Review: Vancouver Short Film Festival 2016

Two darkly mirthful tales from VSFF 2016…

Red Handed
Dir: Edward Andrews

Vehicular Romanticide
Dir: Andrew RoweRed Handed
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Review: Pre Vis Action

As we gradually begin to get excited for The Raid 3, I pick apart Welsh director Gareth Evans’ intriguing, Samurai-laden short…Pre Vis Action 1 Continue reading

Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.17 – ‘An Animated Discussion’

The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadc​asting from the laaaazy west coast city of Vancouver, Canada.

Featuring regulars Phill Bartlett, Adam Blair, and yours truly, Nicholas Lay, the chaps and I will be covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.

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Ep.17 – ‘An Animated Discussion’

It’s a very animated discussion this week on The Punch Up, as the chaps are joined by our very first special guest, Vancouver-based animator Haley McNamara! Providing her own unique insight, Haley takes us into the world of professional animation, revealing a few surprises along the way…

On the review front we take a look at Pixar’s latest releases, The Good Dinosaur, Sanjay’s Super Team, and Inside Out, as well as the astounding French picture, The Little Prince.

We also look forward to future animated features coming out next year, including Disney’s Zootopia, Pixar’s Finding Dory, and the it-could-be-great-could-be-meh, The Life of Pets.

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Review: Sanjay’s Super Team (Pixar Short Film)

Pixar’s latest short (and accompaniment to The Good Dinosaur) is a divine masterpiece of animation.

"Sanjay's Super Team" Comes to the Con — Director Sanjay Patel and producer Nicole Grindle are taking Pixar Animation Studios' new short to San Diego's Comic-Con International next month for its North American premiere and a peek behind the scenes of the production process. The Super Story Behind the Pixar Short "Sanjay's Super Team," slated for Thurs., July 9 at 11 a.m. in the Indigo Ballroom, Hilton Bayfront, reveals the unique inspiration for this incredibly personal film that features superheroes like never before. The short debuts in U.S. theaters in front of Disney-Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur" on Nov. 25, 2015.

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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.3 – ‘Short Changed’

The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadc​asting from the laaaazy west coast city of Vancouver, Canada.

Featuring regulars Phill Bartlett, Adam Blair, and yours truly, Nicholas Lay, the chaps and I will be covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.

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Ep.3 – ‘Short Changed’

This week on The Punch Up, the chaps look forward to Marlon Brando on Marlon Brando, before officially making the case for the industry to make a goddam bigger deal of short films. The fall from grace of the mainstream parody genre is traced, from Leslie Neilson to Scary Movie, as is the steady evolution of adult animation series with the recent release of BoJack Horseman. Tig, Aliens, Grease, and While We’re Young also feature, as does a 20th anniversary chat on Larry Clark’s highly controversial flick, Kids. To finish, as always, it’s True Detective spoiler time (s02e06) – a show well and truly stuck in second gear.

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Review: Kung Fury

Dinosaurs, Nazis, kung-fu, time travel, Thor, 1980s fashion…

That’s right, it’s David Sandberg’s viral short: Kung Fury.

I reviewed it, because I had to. After all, it’s my job.Screen Shot 2015-05-31 at 23.29.11

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