One of the pleasures of going to film festivals are the Q&A sessions afterwards.  If you read humour pieces regarding this aspect of the festival experience, they are often snarky little pieces about the awful questions fielded by audience... More >>

The heroine, Sheri, is a young Chinese Canadian who, despite her mother's obsessive fear of anything "dirty," secretly works in a fetish parlor. One day, she comes across a strange woman, Celeste, going through her trash. Disturbed by what... More >>

From January 27th till February the 7th, the 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam will be held. And even though the final line-up won't be released until the second week of January, details are slowly but surely emerging.   Such as...

Up for bids the previous week at AFM and now part of After Dark Films' Horrorfest 4 lineup this new year Joey Stewart's The Final joins the lineup. The bullied teen revenge horror joins Hidden, Dread, The Graves, Lake... More >>

(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival running from 4th-22nd November 2009.)What makes the Decaillon Brothers' vampire thriller Sodium Babies so special? It's an obvious calling card, yes, messy, gaudy and hyper-kinetic, throwing every low-budget editing...

The semi documentary The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela has been touring the festivals ever since it won the Teddy Awards at last year's Berlin Film Festival and was up against Scandinavian powerhouse Lars Von Trier and Twitch favorite Sauna...

As well as the feature films competing for the Silver Melies at the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival, there were also seven shorts in competition to be nominated for a chance to go on to win their own Melies D'Or....

(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival running from 4th-22nd November 2009.)Yes, it comes with baggage. How could it not? In one sense Swedish author Stieg Larsson assured himself a place in history when he died...

(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival running from 4th-22nd November 2009.)Two cars, three people and a city after dark. It's not a great deal to work with, and it's hardly the most original idea ever conceived...

We came, we saw, we decided - I was honoured (and pretty surprised, to be honest!) to be invited to sit on the jury at the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival to select the winner of the Silver Melies...