'Hellions' Trailer: New Demons Haunt Halloween
The Hellions trailer introduces audiences to Bruce McDonald's Halloween thriller in which trick or treaters are the worst and weirdest thing on the street.
Read MoreThe Hellions trailer introduces audiences to Bruce McDonald's Halloween thriller in which trick or treaters are the worst and weirdest thing on the street.
Read MoreTrailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
Read MoreTrailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
Read MoreBruce McDonald isn't really a household name, especially outside Canada. Let's try to change that. McDonald is a versatile, ambitious filmmaker with a rock and roll spirit who has been experimenting in features and TV for more than twenty years. In 1991 or '92 I saw his film Highway 61, an oddball road trip music…
Read MoreCrowd-sourced music documentaries are hardly new. Many a rock doc over the years has included fan-shot footage, and the Beastie Boys made their own explicitly fan-shot film, Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!, released back in 2006. Now Canadian filmmakers Bruce McDonald and Don McKellar, who collaborated in the past on the very fun Highway 61…
Read MoreI've just been tempted by something very exciting over at Twitch. For a thousand dollars, one can become be an Executive Producer on Bruce McDonald's upcoming musical romance, A Love Supreme. Inspired by Chris Marker's La Jetee, this won't be "filmed" in the traditional sense, but instead be constructed from a series of around 20,000…
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