Film Review: Annabelle

 Synopsis: Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle. Stars: Talitha Bateman, Miranda Otto, Lulu Wilson, Anthony LaPaglia Director: David F.

Learning to Walk

 What will the lasting legacy of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission be? As Cree youngsters in the north, we are taught the tradition of how to walk on the land and in the bush – with each foot fall carefully and quietly placed so as not to disturb the food

13 Hours of Exhilaration: Bingeman’s Launches Interactive Horror Camping Experience

 Consider this training for the zombie apocalypse. Bingemans amusement park in Kitchener is launching a haunted overnight camping experience on June 6 and 7 at the amusement park’s camp grounds, called 13 Hours in Hell. Bingemans’ Screampark haunted festival has drawn lovers of horror to the region before, but this

Thai Films Start with Comedy, End with Horror

 The Canadian Film Institute (CFI), in collaboration with the Royal Thai Embassy, is presenting a series of contemporary Thai films. Entitled With or Without a Soul?: Thai Film Series, the presentation encompasses ?ve ?lms, from September 7 to 14, 2013, in Ottawa, and is offered free for the general public.

Get Thee to The Shrine

 THE SHRINE (2010) is the second horror movie directed by Canadian Jon Knautz (pronounced “kuh-nots”), 32, whose first feature, the horror-comedy JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER (2007), co-starring Robert Englund, generated tremendous buzz for a debut effort and won several honours at the 2009 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. THE SHRINE was an

Heroes betrayed —The Merchant Seamen story

 By Cliff Chadderton It is mid-January of 1940 in "an East Canadian port." Canada is at war. The recruiting offices are open. You see a poster of a soldier in a tin hat. You recall the slaughter of the trenches in Flanders in World War I and mutter: "No thanks."