The annual Toronto Film Festival is not only a showcase for dozens of world premieres of high-profile films, but also a star-studded weeklong getaway for some of Hollywood's biggest names. This year's guest list inclu...
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 ...
The Toronto International Film Festival finished announcing the full line-up for the 2012 festival, starting September 6, and what they've put together is an almost decadent amount of exciting cinema, featuring highli...
One of the oldest time travel "what if" questions deals with the very idea of changing the future through one single action. "If you could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler as a child, would y...
For many Americans, 1995's Danny Cannon film "Judge Dredd" was their introduction to the long-running English comic book, and it managed to poison the well for the character almost completely. Hopefull...
One of the best moments of the entire festival for me so far was seeing Rory Cochrane join Ben Affleck onstage during the introduction for "Argo." The two of them co-starred in one of my favorite films...
There are few filmmakers working whose output has been as consistently exciting and rewarding as Paul Thomas Anderson, and there are few films I have anticipated with as much confidence this year as "The Master.&...
I can tell you this: we'll definitely be running a Second Look piece about this film after it's in theaters, because it is a remarkable movie experience, one that cannot be digested easily, and any attempt to di...
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 think the thing I like most about Ben Affleck these days is that he didn't wait for someone else to rescue his career. He took control and he rescued himself.
"Argo" is the latest film from Afflec...
