Several press releases went out today featuring some huge news coming out of Canada's Fantasia Film Festival including the first batch of films that will be populating this massive three-week long event. Pull up your chair, kids! You're gonna be here for a while!
Dig on the wealth of information below from today's releases and look for more announcements and of course full coverage soon!
Spotlight: Between Death And The Devil
Recent times and crimes have seen extraordinary levels of disillusionment with organized religion, particularly with the Catholic Church, and genre cinema has mirrored this anger with startling impact. In the face of this, we’ve put together this troubling spotlight focused on the abuse of faith, the horrors of ideology and the corruption of Godliness. Several of these films will absolutely stagger you.
Black Death (UK) Dir: Christopher Smith – North American premiere. Hosted by Director Christopher Smith
With the Black Death sweeping across England,...
Dig on the wealth of information below from today's releases and look for more announcements and of course full coverage soon!
Spotlight: Between Death And The Devil
Recent times and crimes have seen extraordinary levels of disillusionment with organized religion, particularly with the Catholic Church, and genre cinema has mirrored this anger with startling impact. In the face of this, we’ve put together this troubling spotlight focused on the abuse of faith, the horrors of ideology and the corruption of Godliness. Several of these films will absolutely stagger you.
Black Death (UK) Dir: Christopher Smith – North American premiere. Hosted by Director Christopher Smith
With the Black Death sweeping across England,...
- 6/29/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
You want the best of genre film from Canada, the Us and around the globe? Fantasia is the place.
Montreal, June 29, 2010 - For its fourteenth edition, the Fantasia Film Festival is proud to present over 50 titles from Asia. Once again, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China are widely represented, demonstrating the great quality and diversity of their industries. And, as always, the programming team is also dedicated to exposing several hidden gems hailing from emerging national cinemas. Through these, audiences can discover new visions and new sensibilities. Therefore, the public will be privy to works hailing from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and - a first for the festival - Indonesia. The filmic multicultural feast prepared by the 2010 Fantasia Film Festival promises to satisfy film lovers of all kinds.
Fantasia's 2010 occidental lineup of World Cinema is once again on fire with an astounding kaleidoscope of styles and sensibilities.
Montreal, June 29, 2010 - For its fourteenth edition, the Fantasia Film Festival is proud to present over 50 titles from Asia. Once again, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China are widely represented, demonstrating the great quality and diversity of their industries. And, as always, the programming team is also dedicated to exposing several hidden gems hailing from emerging national cinemas. Through these, audiences can discover new visions and new sensibilities. Therefore, the public will be privy to works hailing from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and - a first for the festival - Indonesia. The filmic multicultural feast prepared by the 2010 Fantasia Film Festival promises to satisfy film lovers of all kinds.
Fantasia's 2010 occidental lineup of World Cinema is once again on fire with an astounding kaleidoscope of styles and sensibilities.
- 6/29/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The North by North-East Film Festival begins June 14th and runs until the 20th with several multi-genred films gracing the festivities. The schedule is below and one of the highlights from the festival is director Blaine Thurier's A Gun to the Head, which manages to bring together comedy and a few chills. The film also shows the difficulties of reforming a criminal life with several romantic gags along the way. Preview the film's trailer inside and prepare for Nxne 2010 in Toronto, Ontario in a couple weeks!
The synopsis for A Gun to the Head here:
"A reformed criminal escapes his wife’s dinner party for a quick beer with his cousin and former partner in crime. Over the course of one wild night, he is dragged back into a world of drugs , women, guns and gangsters, endangering the lives of those he loves the most" (A Gun).
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The synopsis for A Gun to the Head here:
"A reformed criminal escapes his wife’s dinner party for a quick beer with his cousin and former partner in crime. Over the course of one wild night, he is dragged back into a world of drugs , women, guns and gangsters, endangering the lives of those he loves the most" (A Gun).
Releae Date:...
- 5/31/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Year: 2009
Director: Blaine Thurier
Writer: Blaine Thurier
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 7.5 out of 10
It’s amazing how one telephone call can change your life. If you’re Trevor, the lead of Blaine Thurier’s new film A Gun to the Head, it will throw that life into a tailspin.
Trevor’s a reformed criminal. Once a petty thug and drug dealer, he left the life behind to settle down. Now with a job, a wife (Grace), a house and car payments, he’s a regular Joe going though the day to day motions of life. On the night his wife invites her boss to dinner, Trevor gets a call from his troubled cousin Darren, a guy still well entrenched in the thug life. With an excuse, he brushes Darren off but it’s clear he’s excited to hear from his cousin. When the dinner party runs dry,...
Director: Blaine Thurier
Writer: Blaine Thurier
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 7.5 out of 10
It’s amazing how one telephone call can change your life. If you’re Trevor, the lead of Blaine Thurier’s new film A Gun to the Head, it will throw that life into a tailspin.
Trevor’s a reformed criminal. Once a petty thug and drug dealer, he left the life behind to settle down. Now with a job, a wife (Grace), a house and car payments, he’s a regular Joe going though the day to day motions of life. On the night his wife invites her boss to dinner, Trevor gets a call from his troubled cousin Darren, a guy still well entrenched in the thug life. With an excuse, he brushes Darren off but it’s clear he’s excited to hear from his cousin. When the dinner party runs dry,...
- 12/9/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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