Articles by Allan Tong

The Other F Word
Andrea Blaugrund Nevins
PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2012
The late great rock critic Lester Bangs once scorned rock music for being trapped in youth culture – that it's laughable for an agein...
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Werner Herzog
PUBLISHED Nov 18, 2011
It's unfair to compare a movie in big-screen 3D against its DVD counterpart, but that's exactly what many people will do when they watch th...
J. Edgar
Clint Eastwood
PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2011
J. Edgar Hoover was once the most powerful man in America. Wiretapping private conversations, the FBI chief blackmailed U.S. Presidents, fr...
X Avant: Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer
Polish Combatants Hall, Toronto ON October 21
PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2011
Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and experimental visual artist Leah Singer presented a multimedia improvisation as part of the X Avant music fest...
The Interrupters
Steve James
PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2011
They were once gang-bangers. They were teenagers when they gunned down enemies on the streets of inner city Chicago, often over a careless...
The Kennedys
Joel Surnow
PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2011
Back in the spring, there was a lot of hoopla when the History Channel cancelled the airing of this eight-hour mini-series. Other networks...
Moneyball
Bennett Miller
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2011
Based on a true story, Moneyball tells the unlikely tale of the Oakland A's breaking decades-old baseball tradition and embracing cold stat...
Moneyball
Bennett Miller
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2011
Based on a true story, Moneyball tells the unlikely tale of the Oakland A's breaking decades-old baseball tradition and embracing cold stat...