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Fantasia 2014 Review: Play it again, Gran – a woman with musical ambitions...
The granny of the title is a Oh Mal-soon, cranky, crotchety woman who likes to cuss loudly and boss other people around. She doesn’t take a back seat to anybody. She’s paid her dues. After a portrait...
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Yes! Fantasia Film Festival adds an extra day, with seven encore screenings!
The Fantasia International Film Festival has added one more day to its lineup, thus gving fans another chance to see (in alphabetical order) Angry Video Game Nerd, Han Gong-ju, The Huntresses, I am a...
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Fantasia Film Festival 2014: Faults
Dr. Ansel Roth is an expert on religious cults. In terms of appearance, Roth (or Leland Orser, the actor playing him) reminds me of TV guy Geraldo Rivera (must be the moustache) and, going even farther...
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Fantasia 2014: Characters in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film Real could not hold my...
Atsumi is a manga artist. She has been in a coma for one year after a suicide attempt. The doctors say there is no medical explanation for the coma; they wonder if there is a reason why she doesn’t...
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Fantasia 2014: Kumiko The Treasure Hunter, a tale of loneliness, obsession,...
Kumiko The Treasure Hunter is a U.S. film, made by David Zellner. It begins in Japan and then moves to Minnesota. Kumiko is played by Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi. Kumiko has reached a low point in...
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Fantasia 2014: Onward, Christian soldiers? Documentary profiles pugilistic...
“We’ll just be a coupla god-fearing men punching each other in the face.” “Can you love your neighbour as yourself, and at the same time, knee him in the face as hard as you can?” Fight Church is a...
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Stag films, Blaxploitation and a haunted house in New Zealand: Variety is the...
Don’t go into the basement! (Screen grab from New Zealand horror-comedy Housebound.) Three events will overlap on Sunday night at the Fantasia Film Festival. Here they are in chronological order. At...
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Fantasia 2014: Bad guys, victims, but no heroes in scathing South Korean...
Feeling depressed and distressed about man’s inhumanity to man? Then the South Korean animated film The Fake might not be for you. It is very skilfully made, but awfully bleak. The same could be said...
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Fantasia 2014: Remember – Thursday is an extra, bonus day at The Fantasia...
The printed schedule for the Fantasia International Film Festival ended with Wednesday’s films, but programmers have added one more day to the festival. It’s like a parting gift! . Fans have one more...
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Fantasia 2014 Review: Need some laughs tonight? Treat yourself to I Am a...
Bennett Jones, witer, director and star of the film I Am A Knife With Legs, wears an ‘abhole T-shirt,’ one of the trademark garments of his character Bené, at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal....
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