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Wylie Writes @ Toronto International Spring of Horror and Fantasy Film Festival ’17

April 3, 2017Wylie Writes Staff0 Comments

The Toronto International Spring of Horror and Fantasy Film Festival is a weekend dedicated to genre appreciation conceived by filmmakers Lari Teräs and Jon Lewis.  The festival returns to the city’s indie hot spot Carlton Cinema on Friday, April 7 and carries through to Sunday, April 9, promising movie goers an eclectic three-day event filled with music videos, short films, and unique movies that are out-of-this-world.

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Galaxy of Horrors

March 1, 2017Addison Wylie0 Comments

The team behind last year’s efficient horror anthology Minutes Past Midnight return to bring similar chills and thrills with Galaxy of Horrors, another feature-length anthology hand-picked by Torontonian film programmer Justin McConnell.  This time, he’s showcasing horror shorts with a sci-fi twist.

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Toronto After Dark 2016: ‘Blood Father’ and ‘Kill Command’

October 17, 2016Shahbaz Khayambashi1 Comment

Blood Father (DIR. Jean-François Richet) Mel Gibson was once one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.  Now, he is staging a comeback which includes a few directorial efforts.  Preceding those is his starring role in Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, a film which could be cynically viewed as an attempt to get Gibson back on the public’s radar and nothing more, if only it was not so entertaining and memorable.

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Criminal

July 26, 2016Addison Wylie0 Comments

The premise of Criminal involves an ex-con being used as a vessel to contribute to an ongoing investigation by the CIA.  Information and memories are transferred via a scientific procedure from a recently murdered agent to the agency’s newly hired hand.  This set-up is bonkers, but the cast sells it as best as they can.

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Hardcore Henry

April 7, 2016Addison Wylie1 Comment

Some frenetic films have been described as live-action video games, but Ilya Naishuller’s Hardcore Henry takes that criticism up a notch by actually strapping viewers into a live-action video game.  We act out all of the disorienting, brutal action sequences.  It’s the gimmick behind Man Bites Dog injected with Crank’s epinephrine.

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Toronto After Dark 2015: ‘Lazer Team’

October 20, 2015Addison Wylie0 Comments

By: Shahbaz Khayambashi For the first time in their ten year history, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival broke with tradition and allowed an under-18 crowd to one of its screenings.  More specifically, anyone over the age of 14 was invited to come and view Lazer Team, the new film from Rooster Teeth Productions.  A company which is apparently very popular with kids, according to the sheer number of teenagers who turned out to see…

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Toronto After Dark 2015: ‘Tales of Halloween’ and ‘Synchronicity’

October 19, 2015Addison Wylie1 Comment

Tales of Halloween (DIR. Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Adam Gierasch, Andrew Kasch, Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee, Mike Mendez, Dave Parker, Ryan Schifrin, John Skipp, Paul Solet) By: Shahbaz Khayambashi Let me get two simple facts out of the way: I love horror anthology films and, even with this love, I can easily admit that there are very few truly good ones out there.  They do exist, but for the most part, horror anthology films…

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