Toronto After Dark Film Fest Coverage Review

(that's supposed to read like "this is a review someone else did on my coverage of the TADFF" which is a convoluted mouthful)

10 days ago when I started covering the TADFF, my darling wife decided that if she wasn't going to see me at all as I spent hours in a darkened room sitting on my ass, then she might as well go visit her folks. While there, she was keeping updated on my activities by reading the coverage I did over on CHUD (I didn't ever have enough time to call her but a few text messages were bandied about.. oh the wonders of technologies and their influence on the modern relationship). While there she mentioned to her father what I was up to, and as a film buff himself he was curious about what was going on, and even more so to read what I have to say on the matter.

I pretended like that was cool when she told me, but to be honest I was a little intimidated. Her dad, my father-in-law, has a very well-defined entertainment palette, which overlaps my own in many respects, but having a much greater fondness and appreciation for classic cinema and less of a tolerance (I'm assuming, anyway) for kitsch and ironic cinema, which, let's be honest, is what the bulk of horror cinema is these days. So yeah, it was fret worthy. I mean, what if he were to read what I wrote and think me a fool for wasting my time with crap, or even worse, that my musings on it weren't worth the effort. Add another dozen or ten worries to that pile and that's what was racing through my mind at the thought of him reading my daily recaps.

My wife's father is in the entertainment industry, in a sense, an actor in smaller-theatre plays, a player in advertising for a long time, and doing plenty of voice work (probably best known for the voice of Canadian Tire "There's a lot more to Canadian Tire than tires"), his opinion matters as both a new family member, as an entertainment junkie and as a professional. So, you can bet that when Aden sent me his response to it all that I sighed in relief before smiled a broad grin and choked back a tear.

although I have little knowledge of the subject, Graig's words made it easy to understand and his sense of humour and personal situations added greatly to the material. they were fun to read.

You know, if I ever had a book that was a collection of reviews, that would definitely be my cover quote, attributed to "my father-in-law". It explains everything about my style of reviewing, and Toast has often complimented me on my style, so I know I must have one... It's really one of the most meaningful praises I've ever received.