Toronto After Dark 2012: [REC]³ Genesis Review (Robert Harding)

Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2012 [REC]3 Genesis (2012) Starring Leticia Dolera, Javier Botet, Diego Martin, Alex Monner, and Ismael Martinez Directed by Paco Plaza Rec 3 marks a major divergence from the previous two films in the Rec franchise. Fans of those two films should note – this is nothing like the Rec filmsContinue reading “Toronto After Dark 2012: [REC]³ Genesis Review (Robert Harding)”

imagiNATIVE: The Witching Hour Shorts Program Review (Paolo Kagaoan)

NiiPii Directed by Jules Arita Koostachin Eahparas Directed by Anne Merete Gaup Retaliation for a Greater Good Directed by Per-Josef Idivuoma It seems that I won’t spend time at Toronto After Dark with my colleagues here on the site but thankfully, imagiNATIVE has its own slices of horror and cinema of dread with the midnightContinue reading “imagiNATIVE: The Witching Hour Shorts Program Review (Paolo Kagaoan)”

Toronto After Dark 2012: Inbred Review (Kirk Haviland)

Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2012 Inbred (2012) Starring Jo Hartley, Seamus O’Neill, James Doherty, James Burrows and Nadine Rose Mulkerrin Written by Alex Chandon and Paul Shrimpton Directed by Alex Chandon From the UK we get our next Toronto After Dark 2012 selection, Inbred. Taking direct influence from films like Deliverance, Alex Chandon bringsContinue reading “Toronto After Dark 2012: Inbred Review (Kirk Haviland)”

Toronto After Dark Short Film Roundup Part 1 (Matt Hodgson)

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)”

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)”