Slamdance
For anyone who has ever gotten a traffic ticket, you know that it can be embarrassing, enraging, and even enlightening. Writer/director Adrian Murray hits all of those points in more in his very Toronto second feature, Retrograde.
Slamdance 2022: Therapy Dogs Review
High school is an intense time. Not just because it is the cliff between childhood and adult responsibilities, and not just because it is a time in your life when you are completely surrounded by peers who are all absolutely saturated in a chemistry set’s worth of hormones, but also because everything suddenly feels like […]
Slamdance 2021: No Trace Review
The latest from Quebecois auteur (or "Auteur") Simon Lavoie.
Slamdance 2020: Ask No Questions Review
Whatever good Ask No Questions does in bringing awareness to a major event that deserves investigation becomes undone by its ridiculous speculation.
Slamdance 2020: Big Fur Review
Documentaries don’t always need to claim that their subjects change the world or study incidents that send ripples across the annals of history. Some of them merely peek into a corner of the world where few have peeked. Big Fur is in the latter category of documentary film and it focuses its gaze on a […]
Dim the Fluorescents Review
Dim the Fluorescents is a hilarious and deeply tragic dramedy about the dangers of seeing creative output as self worth.
The Shelf Episode 18: Claire Armstrong and Naomi Skwarna on Dim the Fluorescents
We chat with the two leads of Dim the Fluorescents, a wonderful Toronto-made dramedy that won the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival earlier this year – and opens this Friday in Toronto and across Canada!
Slamdance 2017: Suck It Up Review
Director Jordan Canning shifts gears with Suck It Up, an odd-couple buddy comedy with mixed, though rewarding, results.
CMW 2015: I Am Thor Interview
I Am Thor has its Toronto debut at Canadian Music Week tomorrow, here's our conversation with subject Jon Mikl "Thor" and director Ryan Wise.
Slamdance 2015 Interview: Michael Steves and Bubba Fish
How did a College theatre class accident result in a stabbing AND inspire a movie idea? How did Clinger‘s producer Bubba Fish pool enough resources to make a feature film? How did Clinger director Michael Steves use his ‘Dork Shelf’ to try to get girls in High School? Learn theses answers and more in our interview […]
Slamdance 2015 Interview: Perry Blackshear
If my interview with writer/ director/ editor/ cinematographer etc, Perry Blackshear had a theme song, it would be ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’. Despite being labelled a D.I.Y. filmmaker, Perry takes every opportunity to state how he couldn’t have done it without his main collaborators: the cast of They Look Like People (MacLeod Andrews, […]
Slamdance 2015 Interview: the BODY team
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 […]
Slamdance 2015: Photo Gallery
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. […]
Slamdance 2015 Interview: Gabrielle Demeestere
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 […]
Slamdance 2015 : “Coffee with James Franco” Video
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 […]