The search for the perfect lip colour can feel like a never-ending journey for every makeup lover. It’s a case where are many versions of perfection; that essential nude that completes a vast array of makeup looks, that flattering red…
Jazmin Bean, the enigmatic 20-year-old alt star from across the pond, was quite intent on disrupting expectations and giving concertgoers something certainly eye-catching recently. Performing their first-ever headlining show in Canada at Toronto’s Velvet Underground, it marked a perfect introduction…
It was quite the dance party at The Axis Club in Toronto with a headlining performance by ATARASHII GAKKO! The four-piece Japanese girl group offered up a killer, pop-infused mix of hip-hop and jazz that delighted the sold-out crowd of…
At Toronto’s Opera House, Utah-raised musicians The Aces took to the stage in what turned out to be a memorably energetic evening. Consisting of sisters Cristal Ramirez (vocals), Alisa Ramirez (drums), bassist McKenna Petty and guitarist Katie Henderson, the four…
Hollywood action icon Sylvester Stallone made an appearance at the Toronto Film Festival to coincide with his Netflix career-spanning documentary Sly, from director Thom Zimny, which is set to close the festival. Since it is a streaming title, the film…
He looks worn down. Something is weighing on him. A cold case he’s been assigned is 20 years old. And now here he is, in the middle of the Australian outback, an arid landscape of opal mines and an unsolved…
Director Ava DuVernay’s newest movie Origin made its Atlantic crossing from the Venice Film Festival to TIFF for its North American premiere earlier this week. Based on a adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the Long…
Leave it to 50-year-old Harmony Korine to bring the most experimental and derided film to TIFF. AGGRO DR1FT is unintelligible, irritating, deliberately one note and careless of the ways in which people watch movies. Yes, pushing the envelope is part…