Trailer Tuesdays: The Hunger
With the character of Philip Jeffries being at the fore in the last few episodes of Twin Peaks - The Return I felt it appropriate to showcase one of David Bowie's other iconic roles, as the vampire...
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A Computer Scorned...
A group of scientists head out into space to investigate a strange signal. When the onboard computer starts getting jealous over Captain Royd's (Michael Praed) flirtations with one of the crew, things...
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R.I.P. Tobe Hooper 1943-2017
Here I was about to attack the day with a news post, but then woke up to some terrible news. Iconic filmmaker Tobe Hooper passed away yesterday. He was 74. I was just getting over Romero, and now we've...
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Hex Rex
Last Friday, The Hexploitation Film Festival (previously Fright Night Theatre) held its first event under its new banner, a screening of Kino Lorber's restoration of Clive Barker's Rawhead Rex.This was...
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All Fired Up.
With the passing of Tobe Hooper last week, it seemed fitting to showcase one of his lesser known titles, the 1990 Brad Dourif vehicle, Spontaneous Combustion. And it just so happens that I picked up...
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DKTM 352
Hello all. I hope you are enjoying your Labour Day weekend. I am basically just killing time before the two-hour finale of Twin Peaks tonight, but in the meantime here are some damn good bits of genre...
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A Tale of Three Siblings.
The Canadian indie thriller Blood Honeyhit theatres last week. You may have heard about the accompanying world record attempt in downtown Toronto. Anyway I gave it a whirl.After returning home to a...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: Cassandra
I had intended to do a VHS Friday for Colin Eggleston's 1987 Aussie horror Cassandra, but it wasn't that hot so I'll just throw up the trailer for you. No harm, no foul.
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The Art of the Dreamer.
The eighteen-episode opus of David Lynch& Mark Frost's Twin Peaks: The Return concluded last weekend. The final moments were divisive to say the least, but I guess we should have expected as much....
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It's TIFF Time Again!
The craziness that is September in Toronto begins again this evening and I will be ingesting my usual ten or so films over the next ten days. Here are just five for which I am looking forward.I dug the...
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You'll Float Too!
Before I get into my TIFF coverage, there is something else I must talk about. This weekend I saw the much anticipated release of Andy Muschetti's new version of Stephen King's It.I came around to the...
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Below The Line 2
Last weekend during Hamilton's Supercrawl, Gary Pullin& Sara Deck put on the sophomore edition of their poster show, Below The Line. Mills Hardware again hosted the event and it was pretty grand....
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When Will They Ever Learn?
Okay! With all that weekend business out of the way, it's time to get into what I've been catching at TIFF. My inaugural film this year was David Bruckner's debut feature, The Ritual.Based on the novel...
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Vengeance Is Hers!
This year's Midnight Madness experience continued with Coralie Fargeat's French thriller Revenge.While tagging along on a guys hunting getaway Jen (Matilda Lutz) is raped and left for dead. She soon...
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Excuse Me While I Gush.
On Tuesday, I saw my most anticipated TIFF title, Guillermo del Toro's newest The Shape of Water.While working as a cleaner at a government facility, lonely mute Eliza (Sally Hawkins) begins...
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The House By The Sea.
After ample helpings of the brutal and abstract, Midnight Madness was ready to lull attendees into a trance with Seth A. Smith's The Crescent.A mother (Danika Vandersteen) moves to her family seaside...
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R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton 1926-2017
I was very saddened to hear of the passing of actor Harry Dean Stanton on Friday. He was 91. Stanton had a career that spanned seven decades and collaborations with some of film's greatest directors...
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Schoolgirls Shouldn't Play With Dead Things.
I wrapped up my TIFF experience last weekend with Paco Plaza's newest horror, Verónica.After messing with a Ouija board to contact her dead father, Verónica (Sandra Escacena) senses that she may have...
View ArticleTIFF Vids 2017
Longtime TIFF videographer Robert Mitchell again made his way up from Indiana to cover this year's Midnight Madness proceedings. Here below are some of the interviews he conducted while on the...
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