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Calgary Underground 2024 Review: HUMANE, The Family That Slays Together Stays Together
Apocalypses in Canadian cinema tend to occur in slow motion, and have a subversive touch of quiet absurdity. The two undisputed classics of the genre are Don McKellar’s Last Night, and Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool. Caitlin Cronenberg aims for that lofty...
(Good) Friday One Sheet: HUMANE
Curious timing on the Christian calendar for today’s column. We are not at the resurrection yet on Good Friday, only the sacrifice, and the death-heavy poster for Humane shows that. Perfect ordered body bags, in an neutral grey setting, suggest...
2024 Canadian Screen Awards: BLACKBERRY, HUMANIST VAMPIRE, And INFINITY POOL Rack up Massive Nominations
I'm a bad Canadian. Technically, I'm a bad Canadian resident, but that's a story for another day. I'm a bad Canadian because until today I've not really given much attention to the Canadian Screen Awards. I can always say that...
BLACKBERRY: Now Playing in Movie Theaters
Directed by Toronto's own Matt Johnson, the film stars Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton and Michael Ironside.
Calgary Underground 2023: BLACKBERRY Review
In the wild west days of nascent “smart phone” technology, the phrase convergence was tossed around a lot, where your computer, your phone and your personal digital assistant, would merge into one device. A small company, whose building was located...
BLACKBERRY Trailer: Jay Baruchel And Glenn Howerton Star in Matt Johnson's Latest
‘BlackBerry’ tells the story of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the two men that charted the course of the spectacular rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone. Matt Johnson's BlackBerry is coming exclusively to theaters on May...
RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE Interview: Jay Baruchel On His Potent Horror Debut
Canada’s Jay Baruchel became known as part of the group of young comedians linked to Judd Apatow. In the romantic comedy Knocked Up, for example, he portrayed one of the friends of the protagonist played by Seth Rogen. He later...
RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE Giveaway: Win a Blu-Ray of Jay Baruchel's Slasher Horror Flick
It's been raining giveaways this early part of the new year and the fine folks at RLJE Films and Shudder want to give you another film from their lineup. This time we have Jay Baruchel's terrific and unsettling horror flick,...
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Now Streaming: RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE, Tomorrow on Shudder
Todd is the creator of the most successful R-rated comic book of all time, mirroring, celebrating even, a real life serial killer who once terrorized a stretch of interstate in America in the late 80s. Todd is about to wrap...
Fear The Gourd In Fantastic Creature Short EVIL NATURE
Heads up, creature feature fans, because director Darin Beckstead is brewing up a little something special with Evil Nature. Enlisting the help of the practical FX wizards behind James Gunn's Slither with VFX work by Walt Jones - he's only...
Hobbitty ScreenAnarchyes: Our Favorite Film Dragons
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is now in cinemas all over half the world, an will soon arrive in the other half as well. And for those who saw the end of The Hobbit: The Desolation of...
Destroy All Monsters: How To Train Your Alpha
Spoilers for How To Train Your Dragon 2. One of the reasons The LEGO Movie got my back so completely up was simply by dint of its intended audience. I'm perfectly willing to deal with a Hollywood whose issues of...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks 22 JUMP STREET, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 and THE DOUBLE
This weekend boasts a decent selection of new releases - here's a quick take on the clever 22 Jump Street sequel, and the terrific How To Train Your Dragon 2. Plus, talk of Richard Ayoade's The Double.Video embedded below...
Review: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2, An Impeccably Crafted Fairy Tale
Ok, I'm a sucker for this film. There, I said it to get it out of the way. My affection for the How To Train Your Dragon series comes down to a particularly personal connection - their design for...
Watch The Trailer For HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
After an impressive showing at the box office in 2010 in was inevitable that there would be a sequel for Dreamworks' How To Train Your Dragon! And so it shall be, and the first trailer has come out and things...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks PRISONERS, ART OF THE STEAL and WIZARD OF OZ 3D
Still recovering from the long hours of TIFF (and writing all these ScreenAnarchy reviews!) but managed to take in a screening during the fest of Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners and Jonathan Sobol's Art of the Steal. Also was thoroughly impressed with...
Motorcyle Daredevil Kurt Russell Steals My Heart In THE ART OF THE STEAL Trailer
Throughout his career, Kurt Russell has built up so much goodwill for me that I totally buy him as an aging motorcycle stunt driver turned master criminal in the first trailer for The Art of the Steal, which is set...
Review: THIS IS THE END, Celebrity Friends Laughing At Themselves And The Apocalypse
If you can't trust your best friend(s) when the world ends, who can you trust? Making their directorial debut, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen have built a vehicle that is customized to fit the talents of their friends. Loosely constructed,...
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Talk THIS IS THE END
I sat down last week as part of a round table discussion with directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, discussing what I hope will be one of the great film successes of the summer. This is the End is...
"James Franco Didn't Suck Any Dick Last Night?": THIS IS THE END Red Band Teaser Hits
Mentioned on and off for what must be half their adult lives, This Is The End is the directorial debut of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and stars just about every male comic actor under forty in Hollywood, as, well......
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