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‘The Revenant’ is a flawed, breathtaking beauty
The towering technical achievements and bravura sequences of ‘The Revenant’ are enough to warrant a visit to this grim wilderness More
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The News Reel #26: What About The Facts?!?!?
In this week’s episode, we discuss the historical and scientific inaccuracies that are constantly being nitpicked around Oscar season. Films such as Selma, Zero Dark Thirty, Gravity, Interstellar, and Everest have to go through the grinder to see if they past the “accuracy test” and most of the time it has a direct effect on […] More
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Watch Leonardo DiCaprio fight a bear in the trailer for ‘The Revenant’
Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu swept the Academy Awards last year with Birdman, and now he’s back with something entirely different. Based on true events, The Revenant finds Leonardo DiCaprio taking on the role of Hugh Glass, the explorer who made a nearly 200-mile trek to civilization for vengeance after his fellow travelers left the frontiersman […] More
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Telluride Film Festival 2015: Most Anticipated
The 42nd Telluride Film Festival is about to get underway in southwest Colorado. A box canyon provides a jaw-dropping setting for a fest jammed packed with premieres, retrospectives and classics over Labor Day weekend. This is my 10th year attending and my 9th year working for the festival. The production team works meticulously in the […] More
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Leo DiCaprio is lost in the woods in first trailer for ‘The Revenant’
The director of Birdman is taking his follow-up to the woods. Following his Oscar winning work in Birdman, the first trailer for Alejando G. Iñárritu’s adaptation of the Michael Punke novel, The Revenant, shows that the director continues to be at the top of his game. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, […] More
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Leonardo DiCaprio has 24 personalities for his next role
If you win an Academy Award for playing a role with multiple personalities, do they award each one of them? If so, that would make up for the snubs so far in Leonardo DiCaprio’s career. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the star of The Wolf of Wall Street and Inception is set to take on […] More
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2012: The Best Movies of July and August
Every thirty days, I like to post a list of my favorite films I’ve recently watched. Here are the best films I’ve seen throughout the month of September. This list is based on movies theatrically released here in Canada, and I do not include what I have seen at film festivals. **** 1: Beasts of […] More
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‘The Revenant’ is outrageous, jaw-dropping, genre-busting filmmaking
The Revenant Directed by D. Kerry Prior Screenplay by D. Kerry Prior 2009, USA Written, produced, directed and edited by D. Kerry Prior (visual effects artist on films such as Bubba Ho-Tep, Phantasm II – IV, The Lost Boys, The Abyss), The Revenant is a truly remarkable experience – a dark comedy that creeps […] More
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Sordid Cinema Podcast Rewind – Episode #13: Horror at Fantasia
Fantasia, North America’s biggest and best genre film festival, is a unique experience. Nowhere else can you hold your wife’s hand through a lighthearted J-punk romantic romp in the afternoon, and spend the night jerking off to Josef Mengele’s version of scat porn. Today marks the first day of the 15ht year of the fest, […] More
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Top 10 Horror Films of 2010
#6- The Revenant Directed by D. Kerry Prior The night after his funeral, Bart, a soldier killed in Iraq, gets up out of his grave and seeks help from his best friend Joey. No explanation or higher education will make sense of his return, and Bart wouldn’t care in any case. Now it’s all about […] More
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The Best Films Ever Screened At The Fantasia Film Festival (Part 3)
Fantaisa has expanded its programming in the past five years and with that the festival has become even longer – perhaps too long. Ranging anywhere from three to four weeks, it leaves me pretty much brain-dead by the end of the month. Bloodshot eyes, Sleep deprivation and repetitive dinners at Al-Taib aren’t exactly a recipe […] More
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Fantasia Film Festival: ‘We Are What We Are’, ‘The Revenant’ and ‘Human Centipede’
Fantasia, North America’s biggest and best genre film festival, is a unique experience. Nowhere else can you hold your wife’s hand through a lighthearted J-punk romantic romp in the afternoon, and spend the night jerking off to Josef Mengele’s version of scat porn. Tonight, Sordid Cinema brings you one of many tastes of Fantasia’s delicacies, […] More
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