by Kurt Halfyard, August 7, 2010 4:07 PM
[So, yes, I am still catching up on Fantasia Reviews, but now in hindsight, the Camera Lucida program was very much a highlight of the festival, featuring the most challenging and quirky genre films including Rubber, Sell Out!, Air...
by Todd Brown, July 10, 2010 11:15 AM
[With the latest Evangelion feature taking a bow at Fantasia today now seems a good time to revisit my earlier review from Sitges.]When the five feature revisioning / relaunch of Hideaki Anno's seminal anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion was...
by Rodney Perkins, May 17, 2010 8:40 AM
The fascinatingly creepy documentary Cropsey is hitting the road for series of theatrical dates after a successful festival run in 2009. The film's theatrical run kicks off on June 4th, 2010 with a screening on the grounds of Willowbrook Mental...
by Todd Brown, April 17, 2010 5:00 PM
[My review of Valhalla Rising originally ran when the film premiered in Toronto but with it now screening at Action Fest I hereby present it to you again.]You could say that the mark of a good film maker is...
by Todd Brown, April 17, 2010 1:49 AM
[This review originally appeared when Out Of Our Minds screened in the 2009 Sitges festival but with the film now appearing at Action Fest we hereby present it to you again.] The simple thing to do here would be...
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by Todd Brown, March 14, 2010 2:00 PM
[With Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones screening at SXSW we now re-post our review from the film's world premiere in Toronto.]Though a touch prone to melodrama and inclined to overindulge its teen-angst metaphor, Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones is, nonetheless,...
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by Todd Brown, March 13, 2010 10:00 PM
[With Amer screening as part of SXSW 2010 we now re-post my review from the film's premiere in Sitges.]When dipping in to a long abandoned style, adopting a language and syntax of film distinct to a particular era, a...
by Todd Brown, October 14, 2009 12:47 PM
Philip Ridley won himself a lot of love many years back with a little vampire film titled The Reflecting Skin - a picture that stars a young Viggo Mortensen and an exploding frog - and has asked for a...
by Todd Brown, October 12, 2009 6:49 PM
[Our thanks to Guillem Rosset for the following review.]I've always had a soft spot for martial arts films. It was thanks to the likes of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen and others that my interest for Asian cinema...
by Todd Brown, October 12, 2009 4:29 PM
When director Mamoru Hosoda appeared on the scene with 2006's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time the cries went out immediately hailing him as the heir apparent to legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki. The comparison was an obvious one. Not...
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