifford-Rashatte, to Nov 2. 1183 Dundas W. 416-532-8467. MKG127 Joy Walker, Tom Koken, Oct 19Nov 16, reception 2-5 pm Oct 19. 1445 Dundas W. 647-435-7682.

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Lexier blurs lines Retrospective makes seamless links By DAVID JAGER MICAH LEXIER at the Power Plant

(231 Queens Quay West) to January 5. 416-973-4949. Rating: NNNN

Micah Lexier’s subtle work, largely concerned with chance and measurement, takes over the Power Plant in a handsome retrospective titled One And Two And More Than Two. He has a unique talent for distilling complex ideas into elegant visual gestures. Chaos and indeterminacy may be his themes, but Lexier’s work is pure Zen, permeating the gallery with tranquility. One of his preoccupations is life expectancy and mortality. In Self-Portrait, a wall text completed in his 37th year, the ratio of black type to white space represents the proportion of his lived life to the number of years remaining to him. Language, in other words, invokes mortality. But, a viewer might ask, doesn’t the white space seem small? Lexier coolly engages the viewer this

way, offering pieces of philosophical cud that the mind can’t help ruminating over. Lexier also tinkers in profound ways with the idea of authorship, and is thus a prolific collaborator. For Two Equal Texts, he worked with poet Christian Bök, giving the poet a short paragraph that Bök, using exactly the same letters and punctuation marks, turned into a second – a complete anagram. As the first paragraph describes the purpose of the work and the second explains its process, the two works and their authors merge seamlessly. This blurring of lines between artist and curator is in full flower in the show’s most ambitious work: More Than Two (Let It Make Itself). It consists of 200 works by individual local artists, duos and collectives that Lexier has curated during his career. Displayed in 30 neat vitrines, it forms a portrait not only of a lively curatorial practice but of an entire artistic community.

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA F’d Up, to Nov

9. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-8965088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Ai Weiwei, to Oct 27 ($25, sr $21.50, stu $16.50; Wed after 6 pm $12.50). Light My Fire: Five Propositions About Portraits, Part 1, to Oct 20. David Bowie Is, to Nov 27 ($30, srs $26.50, stu $21.50, Wed 6-8:30 pm $15; package deal w/ Ai Weiwei tickets, extended hours Oct 19, 26, Nov 2, 8, 9 & 15 till 8:30 pm). $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY Wael Shawky, to Dec 1, bus tour noon-5:30 pm

(see Doris McCarthy Gallery) Oct 20. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169. BATA SHOE MUSEUM Collected In The Field: Shoemaking Traditions From Around The World, ongoing. Out Of The Box: The Rise Of Sneaker Culture, to Mar 30, 2014. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. BLACKWOOD GALLERY Red, Green, Blue ≠ White, to Dec 1, bus tour noon-5:30 pm (see Doris McCarthy Gallery) Oct 20. 3359 Mississauga N, U of T Mississauga (Mississauga). 905-828-3789. CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES Life On The Grid: 100 Years Of Street Photography, to May 31, 2014. 255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778. DESIGN EXCHANGE Intersection 2013, dinner

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Micah Lexier works with life-and-death ratios in his text-based Self-Portrait.

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6:30 pm, party 8 pm Oct 18 ($175-$500). DXUncrated: Playing Favourites, Part II: Geometry (Textures), to Oct 31. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. DORIS MCCARTHY GALLERY Wafaa Bilal, to Oct 19, bus tour noon-5:30 pm from Jack Layton Ferry Terminal, reserve Oct 20. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Sculpture: An Te Liu, to Nov 11. The Art Of The Everyday: Faience In 17th And 18th Century France, to Jan 5, 2014. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. MOCCA The Madness, interactive art party 8 pm Oct 19 ($40). BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition, to Oct 27. TIFF Future Projections: David Cronenberg: Transformations, to Dec 29. 952 Queen W. 416395-0067. MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture: Bart Hanna Kappianaq, to Oct 31. Sculpture/ prints/textiles/ceramics/jewellery from the collection, ongoing (Collectors Nights Fri 7-9 pm, $10). $5, stu/srs $3. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-1571. ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE BioART: Contem-

porary Art And The Life Sciences, to Feb 2, 2014. $20, stu/srs $16. 770 Don Mills. 416696-1000. THE POWER PLANT More Than Two; Micah Lexier, to Jan 5, 2014. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Textiles: BIG, to Oct 30. Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World, to Jan 5, 2014 ($27, srs/stu $24.50; Fri after 4:30 pm $23, srs/stu $20). Faces To Remember: Chinese Portraits Of The Ming And Qing Dynasties, to Feb 23, 2014. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Moving Frames, Shifting Boundaries: image arts students, to Oct 27. (ImagineNATIVE): Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art., to Dec 15, curator tour 6 pm Oct 23. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Farandole: Perspectives On Western Canadian Métis Culture, to Nov 14. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. 3

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Appleby-Barr, Oct 17-Nov 9, reception 6-8 pm Oct 17. 451 King W. 416-205-9000. OLGA KORPER Photos: Barbara Steinman, to Oct 29. 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220. OPEN STUDIO GALLERY Sally Ayre, Meghan Price and Heather Smith, Oct 18-Nov 23, artist talk 6 pm, reception 7 pm Oct 18. 401 Richmond W, unit 104. 416-5048238. PAUL PETRO Tom Dean, to Nov 9. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874. RED HEAD GALLERY Margie Kelk, to Nov 2, reception 6-9 pm Oct 18. 401 Richmond W, unit 115. 416-504-5654. STEPHEN BULGER Photos: William Eakin and John Lucas, to Oct 19. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575. SUSAN HOBBS The Room And Its Inhabitants group show, Oct 17-Nov 23. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699. TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Tintype Studio, to Nov 2. 80 Spadina. 416-7031999. XPACE Betrayal Of The Proper Medium group show; Lili Huston-Herterich, Oct 18-Nov 9, reception 7-11 pm Oct 18. Anuta Skrypnychenko, Oct 18-Nov 15, reception 7-11 pm Oct 18. 303 Lansdowne. 416-849-2864. YYZ Seripop (Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum) and Hanna Hur, to Nov 30. 401 Richmond W. 416-598-4546.

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Cut. Print. SINEMANIA! A SATIRICAL EXPOSÉ OF THE LIVES OF THE MOST OUTLANDISH MOVIE DIRECTORS! by Sophie Cossette

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NNNN Sophie Cossette specializes in using cinema as fodder for full-tilt insanity. She has a knack for scenarios that are part tell-all, part what-if and all guilty pleasure. In Sinemania, directors from Stroheim, Welles and Hitchcock to Tarantino, Fassbinder and Herzog confess,

argue with and scream at their demons, bestloved characters and, most importantly, rival directors. What serious film lover hasn’t wondered how Spike Lee might unload on Woody Allen at Cannes? Or wanted to be a fly on the wall as Sam Peckinpah and Rainer Werner Fassbinder duke it out over who was the biggest badass? Cossette’s appetite for perverse parody is happily limitless. As a kid, Roman Polanski chucks a wobbly in the nursery with classmates Jean Luc Goddard and John Cassavetes. William Castle, king of the

LAUNCHING THIS WEEK Women have always had a complicated relationship with food, and by extension our bodies – something explored in the book Eat It: Sex Food And Women’s Writing ($15, Feathertale). It’s a collection of fiction, essays, poems, comedy, drama, recipes and more touching on matters of power, social obligation, nourishment, pain and pleasure. Sarah Selecky, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Stacy May Fowles and many others contribute. The book launches Tuesday (October 22) at the Gladstone Hotel with performances by comic Sara Hennessey, playwright Jessica SUSAN G. COLE Moss and more. See Readings, this page.

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, October 17 BIBLIOASIS Readings by Cynthia Flood, Lucie Wilk, Norm Sibum, Richard Norman and others. 7 pm. Free. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. facebook.com/events/194080804099775. TIM FLANNERY (Outward Bound Canada benefit) Talk by the author of The Weather Makers & Among The Islands. 7:30 pm. $40, VIP $250. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. outwardbound.ca/lectureseries. MARK GOLDSTEIN/JACLYN PIUDIK/NICK KASCHUK Poetry launch. 7 pm. Free. Dragon Academy, 35 Prince Arthur. 416-323-3243.

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Evening of murder and mystery readings. 6:30 pm. Free. Brentwood Library, 36 Brentwood N. torontopubliclibrary.ca. MATT MERNAGH Reading from The Marijuana Smoker’s Guidebook. 7 pm. Free. Vape on the Lake, 2985 Lake Shore W. 647-349-0124. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Talking about his new book Doomed. 7 pm. $40. Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park. eventbrite.ca/event/8177399823. SHYAM SELVADURAI Talking about his book The Hungry Ghosts. 7 pm. Free (ticket required). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

Saturday, October 19 EVAN MUNDAY The children’s author/cartoonist signs copies of his new detective book, Dial M For Morna. 11 am. Free. Indigo, 2300 Yonge. chapters.indigo.ca. MURDER AND MAYHEM Readings by Sharon A Crawford, Liz Bugg, Nate Hendley and others. 1 pm. Free. Du Café, 885 O’Connor. crimewriterscanada.com.

Sunday, October 20 DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER/ARNO KOPECKY/ DAVID FINKEL/JO BAKER Authors’ brunch. 10 am. $50. King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. 416361-0032.

Monday, October 21 SEAN DEVINE/COL CSEKE/MELODY A JOHNSON/ KATE HEWLETT Theatre books launch with

readings. 8 pm. Free. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton. 416-922-7175. DON NEWMAN Signing copies of his memoir, Welcome To The Broadcast. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

Tuesday, October 22 GENE ALLEN Launch for Making National News: A History Of Canadian Press. 6 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032. LINWOOD BARCLAY/LISA GABRIELE Talking about their journeys from journalist to bestselling author. 6:30 pm. $25, adv $20, stu $15. TMX Broadcast Centre, 130 King W. cjfauthors.eventbrite.ca. EAT IT: SEX, FOOD & WOMEN’S WRITING Readings and performances by Jessica Westhead, Sara Hennessey and Jessica More. 7:30 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com HELEN FIELDING Signing copies of Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca. RICHARD SCARSBROOK Launching his poetry collection Six Weeks. 6:30 pm. Free. C’est What, 67 Front E. 416-867-9499.

B flick, fakes his way into his first film, and the sad, sad story of Barbara Payton, the nearly forgotten film noir moll, gets its due. Last but not least, Cossette explores the connection between Marlene Dietrich and box-office poisoner Madonna, who snarls at the haughty Dietrich, “I may suck as an actress, but I fucked a Kennedy, too!” That’s only a fraction of the mayhem. Sinemania is a mine of pithy and obscure references to movies, actors and obscure film facts. True cinephiles will find themselves digging into their biographies and film libraries to reexamine their lore. Extra-helpful are Cossette’s beautiful one-panel tributes to classic films like Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat and the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski. Anyone could build a standout film collection with these recommendations alone. In these fantasy biographies bolstered by her bold-lined, expressionistic drawings, Cossette has given us a fascinating tribute to the madness that is cinema. DAVID JAGER

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with BIRTH OF FRANKENSTEIN’S CLAIRE WYNVEEN • Q&A with PUPPET UP’S BRIAN HENSON AND PATRICK BRISTOW • Review of DINNER AT SEVEN-THIRTY Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings

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Scary Mary Inventive company looks at the birthing pains of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein tale By JON KAPLAN

Claire Wynveen says Mary Shelley’s life is as fascinating as her famous novel.

BIRTH OF FRANKENSTEIN by Adriano Sobretodo Jr., Matthew Thomas Walker and Claire Wynveen, directed by Walker, with Tosha Doiron, Adrian Proszowski, Sobretodo and Wynveen. Presented by Litmus Theatre at St. Luke’s United Church (353 Sherbourne). Previews Tuesday (October 22), opens Wednesday (October 23) and runs to November 3, Tuesday-Sunday 8 pm. $30, stu $20. litmustheatre.com.

Everybody knows Frankenstein, through a Halloween mask, Mary Shelley’s novel or one of the many movie adaptations. To many, it’s simply a horror story in which a mad scientist pieces together a monster. In fact, Shelley’s book, in which Victor Frankenstein

strives to create life to improve humankind, is a romantic tale. The body he reanimates, called the Creature, is not initially intended to terrorize anyone. Litmus Theatre, which debuted with the inventive Matchbox Macbeth, sets the record straight with Birth Of Frankenstein, a look not only at the novel but also at the life of Mary Shelley, the wife of poet Percy Shelley, friend of Lord Byron and the offspring of two remarkable parents. The trio who make up the company – director Matthew Thomas Walker and actors Adriano Sobretodo Jr. and Claire Wynveen – were all attracted to the story while doing grad work at York University. “The more we looked at the richly

dance listings Opening COEXISDANCE 57 presents dance improvisers

performing with AIM Toronto musicians. Oct 19 at 8 pm. $10. Array Space, 155 Walnut. coexisdance.wordpress.com. DANCENETTE Arabesque Academy presents multi-genre experimentation with Undine Ensemble, Tatiana K, Smiley, Amy Leung and

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others. Oct 20 at 7 pm. $10-$15. 1 Gloucester, suite 107. dancenette.com. TAJ Lata Pada and Sampradaya Dance Creations presents John Murrell’s epic story of the Taj Mahal told through theatre, dance and visual design. Oct 19 at 8 pm. $30-$60. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000, livingartscentre.ca. TAP! What’s On? Tap! presents a gala performance as part of the Eastern Canada Tap Confer-

layered tale, the more we saw that Mary’s life was as interesting as the novel,” says Wynveen, who plays the part. “She was the product of fantastic minds. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a respected author and early feminist, while her father, William Godwin, was a philosopher and radical who, happily, had for his time unusual ideas about the education of women. “Mary was, in fact, raised the way a man would have been, given all the support and creative opportunities women didn’t have in those days.” Creativity is central to the Litmus production, which has Mary being brought back to life to tell her story and, at crucial points, that of her noence, featuring Aaron Tolson, Kim Chalovic and others. Oct 19-20, gala show Sat 7:30 pm. $35 (workshops extra). Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000, livingartscentre.ca. TERRA FIRMA random acts of dance (rad) present movement creation and performance by Liisa Smith and Julie Grant about the honesty of regret. Oct 17-19, Thu-Sat 7 and 8:30 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Hub 14, 14 Markham. terrafirma2013.eventbrite.ca.

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Gadfly presents professional shows, all-star battles, panel discussions and more. Oct 1820, see website for schedule. $20-$45. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. 647-989-6809, tuds.gadfly.ca.

vel, which offers parallels between Mary and Victor, thoughts on what it means to be a creator and the potential results of that creativity. “We first meet Mary as a young girl and watch her formation through her father’s guidance,” notes Wynveen, who played Lady Macbeth in Matchbox Macbeth and is the Fringe’s communications manager. “Just as important are her waking dreams – vivid, colourful imaginings that she experiences but can’t communicate through writing. It’s only when Percy appears, initially as a disciple to her father, that she’s inspired to give voice to her repressed creativity. “The passion and intensity of Percy and the influence of her stepsister Jane (who’s sometimes called Claire) allowed her imagination to run free, especially when the three of them joined Byron in Italy to experiment with life and love. That led to the writing of Frankenstein.” Wynveen thinks having a mother like Wollstonecraft also inhibited Mary’s writing. “The pressure of not being as good as her mother was pretty heavy,” she says. “In my opinion, she tackled Frankenstein because it wasn’t philosophy, but simply a ghost story: ‘I can’t write something like A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women,’ Wollstonecraft’s best-known work, ‘but I can write this.’” Litmus Theatre is known for its innovative staging – Matchbox Macbeth was set in a backyard shed. So what’s special about Birth Of Frankenstein? “We’re presenting it in the intimate ‘ladies’ parlour’ of a church, perfect for the theme of creation and the fact that at some level both Victor and Mary play at being godlike inventors,” says Wynveen, smiling. “The room has a number of wooden doors, suggesting a large labyrinth outside the contained space, and giving us lots of opportunities for hiding places and surprise entrances.” Perfect, in other words, for a preHalloween show. 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

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UBL MAIN EVENT III The Universal B-Boy

League presents championship breakdancing featuring B-Boy battles between Team Toronto vs. Team Montreal and others. Oct 20, doors 6 pm. $15-$20. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. bboyleague.org.

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presents Malagan dancer La Lupi in a headlining performance showcase, plus films, art, workshops and more. Runs to Oct 20, performances Oct 18-19, Sat 8 pm, Sun 1 pm. $45-$90 (see website for info on other festival events, venues, etc.). Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. torontoflamencofestival.com. 3

theatre listings How to find a listing

Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-Nighters are one-offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK). The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook H = Halloween-related event

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All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Theatre, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include title, author, producer, brief synopsis, times, range of ticket prices (include stu/srs discounts and PWYC days), venue name and address and box office/info phone number. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Opening HBIRTH OF FRANKENSTEIN adapted by the company (Litmus Theatre). This site-specific production fuses Mary Shelley’s gothic novel with the dramatic personal circumstances that inspired her to write it. (See story, this page.) Previews Oct 22. Opens Oct 23 and runs to Nov 3, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $30, stu $20, preview pwyc. Saint Luke’s United Church, 353 Sherbourne, Parlour. litmustheatre.com. THE DOUBLE by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Tarragon Theatre/TheatreRUN). An anxious government clerk tries desperately to fit in with a grotesque society in this multidisciplinary adaptation of the novella. Previews to Oct 22, Tue-Sat 8 pm. Opens Oct 23 and runs to Nov 24, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$53, rush $13, pwyc on Oct 15. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. FARTHER WEST by John Murrell (Soulpepper). A prostitute seeks independence from male control in 1800s western Canada. Opens Oct 17 and runs to Nov 9, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. THE HOUSE OF YES by Wendy MacLeod (Last Priority Productions). A dysfunctional family passes a tense Thanksgiving when the oldest son arrives with his new fiancée. Opens Oct 23 and runs to Oct 27, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun 2 pm. $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. redsandcastletheatre.com. MAKE ‘EM LAUGH (Windmill Theatre). The company presents a cabaret of funny songs from musical theatre shows. Oct 18-19, FriSat 8 pm. $30. Unitarian Congregation Great Hall, 84 South Service Rd, Mississauga. 905483-5702, windmilltheatre.com. NO ROMANCE by Nancy Harris (Toronto Irish Players). Various characters confront their innermost secrets in this play set in three separate acts. Opens Oct 17 and runs to Nov 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $18; opening night $50, Oct 24 $10/pwyc. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-440-2888, torontoirishplayers.com. SAVAGE IN LIMBO by John Patrick Shanley (Bob Kills Theatre). Various 32-year olds seek love, sex and a way out of their dead-end lives. Opens Oct 22 and runs to Nov 3, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $20. The Downstage, 798 Danforth. savageintoronto.com. PRAYERS FOR THE NEW WORLD by Laura Cock-

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Michael Oosterom (left), Brian Henson and Tyler Bunch demonstrate puppet power in Puppet Up (see Q&A at nowtoronto.com/ stage).

burn-Tulk (Glasswater Theatre). The scripts of two plays are woven together using music and movement for a night of storytelling. Previews Oct 17. Opens Oct 18 and runs to Nov 2, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mats Oct 26 and Nov 2 at 2 pm. $25, stu $18. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, glasswater.ca. Puppet Up: Uncensored (Mirvish). Puppets from the Jim Henson Company are used in this mashup of puppetry and improvised comedy for grown-ups. Opens Oct 22 and runs to Nov 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 4 pm. $19-$79. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. A Skull In Connemara by Martin McDonagh (Fly on the Wall Theatre). Staged reading of the play about a village gravedigger who digs up the old dead to make room for the new. Oct 20-21, Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. Pwyc. Fionn MacCool’s Pub, 181 University. flyonthewalltheatre.ca. A Story Before Time by Drew Hayden Taylor (Kaha:wi Dance Theatre/the Banff Centre). Original music, dance and theatre bring this Onkwehonwe (First Nation) creation story to life. Opens Oct 17 and runs to Oct 24, see website for schedule. $15-$24. Young

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People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. You Should Have Stayed Home by Tommy Taylor (Praxis Theatre). Taylor performs his show about his arrest and detention during the G20 summit in 2010. Actors and community members will play the role of other detainees. Previews Oct 17. Opens Oct 18 and runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. 1-800-204-0855, praxistheatre.com. Yukonstyle by Sarah Berthiaume (Canadian Stage/Faculty of Fine Arts, York University). Three unlikely roommates endure the winter while the Robert Pickton murder trial plays out on TV. Opens Oct 17 and runs to Oct 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 1:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

Previewing Le Fa Le Do by Luc Moquin (Théâtre français de Toronto/Théâtre de la Catapulte). An archivist finds an old tape of a woman singing Fado music and enters a world of political intrigue in his quest to find her. Previews Oct 23-24.

Opens Oct 25 and runs to Nov 2, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $28-$57, some pwyc/rush available. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley, Upstairs. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com.

One-Nighters

An Afternoon Of English Song (Free Concert Series). Artists of the COC Ensemble Studio celebrate Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday with a selection of songs. Oct 22 at noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. The Case Of The Dancing Princesses (Little Red Theatre). A king hires a detective to find out where his daughters go at night in this family show. Oct 18 at 6:30 pm. $5. Emmanuel Howard Park United Church, 214 Wright. 416533-8848, littleredtheatre.on.ca. The Company We Keep (Theatre 20). Adam Brazier hosts an all-request cabaret. Oct 20 at 7 pm. $20. The Jazz Bistro, 251 Victoria. theatre20.com. Exit by Isaac Luy (Festival of Images and Words). Luy performs his show about what it means to be an immigrant through the eyes of a clown. Oct 18 at 8 pm. $8, stu/srs $5. Glendon Campus, 2275 Bayview, York Hall. festivalofimagesandwords.ca. In Conversation With Dr. John Mighton (Hart House Theatre). The ñ theatre artist talks to Kathleen Gallagher.

Oct 18 at 7:30 pm. $10. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. Industry Mixer Night (Theatre Bassaris). Night for emerging indie artists, companies and theatre scene enthusiasts. Oct 19 at 7 pm. $10 for indie artist/fans (RSVP to info@ theatrebassaris.com). Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. theatrebassaris.com. Jason Bishop: The Paranormal Tour (Rose Theatre). Bishop performs sleight of hand, illusions and close-up magic. Oct 18 at 8 pm. $38-$54. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-8742800, rosetheatre.ca.

ñLiza & Barbara... Together At Last

(Angelwalk Theatre). Jennifer Walls and Gabi Epstein play the two divas in a cabaret funder for the company. Oct 19 at 7 pm. $40$75. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 1-855-985-2787, angelwalk.ca.

The MacMillan Theatre: 50 Operatic Years

(Free Concert Series). U of T Opera Division preview of their 2013/14 season. Oct 23 at noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. Sopa De Letras by Benjamin Gomez Jimenez

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Almost But Not Quite Touching by the Company (Tough Toots Theatre Company). This cabaret-style show looks at relationships, gender variance, one-night stands, queerness, love and pain. Runs to Oct 19, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $15-$20, stu $5-$7. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, facebook.com/ events/324732274338392. ...And Stockings For The Ladies by Attila Clemann (Harold Green Jewish Theatre/Rustwerk ReFinery). A Canadian airman helps Jewish refugees in post-WWII Germany in this solo show (see review, this page). Runs to Oct 24, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mat Wed 1 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$60. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-7330545, hgjewishtheatre.com. NNNN (JK) The Best Brothers by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre). MacIvor’s crowd-pleaser follows two siblings who, after the tragicomic death of their mother, bicker over her funeral plans while avoiding the petty rivalries and jealousies that have plagued them all their lives. Dean Gabourie directs the play with a minimum of fuss, bringing out MacIvor’s unique blend of laughs and genuine emotion, and the actors (MacIvor and John Beale) are skilful. But the play feels slight. Runs to Oct 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $27-$53. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNN (GS) La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini (Canadian Opera Company). Director John Caird’s production of the familiar warhorse takes the professions of Puccini’s bohemians literally, which means painter Marcello dabs paint onto the set and poet Rodolfo takes notes on his girlfriend Mimì’s illness. The result is a fascinating, if occasionally cool, version of the opera, with lived-in performances by the leads and dramatic playing by the COC orchestra, helmed by Carlo Rizzi. Runs to Oct 30, see website for schedule. $12-$365.

De Colores Festival Of New Works (Alameda Theatre Company). The festiñ val showcasing Latin-Canadian playwrights

features Bruce Gibbons, Jefferson Guzman, Flavia Hevia and Rosa Laborde. Runs to Oct 18, Thu-Fri 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $13, pass $40. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. 416-5047529, alamedatheatre.com. Dinner At Seven-Thirty (Theatre Rusticle). This adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves follows six friends from childhood to death through a reunion dinner. Runs to Oct 20, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $18$31, Sun pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, t heatrerusticle. org/Theatre_Rusticle. Doubt by John Patrick Shanley (Rose Theatre). A feisty nun suspects a priest of improper conduct at a 60s Bronx Catholic school. Runs to Oct 20, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30. 1 Theatre Lane, Studio 2, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca. Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet (FYI Productions). Real estate salesmen struggle to survive in their cutthroat industry. Runs to Oct 20, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $20. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. ticketwise.ca. I Love Lucy – Live On Stage by Kim Flagg and Rick Sparks (Mirvish). Be a member of the studio audience in this adaptation of the 50s TV show. Runs to Nov 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-

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by Attila Clemann (RustWerk Re Finery/Harold Green Jewish Theatre). At the Studio Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts (5040 Yonge). To October 24. $30$60. 416-733-0545. See Continuing, this page. Rating: NNNN

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Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNnN (GS) Crash by Pamela Mala Sinha (Theatre Passe Muraille). In this remount of Sinha’s Dora Award-winning solo show, the playwright plays an unnamed woman whose memories of an earlier trauma are triggered by attending her father’s funeral. The poetic script is often vague and elliptical, but under Alan Dilworth’s direction, the design elements make up for the script and performance’s shortcomings. Runs to Oct 19, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15-$27.50, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. NNN (GS) A Damn Fine Nite Of Actors (The Junes Company/Monday Nite Actors). Canadian actors from film and TV perform in seven short oneact plays. Runs to Oct 20, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 1 pm. $20, Sun pwyc. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. d amnfineactors.com.

Brendan McMurtry-Howlett brings a paradeof characters to life in ...And Stockings For The Ladies.

You never know what you’ll find in family letters. Attila Clemann, going through the correspondence of his step-grandfather, Ted Aplin, a Canadian military man stationed in Germany just after the Second World War, discovered the seeds of a moving, unknown episode of mercy. The story is the inspiration and heart of …And Stockings For The Ladies, which focuses on Aplin and his junior, named Daniel Friedman in the play, who were posted near Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Without informing his superiors, Aplin collaborated with aid workers to bring material and spiritual support to its recently liberated inmates, notably the children, who suddenly, magically, had the chance of a future. We see not only their activities in Germany but also Aplin’s family back home, where his pregnant wife and several children are coping with an absent husband and father. It’s an inspired idea to present this

(Festival of Images & Words). Performance of the kids’ play by the Mexican playwright. Oct 20 at 2 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. festivalofimagesandwords.ca. HTales Of Fright (Brian Finch/Erin Rodgers). Freaky tales are told by Jordan Sowunmi, Laila Gomes and others. Oct 21 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Rustic Owl Gallery, 993 Bloor W. facebook.com/ groups/533597603322239.

SOULPEPPER.CA TARA NICODEMO as May Buchanan

story of 20-plus characters as a solo show. Brendan McMurtry-Howlett, who’s been with the production since its premiere, gives a bravura performance under Zach Fraser’s assured direction, using physicality and different voices to create believable figures. He also voices and manipulates several puppets, all of which represent camp survivors. The writing here is sensitive, poetic and carefully crafted – the most memorable part of the production, especially in the story arc of Hanka, a woman who finds freedom in chocolate and fairy-tale hope in the promise of a spin on the dance floor. The emotional highlight, though, is the picnic on which Aplin and Fried-

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man take the freed children. A combination of humour, irony and just plain fun, the scene of human need and compassion is a marvel of economy, both in its writing and performance. Clemann has added material to the script since its 2007 Fringe debut, turning it into a two-act work. The result is a more episodic show in which not all the elements are successfully integrated. The story of the young liberated Jews trying to get to Palestine is thrill ing, and we’d like to hear more about it. But the rift between Ted and Daniel isn’t as clearly set up and leads to a conclusion that’s not as powerful or JON KAPLAN touching as it might be.

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theatre review

Affairs amuse THE NORMAN CONQUESTS: TABLE MANNERS and LIVING TOGETHER by Alan Ayck-

theatre listings

Sarah Mennell (left), Fiona Reid, Albert Schultz and Laura Condlln exhibit some funny Table Manners.

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bourn (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre (50 Tank House). Run to November 16 in rep with Round And Round The Garden; schedule at soulpepper.ca. $51-$68, stu $32, rush $5-$22. 416-866-8666. See Continuing, this page. Rating: NNNN (Table); NNN (Living)

Extramarital affairs have rarely been as funny as in The Norman Conquests, Alan Ayckbourn’s clever three-play cycle (Table Manners, Living Together and Round And Round The Garden, which can be seen in any order) that starts with a planned naughty weekend and ends up as a family-sized series of comic misunderstandings and mismatched relationships. Annie (Laura Condlln), country house caregiver for her ill mother, plans a fling with Norman (Albert Schultz), a librarian married to her elder sister, Ruth (Sarah Mennell). In order to go away, she’s asked her brother, Reg (Derek Boyes), and his tightly wound wife, Sarah (Fiona Reid), to stay with their mother. Also wandering around the house is Tom (Oliver Dennis), Annie’s sort-of boyfriend, who’s always metaphorically two steps behind everyone else. Ayckbourn’s skilful plotting has the

weekend’s action – it’s not a big reveal to say that the intended rendezvous doesn’t go off as planned – set in three different places, one per play: the living room, dining room and garden. As a character exits the action in one play, she or he enters another script but continues the same story. Under Ted Dykstra’s direction, the actors get most of the laughs, though in Living Together the rhythms aren’t yet as secure as they might be. Schultz’s hangdog Norman, a combination of annoying, needy and charming, admits his dull assistant librarian exterior masks a lively, rolypoly gigolo. Reid shines as OCD, high-

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musical review

Don’t miss Mis LES MISéRABLES by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (Cameron Mackintosh/Mirvish). At the Princess of Wales (300 King West). Limited run. $35$130. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. See Continuing, this page. Rating: NNNN

There are too few moments of transcendence at the theatre, but one of them happened last week at the Princess of Wales, when Ramin Karimloo held the purest, gentlest, most angelic note at the end of Bring Him Home, escaped convict Jean Valjean’s plea to God to bring his adoptive daughter’s boyfriend to safety. The song is apropos. It’s a theatrical homecoming for Karimloo, who was born in Tehran but grew up in Richmond Hill before becoming a musical theatre star in the UK.

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It’s also a return home for Les Misérables itself, which ran here for years in the mid-80s and arrives in a reimagined 25th-anniversary production complete with a mostly Canadian cast and vivid new orchestrations. Directed by Laurence Connor and James Powell, this version is simultaneously majestic and intimate. Gone is the revolving stage, which was so helpful in moving along novelist Victor Hugo’s complex plot about justice, love and revolutionary fervour through half a century in 19th-century France. But until the clunky denouement, which has always been anticlimactic, the thing still moves with the speed of a shot cannon ball. Projections of Hugo’s own drawings serve as a backdrop to the action – in which Valjean (Karimloo) and his ward, Cosette (Samantha Hill), are pursued over decades by the single-minded InspectorJavert (Earl Carpenter) – and quite effectively depict France’s in-

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strung Sarah, repositioning the dining room chairs within 60 seconds of entering Table Manners. Mennell, with less to do as the nearsighted, cynical Ruth, has good moments in the second half of Living Together. Condlln’s Annie shifts believably between yearning and anger. Boyes’s Reg and Dennis’s Tom are both blind to the world in their own way. The former is jolly, patronizing and most content when left alone. The always watchable Dennis mines Tom, a vet, for all his well-intentioned dullness, proving him equally inept in his dealings with animals and people. JON KAPLAN creased industrialization and the poverty and congestion of mid-century Paris. Matt Kinley’s sets evoke a crowded factory, a bustling inn and a gentrified Parisian ball efficiently. The cast is nearly perfect. The strong-voiced Carpenter makes a frighteningly focused and determined antagonist; Hill and Genevieve Leclerc, who plays Cosette’s tragic mom, Fantine, are sweet-voiced and sympathetic, even if both have some problems with diction; Perry Sherman and Mark Uhre bring youthful verve to student revolutionaries Marius and Enjolras; Melissa O’Neil makes her lovelorn Eponine rough-edged and tenderhearted, although her beautifully sung On My Own sounds a bit too top-40 for a musical; and Cliff Saunders (incredibly nimble) and Lisa Horner are delightfully nasty as the mercenary Thenardiers. But it’s Karimloo you’ll remember. He plays the early scenes with vicious ferocity, snarling through his lines with an animalistic anger, then grows in complexity and depth. His Soliloquy and Who Am I? are full of genuine emotion and philosophical searching. He leads the rousing actone closer, One Day More, with total authority. At 35, he lacks the gravitas and maturity to pull off the later scenes – despite some old-guy makeup – but like all great artists he makes you see and hear new things in this most demanding of roles. (He should also erase all memories of Hugh Jackman’s screechy movie performance.) The Mirvishes have brought Karimloo home. You owe it to yourself to see GLENN SUMI him while he’s here.

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Sun and Wed 2 pm (no show Oct 31). $49-$89. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. The Killing Game by Eugène Ionesco (art & lies productions). Fear leads to hypocrisy and selfishness during a town’s deadly plague epidemic. Runs to Oct 18, Thu 8 pm, Fri 7 and 10 pm. $22, stu/srs $18. Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst. totix.ca. Kuwaiti Moonshine/By A Thread by Tim C Murphy/Diane Flacks (Sterling Studio Theatre). One-act plays about a Canadian bootlegger in Kuwait and an anxious performance artist are presented in this double bill. Runs to Oct 26, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $20. 163 Sterling, unit 5, north entrance. sterlingstudiotheatre.com. The List by Jennifer Tremblay (No Exit Theatre). A woman neglects a neighbour’s request and inadvertently causes her death. Runs to Oct 30. Oct 17-20, Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm; Oct 2430, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $16-$20. Artisan Factory, 344 Westmoreland, #104G. thelist2013.com. Les Miserables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (Cameron Mackintosh/Mirvish). An ex-convict seeks redemption and dodges his nemesis in this musical based on the Victor Hugo novel (see review, this page). Runs to Dec 22, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm (see website for exceptions/extra shows). $35$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. mirvish.com. NNNN (GS) HNight Of The Living Dead Live by Trevor Martin, Dale Boyer and Christopher Bond (Nictophobia Films). George A Romero’s 1968 zombie film is performed in black and white in this interactive stage adaptation. Runs to Oct 27, see website for schedule. $23-$80. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, nightofthelivingdeadlive.com. The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn (Soulpepper). A librarian seeks a tryst but must dodge his wife in this trilogy where each play is viewed from a different part of the home (see review, this page). Runs to Nov 16, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN/NNN (JK) Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten (Canadian Opera Company). The outsider in an English fishing village can’t avoid the tragedy that dogs him in Britten’s best-known opera, given a first-class production by the COC and directed by Neil Armfield, who rightly makes the village folk as strong and vibrant a ‘character’ as the title figure. Johannes Debus conducts a thrilling reading of the score, which captures the unpredictability and splendour of the sea itself. Runs to Oct 26, see website for schedule. $12-$332. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNNNN (JK)

HThe Reluctant Resurrection Of Sherlock Holmes by David Belke (Scarborough Theatre

Guild). Arthur Conan Doyle kills off the Sherlock Holmes character, but is then haunted by his ghost in this comedy-mystery. Runs to Oct 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Oct 20 & 26 at 2 pm (no eve show Oct 26). $20, stu/srs $17. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. 416267-9292, theatrescarborough.com. HThe Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien (Lower Ossington Theatre). A newly engaged couple find a freaky castle in the classic rock musical. Runs to Nov 10, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $39-$49. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. Script Scrap (Steady State Theatre Project). This new works festival features workshops and readings of plays by Natalie Fingerhut, Rob Salerno, Rachel Ganz, Erin Fleck, Rain Chan and others. Runs to Oct 20, Thu-Sun doors 6:30 pm. Pwyc. lemonTree Studio, 196 Spadina (lower unit). s teadystatetheatre.com. Shrek The Musical by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori (Lower Ossington Theatre). A swamp-dwelling ogre goes on a journey of redemption in this musical based on the film. Runs to Oct 19, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20-$59. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. Venus In Fur by David Ives (Canadian Stage). Ives’s two-hander is part theatre industry send-up, part sexy/funny look at the origins of sadomasochism and part critique of gender power shifts through the ages. It’s also a bravura acting showcase, which is where this production is a bit of a letdown. As Vanda, a streetwise, struggling New Yawk actor who tries to convince a playwright (a fine Rick Miller) she’s right for a role, Carly Street is skilful, disciplined and watchable, but she never disappears into any character. There are some sound issues on the set-within-a-set, but

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there’s lots to enjoy in Jennifer Tarver’s production. Runs to Oct 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 1:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $24-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNN (GS)

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Fiddler On The Roof by Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (Stratford Festival). A Jewish patriarch in Russia clings to tradition in a changing world in this musical. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$135, srs $41-$66, stu $29. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde (Shaw Festival). Director Peter Hinton breathes new life into Wilde’s comedy of Victorian manners, using bold design touches that underscore the play’s themes and create intimacy on the large Festival Theatre stage. The leads, with the sole exception of Marla McLean in the title role, are excellent. And you’ll smile at the musical choices, which range from Chopin to Katy Perry. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagaraon-the-Lake. shawfest.com. NNNN (GS) Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). Pitting a righteous Salvation Army officer against her father, made wealthy by his munitions company, Shaw offers a series of entertaining debates on whether a morally reprehensible person can do a good deed. Nicole Underhay in the title role, Benedict Campbell as her father and Graeme Somerville as her fiancé are excellent in director Jackie Maxwell’s production. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNN (JK) The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Set in Mussolini’s Italy, director Antoni Cimolino’s take on Shakespeare’s poetic comedy/tragedy about mercy, anti-Semitism and friendship is a generally gripping production, with fine work by Tom McCamus as the merchant of the title, Michelle Giroux as Portia and Scott Wentworth as Shylock, here a complex character who never – even in the famous trial scene in which he demands a pound of flesh – fully loses the audience’s sympathy. Runs in rep to Oct 18. $49-$120, stu/srs $20$55. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, s tratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) Othello by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Director Chris Abraham’s production picks up on the speed suggested in Shakespeare’s narrative, making the tale of jealousy, suspicion, manipulation and murder move at a breakneck pace. The cast, especially Dion Johnstone in the title role and Graham Abbey as the deceitful Iago, give the text a strong emotional reading. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $49-$120, stu/srs $20-$55. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) Our Betters by W Somerset Maugham (Shaw Festival). Maugham’s littleknown 1915 comedy-drama about a group of American heiresses who have bought their way into European society puts a clever, stylish twist on the age-old theme of money not guaranteeing happiness. In the hands of director Morris Panych, it’s wildly entertaining stuff full of sexual indiscretions and bittersweet truths, with first-rate performances by Laurie Paton, Catherine McGregor, Neil Barclay and Claire Jullien as the society woman manipulating everyone. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, s hawfest.com. NNNN (GS) Tommy by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff (Stratford Festival). It has a wonky narrative arc – two parts the relentless abuse of the eponymous boy, unable to speak, see or hear since he was traumatized at age four, and one part Tommy’s cure, his vault to superstardom as a pinball wizard and subsequent rejection of fame. But the production, under Des McAnuff, is so gorgeous, thanks to Sean Nieuwenhuis’s spectacular projections, that you almost don’t notice. And the cast is excellent, especially Kira Guloien and Jeremy Kushnier as Tommy’s parents, Steve Ross as wicked Uncle Ernie and Paul Nolan as the bully Cousin Kevin. The weak link is Robert Markus as the grown-up Tommy, who can’t convey the vacancy of the sense-deprived lad and lacks the charisma to convince us he could mesmerize audiences as a pop culture hero. But the refrain ‘See me, feel me, touch me, heal me’ does bring a tear to the eye. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $52-$175. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) 3

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comedy Q&A

Harry Doupe Stand-up, Farewell To The Big Smoke

It seems like comic Harry Doupe has always been around, performing his clean and witty stand-up act, writing jokes for awards shows and mentoring new generations of funny people. But he’s leaving Toronto for his former home province of British Columbia. Before he goes, some of his favourite peers – Ron James, Tim Steeves, Kristeen von Hagen, Steve Patterson and George Westerholm – are getting together to send him off. And Doupe will have the last word, delivering jokes that span his two decades of life in Toronto. Sunday (October 20), 10 pm, at Second City. See Comedy Listings, this page. So you’re leaving Toronto. Was it us or you? When you say “us” who do you mean? If you mean Toronto, it was a little of both. If you mean NOW Magazine, definitely you. Definitely. If you were breaking up with Toronto, what would your line be? “Shouldn’t you really have finished ‘completing’ me by now?” What will you miss most about the Toronto comedy scene? Great friends. The ability to just show up at places like the bar at Second City, Spirits or the Riv and know I’ll run into a lot of people I love to see. What won’t you miss? [A small number of people] think that if something was a certain way in 1993, then it and everyone should be exactly the same now. Growth isn’t a sin or a vice.

ing inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and gave a 24-minute acceptance speech. The next year we had a monologue joke about Alanis Morissette having played the part of God in the film Dogma. “Apparently David Foster wanted it until he found it was a non-speaking part.” Advice to aspiring comics? Early in the day: “Stay true to yourself.” A little later in the day: “You need to be able to care enough not to care at all!” Late at night: “The problem with all you guys is... [then 91 minutes of free form].” Advice to veteran comics? “We can all stop holding our breath.”

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What’s been the biggest surprise about the comedy scene during your time here? At my vintage, nothing in the industry really surprises me. I’m more thrown by normal things like the realization that after all this time, I never once got off the subway at Old Mill station. I mean, it looks nice. Now that I think of it, comedy-wise I’m surprised that my Douche Bonnet bit had the legs it did.

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Comedy listings appear chronologically, and alphabetically by title or venue. H = Halloween-related event

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All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax 416-364-1166 or mail to Comedy, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include title, producer, comics (host/headliner/sketch troupe members), brief synopsis, days and times, range of ticket prices, venue name and address and box office/info phone number/website. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Thursday, October 17 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Mike

Dambra, Matt Falk and host Andrew Searles. To Oct 23, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. ACCENT ON TORONTO 12 CBC Radio presents Angelo Tsarouchas, Sabrina Jalees, Arthur Simeon, Keith Pedro, Dave Merheje, Elvira Kurt and host Jean Paul. 8 pm. $32.50, stu $27.50. The Danforth Music Hall, 147 Danforth. ticketmaster.ca. BELLEVILLE-VILLE The Joy of Camping presents an improv soap opera about small-town Canada in the 70s w/ Adam Bailey, Elizabeth Anacleto, Becky Belton, Don Berns and others. 9 pm. $10. Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. facebook.com/events/1418885884989675. COMICAL: VOLUME 13 Comedy Bar presents stand-up w/ Marc Hallworth, Ryan Long, Kathleen Phillips, Ali Hassan, headliner Jacques Barrett and host Michael Flamank. 9:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. EDDIE IFFT The Underground Comedy Club presents the comic in live stand-up shows and a Talkin’ Shit Taping (Sat). To Oct 19, ThuSat 9 pm. $20. 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761, ticketweb.ca. GIGGLES @ THE GROOVE BAR presents a weekly open-mic w/ rotating hosts. 9:30 pm. Free. 1952 Danforth. sssuperfly@hotmail.com. HIGH CLASS NUTTERS Skin of My Nuts Comedy presents a weekly show w/ host Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. $5. Jerome’s Cucina + Bar, 596 College. facebook.com/ skinofmynuts. KITCH KOMEDY presents a weekly show. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com. NOT MY DOG COMEDY presents a weekly open mic w/ host Hannah Hogan. 8:30 pm. Free. Not My Dog, 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397.

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FINALS Empire Comedy Live presents comics competing for a $1,000 grand prize w/ Aisha Alfa, Bobby Knauff, Dave Atkinson, DJ Demers, Foad HP, Sarah Monahan, Joe Vu and Simon Le Fave. 8 pm. $15. 918 Bathurst Arts Centre, 918 Bathurst. empirecomedylive.com. THE VEST SHOW IN TOWN Comedy Bar presents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 8 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. WE CAN BE HEROES Second City’s latest revue – inspired by the idea that our society’s quickly going to hell – is one of its sharpest in a while. Newcomer Connor Thompson scores big laughs playing everything from a literal bat man to a blind lifeguard, while Craig Brown channels his inner Chaplin as a balding man having a terrible day. Meanwhile, Jan Caruana proves she’s got great range in two scenes involving a precocious girl. Even the less successful sketches are sharply directed, and the set and musical design help enhance the scenes. Not to be missed. Indefinite run, TueThu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $24$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011,

Best joke you wrote for a TV gig that never made it to air? Wa-a-a-y too many to mention, but here’s one – not that it’s the best, just that I remember it (because once they’re gone from the script, they’re generally gone to me): One year at the Junos, David Foster was be-

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presents an interactive comedy hypnosis show by Brandon. 7 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets.com. THE PLAYGROUND Playful Grounds presents weekly open-mic comedy w/ hosts Kris Siddiqi and Melissa Story. 9 pm. Free. 605 College. 416-645-0484, playfulgrounds.com. STILL STANDING Creative Ideals Entertainment presents Brian Oliver Francis in a stand-up show. 7:30 pm. $16-$25. Hard Rock Cafe, 279 Yonge. creativeideals.com. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly show w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 17. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 17.

Monday, October 21 Funny guy Dylan Mandlsohn plays Yuk Yuk’s this week. secondcity.com. NNNN (GS)

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Dylan Mandlsohn. To Oct 20, Thu and Sun 8 ñ pm, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, October 18 Absolute Comedy See Thu 17. AISHA TYLER Empire Comedy Live pre-

sents the actor/comic/activist in a live show. 8 pm. $25-$30. Royal Cinema, 608 College. brownpapertickets.com.event/392451. CATCH23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly improv pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca. DON’T KILL ME (FROM LAUGHTER) Urban Comedy Network presents Anthony Engelbrecht, Ryan Hillis, Adam Jamal, Hoodo Hersi, Malika Bryce and host Big Norm. 8 pm. Free w/ nonperishable food donation. Sportster’s, 1430 Danforth. 416-778-0258. Eddie Ifft See Thu 17. HSCARY STORIES Paul Hutcheson & Chris Wilson present and host a show w/ Ali Sha A, Alex Eddington and Colin Munch (outdoors; dress for the weather). 9 pm. $10. Majlis Art Garden, 163 Walnut. majlisarts.com. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents weekly comedy featuring one of the following shows: The Duel, The Invasion, The Rewind, The Main Event. 9:30 pm. $5. St Louis Bar & Grill, 1963 Queen E. 416-637-7427. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 17. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 17.

Saturday, October 19 Absolute Comedy See Thu 17. THE BRADY PROJECT The Flying Beaver

Pubaret presents comedy by Heidi Mole dedicated to the classic TV series. To Nov 2, Saturdays 7 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets.com. COMEDY AT THE RED ROCKET presents Jordon Canes, Ben Stager, Billy Wiegand, Cam Maltby, Sally Smith-Fitch, Airees Angellakis, MC Joel West and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. r edrocketcoffee.com.

EAT TIL YU BELLY FULL, LAUGH TILL YU BELLY BUSS Leggs Catering Plus presents a comedy,

dinner and fashion show w/ comics Blakka Ellis and Mark Trinidad. Doors 5 pm. $55-$65. Elite Banquet Hall, 1850 Albion. 647-4040432, reggaemania.com/?p=13050. Eddie Ifft See Thu 17. THEATRESPORTS FALL TOURNAMENT Bad Dog Theatre presents the improv competition. To Dec 14, Saturdays 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 17. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 17.

Sunday, October 20 Absolute Comedy See Thu 17. HAPPY HOUR COMEDY Ein-Stein presents Cole Leonard, James Dalton, Karmar Hargadon, Marc Hallworth, host Tim Golden and others. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

HARRY DOUPE’S FAREWELL TO THE BIG SMOKE Second City presents Doupe in ñ his last show before returning to BC, w/ Ron James, Kristeen Von Hagen, George Westerholm, Tim Steeves and host Steve Patterson (see Q&A, this page). 10 pm. $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com/ performances/detail/1973.

HYPNOTIXXX – A SLIGHTLY NAUGHTY COMEDY HYPNOSIS SHOW The Flying Beaver Pubaret

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ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Mike Rita, Bobby Knauff, Mark DeBonis, ñ Aisha Alfa, Chris Robinson, Chris Allin, Rhian-

non Archer, Ian Lynch, Garrett Jamieson, MC Rob Pue and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and trademark improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-8157562. IMPERIAL COMEDY SHOW Imperial Pub presents 10 comics, a pro headliner and rotating hosts every week. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667, imperialcomedy.com. LAUGHABLE AT UNLOVABLE presents hosts Steph Tolev & Nick Flanagan and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents a weekly pro comic show w/ hosts Chris Allin and Brian Ward. 8 pm. Free. The Office Pub, 117 John. 416-977-1900.

Tuesday, October 22 FLAT TIRE COMEDY Amsterdam Bicycle Club

presents weekly stand-up w/ host Chrissie Cunningham and guests. 9 pm. Free. 54 the Esplanade. facebook.com/FlatTireComedy. LES IMPROBABLES Supermarket presents a biweekly show with competitive improv comedy en français. 7 pm. $5. 268 Augusta. ligueimprotoronto@gmail.com. THE OTHER DOPE SHOW Vapor Social presents weekly open-mic stand-up. 9 pm. $5. 896 College. 647-765-4422. PAINT C’est What presents the indie band’s weekly gig with comedy sets by Andrew Ivimey, Bryan Hatt, Tommy Power, Todd Van Allen and others. To Oct 29, Tuesdays 9 pm. $6. 67 Front E. cestwhat.ca. THE SKIN OF MY NUTS Sonic Espresso Bar presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 10:30 pm. Free. 60 Cecil. facebook. com/skinofmynuts. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 17. THE WILD CARD Top Shelf Comedy presents 4 pros, 4 lottery spots and one first-timer w/ hosts Chris Allin and Brian Ward. Tuesdays 8:30 pm. Free. Fox & Fiddle, 280 Bloor W. 416966-4369. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every week. $4/show. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, October 23 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

Frank Spadone, Connor Savage, Dean Young, DK Phan, Neil Griffin, Rick Jones and host Jason Harper. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up with rotating hosts Joel Buxton, DJ Demers, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Mikey Kolberg, Steve Patrick Adams and Jordan Foisy. 9:30pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. chuckleco.com. EYES ON COMEDY Gladstone Hotel presents Sean Cullen, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Andrew Ivimey, Nile Seguin, Chris Locke, host Stephen Eyes and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 1214 Queen W, Melody Bar. gladstonehotel. com. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Jesse Owens and headliner Marito Lopez. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 17. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Dom Pare. 8 pm. $13. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3

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Audio clips from interview with 12 YEARS A SLAVE’S LUPITA NYONG’O • Reviews of CARRIE and ESCAPE PLAN • and more

MICHAEL WATIER

director & actor interview Jia Zhang-ke & Zhao Tao

MAD IN CHINA

Anger, violence and wuxia intersect in a changing country By NORMAN WILNER

A TOUCH OF SIN written and directed by Jia Zhang-ke, with Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang, Zhao Tao and Luo Lanshan. A filmswelike release. 133 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (October 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80.

Jia Zhang-ke makes movies about China in transition, as his country moves from decades of hardline Communism to a more capitalist mentality. But things are changing once again in China; in Platform, The World and Still Life, his characters reacted to that transition with bemusement or confusion. In his new feature, A Touch Of Sin, ordinary people respond to new pressures – social, political, familial – with explosive violence. “A lot of people are asking me, ‘So what do you think of the future?’” Jia says through an interpreter, doing a day of press at the Toronto Film Festival with his wife and frequent star, Zhao Tao. “I believe that in order to understand where we’re going, we have to understand what we’re going through now. We have to observe it, and this is what this film is about.” A Touch Of Sin is a multi-character drama about people struggling with day-to-day life in modern-day China, where the working poor are constantly abused by those in authority. This meant taking the film in a markedly different direction than his other work; fortunate-

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ly, Jia had also been developing a project in the martial arts genre known as wuxia, so he simply borrowed its sensibility. “I applied the rubric and aesthetics of wuxia cinema to a contemporary Chinese milieu,” he says. “The four segments are filled with despair and darkness and violence, and there’s a certain sense of helplessness to the characters.” Jia says it was important that the conflicts in A Touch Of Sin have an archetypal feel despite the modern setting. “It speaks to my idea that human destiny has perhaps not changed very fundamentally over the course of history,” he says. “The [heightened] tragedy of these characters and these stories can resonate with personal stories now, and that’s my primary reason for using the language of wuxia. Previous wuxia films all told stories about feudal or ancient China, whereas my wuxia film tells a story of contemporary China.” Certainly, the storyline for Zhao’s character wouldn’t be out of place in a feudal setting: she plays a young woman struggling with her job as a receptionist in a brothel. When a pushy customer demands that she give him a massage and won’t take no for an answer, Zhao’s character becomes a knife-wielding avenger. “The way she answers violence with violence is a way for her to reclaim her self-respect,” Zhao says. “Some women, when they encounter this violence, their reaction is just to take it. In the case of my character, she decides to be

REVIEW A TOUCH OF SIN (Jia Zhang-ke) Rating: NNNNN Jia Zhang-ke’s first narrative feature since 2006’s Still Life is a sprawling drama about compromise and corruption in contemporary China that indicts… well, pretty much everybody. Characters’ personal moral failings are mirrored in mine explosions and train disasters, all overseen – or ignored – by a distracted government and a contemptuous free market. A drifter (Wang Baoqiang) viciously murders three teenage thugs who try to shake him down on a remote highway; a village crank (Jiang Wu) rails against a corrupt tycoon with an obsession that erupts into spectacular violence. (By the way, “spectacular violence” should be splashed across A Touch Of Sin’s poster; Jia doesn’t back away from the carnage of shotgun pellets or knife wounds.) But there’s more on the director’s mind than crime drama; he’s making the Chinese version of Gomorrah, using the actions of individuals to lay bare a culture awash in venality and greed. And it’s unexpectedly thrilling. NW

violent back.” “The violence in the four sequences begins at an ethical level,” Jia says. “And then I thought that these momentary acts of violence are sort of a language unto themselves – a way to express that which cannot be expressed in words.” That’s where the wuxia came in – and capturing the eerie beauty of a brutal martial arts sequence presented new challenges for both director and star. “On the level of performance, it was incredibly difficult to capture this sense of elegance and beauty,” Zhao says. “I believe this beauty that you’re describing is also the beauty of one’s selfrespect, because it’s about the moment in which you’re taking back your selfrespect. With violence.” 3 normw@ nowtoronto.com @wilnervision

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DRAMATIC DEBUT Emerging actor felt the heat while filming 12 Years A Slave By NORMAN WILNER 12 YEARS A SLAVE directed by Steve McQueen, written by

John Ridley based on the memoir by Solomon Northup, with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Paulson and Lupita Nyong’o. A Fox Searchlight release. 133 minutes. Opens Friday (October 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80.

Lupita Nyong’o makes a hell of a first impression. The Mexican-born actor, who studied drama at Yale after growing up in Kenya, delivers a stunning debut performance in Steve McQueen’s historical drama 12 Years A Slave. She plays Patsey, a slave whose misery is witnessed by Chiwetel Ejiofor’s formerly free man, Solomon Northup. Northup meets Patsey when he arrives on the Epps plantation. Their owner, Edwin (Michael Fassbender), is a brutal master; aware of his sexual relationship with Patsey, Epps’s wife (Sarah Paulson) sets out to make her life even more miserable than it already is. “The film is more emotionally dangerous than it is physically,” Nyong’o says over the phone from New York City. “For me, playing Patsey, that was the danger – the emotional vulnerability I had to put myself in.”

Nyong’o researched her role by digging through the life of the historical Patsey as recounted in Northup’s memoir. “Her relationship with her owners is very complex, because they’re parental figures,” she says. “It was kind of like Stockholm syndrome, where you’re traumatically bonded to the people who cause you the most harm, you know?” Nyong’o also visited the National Great Blacks In Wax Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, to get a sense of the physical burdens placed upon plantation slaves. “One of the first things I saw there was a 500-pound bale of cotton,” she says. “It was bigger than me, it was taller and wider and thicker, and I was met with the loftiness of this woman who picked this amount of cotton every day. “And then the heat in Louisiana did the last leg of work for me, because the heat is a character of its own. Picking cotton in the height of summer was something. Having to work in it changes the way you think.” Nyong’o has already wrapped a role in the Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop, due out in the new year, and she says she’s getting a sense of gathering buzz in the weeks since 12 Years premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. “I’m definitely having promising meetings and things,” she says. “I don’t have anything lined up yet, but you know, of course I have faith that something will come. It’s a good time. “Obviously it’s about finding the right project,” she adds with a laugh. “It’s kind of hard to follow this one.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @wilnervision

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Icky leaks THE FIFTH ESTATE (Bill Condon). 128 minutes. Opens Friday (October 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: N

The Fifth Estate stages the egoclashing between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (played in broad caricature by Benedict Cumberbatch) and second banana Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl). That Josh Singer’s screenplay is based in large part on DomscheitBerg’s book is only mentioned in an odd pre-end credits mea culpa that has Cumberbatch in character as Assange directly addressing the audience about the conflicts presented by “the anti-WikiLeaks movie.” But Singer and Condon’s escape hatch is wholly disingenuous given that the preceding two hours are spent de-

veloping the image of Assange as a self-interested liar. Beyond The Fifth Estate’s inability to even understand WikiLeaks, flattening its importance into strained political hysterics (including a subplot involving a Libyan informer hypothetically threatened by WikiLeaks’ revelations), the film is totally incompetent: sloppily framed and garishly lit, like an episode of Wizards Of Waverly Place. It has the quality of a bad TV movie rushed to market to capitalize on a zeitgeist it exhibits no traces of understanding. But with some luck and a bit of that viral dissemination stuff these internet kids seem to be so good at, the scene of Cumberbatch as Assange shimmying in the neon light of a Reykjavik nightclub will find a more fruitful second life as an endlessly re-Tumbled animated GIF. JOHN SEMLEY

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Steve McQueen rebounds from the uneven Shame with this stunning adaptation of the memoir by Solomon Northup, a free American sold into slavery in 1841 and forced to spend more than a decade concealing his identity in a series of Southern plantations before he could contact his friends in the North. Chiwetel Ejiofor is a revelation as a man forced to conceal his intelligence and compassion – his very essence – in order to survive, and Benedict Cumberbatch and McQueen regular Michael Fassbender offer diametrically opposed performances as Northup’s masters over the years. Alfre Woodard, Sarah Paulson and Michael Kenneth Williams make effective appearances, and producer Brad Pitt turns up as a good-natured Canadian. McQueen directs with a total lack of sentiment, crafting each sequence with a merciless forward momentum that compensates for the episodic nature of the narrative. NW One of the best films of the year.

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Camped out COTTAGE COUNTRY (Peter Wellington). 91 minutes. Opens Friday (October 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: NN In the spirit of films like Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave and Peter Berg’s Very Bad Things, Cottage Country is a black comedy with a high body count set against the picturesque beauty of Haliburton. The premise is promising, but this Canadian effort squanders it like the spoilsport who spends his time up north watching old VHS tapes. Tyler Labine stars as Todd, a pushover who plans to propose to his OCD girlfriend, Cammie (Malin

Akerman), at his family’s cottage. When Todd’s obnoxious, over-thetop brother (Daniel Petronijevic) and his trashy girlfriend (an effective Lucy Punch) interrupt the romantic getaway, people get killed, bodies are dismembered and the seemingly quaint couple do a very bad job of covering things up. There are some laughs to be had, and Labine and Akerman make their characters as convincing as possible. They’re limited by lazy writing that eventually leaches the fun out of a simple, familiar concept. Todd and Cammie become devices who do the unthinkable just to keep the plot from stalling. Their farfetched behaviour steers the movie toward camp before it finally veers off into its own shallow grave. RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI

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Mai days Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme). 145 minutes. Opens Friday (October 18) at the Carlton. See Times, page 86. Rating: NNNN

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme’s lovely documentary Le Joli Mai has been out of circulation for a while, which makes this new 50th-anniversary restoration, produced by the Archives Françaises du Film, doubly revelatory. Reacting to the portrait of their city captured in the 1961 documentary Chronicle Of A Summer, Marker and Lhomme spent May 1962 wandering around Paris with a camera, interviewing people and photographing pretty much anything that caught their interest.

The result captures a city in transition: the Algerian ceasefire was holding, and for the first time since 1939 France was not at war. Marker and Lhomme, who would go on to a brilliant career as the cinematographer of Army Of Shadows, The Mother And The Whore and dozens more, divide Le Joli Mai into two parts. A Prayer From The Eiffel Tower focuses on the city’s emotional state through personal interviews; The Return Of Fantômas considers the larger social and political moods of the moment. You can see the first glimmers of the expressionistic essay format Marker would make his own in the decades to come. Le Joli Mai is far more structured than Sans Soleil or A Grin Without A Cat or Remembrance Of Things To Come. But it’s adventurous and inventive on its own terms, and essential viewing for the auteur’s admirers.

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Weak Heart ONE TRACK HEART: THE STORY OF KRISHNA DAS (Jeremy Frindel). 74 minutes. Opens Friday (October 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: NN

Singer Krishna Das started life as Jeffrey Kagel, a morose kid playing the blues on Long Island, before he travelled to India, devoured the teachings of the Maharaj-ji and devoted himself to kirtan, a form of Indian devotional music. In sketching Das’s journey toward spiritual fulfilment, concert tours and Grammy nominations, One Track Heart essentially tells one story three times – that of a tormented seeker who undergoes a near-paralyzing existential crisis, usually exacerbated by

excessive drug use, only to recover his sense of purpose in faith and song. Writer/director Jeremy Frindel doesn’t have to work hard to convince us of Das’s cultural significance. Among the interview subjects who declare their deep love for Das are science journalist Daniel Goleman, a singer by the name of Wah! and legendary record producer Rick Rubin. But Frindel’s serviceable profile is far from profound, asking few questions about, for example, the roots of Das’s internal strife and desperate longing for gurus. One Track Heart would have benefited from fewer generalizations about enlightenment and more engagement with the material world. At least Das himself makes a compelling subject. Witty and frank, he seems always to be struggling to find a balance between ambition and humility. “Even when I think I’m a wave,” he JOSÉ TEODORO says, “I’m just ocean.”

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Atayal tale THE CRYING BAMBOO FOREST (Umin Boya). 78 minutes. Subtitled. Screens today (Thursday, October 17), 12:30 pm, at TIFF Bell Lightbox 3. Rating: NNN

Ghosts of the Old World mix uneasily with New World people and customs in Umin Boya’s debut feature set mostly in the lush green forests of T aiwan. When Fa’aye and his young grandson Zhiqi are caught taking bamboo shoots in state-owned property that once belonged to their Atayal culture, the old man is arrested while the boy escapes. Meanwhile, Fa’aye’s harried bureaucrat son (and Zhiqi’s father) tries to deal with the incident. Boya maintains a quiet, contemplative tone that occasionally feels monotonous, and he gets unsubtle performances from his actors. But the locations are stunning, and the juxtaposition of two radically different ways of life provides stunning tableaux, especially in the amusing final shot. GLENN SUMI

River rerun La Nouvelle Rupert (Nicolas Renaud). 67 minutes. Subtitled. Sunday (October 20), 10:30 am, at TIFF Bell Lightbox 3. Rating: NN

It’s unfortunate that Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky’s Watermark is currently out in theatres. That film deals with modern industry’s influence on natural waterways much more effectively than Nicolas Renaud’s La Nouvelle Rupert. Since the 1970s, rivers in the James Bay region have been dammed for hydropower, creat-

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ing short-term jobs for some of the region’s indigenous people but altering the waterways (in many cases rivers have almost dried up) and the supply of fish they’re used to catching and eating. Renaud’s doc is dull, repetitive and lacks a talking head compelling enough to hold our interest. Photographer Ian Diamond, son of Waskaganish Cree Grand Chief Billy Diamond, documented the effects of the hydroelectric projects for years, but Renaud doesn’t use the photos effectively or shape Diamond’s statements into anything with momentum. The biggest human interest comes from a cafeteria GS worker who knows all the workers’ names.

112 minutes. Opens Friday (October 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: NNN

How do you make a movie that takes sex addiction seriously? Well, you can go Steve McQueen’s route and deliver the alienating, stylized Shame, or you can take a much safer route, which is what Stuart Blumberg does in Thanks For Sharing. For his directorial debut, screen writer Blumberg (Keeping The Faith, The Kids Are All Right) has made a totally conventional addiction narrative focusing on three New Yorkers who all attend the same support meetings. Mike (Tim Robbins) has been in the program for a decade and a half, his paternal confidence masking major

control issues. Neil (Josh Gad) is a new member ordered into therapy by a judge. And Adam (Mark Ruffalo) has been clean for five years and has met a nice young woman (Gwyneth Paltrow), but her last boyfriend was an alcoholic and she’s leery of dating another addict, so he doesn’t tell her about his history. The conflicts that follow are entirely predictable, which is disappointing, especially since the actors do a uniformly great job of playing to the reality of the material. Robbins, Gad and particularly Ruffalo capture the desperation and misery of men locked in an eternal struggle with their own needs, and Paltrow and Alecia Moore (better known as the singer Pink) are excellent at fleshing out their underwritten supporting roles. The cast kept me watching even when Blumberg was just going Norman Wilner through the motions.

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Decaying Meat Fresh Meat (Danny Mulheron, New Zealand). 91 minutes. Friday (October 18), 11:15 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2. Rating:

NN This year’s Witching Hour entry, Kiwi movie Fresh Meat unfolds over one long day. A gang of outlaws on the run from the police take refuge in the home of an academic (Temuera Morrison) and a celebrity chef (Nicola Kawana) – who also happen to be cannibals – just as their daughter (Hanna Tevita) comes home from college. Considerable carnage follows. Director Danny Mulheron, who cut his teeth as a performer and co-writer on Peter Jackson’s Meet The Feebles, grabs a number of grindhouse tropes – cannibals, cults, criminals and a little samesex attraction between Tevita and Kate Elliott’s shotguntoting femme fatale – and throws them all at the wall to see what sticks. Most of it winds up on the metaphorical floor in a slimy, goopy mess, but I suspect that’s kind NORMAN WILNER of the point. An Atayal father and son hear The Crying Bamboo Forest.

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Carrie (D: Kimberly Peirce, 99 min) Director Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry) takes on this reimagining of Stephen King’s first novel (already filmed by Brian De Palma) about a shy high schooler who discovers she’s got telekinetic powers. Look for the Toronto locations – including Jarvis Collegiate – as well as stars Chlöe Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore and Judy Greer. Both open Friday (October 18). Screened after press time – see reviews October 18 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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rom-com material that doesn’t afford the opportunity to do anything more. Pushing 30 and determined to get hitched, Patton’s flight attendant, Montana, embarks on a jetlag-inducing mission: tracking her exboyfriends’ travel itineraries and stalking them to find out whether they’ve grown into marriage material. All the while, the obvious love of her life (a fine Derek Luke) is sending smoke signals, but Montana won’t notice until genre rules dictate otherwise. The rom-com typically arrives with its own baggage: contrivances, broad comedy and plot turns that are as mapped out as a flight plan. Writer/director relents to such clichés but doesn’t always feel confined by them, like an undemanding airline passenger who can stretch out in economy class. There are actually a number of surprising moments bursting with acerbic wit. 96 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24

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café strapped with a bomb, heads to Palestine to find out how she became radicalized. Most of the characters function as types espousing ideologies, but Suliman’s terrific performance gives the film weight as something more than a broad political allegory. Subtitled. 99 min. NNN (JS) Canada Square

fan of the novelist who heads to Austenland, “the world’s only immersive Austen experience,” in hopes of finding romance. Though the meta-costume drama premise is promising, it’s gracelessly executed. 96 min. N (Kiva Reardon) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant

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(Claire Denis) is writer/ director Denis’s bloodiest, ugliest work since 2001’s Trouble Every Day, but her films have always bristled with a tension that suggests awful, awful things bubbling just under the surface. Your basic French neo-noir, Bastards is a revenge story where virtually every character seeks payback on someone for something. The ostensible hero is Marco (Vincent Lindon), a mariner who abandons his commission to come home to Paris when his niece (Lola Créton) is hospitalized. Marco embarks on an affair with the wife (Chiara Mastroianni) of the wealthy industrialist (Michel Subor) deemed responsible for Marco’s familial misery… but Marco’s not the only one with an agenda. After some clumsy chronological shuffling in the opening movement, Bastards glides sharklike through a series of increasingly awful events, foreshadowing ever greater horrors in moments of curious beauty. Never before has an ear of corn seemed quite so obscene. Subtitled. 100 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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unhinged wife of a corporate sleazebag (Alec Baldwin) who moves to San Francisco to live with her sister (Sally Hawkins) when he’s busted. Expect Oscar to come calling on the amazing BLACKFISH (GabriBlanchett. 98 min. ela CowperNNNN (SGC) thwaite) looks at the EXPANDED REVIEWS Canada Square, Carlton case of Tilikum, a 550nowtoronto.com Cinema, Interchange kilo bull orca who at30, Kingsway Theatre, tacked a SeaWorld trainer SilverCity Mississauga, in 2010. The film offers a psychological Yonge & Dundas 24 profile of Tilikum and, in turn, of the humans who want to keep animals in captivCAPTAIN PHILLIPS (Paul Greengrass) stars Tom Hanks in a fantastic performance as ity, then widens to an investigation of the the eponymous skipper of the commercial labour economy of whale-hunting and vessel Maersk Alabama, which in 2009 was capture, the spectacle of training them for boarded by four Somali pirates who evenslack-jawed tourists and SeaWorld’s move tually took Phillips hostage in a lifeboat and into globalization by selling whales to led Navy warships on a slow-speed chase poorly equipped parks across the globe. 83 through the Indian Ocean. The actor invests min. NNNN (JS) a one-dimensional character with his own Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Kingsway Theatre humanity and geniality; he gives a totally BLUE JASMINE (Woody Allen) stars transparent performance that allows us to Cate Blanchett as the emotionally see when he’s blatantly lying to his captors

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while appearing outwardly helpful. And in the last five minutes of Captain Phillips, Hanks opens up to the camera in a way that feels almost uncomfortably intimate. The rest of the film is far more problematic, with director Greengrass applying the tense, jangled docudrama aesthetic of United 93 to another true-life hostage crisis. Some subtitles. 134 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

CARRIE (Kimberly Peirce) 96 min. See Also Opening, page 78. Opens Oct 18 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn) is a merely okay sequel to the brilliant original. The animation, colour work and 3D are all highly polished, and the film has about six laugh-outloud moments but not many small or subtle ones. The story sends young inventor Flint Lockwood and his pals back to his island home to shut down his food-making machine, now churning out food animals like shrimpanzees, tacodiles and watermelephants. The characters and story are flat, the pro-social messages are laid on with a trowel, and there’s nothing resembling the surreal subversion of the first movie’s equation of food and shit. 94 min. NN (Andrew Dowler) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

Bleeder with a special video introduction by Nicolas Winding Refn Nicolas Winding Refn reunited his Pusher cast for this bleak and brutal powerhouse of a film about a blue-collar guy in a dead-end job who descends into a vortex of self-loathing and domestic violence.

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tale of demonic infestation, with married demonologists trying to save a Rhode Island family from an evil spirit that came with their nice new home. Wan has fun mimicking the textures and aesthetics of movies of the period, but he’s basically just remaking his own Insidious with a few modest tweaks and a polyester wardrobe. 112 min. NN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

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turn him around. The script is sometimes super-savvy – especially when it makes the connections between X-rated material and everyday advertising, and when it touches on family influences, like Jon’s crude dad (Tony Danza). But it’s just a little too on the nose, and it contains a ton of clips from skin flicks, which raises the question: should an anti-porn film be reproducing so much of this toxic material? 90 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

Elysium (Neill Blomkamp) is virtually identical, plot-wise, to the director’s wildly overrated 2009 debut, and fans of District 9’s spectacular carnage and garbled political posturing will doubtless find this one even more meaningful and relevant and stuff. The Phantom Menace still has its defenders, too. Some subtitles. 109 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

Heinzerling) is a colourful, beautifully directed and touching look at one of the more unusual art couples, Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, Japanese emigrés in NYC. It’s a complex, feminist look at the act of creation, but also a touching portrait of enduring love. Subtitled. 82 min. NNNNN (GS) Kingsway Theatre

hansson, who’s terrific), his latest gorgeous but demanding conquest. Julianne Moore turns up as a grieving woman who could

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(Nicole Holofcener) is an alt romantic dramedy about a masseuse (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who can’t reveal to her glamorous new client (Catherine Keener) that she’s dating the

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woman’s ex (James Gandolfini). It has all the qualities that make writer/director Holofcener so good: a great cast, complicated relationships and smart writing. Louis-Dreyfus is surprisingly nuanced as the needy Eva, and fuhgeddabout The Sopranos – Gandolfini has a lovable charm as the schleppy ex. The always watchable Toni Collette is on board as Eva’s best friend. As in Please Give, Holofcener displays a clear eye for relationships between parents and teens, never using the kids as mere devices. And though she has taken a bit of the edge off the proceedings, her dialogue is as sly as ever. 93 min. NNNN (SGC) Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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r ecaps the career of design team Lella and Massimo Vignelli, whose work includes everything from graphics (including logos for American Airlines and Bloomingdale’s) to furniture, books, jewellery and architecture. Their motto is “If you can’t find it, design it.” They believe obsolescence is unethical and insist that the function of design is to improve the environment – all inspiring ideas. But none of it matters without the relationship between the two. They’ve been partners – in marriage and business – for over 50 years. Massimo is the visionary and Lella the realist. But how did they meet? When did they recognize their affinity? Has there ever been a difficult moment between them? Certainly, the gobsmacked curators, designers and collaborators interviewed by the filmmakers aren’t going near that information. Maybe a trek back to Italy to talk to some people who knew the team in their early days could have filled in the blanks. 80 min. NNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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Coffin) has about 35 minutes of story and an hour of frickin’ minion jokes. If you love watching tubular little yellow guys run around jabbering at each other and making fart noises, this will be your new favourite thing. If you’re me, you end up with a headache and a sense that the world hates you. I did appreciate the running gag about the guacamole sadness hat. 98 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Colossus, Kingsway Theatre

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(Matt Johnson) plays like the response to a dare: “Betcha can’t make a school shooting movie funny!” Impossibly, director Johnson succeeds. He and co-star Owen Williams play Matt and Owen, two dorky 10th-graders working on a film about maladjusted kids who avenge themselves on the high school bullies. For Matt, the boundaries between his real life and the film are a bit leaky. As he begins collecting blueprints of his school and pinning up photos of bullies, it becomes clear that he’s planning something more than a film. Johnson’s crafted a finely tuned portrait of high school alienation, a film as alert to the realities of bullying as it is eerily in step with the particularities and peculiarities of life as a nerd. 83 min. NNNN (JS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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The Family (Luc Besson) is a forgettable

and not very funny comedy carried by the charm of stars Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones and by director Besson’s skills with camera and editor’s scissors. Pfeiffer and De Niro, with Dianna Agron and John D’Leo as teen daughter and son, play the titular family, living under the witness protection program but still carrying on with crime. The cast plays for likeability, not laughs. With few jokes and the action that’s no more bizarre than in any gangster flick, there’s not much comic edge. Some subtitles. 110 min. NN (AD) Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

ñ15 Reasons to Live

(Alan Zweig) is director Zweig’s most moving and profound documentary yet. It features interviews with people who have discovered a philosophy that gives their life purpose, meaning and ultimately happiness. One man going through a mid-life crisis feels the need to walk around the world, so he embarks on a literal journey for 11 years. An ex-con finds solace in balancing rocks in the Humber River. A former mountain climber survives a debilitating illness with the support of his true friends. Some vignettes are more watchable than others, and with 15 stories to cram into 83 minutes, there’s no room for lots of detail. But the tales are beautifully edited and effectively shot. The green and red traffic lights on Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge provide a terrific visual metaphor to open and close the film. Zweig also includes two of his own reflections, including one about his friendship with the late actor and writer Tracy Wright that is poignant, truthful and heartfelt. 83 min. NNNN (GS) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

The Fifth Estate (Bill Condon) 128 min.

See review, page 76. N (JS) Opens Oct 18 at 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Ryan White) tracks Freda Kelly, who ran the Beatles’ official fan club through the band’s 11-year history while working as a secretary first for manager Brian Epstein and then for the Beatles themselves, never flaunting her connection, not even telling her children about it. Kelly’s amazing enough, but what makes the doc essential is its inti mate portrait of the band, seen from the unique perspective of a woman who grew up with them. 86 min. NNNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) plays as

both an immediate, nail-biting thriller and a stunning technological accomplishment, following two astronauts (Sandra Bullock, George Clooney) stranded in orbit and cut off from mission control. It’s not science fiction – it’s set firmly in the

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present day, and the stakes are as intimate as they come. Cuarón’s screenplay, cowritten with his son Jonás, is a triumph of psychological realism and narrative efficiency; there isn’t a wasted shot or an extraneous line of dialogue. There are things here you’ve never seen before; this is a great, unprecedented picture. One word of warning, though: even if you don’t have vertigo, the IMAX 3D version may well leave you with it. 91 min. NNNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

Grown Ups 2 (Dennis Dugan) is an excuse

for Adam Sandler and his posse to loiter onscreen as adults playing hooky (art imitates life), milking money just by being present. The jokes are aimless and contrived and often lack punchlines. Sandler could very well have scribbled this mess on the back of the cheque he received to produce a sequel, any sequel – just a movie with the number two in it, the same number of times you will laugh. 101 min. N (RS) Interchange 30

ñHannah Arendt

(Margarethe von Trotta) tracks the fallout from political theorist Hannah Arendt’s (Barbara Sukowa) coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial. She wrote that he didn’t know how to think and therefore couldn’t make moral choices, and suggested Jewish leaders may have collaborated with the Nazis. Sukowa gives a superb performance, and Janet McTeer is a delight as writer Mary McCarthy. Some subtitles. 110 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

Haute Cuisine (Christian Vincent) is the

story of Elysée Palace chef Hortense Laborie, based on real-life chef Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch, who cooked for François Mitterand. Though the narrative takes on tensions between Laborie, macho chefs, the president’s doctors and bureaucratic beancounters, director Vincent’s clear focus is the food. Sourcing her delectables from her own and other nearby farms, Laborie (Catherine Frot) whips up some incredible fare for the president (Jean d’Ormesson) while bantering playfully with her young sous, Nicolas (Arthur Dupont). A parallel plot line follows Laborie to the Antarctic, where she cooked for scientists at a research centre after her stint at the Palace. But every time the scene shifts to the isolated outpost, you can’t wait to get back to Paris. Frot is excellent as the not always likeable meticulous chef. But the food’s the thing here. Plan to chow down after the screening. You’ll definitely feel the need. Subtitled. 95 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square

In a World... (Lake Bell) is one of

those rare comedies that get more complex as they go along. Set in the world

One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das (Jeremy Frindel) 74 min. See re-

view, page 77. NN (Jose Teodoro) Opens Oct 18 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

Parkland (Peter Landesman) turns key

of Los Angeles voice-over artists, Bell’s directorial debut embraces eccentricity and complication, and finds room for real social commentary. This is a movie of odd, unexpected delights. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

Insidious: Chapter 2 (James Wan) might be one of the worst sequels ever made. The continued saga of the haunting of the Lambert family (headed by Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne) only gets more convoluted and sillier, the scares and twists are weak and the set pieces devoid of scares. The first film is a prerequisite to know what’s going on, but this still makes little sense and feels perfunctory and laughable rather than exciting. 105 min. N (Andrew Parker) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 Italy: Love It, or Leave It (Gustav Hofer,

Luca Ragazzi) follows Hofer and Ragazzi on a road trip through Italy to decide whether they should stay or move to Berlin. The major entertainment value comes from watching the relationship between the two filmmakers, even though some of the dialogue seems scripted. Call it an anti-travelogue – given what’s on view, this is Tourism Italy’s worst nightmare. Subtitled. 75 min. NNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

Kick-Ass 2 (Jeff Wadlow) ditches most of the real-world superhero ingenuity of the original to cram in more comic book parody and shock comedy. It’s obscene without being subversive and self-conscious with little commentary. It’s kind of a mess, but at least an entertaining one. 103 min. NN (Phil Brown) Interchange 30 Le Joli Mai ñNNNN

(Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme) 145 min. See review, page 77. (NW) Opens Oct 18 at Carlton Cinema

Lee Daniels’ The Butler (Lee Daniels) is

one one big black history lesson featuring great performances from Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo and especially Forest Whit aker as a White House butler. But don’t expect anything like the director’s disturbing Precious or The Paperboy. Daniels is decidedly domesticated here, aiming to teach and please. 132 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carl-

ton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

Machete Kills (Robert Rodriguez) brings back Danny Trejo’s nigh-indestructible Mexican avenger for another gritty, selfaware shoot-’em-up. This time our hero is recruited by the president of the United States (Charlie Sheen, billed as Carlos Estevez) to find Mendez (Demian Bichir), a Mexican terrorist holding D.C. hostage with a missile. But things get complicated when Machete discovers Mendez is the semi-unwilling pawn of an arms dealer (Mel Gibson). The pairing of the taciturn Machete and the antic Mendez is fun for a while – it’s the Mexican Midnight Run! – but Rodriguez just lets it go on and on, through shootouts and standoffs and reversals and explosions and a protracted climax that tries to nudge the series into a completely different genre. By the time Machete Kills ends, the promise of a third film feels less like a joke than a threat. Some subtitles. 107 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale Muscle Shoals (Greg Camalier) has

plenty of soul. The musically inclined Alabama backwater town has seen everyone from Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones come through to produce hits. They’re among the many in this doc who speak affectionately about their time with Rick Hall, of FAME Studios, arguably the backbone of the Muscle Shoals music industry, and his “peckerwood” instrumentalists. The interviews are a lot of fun, but not all the memories are peachy. With collaboration came friction also captured here. Nor does the film ignore the personal traumas Hall endured before he built his legacy. Director Greg “Freddy” Camalier weaves it all together as if he were making music, composing a film with storytelling rhythms that strikes emotional chords. Soul aficionados will savour every beat. 111 min. NNNN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Jem Cohen) is a conversation piece that explores the simpatico connection between a curious Canadian (Mary Margaret O’Hara) and a slightly older guard (Bobby Sommer) at

U.S. events into limp historical drama, focusing on a handful of Dallas citizens whose lives are touched by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Writer/director Landesman intertwines several plot strands: the torment of photographer Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), the confusion of Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother Robert (James Badge Dale), and the traumatized staff of Parkland Hospital, where both Kennedy and Oswald were brought after their shootings. Parkland folds them all together and renders them dull and empty, with every line of dialogue serving an expository function rather than an emotional one. Everyone is blandly effective, with the exception of Giamatti’s deeply felt Zapruder and Jacki Weaver’s painfully campy Mama Oswald. But this is never anything more than a glorified cable movie. 93 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Queensway, Varsity

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Thor Freudenthal) is a cheaper, looser and much sillier sequel to 2010’s The Lightning Thief, in which our demigod hero (Logan Lerman) and his friends sail into the Bermuda Triangle to find the Golden Fleece. Stanley Tucci is a genius choice for Dionysus, and Nathan Fillion’s Shatneriffic cameo as Hermes is worth the price of a ticket on its own. 100 min. NNN (NW) SilverCity Mississauga Planes (Klay Hall) is a shameless Cars ripoff about a modest crop-dusting plane named Dusty Crophopper (voiced by comic Dane Cook) who dreams of being a competitive flyer even though he’s scared of heights. The clunky script feels like a first draft, and Cook communicates as little personality as his character’s bland design. 92 min. N (GS) Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve) stars Hugh

Jackman as a Pennsylvania contractor who reacts to his daughter’s abduction by grabbing the most likely suspect (Paul Dano), hidings him away and trying to beat the truth out of him. The first two-thirds of Villeneuve’s Hollywood debut play out like an intimate metaphor for America’s response to 9/11, with Jackman’s contractor standing in for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and Jake Gyllenhaal’s twitchy but by-the-book detective representing Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty. Jackman’s entirely convincing as a righteous hothead, but Villeneuve’s unable to keep Aaron Guzikowski’s screenplay from collapsing into overwrought, mildly preposterous contrivance when the time comes to wrap things up. And there’s simply no reason this movie needed to be two and a half hours long. 153 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity

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Riddick (David Twohy) is the kind of low-

stakes, hyper-violent trifle that a Hollywood built on PG-13 compromise can’t stomach. Vin Diesel’s convict-cum-galacticoverlord is double-crossed and marooned on an abandoned planet populated by deadly reptilian predators. In order to escape, he triggers a beacon alerting two duelling gangs of mercenary bounty hunters. The plan is to pick off enough of them so he can hijack one of their ships and blast back to his home planet. For all its hardnosed silliness, and even its flip misogyny (Katee Sackhoff appears as a self-possessed mercenary only so she can later be bedded by Diesel’s burly superman), Riddick is solid B-movie filmmaking. If you’re susceptible to this kind of thing, there’s plenty of fun to be had. 119 min. NNN (JS) Coliseum Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

The Right Kind of Wrong (Jeremiah

Chechik) feigns originality, but deep down this rom-com is as conventional as they come and all the sillier for pretending not to be. Ryan Kwanten’s Leo falls in love with Colette (Sara Canning) on her wedding day and immediately begins to harass and stalk her, often in front of the groom. If Leo’s shameless misbehaviour is meant to push buttons, the film’s way of making everything he does cute and endearing is typical. Kwanten and Canning are likeable as characters who get precious few moments to be sincere. They don’t dare stand out among all the rom-com clichés, from the cuddly cat to the cute kids who are wise beyond their years. 97 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

Romeo & Juliet (Carlo Carlei) reduces one of the best-loved plays in the English language to a dull, dreary slog. Flatly directed by Fluke’s Carlei on location in Italy, and recited rather than interpreted by an assortment of young actors (Douglas Booth and True Grit’s Hailee Steinfeld struggle in the title roles), this may be the worst screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic ever made. I don’t blame Julian Fellowes for pasting the text of Shakespeare’s play into Final Draft and calling it a screenplay; the guy has to do something between seasons of Downton Abbey. Stealing the climactic twist from Baz Luhrmann’s stunning 1996 movie does seem like dirty pool, though. 122 min. N (NW) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Runner Runner (Brad Furman) is prac-

tically a photocopy of the recent Paranoia. Oh, it’s set in Costa Rica rather than Manhattan and the backdrop is online gambling rather than cellphones. But everything else is awfully familiar: the unresolved issues with our hero’s dad (John Heard), the ambiguously motivated love interest (Gemma Arterton) and the surly federal agent (Anthony Mackie, who at least has a little fun with it) who’s after bigger fish than our hero. The whole thing’s structured so that the resourceful working-class hero (Justin Timberlake) can bring down the scumbag

(Ben Affleck) in the expensive suits. It’s just a matter of how and when, and neither of those answers is as clever as the movie thinks it is. Some subtitles. 91 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

tact, which understandably complicates her plan to move in with her boyfriend, Jesse (Argo’s Scoot McNairy), while her awkward older brother Paul (Please Give’s Josh Pais) finds his dental practice swarmed by people who believe he has a healing touch, and Paul’s daughter Jenny (Ellen Page) struggles with her crush on Jesse. The movie only stumbles when Shelton tries to wrap everything up a little too quickly in the last act, but I was so invested in the story that it didn’t really matter. 88 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

ñRush

The Trials of Muhammad Ali (Bill Sie

(Ron Howard) chronicles the ongoing rivalry in the mid-70s between two wildly different Formula One racers: the cold, cerebral Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) and the wildly magnetic English playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth). Director Howard and superb screenwriter Peter Morgan contrast their stories effectively, getting even non-fans intrigued by the politics of commercial endorsements and the psychology of competition. The film culminates in a series of races that will have your heart pounding in time with Hans Zimmer’s propulsive score, and the camerawork makes you feel like you’re on the track. But it’s Morgan’s muscular script and the convincing, livedin performances by the two actors (boy, does that Hemsworth dude have charisma) that drive home the ideas about competition and the best way to live one’s life. 123 min. NNNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Ben

djelloul) introduces little-known musician Rodriguez, unravelling a mystery that nobody knew they wanted the answer to. The Detroit-based 70s folksinger never found an audience in the States and ended up fading into the shadows. Don’t google Rodriguez before seeing this doc, whose pleasures come from the enigma it constructs and the revelations it delivers. 85 min. NNN (RS) Regent Theatre

The Short Game (Josh Greenbaum) draws on the well-worn pleasure of seeing pushy parents drive their kids to success. The doc follows a group of striving seven- and eightyear-olds and their parent-coaches (or “daddy caddies”) as they train and compete at the 2012 Kids Golf World Championships in North Carolina. Its thin criticism feels like it’s contributing to the same crummy culture it pretends to condemn. 100 min. NN (JS) Kingsway Theatre Thanks for Sharing (Stuart Blumberg) 112 min. See review, page 78. NNN (NW) Opens Oct 18 at Yonge & Dundas 24

A Touch of Sin ñNNNNN

(Jia Zhang-ke) 133 min. See interview and review, page 74. (NW) Opens Oct 18 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñTouchy Feely

(Lynn Shelton) finds Seattle writer/director Shelton playing to her strengths, putting imperfect characters in small spaces with one another and watching the friction that results. There’s a little more story this time around. Masseuse Abby (Rosemarie DeWitt) develops a loathing of physical con-

gel) is a documentary focusing on the champ’s conversion to Islam in the early 60s and his subsequent fight to win conscientious objector status to stay out of Vietnam. Interviewing a number of people close to Ali – including Ali’s ex-wife Belinda, his brother Rahaman and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan – and incorporating plenty of archival footage of the champ, Siegel tells the story in a solid if undistinguished documentary that’s content to show a series of incidents rather than dig into the cultural ramifications of Ali’s stand. The civil rights backdrop from which the former Cassius Clay emerged as a charismatic, proud celebrity is held at arm’s length, and Ali’s relationships with key figures like Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad are dealt with only glancingly. It might have made more sense to address those aspects of the story instead of packing in another clip of the champ shouting down conservative college students over his decision to resist the draft. Some subtitles. 92 min. NNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

a Slave ñ12 Years NNNNN

(Steve McQueen) 133 min. See interview and review, page 76. (NW) Opens Oct 18 at Varsity

ñ2 Guns

(Baltasar Kormákur) pairs Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as Texas gunmen who accidentally steal $43.125 million dollars of the wrong people’s money and must shoot a whole lot of bad guys to get themselves out of trouble. You can’t help but enjoy the ride. Some subtitles. 109 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus

ñWadjda

(Haifaa Al-Mansour) is the debut feature written and directed by Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker. A 10-year-old schoolgirl Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) enters a Koran study contest so she can buy a bicycle with the winnings. The premise is sly enough – females aren’t allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia – and Mohammed is appealing as the young heroine, but Al-Mansour’s depiction of everyday Saudi life is what counts here. The sexes are divided, women’s bodies and heads must be covered in public, and schools dole out harsh discipline to keep female students in line. A subplot featuring Wadjda’s unmarried mother (Reem Abdullah, who’s excellent) and father – who has another family – echoes the theme of male privilege. But the film still manages to radiate joy. There was so much resistance in parts of Riyadh where the film is set that Al-Mansour had to hide in a van during shooting. Top marks for persistence. Subtitled. 97 min. NNNN (SGC) Varsity

ñWatermark

(Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky) feels very much like a continuation of Manufactured Land-

scapes, collaborators Baichwal and Burtynsky’s previous work, once again exploring the effects of human industry on the natural world – in this case, our oceans and rivers. Baichwal’s contemplative approach meshes nicely with Burtynsky’s fondness for finding geometric patterns in gargantuan constructions like dams and aquifers, and producer-cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier captures some splendid high-definition images. (Watermark may set a record for the most helicopter shots in a Canadian production.) Baichwal and Burtynsky cushion their potentially grim ecological message with philosophical digressions and moments of unexpected whimsy, which seems like an awfully good idea right now. Some subtitles. 90 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

ñThe Way, Way Back

(Nat Faxon, Jim Rash) is a richly textured comingof-age picture about 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James), who’s dragged to a cottage for the summer by his distracted mother (Toni Collette) and her new boyfriend (Steve Carell) and befriended by the manager of a nearby water park (Sam Rockwell). Don’t wait for the DVD. 103 min. NNNN (NW) Mt Pleasant

spiracy involving ninjas, the Yakuza and an enormous adamantium samurai. Though the plot is bogged down by dizzying double crosses, the action is uniformly superb. A breathless melee atop the roof of a speeding bullet train and the late-in-thegame storming of a mountain village are memorably gripping. 126 min. NNNN (JS) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

ñThe World’s End

(Edgar Wright) completes Wright and co-writer/star Simon Pegg’s unofficial trilogy begun with Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz by following five old friends (Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan) who reunite at 40 to recreate the epic pub crawl they began – but never finished – as teenagers. Funny and moving, it’s a fitting bookend to Shaun, though this time the ending doesn’t quite land as well as it could. 109 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema 3

We’re the Millers

(Rawson Mar shall Thurber) takes a reasonably interesting idea – a low-level drug dealer (Jason Sudeikis) recruits a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a runaway (Emma Roberts) and the weird kid next door (Will Poulter) to pose as his family so he can smuggle drugs over the border in an RV – and does as little as possible with it. And that’s a real disappointment, given the talent assembled. 110 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Grande Steeles, Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

Wolverine ñThe (James Mangold) has Marvel’s darkest, broodingest superhero pingponging through an overwrought Japanese con-

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THE ART OF THE STEAL (14A) Thu 9:10 BAGGAGE CLAIM (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:00, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Tue 1:25, 4:00, 7:10, 9:35 Wed 1:25, 4:00, 10:15 BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3D (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 6:40, 9:20 Mon 9:20 Wed 9:50 BESHARAM (14A) Thu 9:05 BLUE JASMINE (14A) 7:35, 10:20 Fri 2:30 mat, 5:05 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:30 mat, 5:05 BOSS 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:20 mat Mon only 3:30 7:20 9:55 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 6:25, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:25, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:20, 6:25, 9:30 CARRIE (14A) Thu 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:15, 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:15, 10:15 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Thu 1:50, 4:15, 6:40 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:15 Mon 1:50 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D (G) 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:25 mat THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE Fri 8:00 Sun 9:50 Mon 1:30 Tue 10:15 ENOUGH SAID (PG) Thu 2:20 4:45 7:35 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat THE FACE READER (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon-Tue 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 Wed 3:30, 6:35, 9:55 FUNNY GIRL Thu 1:45 Fri 5:00 Sun 4:30 Mon 7:00 Tue 4:00 GREAT BALLS OF FIRE! Sun 7:30 Mon 9:55 Tue 1:45 Wed 10:15 HOUSE OF WAX Thu 9:45 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Thu 2:00 5:00 7:40 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:40, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu-Fri 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 10:15 Mon 10:25 Tue-Wed 7:25, 10:25 MARNIE (PG) Tue 7:00 NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: MACBETH Thu 7:00 NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: MACBETH - ENCORE Sat 12:30, 4:00, 8:00 Wed 2:30, 6:45 RIDDICK (14A) Thu 10:25 THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:30 Fri 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 7:50, 10:30 ROMEO & JULIET Thu-Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 7:10, 10:00 RUNNER RUNNER (14A) Thu 2:15, 3:15, 4:35, 5:35, 6:55, 7:55, 9:15 Fri 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:05, 7:55, 10:15 SPARTACUS - BOLSHOI BALLET Sun 12:55 THANKS FOR SHARING (18A) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 VERMEER AND MUSIC: THE ART OF LOVE AND LEISURE Fri 1:30 Mon 3:45 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:45 WITHNAIL AND I Thu 4:45

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THE ATTACK (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:40 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:00 Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 SatSun 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:25, 6:40 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Thu 3:30, 5:50 Sat-Sun 1:20 HAUTE CUISINE (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:30 Fri 3:50,

6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50 PARKLAND (PG) Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:30 PRISONERS (14A) Fri 4:50, 8:30 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:50, 8:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10 THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A) Fri 4:00, 6:20, 8:40 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:20, 8:40 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:20 ROMEO & JULIET Thu 4:15, 6:50 Fri-Sun 3:55, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00 RUNNER RUNNER (14A) Fri 4:40, 6:55, 9:00 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:40, 6:55, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:40, 6:45 WATERMARK (G) Thu 3:50, 6:20 Fri 4:20, 7:10, 9:30 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:20, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:05 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:10

GRAVITY (PG) Thu 4:00 6:50 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:00 Thu-Fri, Wed no 1:30 THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 9:20

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

THE ART OF THE STEAL (14A) Fri-Sat 9:15 Sun, Tue 7:00 AUSTENLAND (PG) Thu 7:00 THE WAY, WAY BACK (PG) Fri-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:30

BLACKFISH (PG) Thu 6:00 Fri-Wed 2:15 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:45 Fri-Wed 8:00 CUTIE AND THE BOXER (PG) Thu 11:30 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Thu 1:00 Sat-Sun 11:00 THE FAMILY (14A) Fri-Wed 6:00 15 REASONS TO LIVE (14A) Thu 7:30 Fri-Wed 8:50 GOOD OL’ FREDA (G) Thu 4:30 Fri-Wed 5:30 HANNAH ARENDT (PG) Thu 8:55 Fri-Wed 7:00 IN A WORLD... (14A) Thu 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:30 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Fri-Wed 9:40 ITALY: LOVE IT, OR LEAVE IT Thu 1:15 Fri-Wed 12:40 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Fri-Wed 2:10 MUSEUM HOURS (PG) Thu 2:45 Fri-Wed 3:50 THE SHORT GAME (G) Thu 11:30 Sat-Sun 11:00 WATERMARK (G) Thu 2:45, 6:15 Fri-Wed 4:25

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CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:20 Sat 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 CARRIE (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:20, 5:00, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Thu 1:40 Fri 2:00 Sat-Sun 12:30 Mon-Wed 1:50 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D (G) Thu 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 Fri 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-Sun 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:30, 9:10 DON JON (18A) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:30 Fri 2:30, 4:50, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 4:50, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Tue 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:35 Wed 1:20, 3:35, 9:45 ENOUGH SAID (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:20 Fri 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 9:40 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 6:40, 9:40 Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Tue 1:15, 3:45, 6:20, 9:20 Wed 3:45, 6:20, 9:20 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 THE FIFTH ESTATE (14A) Fri 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 1:10, 3:30, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Wed 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Sun 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 8:00, 10:15 Wed 12:50, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: MACBETH Thu 7:00 NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: MACBETH - ENCORE Sat 12:30 Wed 6:45 PRISONERS (14A) Thu 3:00 THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 RUNNER RUNNER (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 RUSH (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:30 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 SPARTACUS - BOLSHOI BALLET Sun 12:55

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1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 THE ADDAMS FAMILY Sat 11:00 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 Fri 1:00, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Sat 11:20, 1:05, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Sun 1:05, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Mon-Tue 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Wed 3:30, 7:10, 10:20 CARRIE (14A) Thu 10:10 Fri 12:30, 2:20, 3:00, 4:55, 5:35, 7:35, 8:10, 10:05, 10:45 Sat 11:45, 12:30, 2:20, 3:00, 4:55, 5:35, 7:35, 8:10, 10:05, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 12:25, 2:20, 3:00, 4:55, 5:35, 7:35, 8:10, 10:05, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:00, 2:40, 4:40, 5:15, 7:15, 7:50, 9:50, 10:25 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Thu 1:35, 4:05, 6:40 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:15 Sat 11:25, 1:45, 4:15 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:40 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D (G) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 12:15, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 DON JON (18A) Thu 1:25, 4:00, 6:45 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Mon-Tue 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Wed 12:30, 2:45, 7:40, 10:00 ENOUGH SAID (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:40 Fri 2:30, 5:05, 7:20, 9:45 Sat 11:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:20, 9:45 Sun 5:05, 7:20, 9:45 Mon 1:00, 3:30, 10:15 Tue 1:00, 3:30, 6:50, 9:15 Wed 4:40, 9:40 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 1:55, 4:50, 7:45, 10:35 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:35 Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 THE FAMILY (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 9:45 THE FIFTH ESTATE (14A) Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 MonWed 12:50, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 FUNNY GIRL Mon 7:00 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 1:40, 3:30, 4:25, 5:50, 6:50, 8:10, 9:35, 10:30 Fri 12:20, 12:50, 2:40, 3:15, 5:00, 5:40, 7:25, 8:05, 9:50, 10:30 Sat 11:00, 12:15, 12:50, 2:40, 3:15, 5:00, 5:40, 7:25, 8:05, 9:50, 10:30 Sun 12:15, 12:50, 2:40, 3:15, 5:00, 5:40, 7:25, 8:05, 9:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 12:35, 2:10, 2:55, 4:35, 5:20, 7:00, 7:45, 9:25, 10:10 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Thu 10:05 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 7:05 MACHETE KILLS (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:45, 10:20 Fri, Sun 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Sat 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Tue 2:05, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: MACBETH Thu 7:00 NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: MACBETH - ENCORE Sat 12:30 Wed 6:45 PARKLAND (PG) Thu 9:25 PRISONERS (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:35, 10:05 Fri 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:25 Sat 1:55, 3:35, 7:00, 10:25 Sun 12:20, 3:35, 7:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:05, 10:30 THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 6:55, 9:30 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:10 ROMEO & JULIET Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 RUNNER RUNNER (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 10:15 Fri 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 Sat 11:55, 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 Sun 12:30, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 Mon-Tue 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:40, 10:05 Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 10:05 RUSH (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 Fri 1:20, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 Mon-Tue 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 SPARTACUS - BOLSHOI BALLET Sun 12:55

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WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 BAGGAGE CLAIM (PG) Thu 4:15, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:05, 6:45 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 CARRIE (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:20, 9:45 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:45, 2:55, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:55, 7:00, 9:35 GRAVITY (PG) Thu 1:25 4:15 7:10 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:15 MACHETE KILLS (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Wed 3:45, 9:25 PRISONERS (14A) Thu 1:05, 6:30 THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A) 1:15, 6:55 Thu 3:55 mat, 9:25 RUNNER RUNNER (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:40 continued on page 88 œ

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3:00, 5:25, 7:55 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:30, 4:50, 7:10 Rush (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 Fri-Sat, Tue 10:15 Sun-Mon, Wed 9:40

SilverCity Yorkdale (CE) 3401 Dufferin St, 416-787-2052

The Addams Family Sat 11:00 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu, Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:55, 4:00, 7:15, 10:25 Carrie (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 1:30, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 1:00, 3:35 Fri 1:00 Sat 12:30 Sun-Wed 1:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Fri 3:30, 6:40, 9:15 Sat 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 Don Jon (18A) Thu 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 The Fifth Estate (14A) Fri 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Sat-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:40, 10:05 Fri 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 7:15 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-Wed 4:45, 9:55 Prisoners (14A) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:30, 6:40, 10:10 Fri 3:20, 6:50, 10:20 Sat 11:50, 3:20, 6:50, 10:20 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Wed 2:10, 7:30 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 1:55 4:30 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Rush (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50

Scarborough 401 & Morningside (CE) 785 Milner Ave, Scarborough, 416-281-2226

The Addams Family Sat 11:00 Baggage Claim (PG) Thu 5:50, 8:25 Fri 5:05, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:40, 10:05 Battle of the Year (PG) Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Battle of the Year 3D (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:05 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:10 Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Carrie (14A) Fri 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 11:35, 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 5:20 Fri 4:20 Sat 12:05 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 7:40 Fri 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 Sat 11:25, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 Don Jon (18A) Thu 6:00, 8:30 Escape Plan (14A) Fri 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 The Fifth Estate (14A) Fri 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 11:45, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 5:25, 7:50 Fri 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 5:05 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 5:45, 8:20 Fri 7:55 Sat 2:15, 7:55 Prisoners (14A) Thu 5:00, 8:15 Fri 6:40, 9:55 Sat 3:00, 6:40, 9:55 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:35 Fri-Sat 5:10, 10:30 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 6:10, 8:30 Fri 5:45, 8:05, 10:30 Sat 1:10, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30 Rush (14A) Thu 8:00

Boss Fri 3:00, 6:40, 10:00 Sat 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:25 Sun 12:10, 3:25, 6:45, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:30, 8:00 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:45 Sat 1:10, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45 Sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 10:10 Carrie (14A) Thu 10:10 Fri 2:00, 3:10, 4:35, 5:40, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50, 10:45 Sat 11:35, 12:40, 2:00, 3:10, 4:35, 5:40, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50, 10:45 Sun 12:05, 1:50, 2:35, 4:25, 5:10, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:20, 5:00, 6:55, 7:35, 9:35, 10:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 4:00 Fri 2:40 Sat 11:15, 12:15 Sun 12:15 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Sat-Sun 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Don Jon (18A) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri 1:00, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:35 Sat 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:35 Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Enough Said (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55 Fri 2:25, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 Sat 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Mon 4:15, 10:00 Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Mon 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 The Family (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 The Fifth Estate (14A) Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Funny Girl Mon 7:00 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:00, 7:40, 9:25, 10:05 Fri 1:10, 2:45, 3:30, 5:05, 5:50, 7:30, 8:10, 9:55, 10:40 Sat 12:25, 1:00, 2:45, 3:25, 5:05, 5:45, 7:30, 8:10, 9:55, 10:40 Sun 12:00, 12:40, 2:20, 3:00, 4:45, 5:25, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:20 Mon 4:35, 5:15, 7:05, 7:40, 9:30, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:10, 5:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 6:30 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:55 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 Sun 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:50 Mon 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Prisoners (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 Fri 3:20, 6:40, 10:05 Sat 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:05 Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:45, 10:15 Mon 3:40, 6:40, 10:15 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 1:25, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Fri 1:30, 6:55 Sat 12:20, 6:00 Sun 1:10, 6:40 Mon 6:40 Tue-Wed 6:35 Romeo & Juliet Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Fri 4:00, 9:20 Sat 3:00, 8:30 Sun 3:40, 9:10 Mon 3:45, 9:15 Tue-Wed 3:40, 9:05 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 MonWed 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 Rush (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:35, 9:30 Mon 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 TueWed 3:55, 6:45, 9:40

Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:20 Sun-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Wed 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Carrie (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 1:45, 4:05 Fri-Wed 1:05 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Sat 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:40 SunWed 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Don Jon (18A) Thu 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Fri 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:40 Sat 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25 Mon-Wed 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 1:25, 4:05, 7:20, 10:00 The Family (14A) Thu 10:20 The Fifth Estate (14A) Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 10:10 SunTue 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Wed 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Fri 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:55 Sat 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:55 Sun 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Mon-Wed 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:30 SunWed 1:15, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:15 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 Fri 1:55, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Sun-Tue 1:55, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Wed 1:55, 4:30, 10:00 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:35 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:35 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 National Theater Live: MacBeth Thu 7:00 National Theater Live: MacBeth - Encore Sat 12:30 Wed 6:45 Prisoners (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:50, 10:05 Fri 3:05, 6:25, 10:00 Sat 11:55, 3:10, 6:25, 10:00 Sun 11:55, 3:10, 6:25, 9:45 MonWed 3:05, 6:25, 9:45 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 Fri 2:15, 4:35, 6:55, 9:30 Sat 12:00, 2:15, 4:35, 6:55, 9:30 Sun 12:00, 2:15, 4:35, 6:55, 9:15 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:35, 6:55, 9:15 Romeo & Juliet Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 R.S.V.P - Ronde Saare Viah Picho Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 10:05 Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:35, 6:55, 9:20 Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:10 Rush (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 Sun-Tue 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Wed 1:25, 4:10, 10:20 Shahid Fri 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:35 Sun-Tue 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:50, 10:20

Woodside Cinemas (I)

SilverCity Mississauga (CE)

1571 Sandhurst Circle, 416-299-3456

Besharam (14A) Thu 4:00 Boss 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat Naiyaandi 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat Raja Rani Thu 4:15 7:15 10:30 Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat Vanakkam Chennai Thu 7:00, 10:00

GTA Regions Mississauga

Coliseum Scarborough (CE)

Coliseum Mississauga (CE)

The Addams Family Sat 11:00 Baggage Claim (PG) Thu 6:45 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:25, 7:30, 10:40 Carrie (14A) Thu 10:20 Fri, Sun 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 2:45, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:35, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 1:30, 4:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:10 Sat 11:40, 2:15 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 2:10, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Don Jon (18A) Thu 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:15, 7:35, 10:00 Sat-Sun 5:15, 7:35, 10:00 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 10:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 The Fifth Estate (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 1:55, 3:10, 4:20, 5:35, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Tue 2:05, 2:40, 4:30, 5:05, 7:05, 7:50, 9:30, 10:15 Sat 12:35, 2:10, 3:10, 4:35, 5:35, 7:05, 8:00, 9:30, 10:35 Wed 2:05, 2:40, 4:30, 5:05, 7:05, 7:45, 10:15 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:55, 6:55, 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:15, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Fri, Sun 4:35, 9:50 Sat 4:20, 9:50 Mon-Tue 4:30, 9:50 Wed 3:50, 9:50 National Theater Live: MacBeth Thu 7:00 National Theater Live: MacBeth - Encore Sat 12:30 Prisoners (14A) Thu 2:40 6:15 9:40 Fri-Wed 2:40, 6:10, 9:45 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Tue 1:55, 7:10 Wed 1:25, 7:35 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 10:05 Rush (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:05 Spartacus - Bolshoi Ballet Sun 12:55

The Addams Family Sat 11:00 Baggage Claim (PG) 7:30, 9:50 Thu 2:30 mat, 4:55 Carrie (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:35, 10:20 Sat 11:55, 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:35, 10:20 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) 1:40, 4:10 Thu 6:45 Sat 11:15 mat Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 2:45 5:15 7:40 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 Sat 12:00 mat Don Jon (18A) Thu 1:50, 3:55, 6:05, 8:15, 10:25 Fri, SunWed 2:35, 4:55, 7:55, 10:10 Sat 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:55, 10:10 The Fifth Estate (14A) Fri-Tue 1:35, 4:30, 7:35, 10:25 Wed 4:30, 7:35, 10:25 Funny Girl Mon 7:00 Gravity 3D (PG) 2:10, 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Sat 11:45 mat Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Mon 2:00, 4:25, 9:40 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:20 Fri-Sat, Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:15, 10:05 Sun 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 Mon 1:50, 4:45, 7:15, 10:00 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:20, 7:00 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:05, 7:50, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Tue 2:25, 5:05, 7:50 Sat 11:50, 2:25, 5:05, 7:50 Wed 5:05, 7:50 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 1:35, 3:45, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:45, 10:00 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 4:50, 7:45, 10:00 Sun 2:15, 5:10, 7:45, 10:00 Mon 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 10:15 Rush (14A) 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Spartacus - Bolshoi Ballet Sun 12:55 2 Guns (14A) Thu 9:35 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:35, 10:10 FriWed 10:15

Eglinton Town Centre (CE)

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

The Addams Family Sat 11:00 Besharam (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:45, 8:45

About Time (14A) Wed 7:00 Besharam (14A) Thu 3:25, 6:40, 9:55

Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494

Square One, 309 Rathburn Rd W, 905-275-3456

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323

Hwy 5, east of Hwy 403, 905-569-3373

Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 Fri 4:00, 7:15, 9:40 Sat 12:40, 3:45, 7:15, 9:40 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 7:20, 9:45 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu, MonWed 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 Fri 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 12:20, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 The Family (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Sun 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 7:25, 10:00 The Fifth Estate (14A) Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:05, 9:50 Fri 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Planes (G) Thu 4:10 Fri 4:40 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:40 Mon-Wed 4:50 Prisoners (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 8:30 Fri 6:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:05, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:35, 10:00 Fri 5:25, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:50, 7:30, 9:20, 10:00 Fri 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 MonWed 4:25, 7:00, 9:20

North Colossus (CE) Hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

The Addams Family Sat 11:00 Baggage Claim (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:05, 9:30 Fri 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Sat 11:10, 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Sun-Tue 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Wed 4:00, 9:25 Battle of the Year (PG) Thu 10:25 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 3:40, 4:30, 6:45, 7:30, 9:55, 10:30 Fri 1:25, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:45, 10:25 Sat 12:30, 1:25, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:45, 10:25 Sun 12:30, 1:00, 3:35, 4:05, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:35, 4:05, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:10 Carrie (14A) Thu 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:00, 2:15, 3:20, 4:45, 5:40, 7:15, 8:05, 9:40, 10:40 Sun 12:40, 2:05, 3:00, 4:45, 5:25, 7:15, 7:55, 9:35, 10:15 Mon-Tue 4:45, 5:25, 7:15, 7:55, 9:35, 10:15 Wed 4:45, 5:25, 6:45, 7:55, 9:35, 10:15 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 3:30, 5:45, 8:05 Fri 1:00, 3:55 Sat 12:00, 12:45, 3:55 Sun 12:45, 3:55 Mon-Wed 3:55 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:25, 6:45, 9:15 Fri 1:55, 4:40, 7:15, 9:35 Sat 11:40, 1:55, 4:40, 7:15, 9:35 Sun 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Despicable Me 2 (G) Thu 4:00

Don Jon (18A) Thu 5:05, 7:35, 9:50 Fri 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 12:55, 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 2:10, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 10:05 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sat 11:25, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sun 2:00, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 The Family (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:35 Fri 1:05, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 The Fifth Estate (14A) Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 5:10, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:50 Sat 11:40, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:50 Sun 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:20, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:20, 9:30 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 1:45, 3:40, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:40, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 6:40 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:55, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 Sun 1:20, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:35, 9:40 Prisoners (14A) Thu 3:35 7:00 10:20 Fri-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Sat 12:15 mat Sun 12:30 mat The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:40, 7:10 Sun 1:10, 6:25 Mon-Wed 6:25 Romeo & Juliet Thu 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sat 4:15, 9:55 Sun 3:25, 9:05 Mon-Wed 3:40, 9:05 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Sat 11:20, 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Sun 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:10 Rush (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 9:50 Spartacus - Bolshoi Ballet Sun 12:55 2 Guns (14A) Thu 3:35 9:20 Fri-Wed 6:40, 9:20 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:25

Interchange 30 (AMC)

30 Interchange Way, Hwy 400 & Hwy 7, 416-335-5323 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 5:05, 8:00 Fri 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sat 2:50, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sun 2:50, 5:05, 7:15 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:45 Boss Thu 7:00 Fri 6:00, 9:15 Sat 2:30, 6:00, 9:15 Sun 2:30, 6:00 Mon-Wed 6:00 Elysium (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:50 Fri 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Sat 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:10 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40 Enough Said (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 5:00, 7:20 Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:25 Sat 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:25 Sun 2:10, 4:30, 7:00 Grown Ups 2 (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:25 Fri 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Sat 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 Sun 2:25, 4:55, 7:35 The Heat (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10 Fri 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 2:20, 5:10, 7:35 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 5:20, 8:00 Lost for Words 5:10, 7:30 Fri 9:50 Sat 2:30 mat, 9:50 Sun 2:30 mat Metallica: Through the Never – An IMAX 3D Experience (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:15 Fri 5:00, 7:15, 9:40 Sat 2:15, 5:00, 7:15, 9:40 Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:45 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:40 Fri 7:05, 9:55 Sat 4:00, 7:05, 9:55 Sun 4:00, 7:05 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15 Pacific Rim (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:25 Planes (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45 Fri 4:45, 7:45, 10:00 Sat 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00 Sun 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 Smurfs 2 (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:00 Fri 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 Sat 2:00, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 Sun 2:00, 4:30, 6:45 We’re the Millers (14A) Fri 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 2:05, 4:40, 7:20 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:25 The Wolverine (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20 Fri 7:05, 9:45 Sat 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Sun 4:10, 7:05

Rainbow Promenade (I)

Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 Captain Phillips (14A) 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 Carrie (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 7:20, 9:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) 1:15, 3:45, 7:00, 9:15 Escape Plan (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 The Fifth Estate (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Gravity (PG) 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Prisoners (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:15, 8:00 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 7:20, 9:40 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30

West Grande - Steeles (CE) Hwy 410 & Steeles, 905-455-1590

Captain Phillips (14A) 7:05, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:55, 4:00 mat Tue 4:00 mat Carrie (14A) 7:45, 10:15 Sat-Sun 2:30 mat, 4:55 Tue 4:55 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Sat-Sun 12:45 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) 7:50, 10:15 Sat-Sun 3:05 mat, 5:30 Tue 5:30 Don Jon (18A) Thu 7:15 Escape Plan (14A) 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 4:15 Tue 4:15 Gravity 3D (PG) 7:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:00 mat, 5:20 Tue 5:20 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:15, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Tue 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 7:35, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:25, 10:05 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Tue 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Prisoners (14A) Thu 8:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:55 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:25, 7:55 Tue 4:25, 7:55 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 7:20, 9:55 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:20 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20 Tue 4:40, 7:20 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 7:10 9:45 Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:25 mat, 4:05 Tue 4:05 Rush (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Wed 9:55 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 9:50

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Festivals Brazilian Film & TV festival of toronto

tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w. brafftv.com

thu 17-sun 20 – Festival of Brazilian films.

$12, five-ticket pass $50. ticketweb.ca. ñ thu 17 – First Day Oh Any Year (2012) D: Do-

mingos Oliveira, Complete Feijoada (2012) D: Angelo Defanti, and short film Sorry. 7 pm. They Killed My Brother (2013) D: Cristiano Burlan. 9 pm. fri 18 – Xapiri (2012) D: Leandro Lima, Gisela Mota, Laymert dos Santos and others, Sanã (2013) D: Marcos Pimentel. 5:30 pm. Cine Holliudy (2012) D: Halder Gomes, and Quinha (2013) D: Caroline Oliviera. 7 pm. Margaret Mee And The Moon Flower (2012) D: Malu De Martino, and Invisible Picture (2013) D: Denise Soares. 7:30 pm. A Long Journey (2011) D: Lucia Murat, and The Story Of The Boys Who Walked At Night (2013) D: Flávio Barone. 9 pm. Trust Me (2013) D: Michel Tikhomiroff, Boy At The Five (2012) D: Marcello de Oliviera and Wallace Nogueira. 9:30 pm. sat 19 – The Other Doll (2013) D: Humberto Avelar, Haunted Tales (2005) D: Victor-Hugo Borges, and Detectives Of The Blue Building (2013) D: André Pellenz. 2 pm. Food For All (2012) D: Marcelo Paolinelli, Healers (2012) D: Gabi Veras, and Garibous (2012/13) D: Denis Franco Goedert. 2:30 pm. Taina – An Amazon Legend (2013) D: Rosane Svartman. 3:30 pm. Cheshire Cat – The Many Lives Of José Lewgoy (2011) D: Claudio Kahns. 5 pm. Helio Oiticica (2012) D: C esar Oiticica Filho. 5:30 pm. Eternal Amazon (2012) D: Belisario Franco, and Lullaby (2013) D: Arturo Saboia. 7 pm. Buddies (2012) D: Marcelo Galvão. 7:30 pm. World’s West End (2013) D: Paulo Nascimento. 9 pm. Marcelo Yuka: Follow The Signs (2011) D: Daniela Broitman. 9 pm. sun 20 – Brazil Through Foreign Eyes (2011) D: Tomás Lipgot. 4 pm.

eastern breeze film festival carlton cinemas, 20 carlton. easternbreeze.ca

sat 21-oct 29 – Festival of short and mid-

length films from around the world, including documentary, animation, fiction and experimental, that contain an eastern flavour or philosophy. $15, stu $10. sat 21 – The Art Of Dealing With Animals And Humans D: Elena Shatalova, The Unknown D: Abdul Ghafar Faizyar. 7 pm. Sar Anjaam D: Mehran Jabbari, An Obsolete Altar D: Hyash Tanmoy, Mrigankasekhar Ganguly, Studio Beirut D: Mokhtar Veyrouth. 9 pm. wed 23 – The Frames D: Keyvan Mehregan, Paper Boat D: Helmy Nouh, The Present D: Joe Hsieh. 7 pm. Who Else Is On My Ballot? D: Behzad Sedghi, Cardboard Flowers D: Sergey Pedan. 9 pm.

estDocs Festival

eesti maja/estonian house, 958 broadview (EH); george ignatieff theatre, 15 devonshire (GI); isabel bader theatre, 93 charles w (IB); tartu college, 310 bloor W (TC). Estdocs.com

thu 17-tue 22 – Festival of Estonian documentaries about the country’s history, politics, arts, culture and more. All films w/ s-t. $10$20, some pwyc screenings.

repertory schedules

festival reviews

At TADFF, there will be blood Toronto After Dark Film festival from tonight (Thursday, October 17) to October 25. Scotiabank Theatre. $10-$13, passes available. See Indie & Rep Film, this page. torontoafterdark.com.

Growing pains Motivational Growth (Don Thacker). 105 minutes. Sunday (October 20), 9:30 pm. Rating: NN

The thing about weirdness is that it has to be cast in relief in order to work. Beardo hermit Ian (Adrian Di Giovanni) hasn’t strayed outside in 16 months, preferring to lie in front of the TV wallowing in his own filth. The appearance of a talking hillock of mould (voiced by Re-Animator’s Jeffrey Combs) pushes Ian to get his shit together: tidy his place, clip his beard, make advances on the cute neighbour across the way. The film layers on its quirk and self-conscious eccentricity (kooky characters, old-school video game graphics, chiptune soundtrack), but thu 17 – Festival Kick-off night: Occupy Your

Wall (2013) D: Peeter Vihma and Artur Talvik. 7 pm (TC). fri 18 – To Breathe As One (2013) D: Maureen Castle Tusty, Bestor Cram and Mike Ma, plus Short Films Competition. 7 pm (IB). sat 19 – Estonian Animation including Body Memory, Villa Antropoff, The Maggot Feeder and Kitchen Dimension. 2 pm (TC). Cosmos (2012) D: Heli Tetlov, and Ad Lads (2013) D: Hardi Volmer and Kiur Aarma. 7 pm. All screenings at TC. sun 20 – Flowers From The Mount Of Olives (2013) D: Heilika Pikkov, and Class of 1943 (2012) D: Helga Merits. 7 pm (GI). mon 21 – Pigeons (2012) D: Kadriann Kibus, and Blood Type (2013) D: Leeni Linna. 7 pm (EH). tue 22 – Viru: The Embassy Of Freedom (2013) D: Margit Kilumetsa, and Anthems Of The Grand Old Man Of Song (2008) D: Ülle Oun. 7 pm (EH).

imaginenative film + media arts festival

Tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w (TIFF). imaginenative.org

thu 17-sun 20 – Festival of indigenous film and media arts. $7, free before 6 pm to stu/ srs/underemployed; festival screening pass $40, weekend pass $65, all access pass $110 (stu/srs/underemployed $24/$40/$65). thu 17 – Satellite Boy (2012) D: Catriona McKenzie. 10 am. The Crying Bamboo Forest (2011) D: Umin Boya. 12:30 pm. Mãori Spotlight 1: Mana Waka (1937/1990) D: Mereta Mita. 2:45 pm. Meeting Points doc program: Campo 9 (2012) D: Carlos R Rivero, and Inuit Cree Reconcilation (2013) D: Zacharias Kunuk and Neil Diamond. 5:15 pm. The Power Within Canadian shorts program. 7:30 pm. Baybayin (2012) D: Kanakan Balintagos. 8 pm. Shopping (2013) D: Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland. 9:30 pm. All screenings at TIFF.

there’s no reality to ground the weirdness. And it doesn’t help that the writing and performances are uncomfortably stilted, almost every line betraying Thacker’s desperation to sound clever. JOHN SEMLEY

So bad it’s scary found (Scott Schirmer). 103 minutes. Wednesday (October 23), 7 pm. Rating: NNN

Found has some of the worst dad acting since George Hardy’s legendarily cheesy turn in best-worst movie Troll 2. In fact, the performances here are almost comically stiff across the board. But the effect of this rigidity is compelling, pitching Found into some weird, uncanny gorge where the obviousness of the acting serves to magnify the creepiness. Call it fri 18 – My Secret Identity Youth Shorts program. 10 am. Yoik Fever/Joikefeber (2013) D: Ellen-Astri Lundby. Noon. Maori Spotlight II: The Neglected Miracle (1985) D: Barry Barclay. 2 pm. Alias (2013) D: Michelle Latimert. 4:30 pm. The Fantastic Four Directions International shorts program. 6:45 pm. The Devil’s Lair (2013) D: Riaan Hendriks. 8 pm. Rhymes For Young Ghouls (2013) D: Jeff Barnaby. The Witching Hour: Fresh Meat (2012) D: Danny Mulheron. 11:15 pm. All screenings at TIFF. sat 19 – Kiruna – Space Road (2013) D: Liselotte Wajstedt. 11 am. Red Justice League shorts program. 11:15 am. Experimental program including He Who Dreams (2013) D: Dana Claxton, and others. 1 pm. Indigitalks Video Essays. 2 pm. Free. Maori Spotlight IV shorts program. 3:15 pm. Hi-Ho Mistahey! (2013) D: Alanis Obomsawin. 4:15 pm. Maori Spotlight V: Mt Zion (2013) D: Tearepa Kahi. 6:30 pm. The Powwow Rangers Comedy shorts program. 7:15 pm. Empire Of Dirt (2013) D: Peter Stebbings. 9 pm. All screenings at TIFF. sun 20 – La Nouvelle Rupert/Brave New River (2012) D: Nicolas Renaud. 10:30 am. Moose River Crossing (2013) D: Shirley Cheechoo. 11 am. Maori Spotlight VI shorts program. 12:45 pm. Who Will Be A Gurkha (2012) D: Kesang Tseten. 1:45 pm. Iron Men shorts program. 3:15 pm. Legacy Heroes shorts program. 3:45 pm. Closing night: Uvanga (2013) D: Madeline Piujuq Ivalu and Marie-Hélène Cousineau. 6:30 pm. Award Winners I. 8:30 pm. Awards Winners II. 9 pm. All screenings at TIFF.

reel indie film festival

royal cinema, 506 college. reelindiefilmfest.com

thu 17-oct 20 – Festival of music-themed

films as part of the Indie Week music festival. $10, day pass $20, festival pass $50, other various prices related to music and film fest. thu 17 – Musicwood D: Maxine Trump, and shorts A Little Bit Country and Circle. 7 pm. Walking Proof D: Matthew Dorman and

= Critics’ Pick nnnnn = Top ten of the year nnNn = Honourable mention nnn = Entertaining nn = Mediocre n = Bomb

Canyons syndrome. Marty (Gavin Brown) is a suburban Anykid who escapes into his older brother’s (Ethan Philbeck) horror movies to forget being bullied at school. After happening upon a too-real, snuffish title, Marty begins to suspect that his brother has some pretty serious skeletons rattling in his closet. For all its lameness, Found convincingly sells its grisly, hyper-realistic violence, its crappy trappings making it all the more disturbing and strangely absorbing. JS Adrian DiGiovanni sees red in Motivational Growth.

Cinemas BLOOR hot docs Cinema

506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

Thu 17 – Design Is One: Lella & Massimo

Vignelli (2013) D: Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra. 1:30 & 6:15 pm. The Trials Of Muhammad Ali (2013) D: Bill Seigel. 3:45 & 8:30 pm. fri 18 – Design Is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli. 4:15 pm. One Track Heart: The Story Of Krishna Das (2012) D: Jeremy Frindel. 6:30 pm. Dirty Wars (2013) D: Rick Rowley. 8:45 pm. sat 19 – One Track Heart: The Story Of Krishna Das. 12:30, 4:30 & 8:45 pm. Design Is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli. 2:30 & 6:30 pm. sun 20 – Dirty Wars. Noon. One Track Heart: The Story Of Krishna Das. 2:15 & 7:15 pm. Salon Series: Design Is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli. 4:30 pm. Blackfish (2013) D: Gabriela Cowperthwaite. 9:15 pm. mon 21 – Music On Film: Wagner & Me (2010) D: Patrick McGrady. 6:30 pm. $15. One Track Heart: The Story Of Krishna Das. 9:30 pm. Tue 22 – Fanie Fourie’s Lobola (2013) D: Henk Pretorius. Fundraiser for LALELA, which provides educational arts to youth affected by extreme poverty. $17, VIP $100 includes cocktail reception 5 pm, screening 6:30 pm. Good Ol’ Freda (2013) D: Ryan White. 9 pm. Wed 23 – One Track Heart: The Story Of Krishna Das. 4:15 & 8:30 pm. Blackfish. 6:15 pm.

Camera Bar

1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

sat 19 – Imagine: Vivian Maier Who Took Nanny’s Pictures? (2013) D: Jill Nichols. 2 pm. Hugo (2011) D: Martin Scorsese. 3:15 pm.

cinematheque tiff bell lightbox

reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-8433, tiff.net

thu 17-sun 20 – ImagineNATIVE Film Festival. See listings, this page. Brazilian Film & TV Festival of Toronto. See listings, this page. thu 17 – Claire Denis and Mati Diop present A Thousand Suns (2013) D: Mati Diop, and Touki-Bouki (1973) D: Djibril Diop Mambety. 6:45 pm. mon 21 – Author Jo Baker discusses Pride And Prejudice (2005) D: Joe Wright. 7 pm. Book signing of Baker’s Longbourn to follow. tue 22 – I Can’t Sleep (1994) D: Claire Denis. 6:30 pm. The Goethe-Institut presents The Films Of Fatih Akin X 2: In July (2000). 6:30 pm. Solino (2002). 9 pm. wed 23 – The Goethe-Institut presents The Films Of Fatih Akin: The Edge Of Heaven (2007). 6:30 pm. Packaged Goods Spotlight: Director X and the Rascalz present Northern Touch 15th Anniversary, a screening of music videos and discussion on the evolution of Canada’s hip-hop scene. 7 pm. Nicolas Winding Refn: Fleshpot On 42nd Street (1973) D: Andy Milligan. 9:30 pm. The Goethe-Institut presents The Films Of Fatih Akin: Head-On (2004). 9:15 pm.

Marcio Novelli, and shorts Jessie And The Fountain Of Youth and To The Beat. 9:30 pm. sat 19 – In Search Of Blind Joe Death – The Saga Of John Fahey D: James Cullingham, and shorts R Luke DuBois: Running Out Of Time, and Suiside Of Life. 7 pm. The Legend Of Jimy Lazer D: Mann Munoz, and shorts Purgatorium and Halo. 9:30 pm. sun 20 – Bayou Maharajah D: Lily Keber, and shorts Some Sweet Relief, and Necronimica. 7 pm.

toronto after dark film festival scotiabank theatre, 259 richmond W. torontoafterdark.com

thu 17-oct 25 – Festival of horror, sci-fi, action

and cult cinema. $13, stu $12, all-access pass $143. Tickets at bit.ly/tad13tix. thu 17 – Opening night: We Are What We Are (2013) D: Jim Mickle, and short KIN. 7 pm. Bounty Killer (2013) D: Henry Saine. 9:30 pm. fri 18 – Bug Night: Big Ass Spider (2013) D: Mike Mendez. 7 pm. Eega (2012) D: SS Rajamouli and JVV Sathyanarayana. 9:30 pm. sat 19 – International Shorts After Dark. 4:15 pm. Zombie Night: Stalled (2013) D: Christian Jones. 7 pm. The Battery (2012) D: Jeremy Gardner, and short Just Ella. 9:30 pm. sun 20 – Silent Retreat (2013) D: Tricia Lee. 4:15 pm. Septic Man (2013) D: Jesse T Cook. 7 pm. Motivational Growth (2013) D: Don Thacker. 9:30 pm. mon 21 – Odd Thomas (2013) D: Stephen Sommers. 7 pm. Solo (2013) D: Isaac Cravit. 9:30 pm. tue 22 – Last Days On Mars (2013) D: Ruairi Robinson. 7 pm. The Machine (2013) D: Caradog W James. 9:30 pm. wed 23 – Gory Night: Found (2012) D: Scott Schirmer, and short Liebe (Love). 7 pm. Evil Feed (2013) D: Kimani Ray Smith, and short Beasts Of The Real World. 9:30 pm.

Fox Theatre

2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

Thu 17 – 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) D: Morgan Neville. 7 pm. Lee Daniels’ The ñ Butler (2013) D: Lee Daniels. 9 pm. Fri 18 – Lee Daniels’ The Butler. 7 pm. The World’s End (2013) D: Edgar Wright. 9:30 pm. sat 19 – Monsters University 3D (2013) D: Dan Scanlon. 1:30 pm. Lee Daniels’ The Butler. 9:30 pm. sun 20 – Monsters University 3D. 2 pm. Lee Daniels’ The Butler. 4:15 & 6:45 pm. The World’s End. 9:30 pm. Mon 21 – Our Man In Tehran (2013) D: Drew Taylor and Larry Weinstein. 7 pm. Lee Daniels’ The Butler. 9 pm. Tue 22 – Lee Daniels’ The Butler. 6:45 pm. Our Man In Tehran. 9:30 pm. Wed 23 – The World’s End. 7 pm. Lee Daniels’ The Butler. 9:15 pm.

ontario science centre

770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

thu 17-fri 18 – Great White Shark. 11 am and

2 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. Born To Be Wild. 1 pm. Sat 19-sun 20 – Great White Shark. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 & 4 pm.

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mon 21-wed 23 – Great White Shark. 11 am & 2 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. Born To Be Wild. 1 pm.

reg hartt’s cineforum

blu-ray/dvd

By ANDREW DOWLER

disc of the week Giant robots try to protect humanity in the great Pacific Rim.

463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

thu 17 – Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D:

FW Murnau, with music from Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 7 pm. What I Learned With LSD (2012) D: Reg Hartt. 9 pm. sat 19-Wed 23 – BBC Shroud Of Turin (2008) D: David Rolfe. 4:30 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, with music from Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 7 pm. What I Learned With LSD (2012) D: Reg Hartt. 9 pm.

revue cinema

400 Roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

Thu 17 – The Attack (2012) D: Ziad Doueiri. 7 pm. Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013) D: Lee Daniels. 9 pm. Fri 18 – Blue Jasmine (2013) D: Woody Allen. 7 pm. In A World... (2013) D: Lake Bell. 9 pm. sat 19 – Monsters University 3D (2013) D: Dan Scanlon. 2 pm. Blue Jasmine. 4:15 & 7 pm. In A World... 9 pm. sun 20 – Monsters University 3D. 2 pm. MPPCheri DiNovo & MP Peggy Nash present Chasing Ice (2012) D: Jeff Orlowski. 4 pm. Free. Blue Jasmine. 7 pm. In A World... 9 pm. mon 21 – Drinking Buddies (2013) D: Joe Swanberg. 7 pm. Blue Jasmine. 9 pm. Tue 22 – Blue Jasmine. 7 pm. Drinking Buddies. 9 pm. Wed 23 – Our Man In Tehran (2013) D: Drew Taylor and Larry Weinstein. 7 pm. 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) D: Morgan Neville. 9 pm.

the royal 608 College. 416-534-5252. theroyal.to

Thu 17-sun 20 – Reel Indie Film Festival. See

listings, this page. sat 19 – Sí-Sí Cine Toronto Latin Film Festival presents El Mural (2010) D: Hector Olivera. 4 pm. $10, stu/srs $8. Mon 21-wed 23 – Check website for schedule.

other films thu 17-wed 23 –

Pacific Rim (WB, 2013) D:

Guillermo del Toro, w/ Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba. Rating: NNNN; Blu-ray package: NNNNN Writer/director/producer Guillermo del Toro doesn’t quite reach his avowed goal in Pacific Rim, which was to evoke the same awe he felt as a 12-year-old watching giant robotand-monster movies. That effect is almost impossible on the home screen, where scope is diminished and detail inevitably lost, but he comes close in an epic spectacle loaded with imaginative images. Humanity is losing the war

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Maniac’s two defining devices and the conflicting emotions aroused by its simple boy-meetsgirl story make it memorable, disturbing and miles away from the typical slasher movie. Frank (Elijah Wood) murders women and staples their scalps to his mannequins. Anna (Nora Arnezeder), a photographer, has her own fascination with mannequins. Will she redeem him? Escape? Will Frank be saved or slaughtered? As viewers, we’re set up to root for all these conflicting options. Frank is a social and psychological mess, unable to distinguish fantasy from reality and tormented by crushing guilt over his compulsive killing; he’s our protagonist. Not many horror movies are that brave. Offhand, only Peeping Tom and Hatchet For A Honeymoon come to mind, and the latter’s a black comedy. From beginning to end, we’re locked into Frank’s point of view, only glimpsing Wood in reflections, a couple of memory shots and occasional hand

against 250-foot monsters that emerge from a fissure in the ocean. Only four teams of giant battle-robot pilots are left to make a last-ditch stab at closing the fissure. Least among them are the burnout (Charlie Hunnam) and a traumatized rookie (Rinko Kikuchi). Robots, monsters and del Toro’s vision of a distressed near-future provide ample high-quality eye candy, and he keeps it all flowing with brisk efficiency – even the surprisingly smart and funny subplot featuring a

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shots. Intense claustrophobia and a great deal of close-up graphic gore result. Again, it’s a brave move whose only precedent, as far as I know, is Lady In The Lake. Intricate choreography among Wood, the camera operator and a second actor is needed to create the illusion of Frank’s presence and still allow Maniac its unhampered visual fluidity. Their methods are well detailed in the hour-long making-of doc, that also covers every aspect of production and the score and the film’s surprise invitation to Cannes. EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc. English, French audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

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The Look Of Love tells the story of Paul Raymond, who opened England’s first strip club in 1958 in London’s Soho, made a fortune, launched a men’s mag in the 70s, bought tons of real estate and became a billionaire well before his death in 2008. Along the way, he has plenty of sex and drugs and loses everyone close to him. Steve Coogan (Raymond), Anna Friel (his smart wife), Tamsin Egerton (the glamorous girlfriend he ditches her for) and Imogen Poots (his beloved daughter) are relaxed and have a good time with the light comedy, serious drama and lots of nudity and sex. In the interviews, the actors talk about their approach to playing reallife people and enthuse over the im provisational methods of director Michael Winterbottom. The deleted scenes flesh out the story. EXTRAS Cast and crew interviews, deleted scenes. English audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

High Plains Drifter (WB, 1973) D: Clint Eastwood, w/ Eastwood, Verna Bloom. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: none.

Think High Noon from hell. The never-named eponymous drifter (Clint Eastwood) rides out of the heat haze into a tiny mining town where he commits three murders and a rape. The townsfolk hire him to replace his three victims, gunfighters on hand to defend the town against a trio of outlaws coming for vengeance. But the drifter demands a heavy price and seems to take sadistic joy in exacting it. He may not be entirely human. The townspeople are just as bad. The only act in the entire movie that could remotely be called moral involves shooting a man in the back. By this point in his career, Eastwood has his flint-eyed cowboy down pat but he’s still learning his chops as a di rector, so the visuals and performances are merely ordinary. EXTRAS English, French audio. English, Spanish subtitles. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com

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BF’s sending a message My boyfriend and I have been t ogether for two years and we live together. Recently, his ex was killed in a car accident. They were not on good terms, and he often made scathing statements about her. I made the mistake of saying the following several days after her death (after offering him my sympathy on numerous occasions): “I don’t know how to help you grieve in this situation, because you didn’t like her.” Obviously, that was a stupid, careless thing to say. I apologized numerous times, and he said he forgave me. Fast-forward two weeks. We were out having drinks with friends. He disappeared from the bar and wouldn’t answer my calls. I ended up calling a cab and heading home by myself. When I got home, he was there drinking with our roommate and some of his friends who were crashing at our house, including his friend’s wife. I was angry and went to bed. I awoke at 8 am alone and went downstairs, where I found him making out with his friend’s wife on our porch. They were both incredibly drunk. Later, he told me he was still angry about my comment, accused me of hating his ex and informed me that he spent the entire night venting about me to his friends. I am totally capable of getting over one drunken kiss – everybody makes mistakes. However, I feel like the whole context was incredibly toxic and hurtful, especially his airing our dirty laundry to his friends. I’m not sure if I’m interested in staying with someone who can’t speak to me like an adult when he has an issue and instead gets scary drunk and makes out with

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people. I told him that this chick owes me an apology before I can ever even consider getting over it. I asked him to consider quitting drinking. And I asked him to make it clear to his friends what really happened when it came to our interactions over his ex’s passing, so I don’t have to be treated like the bad guy in this situation. Am I being too demanding? Does it seem like our relationship is worth salvaging? We’ve had our ups and downs, but I hope we love each other enough to get past this. Confused And Concerned About Situation Let’s review your boyfriend’s behaviour: gets drunk, ditches girlfriend, gets completely shit-faced back at shared home, bitches about girlfriend to drunk friends, makes out with another woman – who happens to be married to another friend – while his girlfriend sleeps in the next room, gets caught, blames girlfriend. To me, that looks like someone slamming his hand down on the eject button, i.e., he wants out of this relationship. Which means your willingness to stay in this relationship – if “this chick” comes through with the apology you feel she owes you, if your boyfriend corrects the record and quits boozing – may be irrelevant. Because if your boyfriend wants to dump you but lacks the decency, balls or self-awareness to end it himself (it’s possible that he may not be consciously aware that he wants out), CACAS, he’ll keep pulling stunts like this until you’ve had enough and you dump him. I could be wrong, of course, and I’ve been wrong in the past – see “clitoris, location” and “male bisexuality, existence of” – and this is advice, not binding arbitration blah blah blah. Maybe his behaviour can be attributed to a crazy meltdown reaction to his ex-girlfriend’s death. Clearly, his feelings for his ex were more complicated than he let on. I’m thinking he still had feelings for her, CACAS, and I’m betting that she dumped him. He may have said only shitty things to you about his ex because he thought that’s

what you wanted to hear. Reminding him about all the shit he talked about his ex may have made him angry with himself, and he projected that anger onto you, and now, in the cold/sober light of day, he’ll be able to see that and he’ll apologize and you can rebuild your relationship. Or, you know, not.

Unloading BDSM gear My uncle died in a car wreck. I didn’t now him well, but we lived in the same city k and he named me executor of his estate. He was single, childless, straight, unmarried and – as it turns out – pretty kinky. I’ve been looking around online, and some of this stuff in his “playroom” is worth a lot of money. But you can’t haul a $1,000 bondage table out on the lawn for a yard sale (at least not where he lived). So what do you do with a dungeon full of BDSM gear when the owner dies unexpectedly? Boy De-acquisitioning Sadistic Merch There’s an adult section on eBay where you can unload the stuff, BDSM, and NaughtyBids.com is a site dedicated to auctioning off pre-owned sex toys and gear. But if you don’t want to do the work (and you don’t care about cashing in on that bondage table), google around a bit and I bet you’ll find a local BDSM group in your area that would be happy take your late uncle’s gear off your hands.

Masseurs are people, too I’m a gay man in a happy and open arriage. I routinely seek the services of an m erotic masseur, a man with whom I have a great client/service-provider relationship. I found out when booking my next massage with him that he was recently in a car accident with his long-term partner, who died in the hospital. Normally, I’d send flowers and a card. However, due to the nature of our working relationship, I don’t want to extend myself in ways that could be uncom-

fortable for him. I wouldn’t want to put him in the position of having to explain who I am if the card I sent was read by someone else. Any advice would be appreciated. Wants To Be Respectful He’s a sex worker, WTBR, not a moron. Backing up: If we were talking about your lawyer or hairstylist or housekeeper – anyone else with whom you had a client/service-provider relationship – you wouldn’t hesitate to send flowers and a card. The only reason you’re hesitating in this case is because you fear outing your masseur as a sex worker. And here’s what’s fucked up about that: You’re assuming that he isn’t already out about doing sex work. You’re assuming that being outed as a sex worker is the worst possible thing that could happen to him (I think your masseur can attest that there are worse things). And – most shockingly – you’re assuming that your masseur is too stupid to cover for himself if he isn’t out about doing sex work and if someone else reads your card and if that person asks who you are. Trust me, should a nosy relative ask him who you are – which is highly unlikely – your masseur has lots of options before he gets around to “a decent and kind guy I sometimes jack off for money.” He can say you’re a friend or an acquaintance or someone with whom he’s worked. Better to risk a moment of awkwardness with a nosy relative than to fail to acknowledge your masseur’s humanity at a time like this. And that’s what failing to acknowledge his grief amounts to, WTBR: a failure to acknowledge his humanity. Sex workers are subjected to far too much of that by people who don’t see them as fully human. Don’t participate in the dehumanization of sex workers. Send the flowers.

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