Editorial Blog & blather on seasonal films, and a DVD review of the classic 1977 teleplay, The Gathering (Warner Home Video) , which has a father arranging one final Xmas dinner to reconcile with his estranged family (and not vampires assembling to taker over Luksville, as you impetuously thought).
Tally & heads up of local film festivals & screenings, advance Hot Docs and Bloor Cinema passes now available for purchase, Bill ‘Deliverance’ McKinney dies at 80 without a squeal, Chinatown & Adam Nayman at the TBL, hockey films, and Nino Rota turns 100!
Editor’s Blog on Alliance’s “Complete Collection,” a new 6-disc set which supposedly features all the episodes from The Hitchhiker, the classic Canadian anthology series from the 1980s. I’ve done a breakdown of what’s so incomplete with this repackage of the American HBO set. Harumph…
Tally & heads up of local film festivals & screenings, Doc Soup returns to the Bloor Dec. 7, Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre, and where you can still get pretty Guillermo del Toro “Fright Night” posters.
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