Meet the Speedy Singhs
Writer and actor Vinay Virmani wasn’t nervous at all during the filming of his feature debut Breakaway a film about an all-Sikh ice hockey team trying to make a name for themselves. Despite the presence of some heavy hitting Hollywood and Bollywood regulars on set, Virmani said he didn’t have time to be nervous.
“I’ll tell you something, a lot of people ask me if I was nervous working with Rob Lowe and Russell Peters and Anupam Kher, who is a living legend in Bollywood and now all around the world, and I say no,” insisted Virmani. “And that’s just being cocky because there’s no time to be nervous on a movie set. As a young actor, you gotta have your homework done. I had my rehearsals done and my workshops done with my director, I knew my lines, I knew my character,...
Writer and actor Vinay Virmani wasn’t nervous at all during the filming of his feature debut Breakaway a film about an all-Sikh ice hockey team trying to make a name for themselves. Despite the presence of some heavy hitting Hollywood and Bollywood regulars on set, Virmani said he didn’t have time to be nervous.
“I’ll tell you something, a lot of people ask me if I was nervous working with Rob Lowe and Russell Peters and Anupam Kher, who is a living legend in Bollywood and now all around the world, and I say no,” insisted Virmani. “And that’s just being cocky because there’s no time to be nervous on a movie set. As a young actor, you gotta have your homework done. I had my rehearsals done and my workshops done with my director, I knew my lines, I knew my character,...
- 9/28/2011
- by Andrew Parker
- DorkShelf.com
"A largely non-competitive festival, Toronto gives out very few awards," notes Twitch editor Todd Brown, "the most prominent of which are the People's Choice picks, three awards given based on audience ratings of the films with one each awarded to the Midnight Madness section, the Real to Reel documentary section and the overall festival at large." And as an executive producer on The Raid, his congratulations to the film's team for winning the People's Choice Award for Midnight Madness are particularly jubilant. The runners-up are Adam Wingard's You're Next and Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America, and roundups on both are on the way, but first:
"Audiences will be scrambling to find enough compound adjectives to describe Gareth Huw Evans hard-driving, butt-kicking, pulse-pounding, bone-crunching, skull-smashing, blood-curdling martial arts siege movie, The Raid," writes David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter. "Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions grabbed Us rights prior to Toronto...
"Audiences will be scrambling to find enough compound adjectives to describe Gareth Huw Evans hard-driving, butt-kicking, pulse-pounding, bone-crunching, skull-smashing, blood-curdling martial arts siege movie, The Raid," writes David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter. "Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions grabbed Us rights prior to Toronto...
- 9/18/2011
- MUBI
Lost in a sea of major Hollywood releases and hyped international films are the hidden gems of the Toronto International Film Festival. These are the films that you won’t likely get the chance to see again in theatres, at least not in Toronto.
Andrew Parker has picked three films that are defintely not your typical fare, but that he believes are nonetheless worthy of your time and attention: First Position, Doppelgänger Paul and i am a good person, i am a bad person.
First Position, dir. Bess Kargman
I’ll freely admit that there are two things that I am a sucker for: inspirational documentaries and dance films. Director Bess Kargman delivers the best of both worlds with a story of a group of kids training for and competing in the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix. The competition is known as the premiere showcase for ballet students looking for...
Andrew Parker has picked three films that are defintely not your typical fare, but that he believes are nonetheless worthy of your time and attention: First Position, Doppelgänger Paul and i am a good person, i am a bad person.
First Position, dir. Bess Kargman
I’ll freely admit that there are two things that I am a sucker for: inspirational documentaries and dance films. Director Bess Kargman delivers the best of both worlds with a story of a group of kids training for and competing in the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix. The competition is known as the premiere showcase for ballet students looking for...
- 9/9/2011
- by Dork Shelf
- DorkShelf.com
Two of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival’s biggest (or at least its most star-studded) gala presentations take place today: the Brad Pitt n’ baseball crowd-pleaser Moneyball and the George Clooney directed political thriller The Ides of March, starring Ryan Gosling.
Our Andrew Parker has seen both films and lets us know whether or not these celebrity-filled galas are worth the rather hefty price of admission.
Moneyball, dir. Bennett Miller
Moneyball tells the David and Goliath-like story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) as he attempts to draft a World Series winning baseball team on a shoestring budget. This intriguing true story makes subjects as nerdy as economics and statistics engaging exciting, while giving fans of sports films a different way of looking at a game that has appeared on screen hundreds of times before. It displays a lot of the attention to detail that marked...
Our Andrew Parker has seen both films and lets us know whether or not these celebrity-filled galas are worth the rather hefty price of admission.
Moneyball, dir. Bennett Miller
Moneyball tells the David and Goliath-like story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) as he attempts to draft a World Series winning baseball team on a shoestring budget. This intriguing true story makes subjects as nerdy as economics and statistics engaging exciting, while giving fans of sports films a different way of looking at a game that has appeared on screen hundreds of times before. It displays a lot of the attention to detail that marked...
- 9/9/2011
- by Dork Shelf
- DorkShelf.com
Andrew Parker and Toronto Underground Cinema proudly present the Defending The Indefensible film series starting March 4, 2011.
Film criticism is a strange business these days. In years prior to the rise of the Internet, it seemed like only a select few knowledgeable film critics held sway over the fickle viewing public. Now, it seems as if everyone is entitled to voicing their opinions no matter how strange or unpopular they might be. These conversations have lead to more heated arguments about films that in many cases, might not even be worth talking about. Even the most marginal of films can inspire passionate arguments amongst defenders and detractors. With that in mind Toronto blogger Andrew Parker devised the idea for the Defending The Indefensible film series: a monthly exploration of films that time has either been unkind to or overlooked (or possibly should never be seen again) hosted by local film scholars,...
Film criticism is a strange business these days. In years prior to the rise of the Internet, it seemed like only a select few knowledgeable film critics held sway over the fickle viewing public. Now, it seems as if everyone is entitled to voicing their opinions no matter how strange or unpopular they might be. These conversations have lead to more heated arguments about films that in many cases, might not even be worth talking about. Even the most marginal of films can inspire passionate arguments amongst defenders and detractors. With that in mind Toronto blogger Andrew Parker devised the idea for the Defending The Indefensible film series: a monthly exploration of films that time has either been unkind to or overlooked (or possibly should never be seen again) hosted by local film scholars,...
- 2/28/2011
- by Dork Shelf
- DorkShelf.com
This Week in Dork is a weekly feature that attempts to encapsulate all the dorky events happening in and around Toronto every week. If you have an event you would like to have featured on This Week in Dork or on our Upcoming Events Calendar, be sure to contact us via email at events@dorkshelf.com.
You can see more events happening this week here, but these are some of the highlights:
Oscar Night At Innis Town Hall
Watch the Academy Awards on the big screen for free courtesy of Innis College and the Cinema Studies Students Union. From the red carpet schlock all the way through until the last award presentation, bring your friends and enjoy the free popcorn and prizes.
Feb. 27 6:00Pm @ Innis Town Hall
More details here.
Four Lions
This British satire is a slapstick take on the jihadist movement in the UK. Religious extremism and...
You can see more events happening this week here, but these are some of the highlights:
Oscar Night At Innis Town Hall
Watch the Academy Awards on the big screen for free courtesy of Innis College and the Cinema Studies Students Union. From the red carpet schlock all the way through until the last award presentation, bring your friends and enjoy the free popcorn and prizes.
Feb. 27 6:00Pm @ Innis Town Hall
More details here.
Four Lions
This British satire is a slapstick take on the jihadist movement in the UK. Religious extremism and...
- 2/27/2011
- by Dork Shelf
- DorkShelf.com
"....What scares you?"
The Dead Hour is a new webseries from the creators of the indie horror film The Wretched. In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Tales from the Crypt, The Dead Hour is an anthology series that will bring new original webisodes from the horror, fantasy, thriller, slasher and sci-fi genres to the web each week.
Creators Daniel B. Iske and Scott Coleman have just completed season one of their new thriller web series, The Dead Hour. The Dead Hour is a unique anthology series that will bring new and original webisodes to http://thedeadhour.com each season in the genres of horror, science fiction, thriller, slasher and fantasy. All webisodes remain online so fans can watch their favorites at any time, and as often as they like. Viewers also get an inside look at innovative low-budget indie filmmaking as http://thedeadhour.com takes...
The Dead Hour is a new webseries from the creators of the indie horror film The Wretched. In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Tales from the Crypt, The Dead Hour is an anthology series that will bring new original webisodes from the horror, fantasy, thriller, slasher and sci-fi genres to the web each week.
Creators Daniel B. Iske and Scott Coleman have just completed season one of their new thriller web series, The Dead Hour. The Dead Hour is a unique anthology series that will bring new and original webisodes to http://thedeadhour.com each season in the genres of horror, science fiction, thriller, slasher and fantasy. All webisodes remain online so fans can watch their favorites at any time, and as often as they like. Viewers also get an inside look at innovative low-budget indie filmmaking as http://thedeadhour.com takes...
- 2/10/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
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