FILM FESTIVALS AHOY!

Festivals are announcing their line-ups all over. Here you can find the Toronto Film Festival's initial line-up (thanks to Twitch). There's only about 200 more films to be announced, and nothing from their excellent Midnight Madness sidebar is up yet.

In the spirit of fierce Canadian pride, here's the line-up for Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival with lots and lots of genre madness, including the delightful Thai cannibal/serial-killer flick ZEE OUI and Japan's favorite hi-skool comedy manga turned into feature film, CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL.

Korea's Puchon Fantastic Film Festival announced its line-up of 172 films, with special focuses on erotica and Egyptian cinema as well as on directors Park Chul-Soo and Ko Young-Nam, and the breakaway rival festival (created by staff fired from Puchon last year), the Real Fantastic Film Festival, announced their 64 film line-up, including the sidebar, MARX ATTACKS: SCI FI MOVIES FROM EASTERN EUROPE. You can see their freaky website here. (Thanks to Kung Fu Cult Cinema)