This is one odd film…. That line pretty much sums up the film Tentsuki in a nutshell. The film can be described a drama with kooky comedic characters and just a dash of J-horror violence. The film focuses on the character of Noboru and his interactions with a variety of odd characters, including his fossil-loving supervisor, a […]
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The plot synopsis for the film Good for Nothing is as follows: A trio of young men coming up to their high school graduation find themselves walking a fine line between juvenile delinquency and adult respectability in the wintery landscape of Sapporo, Hokkaido . They try and choose the latter by getting jobs with a company
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You really wouldn’t expect a documentary screened early on a Sunday afternoon to end up being the highlight of the Shinsedai Cinema Festival. That is indeed the case for Hiroshimi Nagasaki Download, which went on to win the audience award for the festival. The film begins with the ringing of a loud and lingering bell,
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Ringing in Their Ears was the opening film of the fourth annual Shinsedai Cinema Festival, which will be screening new Japanese film all weekend at the Revue Cinema. The focus of the film is the real life Japanese rock band Shinsei Kamattechan. I initially had no idea that Kamattechan was an actual band, since the plot
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The headliner of the Toronto After Dark summer screenings was undoubtedly the Canadian premiere of this found-footage anthology horror film that sold out the Bloor Cinema with 700+ in attendance. The film features five segments, and a framing story, each directed by a different indie horror director. The framing story, directed by Adam Wingard (You’re Next), has a group
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The second night of the Toronto After Dark Summer Screenings kicked off with one crazy comedy. Detention is not an easy film to describe because it is trying to be many things at once. On one hand, the film is a very campy and crazy teen comedy that is filled to the brim with cultural references.
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In addition to my Film Studies degree, I have a diploma in Computer Programming that I received from Humber College in 2003. While I don’t do all that much programming these days, I am still very much interested in computers and technology and I was quite interested in watching this unearthed 1995 interview with Apple
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This film has a very simple story – the end of the world is imminent and two strangers go on a roadtrip to reunite with their loved ones before the Apocalypse. The apocalypse is not something that immediately comes to mind when you are creating the plot for a romantic comedy. Indeed, the film retains a dark overtone throughout
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If nothing else, The Amazing Spider-Man can be seen as an experiment about how responsive an audience would be towards a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, only five years after the last film (and a decade after the first film). Those in the know are aware to the fact that this film was created as a way
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Ted is a movie based on a gimmick, though it’s a quite funny gimmick. Most of the comedy in the film is dependent upon the fact that a bunch of lewd and adult acts are being perpetrated by a talking teddy bear. If it wasn’t for this gimmick, the film would end up just being your
