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Posts by: Sachin Hingoo

As I am a fan of Van Damme on Facebook, I was pleased to receive the following update today:

Full Love

From Jean-Claude Van DammeMonday, September 8, 2021 at 2:52pm Jean-Claude Van Damme sends you his hello from Thailand. He turns his next film "Full Love" as actor and director. Everything goes well, he promised us beautiful scenes of actions, many twists and maybe even... a love story? Twists! Beautiful actions! A love story! Could we ask for anything

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Day Ten
Ah, day 10 of the Festival. That day where you fill every possible second of your day by rushing movies you wouldn't consider seeing otherwise. Case in point: I'm typing this from the cheap seats at the AMC where I am about to watch Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms. The fact that I'm here without a four-year-old in tow (like everyone else apparently) is a testament to...Well, I'm not really sure what it says about me at this point, except perhaps that it's indicative of a desire to see, on film, the disco-dancing earthworms that I've...

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Anyone in attendance at last night's screening of Sexykiller was privy to, in my opinon, the most unbelievably fun movie (with the possible exception of last Friday's Detroit Metal City) of this year's Midnight Madness programme. In true Midnight Madness fashion, the beach balls were busted out and there was no shortage of zombies on hand to liven up the red carpet! Sexykiller was truly an overture of love from director Miguel Marti to his favourite horror films....

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Two Girls, One Movie
What we have with Martyrs is what I'm going to call the '2 Girls 1 Cup Effect'.  If you don't know what I'm talking about when I say that, I'm not going to explain what 2g1c actually is because that would probably assure me not being allowed to post here anymore.  I'll let you figure it out on your own (bring a barf bag). But the gist of it is a viral video that's essentally a game you can play with your friends or on your own.  A game called 'how long can you last'....

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We've hit the local news, and not just for that unfortunate corpse incident of which we are not allowed to speak. Thanks to Suzanne Ellis and Brian McKechnie for making it out to this year's Madness! Check out the article

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Are they extraterrestrials? I don't know, you tell me! The Circuit is Space's pop culture review show featuring entertainment news from the furthest reaches of the galaxy. Check out this week's show as Ajay, Natasha, Teddy, and Paul bring you updates from Midnight Madness and reviews of those and other flicks at this year's Festival. These guys can always be counted on to give the kinds of reviews we care about, instead of being mired in what Jennifer Aniston's wearing today like some of those other shows...Check it out! The...

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Yes folks, for the first time, we will be running a haiku contest!Post your best Midnight Madness-related haikus in this thread on the Facebook group and you will automatically be entered to win:One Grand Prize- A pair of tickets to Eden Log and Sexykiller!- An invite to the mucho-exclusive Midnight Madness Cocktail Party on Thursday night!Four Runners-Up- One pair of tickets to either Eden Log or Sexykiller!So get your creative juices going and WIN!Remember that a haiku is a three-line poem with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables...

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Acolytes delivers...Screams!
Wow, I guess I'm out of ideas for post titles. In any case, much fun was had by all at last night's screening of Jon Hewitt's  Acolytes.  You could tell that Hewitt was really excited about having his film screened for us rubes - not least because he gave away a veritable cornucopia of stuff to a particularly fortunate audience member. That lucky bastard got:- a mounted poster for Acolytes.  It's a pretty cool poster, considering that Hewitt comes from a graphic design background.-  a burned CD (arrrrrrrr!) featuring the...

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The problem with the Midnight Madness programme at TIFF is that there is only one movie per day, and there are only ten days of the Festival. Now, let's see...carry the six, add four, minus seven....That's only ten films! Which means that from the truckload of off-the-wall cinema that programmer Colin Geddes has to sift through every year, certainly the vast majority don't make the cut for midnight.That's, of course, not to say that the ones that don't make it aren't good or even great films. So sometimes Colin will put some of the ones that didn't make the cut...

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Last night was a total party for anyone that loves B-movies. Not Quite Hollywood introduced and re-introduced the slavering Midnight Madness audience to some of the most ostentatious films in the Australian industry's history.For me, it was wonderful meeting all of the directors last night - especially  Brian Trenchard-Smith, who I found out directed my third-favourite Leprechaun movie, Leprechaun 4: In Space!! I have met a couple of personalities in my time volunteering at TIFF, but I don't think I've ever...

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Not to be upstaged by the premiere of the guitar hero-laden It Might Get Loud last night, Midnight Madness countered with a rock god of their own - Johannes Klauser II of Detroit Metal City. It was indeed a real rockstar moment for both director Toshio Lee and star Kenichi Matsuyama as dozens of fans crammed the red carpet for a glimpse of the two personalities behind the #2 movie in Japan, and the #1 movie on earth about a deeply-conflicted metal star who has to battle Gene Simmons for death...

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Love and Madness
Ah, young love. We thought this might be apropriate since tonight we present a lighthearted romantic comedy by the name of Deadgirl.

JCVD MIDNIGHT MADNESS - m4w

Reply to: xxxxxxxxxxDate: 2008-09-05, 3:18AM Hello - not sure if you will read this, but I still feel bad about the senario where you got your seat swiped from you from someone behind me being overly rude about the situation. I was distracted at the time, other wise would have said you were with me thus you getting your seat. I am happy that eventually you got it...

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I've got to admit, I was a little unsure Not Quite Hollywood. A documentary? At midnight? I didn't make it to Metal: A Headbanger's Journey when it screened here back in '05, but I wondered to myself if I could handle something like that on so little sleep.And then I saw the trailer.Let me tell you something.  If you didn't click that link up there, your sense of fun is broken (or perhaps you're on dialup or your computer is little more than a box with 'WINDOZE' written on it in...

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I think I am with the majority of the audience in attendance at JCVD last night in saying that I was shocked. Not in your normal Midnight Madness sense, of course, where you may be shocked at the sheer amount of corn syrup being sprayed around or the number of fingers severed from someone's hand before you have to look away, but by an actual emotional performance. An emotional  performance by Jean-Claude Van Damme, no less. What we saw last night was probably one of the...

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Sexykiller has arrived!!
SEXYKILLER IS HERE!!No, there isn't a devilishly attractive but unbelievably screwed-in-the-head killer chick in the TIFF offices, but the reel of her doing despicable acts to anyone and everyone in her path certainly is...That's right - unboxed, uncut, uncensored...I can already tell this movie is going to be hilarious fun and the Midnight Madness audiences are going to eat it up. If you love high fashion and serial killing, this is the one for you.  Can you think of a better way to spend a Friday night? Me either. And rest assured,...

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Live From The BiMonSciFiCon!
Okay, it's neither bi-monthly nor sci-fi exclusive, but it's definitely a convention. Oh, and I'm not live from there either so let's just pretend that I titled this entry appropriately. I ventured into the Den of Epic Nerdery (the organizers eschewed  this name for the less offensive "Fan Expo 2008") yesterday to snap some pics, check out the horror stuff, and to see DATA.In addition to Data, there were lots of guests from the horror section including Wes MF'in Craven, Bruce McDonald (whose zombie film 'Pontypool is also at TIFF this...

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