A whopping $1500 to these two local comedians for this web short entitled Christmas Tree from their Living Room series. Good work guys.

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If you’re not the type of person who frequented the short programs at the Vancouver International Film Festival last year, you might have missed A.J. Bond’s fun sci-fi short Hirsute. But now you can watch it here… FOR FREE! Enjoy.
www.thesiblings.ca

All too often with Canadian comedies you’re forced to say a movie is funny with the qualifier “for a low budget Canadian production.” Odd for a country that has a long track record of turning out some of Hollywood’s funniest and most successful comedians. This is not the case with Cooper’s Camera. True, it’s a [...]

Check out Jim Cuell’s entry for the Bloodshots 48-Hour Horror Filmmaking competition. Each team was given a weapon, sub genre, prop and a phrase that must be included in the film. He got Occult Book, Werewolf, Record and “That picture looks strangely familiar.” If you’re digging it, email bigsmashproductions@gmail.com with “I VOTE FOR BOOK OF [...]

The lineup for the Vancouver International Film Festival this year is the strongest it’s been in recent memory. There are some great films playing this year (to be fair there are also some really bad films playing this year as well). The problem is most of the great movies are going to be opening in [...]

Guillermo Del Toro’s first cinematic offering since Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army opens today. In this one, Hellboy battles a bunch of mythical creatures and saves the human race from decimation by a gigantic mechanical army made of gold.

This just showed up in the inbox. Adbusting might not be en vogue anymore but Tibet certainly still is so check it out as it’s quite good. Here’s what Samantha Simmonds and Jessica Fraser, the duo responsible, have to say.

We are two Canadian filmmakers who had the privilege of witnessing the March uprising in [...]

Crispin Hellion Glover will be making a three night in-person appearance in Vancouver from July 18-20 to present his insane slideshow entitled “Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show.” Following this, there will be a screening of his directorial debut, What is it?, which features Fairuza Balk as the voice of a snail.

Will Christian Bale be able to top Val Kilmer’s masterful performance in Batman and Robin? Could The Dark Knight possibly be better than Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever? Was Heath Ledger’s drug overdose all just an elaborate viral marketing scheme? Find out the answers to these pressing questions on Thursday July 17 at midnight.
There’ll be Midnight [...]

Have you ever lost someone close to you? I’m not talking about a pet or someone you went to high school with but never actually talked to, I mean someone really close. One of those friends where, as the cliché goes, if your entire life was represented as a series of footprints on a beach [...]

Sharks. Merciless killing machines with insatiable appetites for human flesh. Some believe we need to make soup out of ‘em before they kill us. Others like Rob Stewart and Paul Watson would disagree. Stewart is a young wide-eyed oceanographer and the director of Sharkwater. Watson is the infamous captain of the Sea Shepherd, which goes [...]

With his debut film May, Lucky McKee made a Fast Times at Ridgemont High for weird girls everywhere. Starring Angela Bettis as May, the film is a Carrie-sque tale is about a maladjusted girl who can’t connect with those around her. The film was a bona fide cult hit with Emily the Stranges everywhere and [...]