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EIFF 2017Festival Coverage

Snow Woman – EIFF 2017

Ghost Woman, the debut feature film from Kiki Sugino, draws inspiriation from Japanese folklore and the classic story of Kaidan. For some viewers, the film may feel overly familiar but it’s a charming, fresh-faced, and self-aware take on an old story. Sugino draws inspiration from the two previous film adaptations, but allows her own eerie […]

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Blu-rayReviews

The Cat and the Canary – Blu-Ray Review

The Cat and The Canary, Elliot Nugent’s 1939 horror, has a lot more comedy in mind than its silent Paul Leni-directed 1927 original or even the stage origins of John Willard’s original play. The laughs come mostly from Bob Hope, who stars in his first leading role as Wally Campbell; a golden-hearted feather-weight with a […]

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Faust – Blu-Ray Review

In 1926 F.W. Murnau, the silent-era master of macabre, released what would be his final German film before moving on to the

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