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Friday, January 20, 2023

IDS returns to Toronto with a bash

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Christina Sideris Toronto's Interior Design Show returns to January's cultural calendars after a hiatus (for obvious reasons) and fo...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

film review: Harvest Time

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     Directed by Bernard Shakey ChinoKino score: B (for Neil Young fans: A) Review by Allan Tong When Neil Young released the album Harvest ...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

film review: Darryl Jones: In The Blood

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    Directed by Eric Hamburg ChinoKino score: C Review by Allan Tong Superman is boring. Superman can soar, twist steel, beat any bad guy in...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

film review: REVIVAL69: The Concert That Rocked the World

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    Directed by Ron Chapman Review by Allan Tong ChinoKino score: A "It was the end of the Beatles." Documentarian D.A. Pennebaker...
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Thursday, September 22, 2022

film review: Eternal Spring

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  Directed by Jason Loftus Review by Allan Tong ChinoKino score: A You've seen or heard of the Falun Gong, those folks who stand still o...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Fan Expo returns to Toronto

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Story and photos by Allan Tong Life should be fun. When it isn't, we escape into better worlds, worlds where we possess strength and mag...
Monday, August 8, 2022

film review: Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes

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Directed by Mark James Review by Allan Tong ChinoKino score: A- Peter Tosh, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Dennis Brown, Alton Ellis, Lord C...
Friday, July 15, 2022

art review: In The Wake of Progress

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Directed and photographed by Edward Burtynsky ChinoKino score: A- Review by Allan Tong Edward Burtynsky's giant photographs of strip min...

film review: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Song, A Journey

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  Directed by Dan Geller & Dayna Goldfine ChinoKino score: A- Review by Allan Tong There are many songs, but only a few become hits, and...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

The Prism Prize returns in person

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by Allan Tong The Prism Prize for Canadian music videos returned to a live audience at the TIFF Bell Lightbox last week in downtown Toronto ...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

film review: Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel

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  Directed by Maya Duverdier & Amélie van Elmbt ChinoKino score: B Reviewed by Allan Tong You may have heard of the Chelsea Hotel. It...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

ICFF film reviews: The Treadmill & On Our Watch

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  The Treadmill (Tapirulàn) Directed by Claudia Gerini Written by Fabio Morici with Claudia Gerini and Antonio Baioccio (story) ChinoKino sc...
Monday, June 27, 2022

film review: Ennio

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    Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore ChinoKino score:A Review by Allan Tong If you don't know the name Ennio Morricone, you have heard his...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

film review: Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road

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  Directed by Brent Wilson ChinoKino score: B+ Review by Allan Tong Five minutes into this new documentary about Brian Wilson, I thought, Oh...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

film review: The Beatles: Get Back (sneak preview)

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  Directed by Peter Jackson ChinoKino score: B+ Review by Allan Tong Delayed by the Covid pandemic for 18 months, and hidden by the band its...
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