The Thursday Weekender for July 3rd, 2008

For all you film festival lovers here’s the premier one - the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada. This is the one where new horror, scifi, action, and cult movies are shown. This year’s world premier movies include Repo! The Genetic Opera, Midnight Meat Train and The Echo (as well as lesser-known, but no less intriguing, fare like Lady Blood, Home Movie and Pig Hunt), plus peeks at long-awaited flicks like All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Let the Right One In, [REC] and Dance of the Dead, and recent limited releases like Stuck and Mother of Tears. Fantasia starts today, July 3rd , and runs for three nearly three weeks until July 21st. Get all the details here.

Now, from the Raven’s Barrow, all you fine folks in the US have a happy and safe 4th of July. Eat a hot dog, have a beer, and blow off some fingers for me will ya.

July 3rd, 2008