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TAD 2012 Review: American Mary
Whether you came in off the street, or sat through the charming and intoxicating opening act, the second film of the opening night of Toronto After Dark was decidely dark, instantly arresting the...
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TAD 2012 Review: Crave
The bizarre world of the 35-year-old freelance photographer Aiden is half fantasy, half reality, occasionally bloody, and all types of pathetic. Writer and director Charles de Laurizika presented this...
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TAD 2012 Review: Inbred
Billed as the goriest, bloodiest, and most depraved film showing at the Toronto After Dark festival, Inbred teeters between different subgenres of the survival horror sect, leaving a bad taste in your...
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TAD 2012 Review: [REC]³ Génesis
The latest in the fantastically entertaining and tense Spanish zombie series prominently stands out, as a sequel, a horror movie, and a drama, and at Toronto After Dark, it may be too good for its own...
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TAD 2012 Review: Grave Encounters 2
I’m not sure what exactly attacks a group of curious film students about halfway through Grave Encounters 2¸ but it is big, loud, scary, and random—much like everything else in the movie. The...
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TAD 2012 Review: Resolution
There is an eeriness that permeates throughout Resolution, a strange, hybrid horror of an indie film where you are never quite sure what is happening, and are even less sure of what is going to happen...
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LFF 2012 Review: Great Expectations
This year, the 56th annual London Film Festival concluded another fantastic week of brilliant movies with the newest adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell....
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Rushes Film Festival combines film, football in Toronto on November 15
Get ready for the Rushes Football Film Festival: the first film festival of its kind is set to bring four days of film and football to Toronto this weekend. The festival will kick off (pun intended) on...
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Canadian Film Fest 2013
As the taxing last days of winter ebb away, taking all the unimaginative and absurd films with it, there is much to get excited about in the cinema once again. Summer movies near, as they now start in...
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Youth Shorts Film Festival Preview
The young artists and filmmakers of Toronto rise up this weekend with a showcase all their own. With the Worldwide Short Film Fest on hiatus, the youth are left to pick up the slack as far as shorts...
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NXNE 2012 Review: Ghostface Killah & Toronto’s Apollo Kids
Ghostface Killah & Toronto’s Apollo Kids is a film with nothing but the best intentions. The film was directed by Jeffrey ‘Vargas’ Vallejo as a way to publicize and promote a Parkdale youth group...
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NXNE 2012 Review: My Father and the Man in Black
The story at the root of My Father and the Man in Black is an interesting one. The movie tells the story of director Jonathan Holiff’s relationship with his father Saul, a recently deceased man who was...
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Planet in Focus 2012 Review: Trashed
It begins as a bunch of material objects dangle in front of you, and ominous music plays in the background before the voice of Jeremy Irons, equally ominous it seems, begins taking you around the...
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TAD 2012 Review: Grabbers
The strangest, scariest, and bloodiest film festival around kicked off last night as Toronto After Dark began it’s much anticipated run, bigger and hopefully better than ever. The opening evening...
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Brazil Film Fest 2013 Review: Rio 2096
Rio 2096, Is an animated feature film set in a dystopian Brazil. The main character Abejuar has been alive for 600 years and the story darts back and froth between an idyllic past on the cusp of...
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Brazil Film Fest 2013 Review: Reaching For The Moon
Reaching for the Moon, explores the doomed love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto) and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (Gloria Pires). Director Bruno Barreto...
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Sundance ’14 Review: Notes on Blindness
Notes on Blindness is a short film that uses original audio recordings and re-enactment to tell the story of John Hull’s descent into blindness at age 40. Hull, a writer and theologian kept an audio...
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The 2nd edition of the Toronto Black Film Festival kicks off in February
The 2nd Edition of the Toronto Black Film Festival will run from February 11-16. In addition to being an excellent way to celebrate Black History Month this year’s festival will also pay tribute to...
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The 2nd annual Toronto Black Film Festival features 33 of the top black films from around the world including feature films, documentaries and short films. This year’s programming features nine South...
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Toronto Comicon 2014
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