CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL '12: ANTIVIRAL (BRANDON CRONENBERG, CANADA/USA)

Screens at CIFF: 10/19 & 10/20 Winner of the Gold Hugo in the After Dark Competition World premiere: 19 May, 2012, Cannes Film Festival ...

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL '12: IN THEIR SKIN (JEREMY POWER REGIMBAL, CANADA)

Screens at CIFF: 10/17 & 10/20 World premiere: 21 April, 2012, Tribeca Film Festival If you had asked me, in the late 1990s, if I had ev...

THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT FROM YOU AND ME

It's probably better not to presume that one is smarter than David Cronenberg. This has been my constant thought ever since walking out ...

TEACHABLE MOMENTS

As you may know, the Academy Awards nominees for Best Foreign Language film get chosen by two groups: the old conservative group that enjoys...

CANADIAN ANIMATION: A PRIMER

Part of the Upon learning that there was going to be a blog-a-thon about animated short films at Pussy Goes Grrr , I knew pretty much immedi...

MOVIES I MISSED IN 2011: YOU CAN'T SOLVE ALL THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS WITH A SHOTGUN

Hobo with a Shotgun is deliberately meant to be a bad movie. The reason that I know this is that the film is incredibly eager to remind me ...

YEAR OF BLOOD: THE MERRY PRANKSTERS

Welcome, friends, to the Year of Blood! For the next twelve months, we'll be exploring the world of horror films with that special seaso...

I WILL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND

The party line on A Dangerous Method is that it is more of a period piece - and a sort of biopic to boot - than it is a David Cronenberg pi...

MERRY DEATHMAS: MAY YOUR DAYS BE SCARY AND BRIGHT

Black Christmas (2006, USA/Canada) The creators: Writer/director Glen Morgan, who was in his day one-half of the writing team responsible ...