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Horror films—like leather and tweed—are guaranteed to come back every fall. And with them come the scream queens, people who dare to open up dusty coffins, step into howling basements and tempt the fates by communing with the dead. They are hard-headed folks with no crisis managements skills whatsoever; shriekers who refuse to move out […]

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Sarah will be taking over our Instagram account on September 14, 2015. Follow all day long at @FashionCanada. It’s a scorching day in New York City and actress Sarah Gadon is sitting tolerantly in the back seat of an SUV on the Brooklyn Bridge. Three AC vents are blasting at her and the car’s driver […]

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With David Cronenberg‘s latest eery satire Maps to the Stars having already generated buzz at Cannes earlier this summer, its TIFF 2014 debut was much-anticipated. And with such an A-list stacked cast hitting the red carpet (complete with Rpatz and his legions of screaming fans) for last night’s premiere, it surely lived up to expectations. […]

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Spooksville made its way into TIFF Bell Lightbox on Wednesday night for the opening party of Cronenberg: Evolution (November 1-January 19), the exhibit celebrating the city’s most lauded director. The retrospective of David Cronenberg’s 40 years in film opens up a cabinet of curiosities with trippy artifacts, set designs and rare footage from various Cronenberg films including Crash, The Fly, Videodrome and Cosmopolis. My personal favourites: the original “bio-ports” used on Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh in eXistenZ (remember theeeeese?!) and a menacing Mugwump situated at a Naked Lunch bar setting for guests to pose for photos with. One such guest to take the photo opportunity: David Cronenberg himself, who posed alongside TIFF CEO Piers Handling and creative director Noah Cowan, earlier that day.

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Summer weather—and the festival season that comes with it—is taking hold across the country. This weekend, we’re hitting up an all-day loft party in Toronto, a gallery opening in Vancouver, shops for runway looks (and accessories to match) and following Robert Pattinson on an epic cab ride across Manhattan (that was filmed in Toronto). Buckle up.

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Word: Fassinators

Meaning: A self-appellation belonging to superfans of the actor Michael Fassbender

Usage: “Fassinators! Which Michael Fassbender film are you looking forward to the most?” — Michael Fassbender Online

Word: Exteriorization Meaning: The physical manifestation of an intangible or abstract thing; in psychiatry. Usage: “’Now this is a so-called catalytic exteriorization phenomenon,’ Jung insisted. ‘Oh, no, that is complete nonsense,’ Freud replied.” — Arts Journal You should know it because: Prada showed a va-va-vroom collection last week, plastering auto motifs—cartoon flames, actual car decals—over […]

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Once again, the Grey Goose Soho House was home to just about every star you’d ever want to be home with last night, as the casts from Drive and A Dangerous Method celebrated their screenings. Who, pray tell, is all the hype about? Just Ryan Gosling, Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Emily Blunt, Bono, George Clooney, Jon Hamm, Evan Rachel Wood, Anna Faris, Dave Matthews, Sarah Sadon, David Cronenberg, Jimmy Kimmel, Kate Mara, Emile Hirsch, Albert Brooks, and Brian Cranston is all. Wish you were there? We’ll give you the next best thing…

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Word: McLuhanism

Definition: Basically, a set of principles derived from and defined by the thinking of McLuhan, as in Marshall, the ’60s radical thinker and media prophet. You literally can’t be Canadian and go to high school without knowing at least one thing about him: usually, that “the medium is the message.”

It was a big night for Canada. In one part of town, cliché-spitting Canadiana pirouetted on the ice at the premiere of Score: A Hockey Musical. Meanwhile a little uptown, the regiment of well-heeled Canucks congregated for a quieter–but equally proud–celebration of Canadian imagery for RED, a preview exhibition of twelve images from the New York Times Canadian Photo Archive.

Caitlin Cronenberg, photographer and daughter of film auteur David Cronenberg, made her curatorial debut for the exhibit, which was held at the Toro After Dark space. The daunting task required Cronenberg to look through thousands of archive photographs to select twelve to display. The younger Cronenberg based her decisions on emotional response and the stories they tell. “These photos are news stories and it’s the stories that make them special,” she said.