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Frustrated housewife Gwen James (Rabid’s Patricia Gage) feels like little more than a servant to her accountant husband (Strange Brew’s Douglas Campbell) and two daughters. Devoting all her time to their needs – and the demands of her cantankerous father – she feels her sense of self-worth slipping. As Gwen wrestles with increasingly despairing thoughts, she escapes into a world of glamorous fantasy and eventually finds a new sense of purpose by enrolling in a university course, where she strikes up a special bond with her young professor (American Nightmare’s Neil Dainard). But as Gwen reverts to a more youthful, carefree state, her family descends into chaos.Read More »

After their caravan is attacked and their respective families butchered by Arab marauders, teenagers David and Sarah flee across the desert. But the desert is filled with danger from the elements, animals and the appetite of the Jackal.Read More »

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A simple but effective tale, Bar salon tells the story of Charles, a man in his fifties whose saloon business is losing money and about to go under. Since he cannot pay his employees, his daughter Michèle begins working at a bar in addition to her job as cashier in a fish market. Every evening she serves the few remaining clients: the refined but aging Major Cotnoir, the vulgar drunk Leslie, Michèle’s unambitious, taxing-driving fiancé Robert and Julien, whose wife flaunts her affair with a lodger.Read More »

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This Film Will Shock You, YES! There Has Never Been a Motion Picture That So Boldly Explores the Compulsions of Sexual Frustrations…Told With Honesty and Sensual RealismRead More »

A former pastor who walked away from his calling returns to his small hometown to discover that a mysterious fire tragically struck a local family. When he learns that his childhood friend is implicated in starting the fire, he sets out on a mission to find the truth?.and in the process, rediscovers his faith.Read More »

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera. Filmmaker Sophy Romvari documents her first-hand experience as an exploration into cinema as therapy in this nonfiction short.Read More »

Rising from the nihilistic ashes of the punk movement in the late 1970s, a fresh crowd of flamboyant fashionistas, who would later be christened the New Romantics, began to materialize on the streets of London, England.Read More »

Cinemablographer review:

Bruce McDonald brings the mojo to #TIFF13 with the smart black dramedy The Husband. The film, directed by McDonald and written by star Maxwell McCabe-Lokos and producer Kelly Harms, is a bitingly funny study of masculinity. McCabe-Lokos stars as Henry, a downtrodden ad-man whose manhood is crushed when his wife Alyssa (Sarah Allen) goes to prison for having sex with a fourteen year old boy. How emasculating.Read More »

After accidentally killing a rock group’s manager, a destitute musician (George Segal) falls in love with the girlfriend (Irene Cara) of the man accused of the murder. ~ Jason Ankeny, RoviRead More »