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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
Skyfall is one hell of a movie going experience—the best entry in the James Bond franchise without a shadow of a doubt.
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.
Sillier and dumber, but oddly not worse than its predecessor, Silent Hill: Revelation, offers up more messed up visuals in service of a useless story as the search continues for an actually decent film based around the beloved Konami video gane franchise.
It's admirable that a film as ambitious as Cloud Atlas can get made at all, but sadly, ambition is all this messy adaptation really has going in its favour.
Woooooah, brah. Surfing is, like, a metaphor for life and junk.
Strict atheists or followers of any other religion will most likely dismiss the film instantly for obvious reasons, but any one at least intrigued by the concept of hell should find plenty to think about in Hellbound?, which thankfully feels far less like a product of blatant religious indoctrination than most films of this sort.
Three of our film writers take a look at the 4th annual Ekran Toronto Polish Film Festival, running from October 25th to the 28th largely from the 100 year old Revue Cinema. Our writers give their brief reviews of some of the selections from a festival showcasing some of the finest films in the world from a Polish perspective.
Going 4 for 5, the found footage anthology of horror V/H/S delivers a solid bunch of shorts from budding horror stars and microbudget filmmakers working outside of their comfort zones.
