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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 2d

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How Frankenstein’s Guillermo del Toro became Toronto’s monster monarch

Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 2d

Ontario Science Centre temporary space at Sherway Gardens is great … if it was free. But at $15/ticket (no matter age) and no in/out policy (and no food, in a mall) turns it into an embarrassment. Spanish signage also suggests material procured from a U.S. museum on the cheap?

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 3d

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 3d

"If I don't see at least two movies a day, I don't feel well": I sat down with FRANKENSTEIN's Guillermo del Toro to talk about everything from his enviable viewing habits to his love of the "architecturally undisciplined" Toronto. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

The Oscar-winning filmmaker has returned to Toronto many times over the years to shoot titles including Pacific Rim, Nightmare Alley and The Shape of Water

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 3d

Ha, my bracket days are long behind me!

Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 5d

Watched the first three episodes of THE CHAIR COMPANY waiting for a delayed red eye to board, and it disturbed/bemused me so much I spent the entire flight wide awake. If frequently checking my own seat. Any way, been far too nervous to watch the rest, but looking forward to it.

Canadian reboot of swords-and-sorcery flick Deathstalker slays just a little too hard

Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 5d

Canada’s Steven Kostanski is a master of turning ‘80s trash into treasure. But his reboot of DEATHSTALKER slays just a little too hard. Excellent work from Daniel Bernhardt, who could’ve easily gone the Bruce Campbell route but chooses something different. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Steven Kostanski’s project feels torn between goofy irreverence and something approaching self-seriousness

Tron: Ares has a head like a hole, but a great Nine Inch Nails soundtrack

Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 6d

On TRON: ARES, which has a head like a hole. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Ares is a mostly disposable and thoroughly dumb product of lazy franchise fetishism

Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 6d

With little fanfare (and no real programming changes), Disney+ Canada today added a "Hulu" tab to its mix, retiring the old "Star" branding that served Hulu-less international markets. Oh, and also a monthly $3 price hike for a standard subscription.

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 7d

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__________TRON: ARES is very stupid_____
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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 7d

The world isn’t ready for Best Supporting Actor Kevin O’Leary

Dwayne Johnson crushes expectations with the surprising, subversive drama The Smashing Machine

Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 11d

Like many, just patiently killing time until the release of Nick Vallelonga’s THAT’S AMORE!

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 12d

THE SMASHING MACHINE deserves to launch Dwayne Johnson into the Oscars pantheon − which makes it a shame that The Rock is cooking something that smells like a whole lotta BS on the film's press tour. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

As real-life mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr, Johnson is meticulous in his emotional and physical calibrations

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 13d

Two Canadian dates for NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE THE TOUR ahead of film's early 2026 theatrical release:
Montreal, Cinema Du Musee, Oct. 29
Vancouver, Rio Theatre, Nov. 10
No Toronto stop b/c that city was covered with #TIFF25. Also: "Canadian merch details to come"

Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s explosive, galvanizing epic One Battle After Another is the best film of the year

Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 15d

The perfect new airplane read by @pleasuremotors.bsky.social from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social — it’s like spending a few hours with your smartest, most self-deprecating friend who happens to know a frightening amount about the twinned histories of art and commerce. chbooks.com/Books/H/How-...

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 17d

If you’re in London before Nov. 8, get
tix to The Lady and the Sea at the Bridge Theatre now. Ibsen updated with just the right bombast. Alicia Vikander, Andrew Lincoln, Joe Alwyn, the entire cast had me in pure lean-forward meme mode. Might also be the only play with a splash zone.

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 17d

Did I travel to London specifically to watch ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER at the BFI IMAX on 70mm? No, but it was a happy coincidence. And I can report that the final chase is transformative on such a canvas, the UK’s largest. Second viewing also confirms that Jim Downey earns the film’s biggest laugh.

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 22d

A stoner comedy about the persistence of paranoia, a searing drama about the sting of oppression, and a go-go-go thriller about the Sisyphean struggles of fighting the good fight, PTA's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is the finest film of the year.
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/re...

Anderson’s film arrives with the kind of casual, confident brilliance that feels deceptively effortless

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 26d

Look at what ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER cinematographer Michael Bauman has next up on his CV …

Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 27d

Hate to admit, but Warner Bros. was right not to take ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER to festivals. It would have thoroughly crushed any other film, instantly rendering the rest of the programming null and void. Rather considerate of PTA to let everyone else breathe for a moment or two.

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 27d

I appreciate the marketing effort, but feel Warner Bros. should’ve gone with ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER balaclavas

Robert Redford, a hero of Hollywood and an industry-bucking maverick like no other

Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 28d

Some words on Robert Redford, who was at once a poster boy for mainstream Hollywood and the establishment-bucking maverick who built American indie cinema from the ground up. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

Redford played a vital role in stitching together the very fabric of Western culture