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TIFF 2012 – Aftershock

On September 16, 2012 By

Chile is a beautiful country, filled with wonderful vistas, colourful scenery, sexy women and a lot of wild parties. The first part of this film does a wonderful job of selling the place and could work well as a tourism promotion film. Gringo (Eli Roth) is in Chile visiting his two buddies Ariel and [...]

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TIFF 2012 – Antiviral

On September 15, 2012 By

Brandon Cronenberg, the  son of Canada’s most famous filmmaker David Cronenberg made his feature-film debut with Antiviral and is not only continuing with the famous business, but also follows his father into a very specific horror genre.

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TIFF 2012 – Sightseers

On September 15, 2012 By

Director Ben Wheatley thrilled the Midnight Madness audience last year with his film Kill List and he returns to Toronto this year with the horror comedy Sightseers. Tina, played by co-writer Alice Lowe is hoping to break away from her domineering mother and go on a quiet vacation with her new boyfriend Chris, played [...]

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Korean director Hur Jin-ho transplants the French story seamlessly to 1930s Shanghai. The sophistication and decadence of the pre-revolutionary period form a glittering backdrop for the machinations and sexual games of the main characters.

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TIFF 2012 – Byzantium

On September 13, 2012 By

Neil Jordan (Interview with a Vampire) returns to the vampire genre with something original.

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TIFF 2012 – In The House

On September 12, 2012 By

Adapted from a play, Francois Ozon's latest work is a delightful gem of a film. It is a comedy but there is no mistaking the bite beneath the surface. Set in a progressive high school, the film examines the process of creativity.

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Teen sensations Selena Gomez (Wizards of Waverly Place) and Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) take a turn for the mature in the new film from writer and director Harmony Korine (Gummo). Four bored college girls want nothing more than to get away from their lives and head south for spring break, the one problem [...]

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TIFF 2012 – Painless

On September 11, 2012 By

Two separate story lines running alongside one another. The first set in Catalonia, 1931 where a group of children all suffering from a bizarre disease, are taken from their homes and put into the local sanatorium. There a German doctor (Derek de Lint) hopes to teach them about the nature of suffering so they [...]

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