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James Gartler

THEATRE

Forget The Munchies! Belly Laugh Instead!

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Reefer Madness: The Musical, MainLine Theatre

by James Gartler
25.09.2010

Reefer Madness: The Musical is a real hit! A high note in the fall theatre season, guaranteed to make you giddy! If those endorsements strike you as a touch too cheesy, consider yourself warned: they pale in comparison to the silly, over-the-top and utterly entertaining production itself, which ends its successful run tonight at MainLine.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Queer Fest Spans Cinematic Rainbow

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Image+Nation

by James Gartler
24.10.2009

Though our beloved Mount Royal may be sporting a stunning array of leafy colours, the real eye-catching rainbow of diversity in town is Image+Nation, Montreal’s queer film fest – the biggest and longest-running in Canada. To celebrate its 22nd season, the fest has arrived a little earlier this year, bringing with it pics in a [...]

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FILM

Exclamation Point Not Quite Enough

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The Informant!

by James Gartler
21.10.2009

What do bored, pudgy businessmen fantasize about? Matt Damon knows. In his newest flick, The Informant!, he piles on 30 extra pounds and sports a moustache to portray real-life executive-turned-FBI informant Mark Whitacre – a character as deceitful as The Talented Mr. Ripley, but less than half as interesting, in a film nowhere nearly as [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

A Candid Look at WFF

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Montreal World Film Festival

by James Gartler
07.09.2009

The 33rd Edition of the World Film Festival having drawn to a close, local director Geoff Uloth provides an honest look at the fest from the perspective of someone with an awful lot invested in it – a rising filmmaker.

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FESTIVAL CITY

It’s Lonely Out There

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Montreal World Film Fest

by James Gartler
27.08.2009

With summer winding down, brief as it was, Montrealers have a second chance to escape thanks to the 33rd Edition of the World Film Festival. Starting today, films from all over will converge upon local theatres (including the Imperial, NFB and Quartier Latin) hoping to inspire, thought-provoke, and – yes – provide a glimpse of [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Winged Panther Head Looks To 2010

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Zoofest Roundup

by James Gartler
03.08.2009

Near the end of her opening night performance of Playin’ With Micucci, the endearingly wide-eyed Kate Micucci went off-script, saying: “I look at it like a video game – if I get through it, there’s extra points.” One can only wonder if the same sentiment saw Zoofest organizer Lucy Eveleigh through the frantic five months [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Goblin Leaves Them Laughing

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Just For Laughs

by James Gartler
28.07.2009

Kiss the little red-horned green goblin goodbye, folks, at least for another year. The 27th Annual Just For Laughs Fest has packed up its carnival of delights and vacated the corner of St Denis and De Maisonneuve after another season of slapstick shows and serious star power. Acts both local and legendary drew record numbers, [...]

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