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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 the spring, and the festival circuit starts to begin once again. This week begins the Canadian Film Fest, a four day event featuring the best films from the land of ice and snow – and of course they’

LFF 2012 Review: Great Expectations

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. Packed with some hefty Harry Potter …

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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 …

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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 question of …

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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 …

TAD 2012 Review: Inbred

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 mouth. And maybe …

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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 interesting yet incredibly common character to …

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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 audience only …

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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 featured a pair of very well-made films …

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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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