Only three days remain before the start of the 2014 edition of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival! This year will be a bit of a milestone for me, since it will mark my fifth year attending Toronto After Dark. In those five years, I’ve progressed from seeing a single screening on a very stormy […]
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The full schedule has been released and single tickets are now on sale for the ninth annual edition of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. I have already marked off some recommended picks in my earlier rundowns of the festival line-up, but I thought that I would go back and list off five films that
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Only about two weeks remain before the start of the 9th annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival. Today saw the announcement of the remaining nine films in this year’s line-up and there are definitely some interesting selections among them. HOUSEBOUND (New Zealand) Toronto Premiere & Opening Gala Film *RECOMMENDED PICK* Description: HOUSEBOUND is a wickedly
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The end of the coverage of one film festival is only the start of the next. The Toronto International Film Festival might be over for another year, but we are only one month away from the 9th annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival! This year’s festival will be taking place for the second time at
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The award winners were announced today for the 2013 Toronto After Dark Film Festival. For the second year in a row, it was a zombie film that took top honours, with The Battery winning the festival’s Gold Audience Choice Award, as well as three of the specialty awards, including Best Screenplay, Best Music, and Best
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Well, the eighth annual edition of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival has come to an end. It has been now been five years since I first attended Toronto After Dark back in 2009 and this was my second year doing full coverage. To reference the title of one of the films that played this
With the festival now complete, I shall now link to the rest of my video content. In addition to a total of nine daily video blogs, I ended posting a total of eight Q&A highlights and other events (including the Q&A for The Dirties from the Spotlight Screenings in September). It was definitely a challenge
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I can’t forget the little guys. As always, each feature of Toronto After Dark was preceded by one of 19 Canadian short films. In addition, there were 9 international shorts shown as part of the Shorts After Dark showcase. Now is the time that I will go back and give my brief thoughts on all
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Desperate to find a missing girl, Israeli police officer Miki (Lior Ashkenazi) opts to beat information out of Dror (Rotem Keinan), a school teacher, who is the primary suspect in a series of gruesome child murders. Miki is forced by his boss to let Dror go and the girl subsequently turns up dead. In the
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This very dark comedy focuses on Craig (Pat Healy), an aspiring writer with a wife and 15 month old son, who suddenly finds himself in major financial trouble when he receives an eviction notice the same day he is laid off from his day job as a mechanic. While drinking his sorrows away in a
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