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Local Focus 4 Schedule Announced

Local Focus 4 Schedule Announced
Local Focus 4 is back this month to celebrate to the best in locally-made cinema, and this year’s schedule includes a full week of programming and a change in venue to the Registry Theatre. The program for this year’s Local Focus will feature a combination of short films, documentaries, music videos...

Farewell to Generation X

Farewell to Generation X
In what was a sure sign of the times, it was announced during the Christmas holidays that Waterloo’s vaunted Generation X video would be closing its doors at the end of February. On February 28th, a little piece of modern K-W history will close its doors and movie lovers who have yet to make the...

WFAC - 10 Years Strong

WFAC - 10 Years Strong
Joseph Chen is driving to the Gig Theatre in Kitchener to do a final dress rehearsal of sorts. He’s got the films to be run in his car and he’s taking them down to the venue located in downtown Kitchener to make sure the prints are ready to roll for the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema. It...

Dead Genesis Movie Review

Dead Genesis Movie Review
The zombie genre is one that no matter how many times people say it’s done, it just keeps coming back for more. Nature of the beast I’m afraid. You can’t kill what’s already dead. But seriously, as continually proven there’s plenty of wiggle room in the genre for a genuinely surprising effort...

5 Things to See at SharpCuts ‘10

5 Things to See at SharpCuts ‘10
Going into its fourth year, SharpCuts Indie Film & Music Festival returns to bring some wondrous offerings from indie filmmakers both local and international. This year, In Magazine is proud to sponsor the fest, and in doing so offers this sneak peak into five of the must see films at this year’s...

Local Focus 3 Announces Line-Up

Local Focus 3 Announces Line-Up
Local Focus is returning for its third annual year from March 18th to 21st, and regional filmmakers are well represented with several shorts in a wide range of genres. “In this festival we continue celebrating the excellence aiming to highlight the work of local film-makers and provide opportunity...

Movie Review-The Brothers Bloom

Movie Review-The Brothers Bloom
I was a big fan of Rian Johnson’s last film, the marvellous high school noir named Brick. In fact, I seem to recall it making the top of my best of 2006 list that year. Then last September I saw his follow-up at the Toronto International Film Festival and saw myself dazzled enough to place Brothers...

Movie Reviews-April

Movie Reviews-April
Fast & Furious The original B-list cast returns for a fourth installment of this enduring franchise. The plot of Fast & Furious centers around Domonic Torretto (Vin Diesel) who returns to the United States after his girlfriend Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) is brutally murdered. Brian O’Conner...

Interview-Zombie Girl

Interview-Zombie Girl
Eric Mauck, Aaron Marshall and Justin Johnson were three Austin-based filmmakers looking a subject. A notice on a website asking for 12-15 year old kids to take part in a zombie movie got their attention though, if only for the fact that the film’s director was a sixth grader named Emily Hagins. “She...

Iraq in Hollywood Film Festival

Iraq in Hollywood Film Festival
The Multicultural Cinema Club is inviting you to join them for their upcoming film festival: Iraq in Hollywood, part of “Tapestry, Celebrations of Diversity” Come see and discuss films made about war in Iraq. The festival takes place from June 16th to June 21st in the Kitchener City Hall...

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