The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
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The updated Len Wiseman remake of Total Recall has arrived and while it gives story credit to the Philip K. Dick original We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, this is basically a remake of the 1990 Paul Verhoeven film. Most critics are panning the film using a variety of unimaginative “memory”-related puns, but it’s easiest just to say its about white people problems.
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Compared to the films I’ve seen at Fantasia Film Festival, the performance film Play Dead is an altogether different beast. Funny, engaging and made to make a viewing audience both squirm and yearn – it’s unlike anything I’ve seen at the festival before.
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Our Fantasia Film Festival coverage continues with the midnight screening of British director Alex Chandon’s film, Inbred. The title and the picture above pretty much indicates whether this is a film for you or not.
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For the next few days, yellowwait and I are hanging out in Montreal, taking in a number of films as part of the Fantasia Film Festival. I’ll be posting some thoughts on the films we see when I have a chance. For now, let’s begin with the world premiere of independent psychological horror film, Toad Road.
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Be wary of what the ads tell you: Magic Mike may be “the male stripper” movie, but that’s certainly not what you’re getting when you slap down those singles in the ticket line.
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It’s been a slow summer for movies thus far: aside from the box office phenomenon that is The Avengers, the last few weeks have been filled with films that disappointed (critically, commercially and in the court of public opinion). So I was looking forward to some revisionist grrrrl-feminism from Snow White And The Huntsman this weekend to get the party started. Alas, I should have braced myself for more disappointment.
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