TIFF 2012 Review: ANTIVIRAL is Imaginative and Often Clever, But Not Mind-Blowing
As a stomach-churning, jet-black satire of modern culture, Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral is a resounding success, and is directed with precision and conviction. However, for these very reasons, it's also cold, sterile and mostly void of humanity or even emotion.... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: TAI CHI 0 Respects The Past While Racing To The Future
Director Stephen Fung delivers a deliriously over the top reimagining of the life of martial artist Yang Luchuan - founder of the Yang school of tai chi - in the first part of his ambitious blockbuster franchise. Tai Chi 0... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: OUTRAGE BEYOND Brings Back the Violence
Any fan of Japanese Cinema from the last few decades knows: If there is a gun in your face, the last person you want to see on the other end is Takeshi Kitano (or rather his actor-ly persona Beat Takeshi).... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: SIGHTSEERS Delivers Black Hearted Laughs
If there is one thing the English north has a great deal of, it is space. Space and rocks. Both of which are put to extensive use by Tina (Alice Lowe) and Chris (Steve Oram) as the new couple partakes... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: I DECLARE WAR Goes To Battle with Boys and Bullying
One weekend day a number of the nerdier kids from the local middle school gather their sticks and twine and balloons filled with red dye, and head into the local woods to play capture-the-flag.  Oh, those tweens today with their... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO Makes You Lean Forward and Listen
There is a key to unlocking Peter Strickland's dense and puzzling Berberian Sound Studio.  A line of dialogue that comes from the director of the film within the film.  A slip of the tongue.  In movies about sound, or more... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: LOOPER Exceeds Expectations
In the year 2044 America has become a darker, grimmer version of its current self. It is a nation driven by fear and the sharp division between the rich and poor. It's an eat or be eaten world where weapons... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: DREDD 3D Brings Mega-Violence to the Multiplex
Besides being a genuinely visceral (read: ridiculously gory) action movie which happens to balance its grim material with an effective streak of black humor, the biggest surprise is how thoroughly Dredd banishes all memories of the previous big screen adaptation.... More »
  

FrightFest 2012 Review: God Bless AMERICAN MARY
Jen and Sylvia Soska's (aka "Twisted Twins") latest effort, American Mary, was dripping with an added layer of anticipation in advance of its world premier at FrightFest on Monday, as news of the film being acquired by Universal Pictures International... More »
By Rachel Fox   
  

FrightFest 2012 Review: COCKNEYS VS. ZOMBIES Is All Cheek, No Teeth
After the critical and commercial success of his big screen debut, Severance, it comes as no surprise that screenwriter James Moran would continue to introduce East London geezers into recognisable horror movie settings. Cockneys Vs. Zombies, however, proves as over-reliant... More »
  

Fantasia 2012 Review: GRACELAND Efficiently Chills
Marlon has the chauffeur of the wealthy Chango family for many years. His wife lies in a hospital room waiting for an organ transplant. His daughter is friends with the daughter of his boss and will frequently get rides to... More »
  

Fantasia 2012 Review: ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY
(Fantasia has wrapped up for 2012. And real life takes over pretty quick when you return from a festival. We're just catching up on some other titles from the festival we feel you should know about)Geneticist Geoff Burton relocates to... More »
  

MIFF 2012 Review: BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
A timid unsure man Gilderoy (Toby Jones) has just flown in from London to Italy and shuffles through the corridors of a nearly abandoned building. He is greeted coldly by a detached but beautiful secretary Elena (Tonia Sotiropoulou) who directs... More »
  

PiFan 2012 Review: VULGARIA is Lewd, Crude & Flat-out Hilarious

[After bagging the Netpac Award at PiFan last week, and enjoying weekend previews in Hong Kong ahead of its theatrical release next Thursday, now seems the perfect time to revisit my review from HKIFF back in March] Not content with... More »
  

Fantasia 2012 Review: MY AMITYVILLE HORROR
If you are a fan of all things Amityville Horror, be it the conspiracies surrounding the famous 1975 haunting itself, or the book-turned-movie franchise that followed in its wake, then I am inclined to recommend director Eric Walter's investigation... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Fantasia 2012 Review: DEAD SUSHI
Noboru Iguchi's latest opus about revenge-seeking-man-eating sushi may not fall under the already infamous Sushi Typhoon label, but it bears many characteristics of the J-splatter studio's usual shtick: high-concept comedy that lampoons Japanese culture, manic scream acting from an ensemble... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Fantasia 2012 Review: WRONG
Quentin Dupieux's genre deconstruction effort, Rubber, from a couple years ago, left some folks scratching their head, and others critical of its 'extended comedy sketch' nature; likley then, Wrong is probably not the right film for them.  With a bigger thematic... More »
  

PIFAN 2012 Review: YOUNG GUN IN THE TIME
Last year's Yubari Grand Prix winner - and the only non-Japanese filmmaker to win the award - South Korean director Oh Young Doo returns to the wintry city with his follow-up to Invasion Of Alien Bikini, the time-travel detective thriller... More »
  

NYAFF 2012 Review: DOOMSDAY BOOK
I ain't gonna explain the backstory any better than the fine folks over at Subway Cinema: Originally planned to be a three-parter directed by Kim Ji-Woon, Yim Pil-Sung (director of Hansel & Gretel and Antarctic Journal), and Han Jae-Rim (The Show Must Go... More »
  

LA Film Fest 2012 Review: THE HISTORY OF FUTURE FOLK
Sci-fi comedy THE HISTORY OF FUTURE FOLK documents the origin story of real-life NYC-based bluegrass duo Future Folk, a pair of bucket helmet-wearing aliens hailing from the comet-threatened planet Hondo. General Trius--aka Bill, as he's known on Earth--came to this... More »
  
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