by James Marsh, February 22, 2012 4:09 AM
For a festival that only runs for four days, YIFFF certainly knows how to spread itself as wide as possible and pack in as much quality programming as the city can accommodate. In addition to everything I have alrerady covered...
by Ard Vijn, February 21, 2012 7:51 PM
(It's a haunted house story that is... wait for it... BASED ON TRUE EVENTS!!!) Hands up anyone who is surprised when a horror movie these days claims to be based on something that actually happened. For real. It's a tired...
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by Brian Clark, February 21, 2012 7:17 AM
It's tempting to begin festival wrap-ups with some sort of blanket-statement about the festival as a whole, assessing the overall quality, trends, failings and so on. But I don't feel qualified to do anything of the sort. Berlinale's program is...
by James Marsh, February 20, 2012 12:33 PM
There are only a few days to go until the Northern City of Yubari, Japan opens its gates to fans of weird and wonderful cinema for this year's Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, and it's time to look a little...
by Brian Clark, February 20, 2012 9:15 AM
Here's an interesting fact about the Berlin Film Festival: Almost everybody gets an award. Seriously, besides the well-known jury awards, there are approximately 1,867 other awards given about by various organizations, from the international film organizations of the Protestant...
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by Brian Clark, February 18, 2012 6:05 PM
In his follow up to The Last Circus, As Luck Would Have It (La Chispa de la Vida), Álex De La Iglesia moves out from under the literal big top and sets his sites on the mass media --...
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by Brian Clark, February 17, 2012 12:08 PM
Tabu calls to mind the oft-repeated comparison between film directors and magicians. Indeed, how else but with magic could Portuguese director Miguel Gomes have created such a joyful, enthralling film from this wild mix of historical adventure, deadpan humor,...
by Peter Gutierrez, February 16, 2012 6:00 PM
If you needed any confirmation about the deep-seated fannishness of film critics, all you'd have to do is eavesdrop on their pre-screening chatter as they find their seats or their post-screening blabfests over their beverages of choice. Rather than dazzlingly...
by Andrew Mack, February 16, 2012 2:32 PM
Your eyes do not deceive you. Yes. That is Dee Snider, frontman of Twisted Sister. Yes. He is part of the cast of Fearnet's upcoming original horror sitcom Holliston. As part of the SXSW conference during the festival we already...
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by Ard Vijn, February 15, 2012 8:28 PM
(...and blood and sperm of course, because he is Shinya Tsukamoto after all.) Last year Tsukamoto Shinya visited the International Film Festival Rotterdam as part of a group of directors promoting the excellent "Kaidan: Horror Classics" and Twitch put up...
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