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Fantasia 2014: ScreenAnarchy Wraps It Up With Our Reviews And Top Picks
It was a banner year, the 18th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival. Yes, the festival is old enough to drink alcohol now in La Belle Province, and over the three weeks of cinema -- both cutting edge and...
Fantasia 2014: Award Winners Announced
Just as we wrapped up our impressions of this year's Fantasia film festival, they have announced the award winners. Uzumasa Limglight takes home the Cheval Noir Award for Best Film. Time travel flick The Infinite Man takes home the coveted New Flesh Award for Best...
THE DROWNSMAN Coming To Canada, Courtesy Of Anchor Bay
Shortly after having its world premiere at Fantasia in Montreal, Chad Archibald's slippery horror flick The Drownsman has been picked up by Anchor Bay for distribution in our fair nation.Toronto, ON - Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada and Breakthrough Entertainment are...
Fantasia 2014 Review: THE HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED
For all of us who feel Robert Zemeckis's Forrest Gump is a sentimental, condescending insult to cinema audiences everywhere, and David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is not a helluvalot better, we finally have an entry into 'the man...
Fantasia 2014: Bradley King And BP Cooper Talk Truth, Photography, And TIME LAPSE
There are some post-screening Q&A periods that are so well balanced, succinct and engaging that they do the job better than an lengthy one-on-one interview. The session with both of the Time Lapse writers, Bradley King (who also directed the film) and...
Fantasia 2014 Review: TIME LAPSE, A Sharply Written Indie Sci-Fi Picture
Opening with a shot of swirling red paint, which then has tiny flecks of white thrown into the mixture to disturb the surface and complicate the image, Bradley King and B.P. Cooper's Time Lapse shows just how bloody far you can...
Fantasia 2014 Review: THE HARVEST, A Coming Of Age Fable Of Wicked Proportions
After a very lengthy hiatus into directing for TV, ranging from single episodes of John From Cincinnati to Masters of Horror, John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer) is back with his first feature film since the turn of the...
Fantasia 2014 Review: THE ONE I LOVE Offers Smart Couples Therapy, With Big Laughs
I doubt I will laugh out loud more at a film this year. Charlie McDowell's couples therapy session par excellence, featuring a very game cast of two, namely Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss, made me smile so hard at times my...
Fantasia 2014 Interview: Talking THE MIDNIGHT SWIM And Emotional POV With Sarah Adina Smith
After directing a number of short films, The Midnight Swim is the first feature of young director Sarah Adina Smith. I detected a note of exhaustion and overwhelmed frazzle still lingering from the generous reception of the film the previous...
Fantasia 2014 Review: Indonesian Action Flick GUARDIAN Frustrates
Marysa is getting pretty sick and tired of her mom, Sarah, haranguing her about her martial arts studies. She just wants to be a normal teenage girl and hang out with her best friend. But Sarah is insistent on these lessons,...
Fantasia 2014 Review: THE MIDNIGHT SWIM, Where Still Waters Run Deep
In Werner Herzog's wonderful documentary Encounters at the End of the World, he makes a point of showing that if you dive deep enough in those cold, antarctic waters, the experience is not all that different than voyaging into outer space. Darren...
Fantasia 2014: We've Seen Footage From SPRING, REDEEMER, WE ARE STILL HERE, TURBO KID, And More
For the first time since the Frontières International Co-Production Market began, we were treated to a taste of how some films that got their start on the market floor and other projects being made by friends of the festival were...
Fantasia 2014 Review: THE SEARCH FOR WENG WENG, Fruitful But Melancholy
I first encountered the work of Filipino action hero and tiny man-child Weng Weng at this very festival in 2007. Andy Stark and Pete Tombs ran an absolutely bonkers reel of money shots from their Mondo Macabro release label in front...
Fantasia 2014: More Teaser Art From The Frontières Market
The Frontières International Co-Production Market opened up yesterday with pitch sessions. Twelve projects were presented to a packed house, full of buyers, sellers, producers, and schmucks like me, who do not have a nickle to lend to any project but...
Fantasia 2014 Review: THE RUN Strikes Familiar Chords With Fists And Knees
It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Then baby, let me tell you Malaysian action flick The Run is flattering a whole lot of folks from other parts of Asia. When Khaliff (Aaron Aziz) returns to his...
Fantasia 2014: New Artwork For Irish Sci-Fi Horror BLACK HORIZON
As the Frontieres International Co-Production Market looms ever closer we have another Off Frontieres project which has some new artwork to share with you. The folks behind the Irish sci-fi horror project Black Horizon will be in Montreal to show off...
