I was fortunate enough to screen Liz Marshall’s incredible award-winning film, The Ghosts In Our Machine, at Hot Docs this past spring, but it is now finding new life in theatres, and I must highly encourage anyone and everyone to see this documentary if the chance should ever arrive. Thanks in no small part…
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ReelWorld Film Fest: Cairo 678 – Mohamed Diab
Every so often, I deliberately choose to do something that I know is going to frighten, upset or otherwise unsettle me, but I usually do it anyway. Call it challenge, call it growth…call it stupid, if you want. But I do it. Most often, this pushing of myself comes in the form of a book…
ReelWorld: La Playa D.C. – Juan Andres Arango
Tomas (Luis Carlos Guevara) and his troubled younger brother, Jairo (Andres Murillo), live with their mother (along with her current partner and their baby) in the sprawling city of Bogota, Colombia. Despite losing their father in the small but violent, drug and war-torn village of Buenaventura on the country’s Pacific coast, neither boy has…
Toronto After Dark – My Amityville Horror – Eric Walter
This documentary was one of the films I was most looking forward to seeing at Toronto After Dark this year, and while it was a little different than I’d expected going in, it gave me far more than I’d dared hope before the end credits rolled! Based on the events of the most famous…
Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2012 – Sue’s Must-See List!!!
Well folks, as the kids say these days, shit just got real! The Toronto After Dark Film Festival has VERY GENEROUSLY offered the Mind Reels passes to cover the fest this year, and we could not be more thrilled! Adam Lopez (TAF’s hard-working, fearless leader – and hopefully future Mind Reels guest) has put together…
TIFF 2012: Much Ado About Nothing – Joss Whedon
The announcement of this little flick’s arrival at TIFF this year caused quite a stir amongst many people I know. Even I was curious as to what Whedon would have in store for us with this one, since I knew it was something he’d wanted to do for a long time, and that he’d…
TIFF 2012: Love, Marilyn – Liz Garbus
This film was, easily, THE film for me to see at TIFF this year. It was the one I was most looking forward to – even to the point of carefully selecting which screening would be best for me to immerse myself most fully in the experience. As soon as I heard it was…
TIFF 2012: Disconnect – Henry Alex Rubin
For someone who had directed only documentaries thus far, Henry Alex Rubin has manged to create a very human and genuine first feature that’s both thought-provoking and full of and heart. Disconnect is an up-close and in-depth look at various forms of social media, and how we use the internet to draw us all…
TIFF 2012: Lore – Cate Shortland
Bright new talent Saskia Rosendahl stars as Lore, a young girl who has to make her way across war-torn Germany near the end of WWII, with her much younger siblings in tow, including her infant brother, Peter. They are trying to get safely to their grandmother’s home in Hamburg after their parents have been…
TIFF 2012: Blackbird – Jason Buxton
The premise of this one intrigued me enough that I was willing to take a chance on it and hope for the best. I didn’t actually know much about it going in, which I think allowed me to take the journey it was offering even more completely, and I am glad that I did. …
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