TIFF’s annual Midnight Madness program has been a favourite of mine for about as long as I’ve been attending the festival. I can generally trust Programmer Colin Geddes to whittle out ten of the most bizarre, terrifying, ridiculous, gory, scream-inducing and fun-filled flicks from the massive array of such fare as he is subjected…
Invaders From Mars (1953)
Huh. The 101 Sci-Fi Movies brought me this film, that is simply the height of B-movies in a time when American xenophobia seemed to be at its height. The fear of the other, the Cold War, and nuclear destruction are hard at work in this film. But sometimes you just need a giggle. All of…
TIFF 2012: Fin (The End) – Jorge Torregrossa
This is one film I wanted to see just based on the brief description provided when it was first announced, and I’m so excited that I got to see it so close to the start of my festival. Intrigued by its mysterious premise, my mind automatically started trying to come up with theories as…
An American Werewolf In London (1981) – John Landis
I love this movie! It’s one of my all time favorite horror films, and I was so happy to revisit it on the 101 Horror Movies list. There’s nothing I don’t love about it, the source music – all the songs have the word moon in the title; Jenny Agutter – so amazingly hot in…
Doctor Who S07x02 – Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
Genocide, piracy, Egyptian queens, big game hunters, the Ponds, stupid robots, Harry Potter alumni, and DINOSAURS!!! This was so my kind of Doctor Who episode! Penned by Chris Chibnall this episode is just good fun! The Doctor (Matt Smith) throws together a gang (“I’ve never had a gang.”) when he recieves an alert from the…
TIFF 2012: Ginger & Rosa – Sally Potter
Wow. I promised myself that I wouldn’t write anything too spoilery in my TIFF musings, because I want anyone who reads one of these and then sees the movie I’ve written about to have as close to the same experience going into it as I did. It’s going to be difficult to convey how…
Natasha Eloi (Part 1)
Natasha Eloi is about as amazing as people come, she’s a self-taught videographer, a journalist, a sci-fi and movie geek, and just a delightfully fun soul whom Sue and I simply clicked with. We met for an evening of chattage at the Duke of Kent, and we sat there for almost three hours, and recorded for almost…
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
“When people substitute fear for reason…” I think that line may have just as much resonance today, if not more so, than it did in the 1950s when Robert Wise’s (Sound of Music, Star Trek The Motion Picture, The Haunting, West Side Story) sci-fi classic first debuted, and earned its place on the list of 101…
Turning 40
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I love animals. I love being around them, I love petting them and playing with them and snuggling them. I tell them my deepest darkest secrets and have no fear of judgement from them. Movies about them make me laugh and cry more than any other….
When Worlds Collide (1951)
When Worlds Collide, brought to us by a very familiar name to 50s sci-fi, George Pal, is a frightening take on a theme that seemed to permeate the culture of the time. Taking the idea of nuclear destruction one step further with not only one or two countries being destroyed, but our entire planet, the film…
The Mind Reels 