The 2014 Canadian Film Fest: Play – The Film (Alec Toller)

Screening today at the Royal Theatre at 4:15pm is this short, but hugely entertaining and frequently hilarious feature directed by Alec Toller with one of our show’s recent guest, Orphan Black’s Kristian Bruun in a starring role as well as serving as the film’s producer. Bruun plays Alec Hess, an ‘ahem’ visionary film director who is bring…

The Mind Reels Tackle the Canadian Screen Awards 2014

  Sue and I were elated to be able to take part in the Canadian Screen Awards festivities this week, including two galas and the broadcast event this past Sunday night at the Sony Centre. We wanted to tweet and post all night, and even had a plan to do all kinds of #legoselfies, but…

Canadian Screen Awards 2014 – Gala 2

  Okay, I had a much different post planned, but then I got caught up doing stuff for my day job (you know, the one that pays me), and am quickly running out of day, so I’ve decided instead to just list as many highlights as I can think of to share with you all! …

Canadian Screen Awards Gala #1 – Press Room Adventures!!

  Thanks to the amazing work at Touchwood PR (you know who you are!), Sue and I were invited to cover the Canadian Screen Awards this week. The week is filled with lots of things for the Canadian broadcast, film and television industry, all of it culminating in the broadcast Sunday evening, hosted by Martin…

Catching Up With Kevin Hanchard

  The highly enjoyable video selfies from Fan Expo continue as Sue and I catch up with the fantastic Kevin Hanchard from Space Channel’s brilliant series Orphan Black!

TIFF – Short Cuts Canada Programme 5

  Screening at 9:15pm today and at 2:30pm tomorrow at the Lightbox here in Toronto is the next selection of Short Cuts Canada to be featured at TIFF 2013. Impromptu from Bruce Alcock is a delightful animated short that features a man wanting to spend some time with his sweetie, Sylvie, because he really wants…

The Mind Reels Chats with Orphan Black’s Dylan Bruce

  Sue and I had a fantastic time at Fan Expo this year, and shot a bunch of interviews with the cast of Space and BBC America’s hit show Orphan Black, Defiance and Bitten! This is our first, a selfie taken with Dylan Bruce who plays Paul Dierden on the hit series Orphan Black!

Fan Expo Day 2

So welcome to Day 2 of our annual Geekfest, which for Sue and I tends to be better than Christmas!! We saw lots of fun stuff today! And got to have some of our photo ops done, more on that in a second… There was some great stuff to be seen today (and cool filters…

Defiance S01E12 – Everything Is Broken

  And just like that, season 1 of Defiance came roaring to a close. Shtako! It is now going to be an insanely long wait for Season 2. And it seems a lot of our favorite characters are in dire straits. Amanda Rosewater (Julie Benz) is no longer mayor, losing out, just barely to Datak…

Brug’s Army: Mingle For A Mission

$21,000!! That’s how much Amanda Brugel’s Brug’s Army raised for their first ever charity event. The monies will go to the Blooview Children’s Hospital, which is just brilliant. But just as important for the fans who gave their money, they had a wonderful evening chatting and laughing with some of Canada’s best and brightest. Sue,…