The 2012 edition of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival is entering day 5 and the half-way point. We’ll have plenty of feature film reviews that will be coming at you over the coming days, but this year we also thought it would be a good idea to feature the wonderful short films of theContinue reading “Toronto After Dark Short Film Roundup Part 1 (Matt Hodgson)”
Category Archives: Film Festival Coverage
imagiNATIVE: The Tundra Book Review (Paolo Kagaoan)
imagiNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival 2012 The Tundra Book Directed by Aleksei Vahkrushev In choosing to organize his movie within chapters, director Alexei Vahkrushev’s The Tundra Book reminds me of Dogville, but without a sinister turn of events affecting a young stranger, obviously. Instead of that plot, we see a few Chukchi families rideContinue reading “imagiNATIVE: The Tundra Book Review (Paolo Kagaoan)”
Toronto After Dark 2012: Grabbers Review (Robert Harding)
Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2012 Grabbers (2012) Starring Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russel Tovey, and Lalor Roddy Directed by Jon Wright The Toronto After Dark Film Festival crowd was out in full force for the festival opener and Toronto premiere of the Irish/UK creature feature, Grabbers. While the film has been likened to TremorsContinue reading “Toronto After Dark 2012: Grabbers Review (Robert Harding)”
Toronto After Dark 2012: American Mary Review (Kirk Haviland)
Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2012 American Mary (2012) Starring Katherine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk, Davis Lovgren and Twan Holliday Written and Directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska The Soska Sisters, better known to those in genre circles as the “Twisted Twins”, arrived at this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Festival with their 2ndContinue reading “Toronto After Dark 2012: American Mary Review (Kirk Haviland)”
imagiNATIVE: Where We Were Not Review (Paolo Kagaoan)
imagiNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival 2012 Where We Were Not, Part 1: Alexus’ Story Directed by Alexus Young Alexus recounts what we assume is a typical snowy night in Saskatoon. There’s a doodley quality to this animation. Its colours, instead of a block with careful gradations of shade, seem penciled in, but it stillContinue reading “imagiNATIVE: Where We Were Not Review (Paolo Kagaoan)”
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