On a planet occupied entirely by women, a mother and daughter are sent to assassinate a dangerous criminal in After Blue (Dirty Paradise). Far into the future, humanity has left Earth for the planet After Blue, with the male population dying off early on. Roxy (Paula Luna), nicknamed Toxic by the village girls, is a lonely…
Brothers and sisters separated by the foster care system reunite at a special summer camp in Siblings. 11 year old Liberty and 18 year old Brandi are two young women separated from their natural, who get to reunite with them every year at a special summer camp for kids in the foster care system. It…
A woman with insomnia develops a connection with a sleepwalker in Nocturne. Cindy (Mary Krohnert) is woman, whose anxiety prevents her from sleeping. Cindy notices some odd behaviour in her co-worker Armen (Knickoy Robinson), who turns out to be a sleepwalker. Cindy begins to follow Armen around at night and the two begin have an…
If someone called you claiming to be a police officer, would you obey everything he tells you to do with no questions asked? Compliance is the extremely controversial film that debuted at Sundance and is inspired by a series of true events. In the film, a manager of a fast food restaurant named Sandra (Ann Dowd)…
Two years ago we saw the release of the 3D remake of Piranha. Back then I liked the film because it was exactly what I expected it to be – a fun and campy gorefest. Piranha 3D was a bit of a surprise horror hit in 2010 and of course that means that they just had…
For my final film of Hot Docs, I saw this French documentary that filmed the recruitment process for an insurance company. Ten job seekers come in for the job, not even being told what it is, and they go through a recruitment process that I can best describe as both shocking and enthralling. To call…
Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a horror/comedy that initially debuted at 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Tonight I saw the film during a screening at the Toronto Underground Cinema (though it’s also supposed to get a limited release next month). The film can be best described as a reverse horror movie, since most of the events…
After a series of dramas, comedies, and family films, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson returns to action films and the results are so-so. Faster is a very gritty revenge film that essentially has Johnson going Terminator on the people who killed his brother and left him for dead a decade previous. It was an incredibly formulaic…
Over the course of this year the three film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy were released, just as production was beginning on an English-language remake. This final chapter of the trilogy is direct continuation of The Girl Who Played with Fire, however I found that it also works as stand alone tale. This film…
It’s been ages since there was a truly gimmicky 3D film was released. Piranha 3D may not have perfect 3D effects, but it was 1000x better than the post-converted afterthoughts studios have been releasing since Avatar hit it big. The film is pretty much what you except it to be: a fairly campy, really gory…
