Film Festivals
INSIDE OUT 2012 (Toronto) – Positive Youth Review (Paolo Kagaoan)
INSIDE OUT 2012 (Toronto) Positive Youth Directed by Charlie David Positive Youth’s screening was preceded by a documentary short called Still Here, about New Yorker Randy Baron. This intelligent man talks about himself, his former partner who died of AIDS and the latter’s relatives, and his new boyfriend who has no problems with his own [...]
- INSIDE OUT 2012 (Toronto) – Sagat Review (Paolo Kagaoan)
- INSIDE OUT 2012 (Toronto) – Naked as We Came Review (Paolo Kagaoan)
- HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – Festival Wrap-up
- HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – ChickFlicking – Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby is) Review (Nadia Sandhu)
- HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – The Record Breaker/Ping Pong (Double-bill) Reviews (Kirk Haviland)
Reviews
ChickFlicking the Summer Away – Summer Movie Preview (Nadia Sandhu)
As I wade further into the world of ChickFlicking, it is becoming clear that “chick flick” is really a catchall term for several distinct but related genres. For the purposes of this preview a simple litmus test was employed – does the official synopsis mention a romantic relationship? If the answer is yes, then that [...]
Toronto Events
Nightmare Revew – Rue Morgue Cinemacabre at the Toronto Underground Cinema (Kirk Haviland)
Nightmare – aka Nightmare in a Damaged Brain (1981) Starring Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith and C.J. Cooke Written and Directed by Romano Scavolini Toronto Underground Cinema Rue Morgue Magazine UPDATE: Rue Morgue has announced that May’s Cinemacabre will be the amazing The Loved Ones on May 17th at the Underground. If you have not seen [...]
- Little Terrors Volume 8, Hidden Worlds Review – The Projection Booth in Toronto (Kirk Haviland)
- Battle Royale – Fright Nights at the Projection Booth in Toronto (Kirk Haviland)
- The Black Cat – Fright Nights at the Projection Booth in Toronto (Kirk Haviland)
- Double Bill at the Projection Booth (Dec. 13th) – ‘Little Terrors Short Film Series’ & ‘Christmas Evil’
- Helldriver Review (Nihon bundan: Heru doraibâ) – Grinderhouse Blu-ray release party in Toronto
More Articles
Blind Spot Series – Stalag 17 Review (Dave Voigt)
Stalag 17 (1953) Starring William Holden, Don Taylor and Otto Preminger Co-written & Directed by Billy Wilder During the calendar year of 2012 a variety of film bloggers and writers across the city of Toronto, including those at The Matinee, Toronto Screenshots and Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind, have been taking part in a [...]
ChickFlicking – The Avengers Assemble Some Serious Eye Candy! (Nadia Sandhu)
Not a lot can be said about The Avengers that hasn’t already been said. Joss Whedon’s film has been previewed, reviewed, and even sparked a media feud on the way to a record opening weekend. Call it Spring Fever, but despite this wall of coverage I did manage to find an angle that required immediate [...]
Headhunters (Hodejegerne) Review (Paolo Kagaoan)
Headhunters/Hodejegerne (2011) Starring Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Directed by Morten Tyldum MINOR PLOT SPOILERS The protagonist of the movie adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s novel Headhunters doesn’t have a name, for now. He’s simply a man wearing a ninja outfit, instructing us on how to steal a painting. It shows the audience [...]
ChickFlicking – Think Like a Man Review (Nadia Sandhu)
Think Like a Man (2012) Starring Gabrielle Union, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good, Michael Ealy, Kevin Hart, Regina Hall, Taraji P. Henson Featuring Steve Harvey, Chris Brown, Kelly Rowland Directed by Tim Story Think Like a Man is the latest offering in the newly minted “advice book adaptations” trend springing up in Hollywood (He’s Just Not [...]
Toronto News – The Cumberland Four, the Final Bow (Kirk Haviland)
The Cumberland Four, the Final Bow The End of Hot Docs 2012 also brings the end of the Cumberland Four as a cinema. Opened in 1981, the Cumberland provided the upscale Yorkville section of Toronto with the latest art house gems for many years, confident in letting other theaters like the still missed Uptown cover [...]
HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – Love Story Review (Paolo Kagaoan)
HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) Love Story Directed by Florian Habicht A modelesque young brunette holds a piece of cake on her hand, walking from the financial district of New York City and eventually taking the F or the Q train southbound to Coney Island. A few stops before the last, the woman catches the eye [...]
ChickFlicking – Damsels in Distress – A Flick for Chicks? (Nadia Sandhu)
Damsels in Distress (2011) Starring Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, and Analeigh Tipton Directed by Whit Stillman Damsels in Distress is not necessarily what I would consider a chick flick, but it is a film that is presumably meant for a female audience, so here goes. Writer/Director Whit Stillman hasn’t made a movie since the late [...]
HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto): Indie Game: The Movie Review (Kirk Haviland)
HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) Indie Game: The Movie Directed by Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky The world of independent game design has been growing exponentially over the last five years. The implementation of Xbox Live Marketplace and the Playstation Network have made the distribution of these games much more user friendly and thus easier for [...]
HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – Soldier/Citizen Review (Paolo Kagaoan)
HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) Soldier/Citizen Directed by Silvina Landsmann After three years of mandatory military service, a group of Israeli soldiers are informed that they will have to take certain classes to graduate high school. A higher ranking officer, no older than the ones he’s supervising, tells this group that there are harder classes like [...]
