Fantasia 2011: STAKE LAND Review
[With Jim Mickle's gloriously mounted Post-Apocalyptic Vampire Western landing in Montreal this weekend, and on DVD next Tuesday, it is time to revisit one of several of our reviews from the archives.  Todd called it the North American Horror film... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: SINT Review
(Review by Justin Decloux)Director Dick Mass (The Lift) delivers technically impressive supernatural holiday slasher (Now that's a sub-genre!) that features an iteration of a jolly red fellow that would rather slice your head off then hand over presents. Legend has it... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Fantasia 2011: BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW Review
[With the surreal science fiction about to melt some minds at Fantasia, we revisit Ben Umstead's review]Ethereal and Transgressive (Capitals E & T being very important), Beyond The Black Rainbow and its director, Panos Cosmatos, largely live up to their... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: LAPLAND ODYSSEY Review
[Our thanks to Brandon Tenold for the following review.]With Lapland Odyssey director Dome Karukoski makes an admirable attempt to offer up a Finnish take on the vaunted road trip comedy genre, and for the most part he succeeds, with almost... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fantasia 2011: KILL ME PLEASE Review
(Review by Justin Decloux)Black humor is a tricky proposition to pull off correctly. It demands the audience to wallow in the misery of others. Not only that, but it expects them to find the suffering to be funny. Can you... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Fantasia 2011: A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE Review
[After a very successful run on the festival circuit, this micro-indie gem makes its way to J.A. De Seve Theatre at Fantasia tonite, and I heartily encourage anyone out there who happens to be in town to give this one... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: Ti West's The Innkeepers
[Review by Justin Decloux]"THIS WILL BE THE MOST TERRIFYING FILM YOU'LL SEE ALL YEAR!" screamed the man introducing THE INKEEPERS to the Monday night FANTASIA crowd. It was a big promise - one that I was ready to take with... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Fantasia 2011: DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART Review
[With the latest Johnnie To - Wai Ka-Fai collaboration to play at Fantasia today, we revisit James Marsh's review.]Don't Go Breaking My Heart tells the story of Zixin (Gao Yuanyuan), a sweet-natured but heartbroken office girl who falls for a... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: THE CORRIDOR Review
[With Even Kelly and Josh MacDonald's science fiction oddity, The Corridor, playing Fantasia today, we offer a slightly edited version of Greg's Boozie-Review from the archives for your perusal.]The Corridor is the type of quiet little Sci Fi thriller that's... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: THE CATECHISM CATACLYSM Review
[Todd Rohal is one of the more unsung American independent (with a small "i") filmmakers.  His Sundance entry, The Catechism Cataclysm, is hitting Fantasia today, so here is Todd's review pulled out from our archives.]Father Billy may be one of... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fantasia 2011: BELLFLOWER Review
[With micro-Indie DIY muscle-car drama BELLFLOWER hitting Fantasia on its last festival stop before a limited domestic release in August, here is Greg's Review from our archives.]Bellflower is an infuriating, obnoxious, pretentious, quasi misogynistic film about obnoxious, toxic characters. By... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: MONSTER BRAWL Microreview
Unlike my Twitch cohorts Todd Brown and Kurt Halfyard, I am not as skilled in writing quick reviews of festival fare.  My gig is more to secure interviews, which by their very format afford me the time to secure, research,... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: MARIANNE Review
Krister is feeling the boot-heel of karma kick him pretty hard for his past transgressions.  After abandoning his wife, Eva, and daughter, Sandra, for a secret mistress, he grudgingly returns to support them when Eva has an unplanned pregnancy.  The... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: YOU ARE HERE Review
Here is an experiment. Take the name of six colours, write them in random order several times using a coloured pen that does not match the name of the colour. Time yourself reading this list of colours. Write the same... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: THE WICKER TREE Review
The Wicker Man is one of those films that has taken on such a life of its own over the past 38 years.  It succeeded against all manner of personality conflict, distribution woes, and production logistics - tales of which... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: RETREAT Review (Another Take)
As the story goes, Alfred Hitchcock had an expression about logic and plot coherence in a film which he called the 'ice-box moment.'  Namely when an audience member goes home that night after watching a film, and while getting a... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: RETREAT Review
A claustrophobic thriller with a trio of deeply damaged people at its heart, Carl Tibbetts' Retreat is a promising debut from a gifted writer-director. By keeping the focus tight on his core trio Tibbets creates an unsettling world, continually shifting... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fantasia 2011: LOVE Review
What are human beings if not feedback organisms?  We talk, we fight, we do both horrible and wonderful things to each other across the world on a daily basis we are a reflection of what others tells us as much... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: ANOTHER EARTH Review
What I really love about the ideas and concepts in Quantum Mechanics theory is that nothing makes any sort of intuitive sense yet at the moment, within the scientific consensus as our 'reality.'  The math, an Alice in Wonderland-like rabbit hole... More »
  

Fantasia 2011: PARANMANJANG (aka Night Fishing) Review
The English title, Night Fishing, is far different than the literal translation of "ups and downs," although both absolutely apply to this tale of haunting, exorcism and catharsis.  The fame of its director notwithstanding, Paranmanjang first made waves for being... More »
  
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