Co-founded by Canadian Warren Irwin and magician Stefan Vanel in 2018, Magicflix is an online video streaming service described simply as “Netflix for magic.” The platform, which rolled-out to the public in July of this year, allows subscribers to stream tutorials, performances, and historical archive footage from some of the world’s most talented magicians. For […]
Around 480,000 people flock to Toronto for the Toronto International Film Festival each year, making it one of the biggest movie celebrations in the world. The event, which was founded in 1976, has been described as second only to Cannes in terms of the high-profile celebrities and films on display. One of the biggest reasons […]
Photo: Pxhere Held over 18 days in April, Canada’s Latin American Film Festival played host to 17 film screenings. Now in its 23rd year, the cultural event pays tribute to the diversity and creativity of Latin American Cinema. Since its inception, the festival has screened 307 premieres of Latin American films, hosted 26 visiting filmmakers […]
Mere months after the explosive college admissions scandal that saw at least 51 people arrested on charges that range from mail fraud to money laundering, Lifetime has announced the cast for its depiction of the events, aptly titled College Admissions Scandal. Among those cast is Toronto actress Mia Kirshner. Kirshner first made a splash with […]
At last week’s San Diego Comic-Con Marvel delivered something of a double whammy…or several whammies, as it happens, but we’ll come to those in a moment. The first of said whammies is that Marvel has cast its first Asian lead for the upcoming Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The second is that […]
With the death of Crawford Hawkins on June 25th, Canada has just lost an immensely influential figure, who contributed immeasurably to British Columbia’s film and television production over the past four decades. Born in Brooklyn in 1933, Hawkins joined the U.S. Marine Corps at a young age, before entering the entertainment industry after the Korean […]
