Worldwide Short Film Festival Preview

, James Farrington, Phil Brown, and Jenna Hossack take a look at a bunch of programs in this year's 18th annual CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival. We take a look at comedy, drama, Christmas, love, families, kids films, surrealism, and many other disparate elements that come together to make this festival one of the city's most endearingly eclectic.

Home Review

Home, the latest offering from independent game developer Benjamin Rivers, is amazing, although not for the reasons you’d expect. It's a narrative horror adventure that succeeds because it experiments with story structure in a way that forces you to reconsider the possibilities for interactive storytelling.

Piranha 3DD Review

Dull, unfunny, unscary, and nowhere near as fun or campy as any of the films to bear the name of the famed man eating fish Piranha 3DD stinks on almost every conceivable level like pure desperation and boredom.

Lovely Molly Review

Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project) returns with the possession thriller Lovely Molly, a film that's fine enough until it starts feeling the need to explain every detail of what's going on.

Hemingway and Gellhorn Review

Cynically designed and crafted to win a boatload of Emmy’s and Golden Globe awards, Hemingway and Gellhorn has been engineered to seem edgy and transgressive enough to be interesting and as bland and hokey as possible to appeal to the out of touch geezers who vote for these awards in the first place.

A Beginner’s Guide to Endings Review

Feeling a bit like an unholy cross between The Royal Tenenbaums and Snatch, first time Canadian filmmaker Jonathan Sobol's A Beginner's Guide to Endings can pummel viewers with its style, and not all the jokes hit, but it establishes the director as one to watch in the future.

We Have a Pope Review

Equal parts ingenious, slow, and imperfect, director Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope takes a genial, fictional look at choosing a new pope without resorting to high satire.

The Intouchables Review

While pretty far from perfect, the inspirational “based on a true story” feel good French drama The Intouchables gets a lot of mileage out of a pair of great leading performances that can allow viewers to overlook some of the screenplay’s more maudlin touches.

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Review

As derivative as it is, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is exceptionally well made, with core mechanics that make for consistently engaging gameplay that runs smoothly in multiple scenarios.

Moonrise Kingdom Review

Director Wes Anderson delivers one of his best felt films to date with the funny, sweet, and deeply personal feeling Moonrise Kingdom.

Chernobyl Diaries Review

While certainly not breaking any new ground in the horror genre, Chernobyl Diaries wears its cliches like badges of honour and delivers a by-the-numbers story with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel.

Jesus Henry Christ Review

If movies were judged purely on their level of forced quirkiness, then Jesus Henry Christ would be in the running for the best of the year. Thankfully, we don’t live in that world and this movie will be quickly forgotten.

Where Do We Go Now Review

Despite a wildly inconsistent tone and gags that don't always work, the core ideas behind TIFF 2011 audience award winner Where Do We Go Now are fresh and new.