The cult fandom of the Evil Dead franchise is explored in Hail to the Deadites. In the decades since its 1981, Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead and its sequels have developed a rabid fanbase who want to connect with anyone and everyone connected to the franchise. Filmmaker Steve Villeneuve travels the horror convention circuit, talking […]
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A young woman develops suspicions about her friend during a trip to a cabin in Bleed with Me. Rowan (Lee Marshall) is a shy and awkward woman, who accompanies her co-worker and best friend Emily (Lauren Beatty) on a trip to a cabin with Emily’s boyfriend Brendan (Aris Tyros). Things come off to a rocky
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Trigger Warning: This review comments on a scene of sexual abuse in this film, which will also include some SPOILERS A troubled teenage girl communicates with the dead using an app on her phone in Shall We Play?. Stacy (Matreya Scarrwener) is a troubled teenager plagued by repeated nightmares, with her Grandma Betty (Dolores Drake)
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A couple attempts a Satanic ritual to bring back their deceased grandson in Anything for Jackson. Audrey (Sheila McCarthy) and Henry (Julian Richings) Walsh are a couple who are willing to do anything to bring back their two-year-old grandson Jackson, who was killed along with their daughter in a car accident. To achieve this, they
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A wronged woman seeks vengeance in Violation. Miriam (Madeleine Sims-Fewer) is woman in a stagnant marriage with her partner Caleb (Obi Abili), who joins her sister Greta (Anna Maguire) and husband Dylan (Jesse LaVercombe) at a weekend cottage getaway. However, over the course of the weekend Miriam is the victim of an act of sexual
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The relentless surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr by J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Borough of Investigation is revisited in MLK/FBI. As Martin Luther King Jr rose to the forefront of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, J. Edgar Hoover began to suspect that the movement was some sort of communist plot, supported by the
A WAAF officer during World War II experiences her own nightmare at 20,000 feet in Shadow in the Cloud. Maude Garrett (Chloë Grace Moretz) is an officer of the women’s auxiliary air force during World War II, who is assigned to a B-17 Flying Fortress, carrying a strictly classified piece of cargo. While the highly
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A Syrian refugee is left in purgatory on a Scottish island in Limbo. Omar (Amir El-Masry) is a young Syrian man, who is left waiting around on an island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, as he awaits a letter about whether or not he will be granted asylum. He is joined in this wait by Farhad
A few weeks ago, I lamented about how this will likely be the first time since 2003 I don’t see any films as part of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. However, now that the festival has officially gotten started, I have decided that it would not feel right to skip the festival entirely. So,
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Like many film festivals in 2020, Fantasia decided to go virtual this year. I would say that they were successful in this regard with its VOD and “live” screenings via the Shift72 powered Festival Scope platform. Combined with Q&As and panels streamed over Zoom and Youtube, the experience almost felt like a proper film festival.
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