Articles By Matthew Ritchie
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TIFF 2017: Kodachrome Directed by Mark Raso Published Sep 12, 2017Copenhagen director Mark Raso's second feature film wishes it were steeped in the tangible mediums of a more meaningful past, but it feels l...
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TIFF 2017: Breathe Directed by Andy Serkis Published Sep 11, 2017Actor Andy Serkis's directorial debut tells the inspirational true story of activist and innovator Robin Cavendish (played by Andrew Garfiel...
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Queens of the Stone Age Budweiser Stage, Toronto ON, September 9 Published Sep 10, 2017"Anybody got a knife?" Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme asked the nearly sold out crowd at the Budweiser Stage two songs into the...
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Brad's Status Directed by Mike White Published Sep 09, 2017Comedic actor Ben Stiller successfully showed off some middle-aged angst in Noah Baumbach's 2014 TIFF selection While We're Young, and he's...
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TIFF 2017: The Ritual Directed by David Bruckner Published Sep 09, 2017Much like Midnight Madness selection Kill List before it, anthology series (V/H/S and Southbound) collaborator David Bruckner's debut featur...
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Stronger Directed by David Gordon Green Published Sep 08, 2017Movies about recent history tend to be tough for even the most established filmmakers to make — often the societal and cultural impacts have...
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TIFF 2017: Borg/McEnroe Directed by Janus Metz Published Sep 08, 2017One of two tennis movies hitting the Toronto International Film Festival this year, Borg/McEnroe finds former child star-turned-Hollywood-ba...
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The Cast of 'IT' Talk Toronto, the 1980s and How They're Not Hurting the Clown Industry Published Sep 06, 2017Back in the fall of 1990, Stephen King's 1,100-plus-page horror novel IT was given the miniseries treatment over at ABC. Rocky Horror Pictur...
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Mogwai Every Country's Sun Published Aug 30, 2017One of the reasons Mogwai's Rave Tapes was such a success (it was the top selling UK vinyl records released in 2014) had to do with its tona...
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Queens of the Stone Age's Troy Van Leeuwen on Working with Iggy Pop, Mark Ronson and Chelsea Wolfe Published Aug 24, 2017Behind every great rock star is a great guitarist. For Queens of the Stone frontman Josh Homme, that man is Troy Van Leeuwen: the former ses...
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Queens of the Stone Age Villains Published Aug 23, 2017Ever since Queens of the Stone Age's seventh studio album, Villains, was announced via a staged polygraph test, much has been made about its...
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An Essential Guide to Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme Published Aug 21, 2017They don't make rock stars like Josh Homme anymore. Frankly, they never did. A one-of-a-kind songwriter, producer and performer with a s...
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I Am the Wolf: Lyrics & Writings By Mark Lanegan Published Aug 18, 2017"I never thought I would actually play or write anything myself," admits Mark Lanegan, the ex-Screaming Trees vocalist, sometimes-Queens of...
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Logan Lucky Directed by Steven Soderbergh Published Aug 18, 2017As the director behind Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen, Steven Soderbergh knows a thing or two about creating a well-crafted heist movie...
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The Hitman's Bodyguard Directed by Patrick Hughes Published Aug 18, 2017You don't become the second highest grossing actor of all time by saying no to movie roles. Over the past five decades, Samuel L. Jackson ha...
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Here's How 'Lights Out' Director David F. Sandberg Made 'Annabelle: Creation' His Own Published Aug 10, 2017Swedish director David F. Sandberg has the kind of career of which most could only dream. A former freelance animator, the filmmaker — w...
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Annabelle: Creation Directed by David F. Sandberg Published Aug 09, 2017Swedish director David F. Sandberg made his first major splash last year with his feature-length directorial debut Lights Out, a horror film...
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Wind River Directed by Taylor Sheridan Published Aug 08, 2017Career changes can be a scary thing in Hollywood, especially when it involves an actor switching to screenwriting. But for Sons of Anarchy s...
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Detroit Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Published Aug 04, 2017Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has spent a chunk of her career exploring power, the abuse of it and the American institutio...
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Where I Play DAIS Published Jul 21, 2017Like any creative and philosophical person, Sol Guy thinks a lot about the state of art in modern society. But there was one question in par...