Articles by Allan Tong

The L-Word: The Complete Final Season

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2009

The ladies are back one last time in this three-disc package, gathering the final eight episodes of this groundbreaking lesbian drama. For...

Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma

Patrick Reed

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2009

Not to be confused with the new Colin Farrell drama by the same title about a war photographer, Triage is a documentary profiling Toronto,...

Sin Nombre

Cary Fukunaga

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2009

We all know that scores of impoverished Latinos illegally cross into the U.S. through Mexico, but we see their stories only in films such a...

The Simpsons: Season 12

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2009

First off, the accordion design is back but refinements in the design make it easier to pull discs out of the folding cardboard and reduces...

Polytechnique

Denis Villeneuve

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2009

On December 6, 1989, a deranged young man walked into the École Polytechnique in Montreal carrying a semi-automatic rifle and a hunt...

Idiots And Angels

Bill Plympton

PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2009

Though the film pays off by the end, it takes a while to get into this animated feature about an unlikable man who learns to do good deeds...

The Class

Laurent Cantet

PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2009

Halfway through The Class, I had to stop and remind myself that I was watching a drama, not a documentary. So realistic is the interaction...

The Cove

Louie Psihoyos

PUBLISHED Aug 6, 2009

The audience favourite at this year's Sundance and Hot Docs festivals arrives in theatres as that rare film that lives up to its high expec...