A 30 year old man decides that he is going to remain at home indefinitely in Ben‘s at Home. Ben (Dan Abramovici) is a young man, who has just turned 30 and is coping with a recent break-up. Deciding that he does not like going out and socializing with his friends, Ben decides that he…
A lifestyle blogger rushes to have the perfect wedding in the dead of winter in Barn Wedding. Emma (Emily Coutts) is preparing to wed Colin (Brett Donahue), her boyfriend of five years. Emma’s best friend and roommate Jessie (Kelly McCormack) returns from travelling abroad and is asked to be Emma’s maid of honour. With Colin…
Here are my thoughts on seven of the eight shorts that will be playing as part of the Canadian Film Fest’s Homegrown Shorts showcase. When Fish Fly A young girl grieving the loss of her mother receives a pet fish and must cope with its death too. This short is told entirely without dialogue and,…
A man struggles with the anxieties of a new relationship in the romantic comedy Pretend We’re Kissing. Benny (Dov Tiefenbach) is an awkward man, who is always worrying about how to act in front of girls. Benny’s roommate Autumn (Zoë Kravitz) tells him to “stop being a Benny” and just allow himself to be himself. …
It is horror mayhem on basic cable in the anthology film Late Night Double Feature. Following the nightly news, viewers of TV13 in Peterborough are treated to Dr. Nasty’s Cavalcade of Horror, where Dr. Nasty (Brian Scott Carleton) and his assistant Nurse Nasty (Jamie Elizabeth Sampson) present a double bill of terror. In the first…
The plus sized owner of a bed & breakfast tries to find a date for her sister’s wedding in Relative Happiness. Lexie Ivy (Melissa Bergland) is the proprietor of the Ivy Cottage Bed & Breakfast in a small town in Nova Scotia. Lexie’s sister Gabby (Molly Dunsworth) is about to get married and her family…
Go behind the scenes of the most offensive movie ever with High School Shooting: The Musical. A documentary crew is making a film about life after film school for a number of recent graduates, many of whom could not get jobs within the film industry. Adam Baxter (Bruce Novakowski) is one of these recent graduates,…
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…
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…
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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