Articles by Allan Tong

Away From Her

Sarah Polley

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2007

Polley brings to the screen Alice Munro’s novel about Alzheimer’s, old age and a love triangle of sorts. The ageless Julie Christie portray...

Manufacturing Dissent & Citizen Black

An interview with filmmakers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2007

When I spoke to Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine, the directors of Citizen Black and Manufacturing Dissent (Conrad Black and Michael Moore,...

The Contract

Bruce Beresford

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2007

"Every killer meets his equal,” boasts the tagline but The Contract fails to fulfil that claim. Morgan Freeman plays "bad guy with a consci...

Reel Talent: First Films By Legendary Directors

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2007

They’re household names now but George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis were once film students making sci-fi and racing films. This two-disc coll...

The War Tapes

Deborah Scranton

PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2007

"Every time you hear a boom, somebody is going to heaven.” So jokes an American soldier caught on camera by another soldier in The War Tape...

Tom Dowd & the Language of Music

Mark Moorman

PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2007

Tom Dowd was a record producer and engineer who worked with Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Cream, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding. Dowd pione...

Festival Express

Bob Smeaton

PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2007

In the summer of 1970, Janis Joplin, the Band, the Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, Ian Sylvia and others crossed Canada by train, playing concert...

Nothing

Vincenzo Natali

PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2007

Toronto losers Dave (David Hewlett) and Andrew (Andrew Miller) are long-time buddies until Dave announces he’s moving out. Dave has h...