With even less story, slightly less gore than before, and a new director, Hatchet III is an okay resurrection of modern slasher icon Victor Crowley, but the real joy comes from watching a cast of old horror pros have a bit of fun.
This week at The Bloor: a look at many uses of one of the most popular shellfish in Mussels in Love and a fascinating expose about how rampant tourism has damaged one of the world's most beautiful cities in The Venice Syndrome.
The Wolverine is quite daring in terms of how much it tries to not be exactly like every other comic book based blockbuster from the past decade, and despite some problems, it's still vastly better than the character's last big screen outing.
We talk to horror movie icon Danielle Harris about her return to battle against Victor Crowley in Hatchet III and her directorial debut with the dark comedy Among Friends. We talk about her struggles as a working actor, why she's at peace with the horror genre now, how the future of her acting career led her into directing, and how she pushes actors as a director in ways she always wished she was pushed.
The Canadian vampire black comedy Rufus is a couple of rewrites away from something that could have been great. Instead it comes packaged with one of the sleaziest and slut-shaming love triangle subplots in recent memory that's totally unnecessary even from a plotting standpoint.
Well acted and gorgeously shot, the extremely low key and very deliberately paced domestic drama Thursday Till Sunday never fully achieves its goals.
While at times relying perhaps a bit too heavily on period nostalgia, the freewheeling mumblecore comedy Computer Chess is still unquestionably one of the most original films of the year.
Despite some questionable narrative elements, the still powerful Fruitvale Station tells a tragic tale with one of the best performances in screen history from Michael B. Jordan. That's not hyperbole. His is the kind of performance that makes a decent film positively superlative.
While not particularly deep or even all that narratively engaging, Crystal Fairy does boast a pair of excellent leading performances from Michael Cera and Gaby Hoffman.
The first batch of films for this year's Toronto International Film Festival were announced this morning - including opening night film The Fifth Estate - and here's a look at what cinephiles have to look forward to starting this September the 5th.
We talk to 11-year old Chilean actress Santi Ahumada about her starring role in the independent drama Thursday Till Sunday and how she didn't know she was making a film at first and what it's like spending long hours filming mostly in a single car.
Enter for a chance to win one of five pairs of Run-of-engagement passes to see Red 2 - in theatres today - courtesy of Dork Shelf and eOne Films.
Returning once again to the subject of pedophilia, Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt features an incredible leading performance from Mads Mikkelsen and offers the audience no easy answers.
Unlike anything ever attempted on screen before and certainly something that can never be duplicated, Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing gets to the heart, ego, and psyche of Indonesian gangster who massacred for money and now think of themselves as heroes.
There isn’t a single second, moment, shot, performance, or line of dialogue within Nikola Curcin’s idiotic, slipshod, useless, and pointless film, Adriatico My Love that can be see as approximating anything close to an artistic triumph.
