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Interview: Deepa Mehta

We talk to award winning Canadian filmmaker Deepa Metha about her most ambitious project to date: a sprawling, epic adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.

Contest: Win a Disney Holiday Prize Pack!

Enter for a chance to win one of 10 Disney Holiday Blu-ray prize packs including copies of the 20th Anniversary Edition and Blu-ray debut of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Prep and Landing: The Total Tinsel Collection.

Interview: Jack McBrayer

He can fix it! We talk to the voice of Fix-It Felix from Wreck-It Ralph and 30 Rock stand-out Jack McBrayer about his memories of video games growing up, always playing a nice guy, why he's afraid of playing a villain, and a little bit about where the hit TV show he's on might end up at the end of its final season.

TIFF’s Birth of a Villain

Keeping with today's Halloween theme while looking ahead to next month, we take a look at and talk to Twitch's Todd Brown about his upcoming Birth of a Villain series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, tracing the history iconic horror movie villains of the 70s and 80s.

The Other Horrors of the 1980s

Just in time for Halloween, resident film writers Phil Brown and take a look at some of their favourite, less iconic horror films of the 1980s. No Shinings, Evil Deads, Freddys, Jasons, Pinheads, or Chuckys allowed.

This Week in DVD: 10/30/12

This week at the video store, we check out the timely comedy of The Campaign, the out of time Oliver Stone thriller Savages, the zombie apocalypse of [REC]3: Genesis, the romantic dramedy stylings of A Little Bit of Heaven and Ruby Sparks, and the goings on in the world of Mad Men.

Richard Crouse is Raising Hell

CTV and Newstalk 1010 personality and critic Richard Crouse takes a look at late British maverick director Ken Russell's controversial 1971 film The Devils in his insightful new book, Raising Hell

Gamercamp: Ace Attorney Review

No objections here. Ace Attorney brings the cray haired lawyer Phoenix Wright to the big screen with Takashi Miike creating quite possibly the most faithful video game adaptation of all time.

The Creepshows of George A. Romero

In honour of a series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox based around his work, we take a look at the career of famed horror director George A. Romero aside from just the films he made about the walking dead.

The New Old: Love & Darkness

This week's archival home entertainment column takes a look at some real heavy hitters with Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love, Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire, the campy Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, and director's cuts of both Frank Oz's Little Shop of Horrors and the Al Pacino ham-fest The Devil's Advocate.

TAD 2012: The Final Chapter

and Brandon Bastaldo close out the 2012 Toronto After Dark Film Festival with looks at some of the other films they saw over the past week, including Citadel, Sushi Girl, A Fantastic Fear of Everything, My Amityville Horror, and Game of Werewolves!

CONTEST: See ACE ATTORNEY on Halloween!

HOLD IT! As Gamercamp's official media sponsor, Dork Shelf is pleased to be able to offer our readers the chance to win one of three pairs of passes to see the Toronto premiere of Ace Attorney on Wednesday October 31st at 7 PM!

Skyfall Review

Skyfall is one hell of a movie going experience—the best entry in the James Bond franchise without a shadow of a doubt.

The Sessions Review

Despite a turn towards the predictable and cliche after running out of great material an hour into the film, The Sessions still benefits from terrific performances from Helen Hunt and William H. Macy and a truly excellent one from the always underrated John Hawkes in the lead.