​Feist Pleasure Principle

Published May 24, 2017

Look at what the light did now: The evening spring skies were a fiery yellow and orange on Bloor Street in Toronto. After a torrential downp...

Feist Opens Up About 'Pleasure' Principles and the New Broken Social Scene Album

Published Apr 21, 2017

You don't rush Leslie Feist. The singer-songwriter-bandleader is a woman of meticulous moves and carefully chosen words, not to mention an a...

Various Released! The Human Rights Concerts 1986-1998

Published Nov 05, 2013

Remember when torture was unimaginable, not a cheap plot device on TV thrillers and an accepted part of American foreign policy? Remember wh...

Leonard Cohen Beautiful Loser

Published Jan 30, 2012

He's the little Jew that wrote the Bible, who believes love is the only engine of survival. He is still the thinking woman's sex symbol, and...

Wiebo's War David York

Published Oct 20, 2011

Filmmaker David York thought he was going to talk to Wiebo Ludwig about his conviction and imprisonment, years earlier, for sabotaging natur...

If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don't Rise Spike Lee

Published May 13, 2011

Spike Lee's greatest film remains 1989's Do the Right Thing, a complex, dense, gloriously photographed portrait of a neighbourhood in turmoi...

Wiebo's War David York

Published Apr 28, 2011

Filmmaker David York thought he was going to talk to Wiebo Ludwig about his conviction and imprisonment, years earlier, for sabotaging natur...

Inside Job Charles Ferguson

Published Mar 03, 2011

When director Charles Ferguson accepted this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary, he opened his speech by saying: "Three years after o...

Away We Go Sam Mendes

Published Oct 06, 2009

In every romantic comedy the main couple must find each other, lose each other and then attempt reconciliation. So what if there was a roman...

Big River Man John Maringouin

Published Jun 04, 2009

The man who holds the world record for long-distance swimming is a 53-year-old, overweight drunk driver and gambling addict from Slovenia, w...

Apostle of Hustle Masters of the Realm

Published May 21, 2009

Andrew Whiteman is a lazy man. At least, he seems to think so. His resumé, which spans a 24-year career, begs to differ. He's been in...

The Red Chapel Mads Brugger

Published May 13, 2009

The worst nightmare of a satirical filmmaker is to find out that the joke is on them. And it's debatable whether Danish director Mads Brugge...

Leonard Cohen Live In London

Published May 07, 2009

"What a great honour to play for you," intones the immortal baritone of Leonard Cohen at the beginning of this two-disc, 150-minute document...

Invisible City Hubert Davis

Published May 04, 2009

In today's documentaries, photography is usually the first factor to be sacrificed in favour of drama and immediacy. Last year's shakier-tha...

Diary Of A Times Square Thief Klaas Bense

Published May 04, 2009

Before its Disney-fied makeover in the '90s, Times Square was once the seediest section of New York City. And anyone who visits Times Square...

The Burning Hell's Apocalypso

Published Mar 26, 2009

It was only a matter of time before a band called the Burning Hell wrote a song called "When The World Ends." Singer-songwriter Mathias Kom...

Milk Gus Van Sant

Published Mar 12, 2009

In his acceptance speech, Dustin Lance Black summed up almost everything Harvey Milk is about when he won the Academy Award for Best Origina...

Yentl Barbra Streisand

Published Mar 03, 2009

If you've ever wondered why Barbra Streisand is a gay icon, look no further than her directorial debut. If it's not the gayest movie ever, i...

Perceptions of Bell Orchestre

Published Feb 21, 2009

Some bands have a distinctive guitar tone; some, a vocalist whose every vocal tic couldn't possibly belong to anyone else. With Bell Orchest...

Antony and the Johnsons Transformed

Published Jan 21, 2009

"Otherworldly" is the most common of the pedestrian adjectives used to describe the voice of Antony Hegarty. The mild-mannered performer, wh...