VIOLET & DAISY – Part Tarantino style quirky dialogue and characterization, this is the story of 8 and 9; a pair of teenage assassins need some cash to buy the latest and greatest Barbie Sunday dress, and they take an “easy” job… that becomes weirder and weirder. Really good, funny and disturbing in turns. ELLES [...]
Read more →UFO IN HER EYES – A little bit science-fiction and a little bit social commentary. An apparently corrupt village bureaucrat takes a woman’s report of a UFO and spins it up into a self-serving tourist attraction. JUAN OF THE DEAD – Apparently the first Cuban zombie film ever; filmed in Havana as a joint Spain [...]
Read more →YOU’RE NEXT – The programmer tells a story by way of introduction to the film, about how the film makers had attended Midnight Madness last year as part of TIFF, and had decided that they HAD to make a Midnight Madness film, and started pre-production in early October, and finished the sound mix within days [...]
Read more →I’M YOURS – A Canadian road movie. What have I got myself into? Grabbed a nice large coffee on the way in, just in case. It wasn’t all that bad, though. Sure, the characters have muddled motivations, but they aren’t simple. Not everything in the backstory is explained, not everything is tied up at the [...]
Read more →DAMSELS IN DISTRESS – This is basically a silly film. It’s a bit HEATHERS, a bit SERIAL MOM (without the killing), a bit Reese Witherspoon in ELECTION, and a bit Dianne Wiest in EDWARD SCISSORHANDS… Satire? A gang of insane girls patrols campus, looking for poor unfortunate souls to save from themselves. Judging from the [...]
Read more →LIVID – This is a bit confusing, and I might have to watch it again. It builds rather slowly for what feels like hour, before anything happens, and the action is not as grand or lengthy as I’d have imagined – it’s over much too quickly, and there are a lot of questions unanswered at [...]
Read more →IN DARKNESS – Two and a half hours but it felt like more – plenty of blackness and waiting, punctuated with occasional bursts of activity. It’s largely quite numbing; boring, even. Shockingly few of the characters get fleshed out enough to make me sympathetic to them, and this is based on a real story of [...]
Read more →GOD BLESS AMERICA – It’s a film about rude people, inconsiderate people, and evil people who make others dance for their amusement. It’s also a film about shooting those motherfuckers right in their empty fucking heads. It’s a fantastic film in so many ways. Maybe it’s a meaner version of FALLING DOWN, but the crimes [...]
Read more →A lot of my 2nd choices were toss-ups with the 1st choices in those time slots, so I’m happy to end up with no vouchers and have to try to come up with 3rd choices for some pretty tight spots. These are the shows that I have tickets for at this time. I missed out [...]
Read more →Next year? Buying the full Midnight Madness package of films – assuming that I can buy the not-actually-the-midnight-showings versions if I can’t use a week of vacation time for TIFF. Next year, if I take the time off, either the 50 ticket flex or the 30 ticket version plus the Midnight Madness pack. It confuses [...]
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