Category Archives: Toronto

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Toronto After Dark Film Festival Announces First 8 Titles

By Will
July 9, 2009
Toronto After Dark Film Festival

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival showcases the best in horror, cult and sci-fi films from around the world.  The festival has announced the first 8 titles on this year’s schedule, and there are some great ones.

  • Trick ‘R’ Treat (Dir. Michael Dougherty, USA)
  • Grace (Dir. Paul Solet, Canada)
  • Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura, Japan)
  • Franklyn (Dir. Gerald McMorrow, UK)
  • The Forbidden Door (Dir. Joko Anwar, Indonesia)
  • Embodiment of Evil (Dir. José Mojica Marins, Brazil)
  • Black (Dir. Pierre Laffargue, France)
  • Someone’s Knocking at the Door (Dir. Chad Ferrin, USA)

After Dark just gets better and better each year, you won’t see most of these films anywhere else.  The Toronto After Dark Film Festival runs from August 14th to the 21st.  Passes are available for purchase and single tickets go on sale starting  July 29th.  For more info make sure to check out the official Toronto After Dark Film Fest site.

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Ubisoft to Open Toronto Studio

By Will
July 6, 2009

French developer Ubisoft announced plans to open a major game development studio in Toronto.  Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat; who will head the new Toronto studio, held a press conference earlier today with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to make the … Continue reading

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Art-O-Bot: Oeming, Manupul, and Reilly

By Jeff
May 24, 2009

What is Art-O-Bot? Quite simply they’re a series of profiles of comic book artists, our way of helping you discover new and talented local artists, as well as highlighting the great work being done by established artists. Any comic artist … Continue reading

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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus Trailer

By Will
May 22, 2009

Once in a while a film so stupid and at the same time so incredibly awesome will come along that you know you have to see it.  What do you get when you mix B-movie icon Lorenzo Lamas and 80′s … Continue reading

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Shock and Awe: The Grindhouse Experience Returns to The Fox Theatre

By Will

The Fox Theatre recently announced that the all-night grindhouse marathon Shock and Awe will be returning next month. The event starts on June 13th at 11:30 and runs until 10:30 the next day. The event will feature some amazingly bad/awesome films … Continue reading

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Ryerson University Film Festival at The Royal

By Will
May 13, 2009

The Ryerson University Film Festival is an annual showcase for graduating students of the School of Image Arts in Toronto.  The festival features many films, including the thesis works completed by students in their final year. The festival is a … Continue reading

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Congratulations to Jeff Brown and Kiara Barrett

By Will
May 10, 2009

Dork Shelf co-founder and all around awesome guy Jeff Brown was married to the wonderful Kiara Barrett yesterday.  Congratulations to the happy couple and have a great honeymoon! There are many better pictures of the ceremony, but sadly this was … Continue reading

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Star Trek Review

By Will
May 7, 2009

As a life long Trekkie, I went into the new J.J. Abrams Trek reboot/sequel with my expectations set to stun—fearing that if I set them to kill I would end up vapourizing myself… whatever that means.  Phaser analogy aside, I … Continue reading

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