Last night, the 10th Annual Toronto After Dark film festival took us Down Under for a spooky, and well-crafted ghost story starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill. And for the first time all festival, a jump scare got me! Brody plays psychologist Peter Bower, who finds himself in strange circumstances as he still mourns…
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Doctor Who (Tom Baker) – The Hand of Fear
This week’s story sees the TARDIS returning to Earth, and a departure of one of the most well-known companions. The Hand of Fear is a four-part story that was written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin and ran from 2 October to 23 October, 1976. The Doctor (Baker) and Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen) arrive in a…
TIFF 2015: P.S. Jerusalem (2015) – Danae Elon
Having its World Premiere today at Scotiabank, and screening again on the 16th and the 19th is this poignant and powerful documentary from filmmaker Danae Elon. Elon invites us into the life of her and her family, as she documents a journey of the heart, and the search and discovery of home. Born in Jerusalem,…
Hot Docs 2015: Planetary – Guy Reid
Yesterday morning, I sat down and watched perhaps the singularly most important film that is screening at Hot Docs this year, and if you’re not in Toronto, you can track down this film online, as it was released internationally on Earth Day. Over the past century, man has advanced and for the first time,…
Westfront 1918 (1930) – G.W. Pabst
My foray into the war genre continues following my viewing of All Quiet On The Western Front for the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book. This time we take on life, both the terror and the tedium, of trench life on the German lines, in this, Pabst’s first talkie. The film came…
The Rockford Files (1977) – The Trees, The Bees and T.T. Flowers Part II & The Becker Connection
After a quick recap of last week’s episode, Jim Rockford (James Garner) gets thrown right back into it with this week’s installment. Picking up where Part I left off, Part II of The Trees, The Bees and T.T. Flowers, written Gordon T. Dawson, aired on the 28 January, 1977. The phone gag features a…
Bermuda International Film Festival – Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley
It makes an odd kind of sense to me that I came all the way to Bermuda for BIFF to see a Canadian film. Having grown up here between the years of 84 to 89 the entire trip has been awash in memories of my own, and the own story of my life, which as…
The Mind Reels 