Reviews of Silver Dollar Road, Chuck Chuck Baby, and Wicked Little Letters from TIFF 2023
Strong performances from Elliot Page and Hillary Baack can’t quite save this film from an unfocused story and lack of character specificity.
Alice Rohrwacher’s dazzling and surreal drama stars Josh O’Connor as a linen-clad drifter with a talent for tomb raiding
In Seagrass, her feature film debut, Meredith Hama-Brown is once again asking some big questions about love, life, and loss of innocence.
In City of Wind, Ze – a seventeen-year-old high school student who is also the Shaman for his Monoglian village – finds himself on the precipice of change.
I found (queer) love in a hopeful place: TIFF 2023’s documentary programming!
Snow in Midsummer is based on a classical 13th century Chinese drama, also known as The Injustice to Dou Yi That Moved Heaven and Earth, by Guan Hanqing. It tells the story of a we…
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In the series finale, we return to the beating heart of the festival. Thank you to our community of book lovers and authors who make The Word On The Street such a special place to…
Visit a few of Toronto’s famed independent bookstores and sneak into the archives of the Merril Collection with us in this celebration of booksellers, librarians, and their communi…
In this episode, we go behind-the-scenes of the publishing industry with Canada’s world-class independent presses to see how a book is made and meet a few of the people who make th…
If we want to understand where CanLit, or Canadian Literature, came to be what it is today, we need to go back in time to when it was first imagined into being. In this episode we…
The Word On The Street’s annual festival in downtown Toronto has endured for more than 30 years. But with the onset of a global pandemic in 2020, the festival’s future was far from…
