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Welcome (again) to the Fantasia International Film Festival, which opened both its on-demand program and livestreamed screenings up to Canada yesterday, and while I'm not in that lovely, less-scorching-hot-in-the-summer country whose leadership appea...

Is there a place near Concordia that does a nice, simple omurice? It was all that the little girl in It Comes wanted and apparently the comfort food of choice for the couple in Ride Your Wave. A dish shows up twice in less than 48 hours at a film f...

I am not sure whether having two shorts programs on the same day is sensible or crazy, but it probably means that this particular post will wind up very late, though only this post. Plenty of filmmakers, though! So, for the International Sci-Fi s...

Tuesday was a pretty short day, but it got a lot of bang for the buck, as Spoor was one that Paul Kazee was playing up throughout the festival and delivered, while The Endless was perhaps my personal most anticipated, since I quite liked Resolution a...

It's been a bit over a month, and we've had warm enough temperatures to see some melting over the part few days, so if anybody reading this has forgotten how much February sucked weather-wise, let me remind you: It was terrible, and it brought the M...

The definition of "short film" is broader than some might imagine, and the length of the various programs of short films nominated for the Academy Awards this year demonstrates this: As usual, the documentaries were all a half hour to fort...

Running a day behind again, because, honestly, midnight movies and morning anime are just too much. Filmmakers! Meet Bros Before Hos stars Tim Haars and directors Steffen Haars & Flip Van der Kuil. Maybe they're in a different order; I recog...

Of all the days on the calendar, this was perhaps the most fluid day, without a whole lot of "must see that" screenings, with Number 10 Blues certainly looking like the most interesting. So, I risked getting to that one late rather than th...

A busy couple of weeks, getting ready for Christmas. Not that I put up lights or anything, but the niece population has doubled, and while they don't necessarily have a lot in common, it turns out that they all like presents.Also, cold makes it hard...

Every year, I mean to write up reviews of Fantasia screeners I missed; every year, I fall short. There's also a tradition of "Fantasia in December/January - a great way to make the long wait between them seem shorter!" This year, I swear...