The second film to be screened at the Toronto After Dark Summer Screening’s last night was the Canadian Premiere of the haunted house film The Pact. Of the two films screened, this is the film I have decidedly more mixed feelings on. The film is about a woman named Annie (Caity Lotz), who returns to […]
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Last night was the first of two special “Summer Screening” nights for the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. This series provides a sample of the Toronto After Dark experience in anticipation for the full festival, which runs this year from October 18-26. The first film screened was a special presentation of a film that I
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a bit of a difficult film to properly process. The film has an inherently ridiculous premise that is played as straight as possible throughout the plot of the film. It would be almost accurate to say that the film is actually a history drama about Abraham Lincoln that just happens to involve vampire
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It seems that climate change documentaries are about a dime a dozen these days. However, I would say that The Island President stands out from the rest, because it puts a face to the issue. The film focuses on President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives. Nasheed was elected president after a 30 year rule of a dictator
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After seeing the latest Disney/Pixar collaboration Brave, I realized how difficult a film it is to market without giving away some major plot details. Indeed, the film I saw today was quite different than the film that was advertised in the trailers. That said, I still enjoyed the film that I saw. Without giving away
I first became familiar with wind turbines about a decade ago when a turbine was installed within Exhibition Place in Toronto. Also, on the route to my family’s cottage, I often pass a big wind farm in Shelburne, Ontario, which has hundreds of these generators. Being a city-dweller, I often don’t think twice about wind
Outside of a New York City building (that looks remarkably like Toronto’s Union Station), 28-year-old billionaire Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) decides that he wants to get a haircut on the other side of town. His bodyguard Torval (Kevin Durand, doing his best Christopher Walken impression) advises against this, because the visiting U.S. President will make traffic
Yesterday I went to a private screening of an ultra-low budget horror film entitled Beneath. The film was directed my friend and old York University classmate David Hollands, who had been working on the film since he shot it back in 2007 (while we were still students, he had a screening of earlier cut, then
Safety Not Guaranteed can be seen as a further example of how the Mumblecore independent film movement, namely those that involve the Duplass brothers, have been steadily moving into the mainstream (the Duplass’ have come a long way since The Puffy Chair). Produced by the Duplass Brothers, and co-starring Mark Duplass, Safety Not Guaranteed tells the story of a
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Ridley Scott’s return to science fiction in 30 years began as a sort of prequel to Alien that expanded the backstory of the origins of the mysterious ship where the alien creatures were originally found. Indeed those prequel elements are still very much present within Prometheus. However, it seems that Scott decided all but severe the
