The second night of Toronto After Dark got its Bug Night under way in a huge way last night with the arachnophobe’s nightmare Big Ass Spider starring Greg Grunberg. Grunberg is Alex Mathis, an exterminator called in on his day off and into a delightful homage to the atomic creature features of the 1950s,…
Category: Film Festivals
Toronto After Dark 2013: We Are What We Are – Jim Mickle
TAD’s opening night gala film had all the makings of a crowd-pleaser – a director with a fresh new voice (Mickle also directed Stakeland, which I saw and loved at TIFF a few years ago), a tension-filled plot, and cannibals. I am very happy to say that this one did not disappoint in the…
Toronto After Dark – Bounty Killer (2013) – Henry Saine
Following in the footsteps of the beautifully American gothic We Are What We Are, the opening night gala presentation for the 8th annual Toronto After Dark Film festival would be difficult for any film. So the programmers went in a completely different direction for the second feature of the night. Using the Kickstarter campaign…
Toronto After Dark 2013 – Sue’s Most Anticipated Films
I love October! I love the leaves turning colours, I love how clean the air smells (and the fact that there is actually air in the city again), I love love love Halloween! And added to all that is a film festival for me to love – Toronto After Dark, showcasing the year’s best…
Toronto After Dark 2013
Tonight, one of my favorite film festivals gets underway, Toronto After Dark, a heady combination of horror, sci-fi and cult filmss. People I’ve spoken to want to know what movies I’m most eager to see at this year’s festival, so I thought I would share them with you. It struck me as interesting last year,…
Toronto After Dark Spotlight – The Dirties (2013) – Matthew Johnson
The Toronto After Dark Film Festival has been known for showing edgy, darker films, controversial films… None could possibly be more so than this film from Director Matthew Johnson, as it takes on the subject of bullying culminating in a school shooting. That right there tells you it’s not going to be an easy…
Toronto After Dark Spotlight – Europa Report (2013) – Sebastian Cordero
I had been looking forward to the next round of Toronto After Dark Spotlight films since they were first announced, simply because I loved the look of Europa Report, and no sooner had the film started rolling, on what, for me, was a majestic and wonderful piece of film, than I thought of these lines…
TIFF 2013: Proxy – Zack Parker
I chose Proxy to be the final film in my festival for a few reasons. One – it looked pretty dark. Two – Colin Geddes had programmed it for the Vanguard section of the fest. Three – I couldn’t really find out much detail about it, which meant that it was likely to surprise…
TIFF 2013: Tom At the Farm (Tom a la ferme) – Xavier Dolan
The film opens with an upset Tom (Xavier Dolan) driving somewhere. He appears to be getting further and further from civilzation, and expresses what seems to be anger, sadness and possibly loneliness as he gets further into the country, to a more remote area where his crazy hair, skinny jeans and leather jacket seem…
TIFF 2013: Gerontophilia – Bruce La Bruce
I wanted to see this one primarily because the lovely and talented Katie Boland is in it, and additionally because there really aren’t many films out there which examine the gerontophilia fetish – certainly not from such an intimate and beautiful standpoint, at any rate. As director Bruce La Bruce stated during the Q&A…
The Mind Reels 