Joe and Nick are also pranksters and their pranks are often hilarious. They created characters who have been successful in duping local TV news programs. Programmers desperate for time to fill on the air, but no time for a quick Google search, have been a ripe target for them. Hilarity ensues when TV anchors try to maintain professionalism when talking to a yoyo master who doesn’t know any yoyo tricks or chefs that don’t actually know how to cook. But it was the characters of “Chop and Steele” that landed them in some trouble
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SIFF DocFest 2022: Hockey Dreams
When PyeongChang, South Korea was named hosts for the 2018 Winter Olympics, the nation was automatically given a spot to compete for the gold medal in ice hockey. Between the time of the announcement and the actual Olympics, South Korea had four years to field a respectable team. Not exactly a hockey juggernaut, the host nation had to basically start from scratch to field a team.
SIFF’s Second Annual DocFest kicks off tonight
After a successful debut last year, the people at SIFF are doing another DocFest and it has a pretty impressive lineup. It …
Orcas Island Film Festival Co-directors on returning to semi-normalcy to share exceptional moviegoing experiences
We were thrilled to see that the Orcas Island Film Festival was planning a big return for 2022 after a slightly-subdued 2021. Since then, they’ve released their full lineup — a jaw-dropping collection of some of the top prize-winners and most buzzworthy titles from many of the year’s most prestigious festivals. Along with potentially Oscar-bound international films and heart-stirring documentaries, the re-expanded program will pose scheduling conundrums for attendees trying to decide how to best plan a weekend of seeing some of the year’s best films well in advance of their neighbors. For lovers of first-look films, it’s among the best kinds of problem to have!
TIFF 2022: the nice guys of The Banshees of Inisherin, EO, The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Nothing wrong with a little kindness. Melancholy humor of a severed friendship from Martin McDonagh, an itinerant donkey in EO, and a true story given the Farrelly treatment.
TIFF 2022: Glass Onion and Triangle of Sadness eat the rich.
The follies of the wealthy are on full display in two comedy premieres in Toronto. Rian Johnson returns to the Knives Out saga with Glass Onion’s debut and Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness made landfall on North American shores during TIFF 2022.
TIFF 2022: Documenting creativity and social movements of singular figures with All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Moonage Daydream
Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed links the life and art of photographer Nan Goldin to her present-day activism surrounding the opioid epidemic; Brett Morgen contemplates David Bowie as philosopher king in IMAX proportions with Moonage Daydream.
TIFF 2022: Bros and My Policeman take contrasting approaches to gay love stories
Brief reviews of films that made their debuts at the Toronto international film festival: Bros and My Policeman
TIFF 2022: The cinema of dedication with The Eternal Daughter and The Good Nurse
Brief reviews of three films that made their debuts at the Toronto international film festival: TIFF 2022: More Quick Dispatches from Toronto The Eternal Daughter, My Policeman, and The Good Nurse.
TIFF 2022: Quick Reactions from opening weekend in Toronto (Sidney, The Woman King, Butcher’s Crossing)
Quick reviews of Butcher’s Crossing, The Woman King, and Sidney.