GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Michael Sicinski on the directions taken in this year's Toronto International Film Festival - and on Bruce McDonald's Pontypool. Notes follow. By way of wrapping up TIFF, there are a few housekeeping matters that require some attention. I don't wish...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
... festival, including Brit helmer Steve McQueen’s Camera d’Or-winner “Hunger” and Toronto helmer Bruce McDonald’s cerebral horror pic “Pontypool.”
Twitch (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Now that (sadly) Don LaFontaine is narrating trailers for the big guy in heaven, I would like to nominate actor Stephen McHattie as the logical successor to the phrase, “In a World, where...” Bruce McDonald ‘s latest film takes the omnipresent zombie sub-genre and turns it on its ear (literally). Yes, ladies and gents, this is the first ‘talk radio’ zombie picture, a film in which so little...
Popped Culture (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Shut up or die, for your words may lead directly to your demise. That is the premise that lies at the heart of director Bruce McDonald's latest film Pontypool , about a small town that has been infected by a virus that is spread through language. Set entirely inside an AM radio station located in the bowels of an old church, the evidence of a growing madness comes through radio reports...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
... was followed closely by four votes each for the Coen Brothers' CIA satire Burn After Reading, Bruce McDonald's Canuck zombie horror Pontypool and Larry Charles's piety parody Religulous.Three films took three votes apiece: Richard Linklater's icon encounter Me and Orson Welles, Kathryn Bigelow's bomb thriller The Hurt Locker and Darren Aronofsky's mat drama The Wrestler. Another nine...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Film News: Company nabs rights to Bruce McDonald thriller -- Canuck distrib Maple Pictures has nabbed Bruce McDonald's "Pontypool" for all domestic rights in all media in advance of its world preem at the Toronto festival.
