With Marvel's "Iron Man 3" on the horizon (May 3) and two other threequels coming down the pike later this summer ("The Hangover Part III" and Richard Linklater's "Before Midnight"), the ...
Pro: No branch of the Academy is friendlier towards foreign-language fare than the writers, and as with “A Separation” last year, Haneke's Palme d'Or winner is the kind of intimate, articulate, character-d...
When a new director is brought on for the sequel to a visionary classic like Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later," the results don't often live up to the original. But Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo manag...
Toronto may be in the rear view at this point, but this podcast I put together from interviews I conducted at the festival is, in my opinion, a great pleasure. I'm always fairly upfront about how much I enjoy th...
Martin McDonagh's film "In Bruges" was one of those tiny movies that many audiences simply didn't notice when it was released, but the people who did see it ended up devoted to it. The film's reputatio...
I can't believe I leave for Toronto on September 5th.
That's just around the corner. And if Toronto is just around the corner, the end of the year is just after that. Which means it's almost 2013. ...
I was already excited for Toronto. The Midnight Madness selection this year just pushes that excitement into a low-grade sustained mania that is going to make August seem very, very slow no matter what.
With ...
Directed by: Ben Affleck, USA World Premiere
When militants storm the U.S. embassy in 1979 Tehran, six Americans manage to slip away. Knowing it’s only a matter of time before they are found, a CIA “exfil...
Release Date: June 27, 2003
Box Office: $45 million
Why: Danny Boyle seemed to be unstoppable with his first few films, and both "Shallow Grave" and "Trainspotting" are still great fun....
With each year's Oscar nominations, movie buffs everywhere bemoan the perceived disses of certain films and performers, while smacking their foreheads over the thought of who got nominated in their place. This year is...
