CineAction

CineAction (formerly styled CineACTION!) is a Canada-based film magazine, published three times a year, edited by an editorial collective that included critic Robin Wood. It was founded in 1985 by members of the film department at Toronto's York University.

Overview

CineAction began publishing in spring of 1985 (as CineAction! with an exclamation mark), and reached its 70th issue mark in early 2007. In a lead editorial in its first issue, the collective wrote that the aim of the publication was to "provide, within the field of film criticism, alternatives to what is generally available. We want to steer a course between, on the one hand, the practice of journalistic reviewing (the expression of personal opinions, within an entertainment format) and, on the other, academic "criticism" of a certain type (detached from contemporary social realities and frequently inaccessible to the uninitiated)". The first issue then went on to offer articles on films such as A Matter of Time, Tell Me a Riddle, Death Watch, and The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia. Among the first issue's contributors were Robin Wood, Richard Lippe, Bryan Bruce 2 (aka film director Bruce LaBruce), Florence Jacobowitz, Maureen Judge, and Lori Spring.