The second night of the Toronto After Dark Summer Screenings kicked off with one crazy comedy. Detention is not an easy film to describe because it is trying to be many things at once. On one hand, the film is a very campy and crazy teen comedy that is filled to the brim with cultural references. […]
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The second film to be screened at the Toronto After Dark Summer Screening’s last night was the Canadian Premiere of the haunted house film The Pact. Of the two films screened, this is the film I have decidedly more mixed feelings on. The film is about a woman named Annie (Caity Lotz), who returns to
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Last night was the first of two special “Summer Screening” nights for the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. This series provides a sample of the Toronto After Dark experience in anticipation for the full festival, which runs this year from October 18-26. The first film screened was a special presentation of a film that I
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Looking for a way to fill your quota of horror, sci-fi, action and cult films this summer? Well, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival has announced a special series of four Summer Screenings that will be taking place at the Bloor Cinema. These screenings, taking place on June 27 and July 11, will act as
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Well, I would say that I had a fulfilling Hot Docs experience for my second year of attending the festival. I ended up seeing a final total of 13 films during the week, which was very good when you consider the fact that I only saw a single film last year. This year was the debut of
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For my final film of Hot Docs, I saw this French documentary that filmed the recruitment process for an insurance company. Ten job seekers come in for the job, not even being told what it is, and they go through a recruitment process that I can best describe as both shocking and enthralling. To call
We Are Legion tells the history of “hacktivism,” the recent movement in which activist acts are done by a group of individuals through the internet. The main focus of the film is group “Anonymous.” A very interesting aspect of this history is that Anonymous started out as essentially online pranksters with no political agenda. Eventually they would become
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Even though it was not the original intention of the documentary, The Queen Of Versailles is a very interesting case study about a spoiled rich family and their attempts to cope with the financial crisis. The main focus of the film is Jackie Siegel, the trophy wife of timeshare king David Siegel. Jackie has seven children (and one
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My Name is Faith is about a girl named Faith, who suffers from what is called Attachment Disorder. As a very young child, she suffered from the neglect of her birth mother and, as a result, she is unable to trust her new adoptive parents. The film follows Faith as she goes to a camp for
Herman’s House is about two people – Herman Wallace and Jackie Sumell. Wallace was Black Panther member, who was falsely accused of murdering a prison guard and has been kept in solitary confinement at Angola prison for about 40 years. Jackie is an artist and activist, who collaborated with Wallace on an art project in which she
