The 2012 TIFF Kids International Film Festival

Posted on | April 28, 2012 | 2 Comments

The 2012 TIFF Kids International Film Festival (located in Toronto, Canada) was a fabulous experience. It was the first fest Flack and I went to other than the Providence Children’s Film Festival (PCFF). Anybody who wants to have a great time watching moving, funny, action packed and/or sad films will, in my opinion, will enjoy TIFF Kids. The festival is open to the public and schools. The Q&As are very interesting and I highly recommend them to anybody who wants to learn about how the films at TIFF Kids were made.

The following videos display Flack and my critiques of all the films we saw while at the fest. I hope the videos are interesting, critical (but not rude), and enjoyable. And now… dim the lights, sit back and enjoy our pure film festival analysis. Click on the link to view all of our videos on Vimeo.

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Flick and Flack: The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Posted on | April 26, 2012 | Add Comments

While at TIFF Kids, on April 18, 2012 Flick and Flack attended a preview screening of Aardman Animation’s new film, The Pirates! Band of Misfits. After the film, an approximately thirty minute Q&A with Peter Lord (director of Pirates!) followed. We asked him questions, got our picture taken with him (see below), and saw the real claymation puppets of the Pirate Captain played by Hugh Grant, and the dodo.
The next day we both went to the hour long Master Class with Lord. We were honored to be there and we both enjoyed hearing Lord discuss four of Aardman’s films (Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse Of The Were Rabbit, Arthur Christmas, and Pirates!) and a short from 1992 titled Adam (also from Aardman). A cool fact we learned? Steven Spielberg (head of Dreamworks, the studio that produced Chicken Run) approved Chicken Run because Spielberg has chickens, Aardman pitched it as “The Great Escape with chickens”, and The Great Escape is his favorite movie.
Next up for Aardamn is Pirates! 2, some secretive projects, and possibly another Wallace and Gromit movie. Hopefully The Pirates! is a box office hit (it deserves to make more money than Alvin and The Chipmunks). Here are both of our reviews of the film. The Pirates! Band of Misfits opens this Friday, April 27th.

Flack reviews The Pirates! Band of Misfits.

Flick reviews The Pirates! Band of Misfits.

Photos Courtesy of TIFF – Toronto International Film Festival.

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Top 5 Picks for TIFF Kids (Flick and Flack’s Top 5)

Posted on | April 13, 2012 | 3 Comments

We are heading to Toronto for TIFF Kids. It’s the second film festival (after PCFF) and our first international film festival we have ever attended. Before we post interviews and reviews here are our Top 5 Films we are looking forward to.

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84th Annual Academy Awards 2012 Predictions Part 3

Posted on | February 23, 2012 | 2 Comments

Flick and Flack talk about their 2012 Oscar Predictions in Part 3 of a 3 part video series. In this video, Flick and Flack discuss the Best Picture category and give their predictions for this year’s Academy Awards.

Part 3 (28 minutes, 1 second)

Flack’s rankings of the Best Picture nominees from least likely to win to most likely to win.
9. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
8. The Tree of Life
7. War Horse
6. Moneyball
5. Midnight in Paris
4. The Descendants
3. The Help
2. Hugo
1. The Artist

Flack’s rankings of the Best Picture nominees from least favorite to most favorite of the ones I’ve seen.
8. Midnight in Paris
7. The Artist
6. The Tree of Life
5. Moneyball
4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
3. Hugo
2. The Help
1. War Horse

Flick’s rankings of the Best Picture nominees from least likely to win to most likely to win.
9. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
8. The Tree of Life
7. War Horse
6. Moneyball
5. Midnight in Paris
4. The Help
3. The Descendants
2. Hugo
1. The Artist

Flick’s rankings of the Best Picture nominees from least favorite to most favorite of the ones I’ve seen.
8. Moneyball
7. The Artist
6. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
5. Midnight in Paris
4. The Help
3. The Tree of Life
2. War Horse
1. Hugo

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84th Annual Academy Awards 2012 Predictions Part 2

Posted on | February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment

Flick and Flack talk about their 2012 Oscar Predictions in Part 2 of a 3 part video series. In this video, Flick and Flack discuss the acting, directing and screenplay categories and give their predictions in all of those categories for this year’s Academy Awards.

Part 2 (37 minutes, 56 seconds)

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84th Annual Academy Awards 2012 Predictions: Part 1

Posted on | February 23, 2012 | Add Comments

Flick and Flack talk about their 2012 Oscar Predictions in Part 1 of a 3 part video series. In this video, Flick and Flack discuss the technical, short and foreign film categories and give their predictions in all of those categories for this year’s Academy Awards.

Part 1 (25 minutes, 5 seconds)

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