Take a gander at our interview with the filmmakers (Dan Berk and Robert Olsen) and cast (Alexandra Kurshen, Helen Rogers and Lauren Molina) behind Body, which premiered at Slamdance last week. We talk about how their film subverts the home invasion genre, why the cast loved beating each other up, what rock god showed up at their premiere […]
On National Cancer Day, February 4th, select cities will have screenings of No Evidence of Disease an informative look at doctors bringing awareness to often underfunded forms of reproductive cancers.
We talk with Ian Cheney, director of this month's Hot Docs Doc Soup entry, The Search for General Tso.
The Slamdance Film Festival 2015 in pictures: From the Q and A’s, to the parties, the red carpets, TV appearances and awards, we were there for all of it. Enjoy! The Sweet Micky For President team following their premiere screening. From left to right: Steve Harris, Bryn Mosser, Karyn Rachtman, Pras Michel, Ben Patterson, Wyatt B. […]
One of the last additions to Slamdance’s lineup this year was a world premiere Special Screening of Yosemite. The film is written and directed by Gabrielle Demeestere, a former classmate of James Franco who produces and costars. While the film was not in competition for Slamdance’s audience or jury awards, Demeestere’s strong debut did earn […]
On the final day of Slamdance 2015, the festival presented a Special Screening of Yosemite. The film was produced by James Franco, who also acts in a supporting role because he literally can not stop arting all over the place. Franco’s prolific artistic output was the primary topic of discussion when Franco sat down with Variety’s Scott […]
Event though the festival is now officially over, we will continue to roll out Slamdance 2015 coverage for the next couple days, mostly interviews with the filmmakers we conducted while we there. Our interview Nisan Dağ & Esra Saydam, the writer/ director team of Across the Sea, is particularly exciting since they went on to win the Audience Award […]
In honour of TIFF's year long retrospective of the work of art film pioneer Michael Snow, we begin a new monthly column, starting with a look back at Snow's best known work, Wavelength.
We take a look at all the nominees for Best Live Action and Best Animated Shorts at the Oscars, which you can catch this week at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
With another of it's winter retrospectives, TIFF takes a look into the darkly funny mind and heart of cult Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia.
Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014) – Based on Gillian Flynn’s best selling novel and directed by David Fincher, Gone Girl has all the hallmarks of an awards courting prestige movie on paper. Thankfully, their movie was nothing of the sort. It’s a gleefully trashy, twisty, nasty, lurid little thriller filtered through Fincher’s meticulous visual style […]
Project Almanac would be a near perfect time travel movie for young adults... if it just got rid of the found footage style that almost makes it painful to watch.
Red Army is a tightly constructed, fast paced, informative look at one of the most revered (and feared) hockey clubs in history.
Although it fell short of awards season hype, A Most Violent Year can best be viewed as a really solid genre effort.
Wild Card is the worst thing a Jason Statham movie could be: boring.
