http://www.metafilter.com/tags/brucemcdonald Posts tagged with 'brucemcdonald' at MetaFilter. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:11:42 -0800 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:11:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74596/Hard%2DCore%2DSolo%2DNoMo <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=734688200"> Bruce McDonald</a>, respected Canadian indie director, announced his plans last week to make not one, not two, but three sequels to his low-budget 1996 cult favorite <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116488/">Hard Core Logo</a>, essentially turning it into a <a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?id=0b2fab86-63f3-4fde-a309-b484005ea858">franchise</a>. Hard core fans will no doubt hope that the films are either great enough to live up to the original, or that it's all a publicity stunt timed for the TIFF premiere of his new film <a href="http://www.eyeweekly.com/browse.asp/feature/article/37957">Pontypool</a>, a horror flick about zombies who spread infection through conversation. Apologies/heads up to those who have never seen HCL: several of the links have ending spoilers. This is pretty difficult to avoid as real life rock star <a href="http://www.hughdillon.com/index.php/biography.html">Hugh Dillon's</a> character Joe Dick pulls off one of the great surprise finales in cinematic history (for me, anyways; this ending still stands alongside Easy Rider for my two most unexpected and emotional twists). tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74596 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:11:42 -0800 brucemcdonald canadianfilm cult film franchises hardcorelogo highway61 hughdillon pontypool sequels mannequito