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10+ Years Later: PONTYPOOL Is The Canadian Quarantine Movie To Fuck With Our Current Headspace

“In our top story of today, a big, cold, dull, dark, white, empty, never-ending blow my brains out, seasonal affective disorder freaking kill-me-now weather front, that'll last all day.”   Grant Mazzy, a big city talk-radio host, who has been...

GOALIE Trailer Premiere: Terry Sawchuk Hockey Biopic is Coming to US Cinemas, DVD and Digital

Sports biopics do not neccessarily fall in line with Screen Anarchy's mandate but a film like Goalie gets a pass for a number of reasons.    One, it's Canadian, directed by Adriana Maggs, co-written with her sister, Jane, based on...

PONTYPOOL CHANGES...into a play. Shhhhh...get yer tix

A dialogue about how to kill people- specifically actors. It seems like as good a place as any for this story. Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess is a great novel. It has seen the light of day as a...

EDDIE - THE SLEEPWALKING CANNIBAL and THE SILENCE Coming to America

Music Box Films has acquired two titles for distribution in the U.S., according to The Hollywood Reporter: Eddie - The Sleepwalking Cannibal and The Silence. Eddie - The Sleepwalking Cannibal, is a Danish / Canadian horror comedy. If the title...

A Trailer For EDDIE, THE SLEEPWALKING CANNIBAL Shambles Into View

Eddie gets hungry when he sleeps. And he's not particularly choosy about what he eats. So goes the odyssey of Eddie, The Sleepwalking Cannibal ...A once-famous painter rediscovers inspiration when he befriends a sleepwalking cannibal.Lars Olaafsen , once a young...

Tribeca 2012 Interview: Boris Rodriguez of EDDIE - THE SLEEPWALKING CANNIBAL

Of all the films I've seen this year at Tribeca -- and the tally is starting to add up -- none brings a smile to my face faster than Eddie - The Sleepwalking Cannibal. And I'm guessing I'm not the...

Tribeca 2012 Review: EDDIE - THE SLEEPWALKING CANNIBAL

With a title that screams "campy fun ahead," Eddie -The Sleepwalking Cannibal both telegraphs its pleasures and sells them short. Yes, this Danish-Canadian co-production is pure fun from its first moment to its last (and beyond: stay for the credits),...

These Exclusive Behind The Scenes Photos from EDDIE THE SLEEPWALKING CANNIBAL Have An "Entrail" or Two to Tell

Well, if that ain't one of the ScreenAnarchy-iest sounding titles up there. That's why it pleases me damn well that we've got two exclusive behind-the-scenes photos to share with you today from Canadian filmmaker Boris Rodriguez's feature debut. Keen on...

Hey Toronto! Want an Evening with Bruce McDonald? CINSSU Provides exactly this, on March 9!

[Sad news from organizers: Though the rest of the night will be rolling as planned Bruce McDonald himself has been roped into an unavoidable obligation and has had to cancel out his appearance.]I just bumped into Bruce McDonald who had...

Will Thure Lindhardt Fall Prey To EDDIE THE SLEEPWALKING CANNIBAL?

Thure Lindhardt - the charismatic leading man of Flame And Citron - continues to push into the English language world. He's done support parts for big budget Hollywood - notably Angels And Demons - and now he's got the lead...

Bruce McDonald and Kevin Drew Talk THIS MOVIE IS BROKEN

With the Canadian theatrical release of Bruce McDonald's This Movie Is Broken - a hybrid concert film / indie drama built around a live performance by Broken Social Scene - I had the chance to sit down last week with...

Feist, Metric and Broken Social Scene In The Trailer For Bruce McDonald's THIS MOVIE IS BROKEN

Bruce McDonald's This Movie Is Broken is, in essence, the perfect convergence of nearly all aspects of Toronto's independent arts scene. There is McDonald himself, of course, the helmer of Hardcore Logo, The Tracy Fragments and Pontypool arguably the most...

SXSW 2010: THIS MOVIE IS BROKEN Review

I feel like such a musically ignorant cuss, but I'd never really heard of Broken Social Scene before watching the latest movie by Bruce McDonald (Pontypool, Hard Core Logo). And now I'm a fan, both of Broken Social Scene and...

Sitges 09: PONTYPOOL Review

True story. For five years when I was fresh out of college I worked full time in a pair of homeless shelters here in Toronto. In that time I dealt with skinheads, crack dealers, street hookers and more. I had...

Audio. Odd. I.O. Ponty. Pool. Pontypool. The Radio Play.

A fan of Bruce McDonald's Pontypool? (we are)  Or perhaps you think the scenario would have worked better as a Welles-esque War of The Worlds radio play.  Well the BBC has exactly that, a production from Tony Burgess's radio-play using...