The “Cinema Appreciation Society of Toronto,” myself included, voted on their favourite films of the recently completed Toronto International Film Festival. Not surprisingly, the top film in the poll was …
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During TIFF, a major controversy developed when Alex Billington, editor of the film blog FirstShowing.net, was annoyed at someone using their phone during a Press & Industry screening of Ti …
The 2013 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival began my second decade of attending TIFF. Ever since my first festival back in 2003, I have steadily found my niche …
The 2013 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is behind us and I can say that I had a fairly satisfying year. Altogether, I saw a total of 24 …
Director Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff) returns with this very naturalistic look at a trio of eco-terrorists. Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) and Dena (Dakota Fanning) are a pair of …
The 25th anniversary of Midnight Madness concluded with a bang with the crazy horror/comedy Witching & Bitching by Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia (The Last Circus). Jose (Hugo Silva) …
Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki returns with a new film that is poised to be the director’s final feature before retirement. For the first time in his career, Miyazaki focuses …
Director Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers) returns with a faux documentary look at a cult located in an undisclosed location outside of the United States. Sam …
It is never a good thing when people decide to walk out of a screening, however it’s probably worse when these walkouts happen at a film festival screening. Since the …
Hong Kong pop star, turned director, Juno Mak directs that a film that is meant as a homage to the 1985 vampire comedy Mr. Vampire, even casting that film’s star …
Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes his directorial debut with the edgy romantic comedy Don Jon. Jon (Gordon-Levitt) is a suave New Jersey man, who has somewhat unrealistic expectations for relationships, due to …
On Friday October 13, 1987, Mark Fisher (Josh Ethier) was one of two men to disappear on during a series of strange events that occurred that night in a town …
Scarlett Johansson plays a seductive alien temptress in Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, which is loosely adapted from Michel Faber’s 2000 novel of the same name. Laura (Johansson) is an …
British comedian Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) follows up his directorial debut Submarine with this highly surreal and stylized adaptation of the famous Dostoevsky novella. The Double focuses on Simon …
An antique mirror influences malevolent supernatural events in the horror film Oculus, by director Mike Flanagan (Absentia). Tim Russell (Brenton Thwaites) is released from a mental hospital a decade after …
The issues of race, class, and gender in 18th century Britain are looked at in Amma Asante’s period drama Belle. Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is the illegitimate, bi-racial daughter …
The Austrian sci-fi/horror film The Station focuses on a team of scientists on a Climate Research Base in the German Alps. Lead by Janek (Gerhard Liebmann), the team discovers a …
The 25th anniversary of Midnight Madness kicks off with this new horror-comedy by directors Lucky McKee (May, The Woods) and Chris Sivertson (I Know Who Killed Me). The film focuses …
Director Mark Cousins follows up his epic documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey with this new film that takes a look at depiction of children in cinema. While A …
I’m mere hours away from kicking off my experience at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. You can see the full list of films that I will be seeing over …
At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the ever-popular Midnight Madness programme will be celebrating its 25th anniversary. The programme, which focuses on horror, sci-fi, action, and other genre films, …
We are only a week away from the 2013 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival! The film announcements have been long since finalized and the only thing left to …
With a few exceptions, the TIFF line-up for this year is more or less set as this week saw the announcement of more Galas and Special Presentations, as well as …
While a lot of the focus of the Toronto International Film Festival centres around film premieres from all of the world, the festival still has time to focus on local …
My final set of highlights from this week’s TIFF announcements comes from the documentary programme. As I’ve stated plenty I times, I have a growing appreciation for documentaries and this …
Over the past few years, TIFF’s Vanguard programme has been developing into a more mature companion to the Midnight Madness programme. While many of the films in this programme can …
The second round of film announcements were made yesterday for TIFF13 and I will start off by running down highlights from the ever-popular Midnight Madness programme. This will be a …
It was ten years ago when a somewhat naive 21 year old film lover decided to attend the Toronto International Film Festival for the first time. Now, I’m preparing for …