A British band arrives in Toronto for their first ever North American gig in The Cocksure Lads Movie. Dusty (Lyndon Ogbourne), Reg (Adam McNab), Derek (Luke Marty), and Blake (Edward Hillier) make up The Cocksure Lads, a Beatles-like rock band from England. Mere minutes after arriving in Toronto for a gig, lead singer Dusty gets […]
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The 2015 edition of the Canadian Film Fest begins tomorrow evening and runs through Saturday. Now in its ninth year, this year’s festival will feature 8 feature films and 16 shorts over the course of four days. My coverage of the festival will begin tomorrow, but in the meantime, here is a rundown what will
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This was my second year covering the Canadian Film Fest. This year I made it out to 6 of the 7 feature film screenings and I have to say that I overall liked the quality of these year’s line-up. While there was no film this year that I outright loved, there was nothing that I
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After his brother’s wedding, the best man Charlie (Graham Coffeng) invites a number of the guests over to the bride and groom’s house for a late-night afterparty. All of these friends, who haven’t seen each other in years, are all at a different stage of their life. For instance, Tracy (Ali Liebert) has a successful
This loose retelling of the story of Hansel and Gretel focuses on Harley (Annika Elyse Irving) and Gemma (Breazy Diduck-Wilson), who live an impoverished life with their mother Krysstal (Ashley Rebecca Moore). One night Krysstal goes to a party with her new boyfriend Gary (Erik Athavale), leaving the kids in the backseat of the car.
Richard Hunter (Joshua Close) is a young lawyer for prestigious firm. When he loses a case, after refusing to present a questionable piece of evidence, his boss Preston Westwood (Sam Trammell) is instructed to fire Richard by the end of the weekend. However, since Richard had high hopes for the future, he and his pregnant
The comedy film The Birder focuses on Ron Spencer (Tom Cavanagh), a bird-loving high school teacher, who is expecting to be named “Head of Ornithology” at the local birding park and spend the summer bonding with his teenage daughter Samantha (Cassidy Renee). However, Ron is shocked when the Park President (Fred Willard) instead gives the
The comedic musical fantasy Patch Town focuses on a lonely man named Jon (Rob Ramsay), who slaves away in a factory harvesting kids from cabbages, who are frozen as dolls and sold to kids around the world. The factory is run under the watchful eye of the “Child Catcher” Yuri (Julian Richings), whose toymaker of
Tonight is the beginning of the 2014 edition of the Canadian Film Fest, which will be taking place from tonight through Saturday at the Royal Cinema. I am planning on attending five of the festival’s screenings, including both the opening and closing film, and I will be posting reviews for those as weekend goes on.
This was my first time attending the Canadian Film Fest and I have to say that it made a fine addition to my film festival line-up. It’s often easy to forget that Canada has its own film industry, when so much of our domestic film content comes from the United States. It’s great that there
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