The Lite Brite Film Test is on the move. Long a mid-summer fixture at the Southgate House, the creatively diverse visual showcase has been folded into the MidPoint Music Festival. Befitting the shift, this year’s lineup looks to be bigger and better than ever, pimping a host of shorts and several full-length features at its new home, the Contemporary Arts Center. (Programming will take place in both the upstairs lobby and in the black box space downstairs 8 p.m.-midnight Thursday-Saturday.)  

TORONTO — The worldwide economic recession and the general retrenching (or, in some cases, evaporation) of movie studios and distributors has clearly impacted the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. Word is that nearly half of the festival's 300-plus films are still looking for distributors. A quick glance at the lineup also reveals far fewer buzz-inducing offerings over the festival's all-important first weekend, but there's more to Toronto than buzz. The festival is perpetually rife with under-the-radar gems from across the globe, and this year looks to be no exception.  

For many Cincinnati remains best known as the city that spawned one of the greatest baseball teams the world has ever seen. And now, more than three decades after its heyday, Joe Posnanski’s new book The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season and a Heart-Stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds revisits just what made “The Machine” so unique. He discusses and signs his book at Joseph-Beth at 1 p.m.  

For many, Cincinnati remains best known as the city that spawned one of the greatest baseball teams the world has ever seen. And now, more than three decades after its heyday, Joe Posnanski's new book 'The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season and a Heart-Stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds' revisits just what made the Big Red Machine so unique. CityBeat recently spoke with Posnanski, who currently writes for 'Sports Illustrated,' to discuss his fascinating, often funny book.   

Writer/director George Gallo looks back to his own youth in this coming-of-age tale about an aspiring artist and his curmudgeonly mentor. Naïve and articulate in equal measure, 18-year-old John (Trevo  

The state of Cincinnati's literary scene is as strong and diverse as ever. Things will only heat up as the weather turns chillier, with big-name authors at Joseph-Beth, the Mercantile Library's annual Neihoff Lecture and Books by the Banks.  

'Humpday' is much more than its playful title might suggest. Writer/director Lynn Shelton’s lo-fi comedy touches on a plethora of weighty topics (sexual boundaries, artistic merit, identity, parenthood, gender and more( in a manner so funny and matter of fact that many viewers will feel as if they stumbled upon someone's personal home movie. Grade: B plus.  

The ambitious, freshly minted CS13 Gallery continues to flex its multimedia muscles, hosting a small press/independent vendor fair 6-9 p.m. as part of Final Friday. Curiously dubbed “Life Is Fair,” the event features the gallery’s first publication in what’s to be an ongoing series of “gallery-initiated artist books” — Selections from a Portion, a limited-edition collection of photographs by local lens-man Jesse Reed. Among the local literary entities pimping their wares at the fair: Forklift Ohio, Guerrilla Queer Bar, Deadramones, Clay Street Press, Aeqai, The BLDG, Star Barf Publications, Milk Money, Dos Madres Press and Red Panda Comics. The cherry top: Local Electro Pop outfit The Krononauts will close the evening’s festivities with a performance at 9:30 p.m.  

Alexis Bledel's big blue eyes and dimpled chin might be adorable, but they're not nearly enough to save 'Post Grad' from cliché-ridden mediocrity. Vicky Jenson's first full-length non-animated directorial effort (she previously co-directed 'Shrek' and 'Shark Tale') isn't sure if it wants to be a romantic coming-of-age tale or a kooky family comedy. Grade: C-.  

Former Cincinnati Post/current freelance reporter Josh Katzowitz looks at the 2008 Cincinnati Bearcats' rise from Big East also-rans to Orange Bowl participants in Bearcat Rising: Rags to Division I Riches: How a Gridiron Minority Bludgeons Its Way Into the Big Time. Of course, the question now is whether Kelly and Co. can continue the renaissance and become a consistently competitive outfit. An eager city awaits the answer. Katzowitz discusses and signs his book 7 p.m. Thursday at Joseph-Beth Booksellers.