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Five Websites to Find The Best Short Films

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Pixar short “Piper.”

Never underestimate the power of the short film. Short films have become popular over the years that they’ve resulted in immense respect and success for their directors and respective shorts, paving a very seasoned career for most. Everything from Oscar nominee/genre favorite “District 9,” Guillermo Del Toro fueled horror film “Mama,” and (to a much lesser extent) “Pixels,” were adapted from successful short films, while genre directors like Fede Alvarez began his career directing acclaimed short films.

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Most Anticipated Films at Fantasia International Film Festival 2016

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Now that the full schedule is out, Fantasians have planned what they will see and bought their tickets.  This year’s line-up is full of potentially great stuff and some real oddities.  Personally, I look forward to being surprised.  In the past, I was happily surprised by Shaun of the Dead, GS Wonderland, A Christmas Horror Story, Borning, etc.

All films I randomly went to see without much planning.  So what am I looking forward to this year?  Here’s a few I want to see without knowing a ton about them in advance.

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What The Fantasia?! 5 WTF Films from Fantasia’s International Film Festival

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Fantasia International Film Festival is renowned for showcasing some of the best and weirdest of the film world.  As someone who started going their second year and started seriously going for multiple screenings per week in 1999, some of the weird films I’ve seen cannot be unseen.  So, just to bring some to attention and have a bit of fun, here are five of the most WTF films I’ve seen.

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20 Past Films From Fantasia International Film Festival Worth Looking For

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ichi-the-killerFantasia International Film Festival is having its 20th edition this July and I am proud to say I have only missed 4 of them, the first one, 2006, 2012, and 2014.  That being said, I’ve played catch up and seen some of the films from those years and can say without a doubt that Fantasia International Film Festival plays a fantastic selection of films from around the world, with a penchant for the odd, the weird,. And the often overlooked by mainstream movie goers.

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My Top Five Favorite Fictional Babysitters

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aib1987With the remake of “Adventures in Babysitting” coming to Disney Channel on Friday, I thought I’d go over some of my favorite babysitters from pop culture. I went through a ton of potentials, including the ladies from “The Babysitters Club,” but I admittedly never read any of the books, so this is more cinematic babysitters. Some of these are babysitters I wish I had as child. It would have made staying home so much easier.

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Tony Masiello Short Films Round-Up

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MortyandChesterShorts can be fun tidbits of film, no matter the genre.  Some genres can lend themselves to this format better than others, horror being one of them.  So horror shorts with a grindhouse flare should be at the very least interesting.  Here are four mini reviews of shorts by Tony Masiello that fall in that sub-genre.  All of these shorts are part of anthologies that are out or about to come out.

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ChicArt Short Films Round Up

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Day Before YesterdaySometimes, a bunch of shorts fall in my lap and I gather them for review under a theme.  Like the recent piece on the shorts by production company 2AM Burrito, this group came from one company, albeit a PR one: ChicArt.

The style of the shorts here is very different, so this is where the comparison ends. Without further ado, ChicArt repped shorts.

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