Bunny the Killer Thing

Bunny the Killer Thing

A group of friends visiting a cabin are tormented by a giant sex-crazed mutant rabbit in Bunny the Killer Thing. Jari (Roope Olenius), Mise (Jari Manninen), Jesse (Olli Saarenpää), Sara (Enni Ojutkangas), and Nina (Veera W. Vilo) travel to the cabin owned the family of Tuomas (Hiski Hämäläinen) and Emma (Katja Jaskari). Along the way, they pick…

The Tribe

The Tribe

A new student at a boarding school for the deaf gets caught up with the local gang in The Tribe.  Sergei (Grigoriy Fesenko) is a shy deaf teenager, who has just enrolled at a new boarding school.  Sergei quickly finds that he has to prove himself worthy of the school’s gang, which results in him…

ABCs of Death 2

ABCs of Death 2

Once again, 26 filmmakers present 26 ways to die in the horror anthology ABCs of Death 2.  As with the first film, each of the filmmakers were given creative freedom to create a short segment corresponding to the letter of the alphabet they were assigned, with each ending in a highly creative and often gory…

Love Hotel

Love Hotel

Throughout Japan, there are over 37,000 love hotels, where couples can find an escape from the realities of the outside world.  Love Hotel follows the staff and patrons of the Angelo Love Hotel in Osaka.  The clientele of the hotel include a middle aged couple trying reignite their passions, a dominatrix pleasuring S&M clients, and…

Nymphomaniac

Nymphomaniac

From director Lars von Trier (Melancholia) comes this epic two volume story about a woman with a lifelong sex addition.  Left beaten and bloodied in an alley, the titular nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is taken in by the kind stranger Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård).  While she recovers in his home, Joe insists to Seligman that she…

Gabrielle

Gabrielle

Playing as part of the Canada’s Top Ten line-up, as well as opening this week for its regular release, Gabrielle is a coming-of-age story about a young woman’s desire to live a normal life, despite her mental disability.  Gabrielle (Gabrielle Marion-Rivard) is a young women with William’s Syndrome, who sings in a choir with other…

Enemy

Enemy

Jake Gyllenhaal faces off with himself in this new doppelganger thriller from director Denis Villeneuve (Incendies), which is an adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago’s novel The Double.  Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a Toronto-based history professor, who lives a somewhat mundane and routine life with his girlfriend Mary (Mélanie Laurent). Based on the recommendation…

Unclaimed

Unclaimed

At the end of the Vietnam war, it was claimed that no American soldiers were left behind enemy lines.  Director Michael Jorgensen’s documentary Unclaimed somewhat challenges this statement with this story about a man, who is located living in Vietnam and claims to be a long missing American soldier.  The film’s main focus, and narrator,…

Night Moves

Night Moves

Director Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff) returns with this very naturalistic look at a trio of eco-terrorists. Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) and Dena (Dakota Fanning) are a pair of environmental activists, who join up with Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard) in Portland to blow up a dam.  Despite a few bumps along the way, the plan…

Trance

Trance

After playing the awards game with the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire and Oscar-nominated 127 Hours, director Danny Boyle returns to dishing out his unique take on genre films.  In the case of Trance, what starts off as a fairly ordinary heist film, turns into psychological thriller in which the main protagonist begins to doubt the reality…