C.J. Prince
378 articles written by C.J. Prince
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Way Too Indie Short Film Spotlight #1
The task of making a feature-length film is an incredibly difficult one, which is why short films are so essential to independent filmmaking. At Way Too Indie, we've decided to start up a brand new feature that will shine...
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How to Survive a Plague
Léa Pool’s documentary Pink Ribbons Inc. points out early on that the breast cancer awareness movement originally had an activist background. One of the documentary’s talking heads points out that before women were running for a cure they were...
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Grave Encounters 2
The Vicious Brothers’ Grave Encounters, a derivative horror movie that made good use of its abandoned asylum location, became something of a mini-hit when it came out last year. Or at least that’s how Grave Encounters 2 makes it...
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Keep The Lights On
Ira Sachs’ Keep The Lights On is a fictional drama that has a deeply personal background to it. Sachs was in a long-term relationship with Bill Clegg, a literary agent who had a crippling drug addiction. Clegg wrote about...
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Safety Not Guaranteed
Safety Not Guaranteed thankfully takes its science fiction framework and keeps it in the background, instead putting the focus on its characters and how they grow over the film’s short running time. For the most part the movie gets...
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Red Lights
The opening of Red Lights immediately sets it apart from the usual crop of horror films and thrillers that get dumped out into multiplexes almost every week. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and her assistant Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy) drive...
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TIFF 2012 Day 11: Penance
The last day of TIFF was comprised of only one film for me, but its length could easily make up three separate movies. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Penance premiered on TV earlier this year as a 5 part miniseries, and now...
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TIFF 2012 Day 8: Post Tenebras Lux & When Night Falls
For day 8 I delved right into TIFF's Wavelengths programme which has been expanded this year. The programme used to cover avant-garde film only but now feature films that straddle the line between conventional and experimental are included as...
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TIFF 2012 Day 7: The Hunt & Leviathan
It turned out that the day I was most cautious about was the best experience I had at the festival so far. In this festival coverage piece, I review The Hunt and Leviathan. One of these films ended up...
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TIFF 2012 Day 6: Berberian Sound Studio & Here Comes The Devil
Back from a day off from the festival, Day 6 at 2012 Toronto International Film Festival includes Berberian Sound Studio and Here Comes the Devil. Find out what I thought of these two films and what is next up...
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TIFF 2012 Day 4: Cloud Atlas & The Land of Hope
A shorter day compared to yesterday's 4 films, but just as fulfilling. Starting off I was afraid that Cloud Atlas would be a terrible film to watch after getting 4 hours of sleep. Before I start hearing cries from people about...
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You Are Here
You Are Here opens with a professor (R.D. Reid) lecturing to an unseen audience while footage of waves rolling in play behind him. He tells the audience to stare at the waves and think for a minute before asking them...
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TIFF 2012 Day 3: Tabu – Amour – 90 Minutes – No One Lives
A considerably better day at TIFF this time around thanks to the lack of delays and other logistical nightmares, but the festival's troubles are starting to be felt. The comments today from people all around town were critical of...
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TIFF 2012 Day 2: Spring Breakers & The Master
It seems like the word of the day was "delay." After arriving at Toronto the line-up for picking up tickets took nearly an hour. That's not a complaint though, anyone who has been to TIFF is fully aware that...
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TIFF 2012 Day 1: An Introduction
This year will be my fifth time heading out for the Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF for short). The festival, which takes place over 11 days throughout downtown Toronto, has become more influential after the last several years....