The Toronto International Film Festival of 2012 is officially over and while we had a great time and saw a lot of different movies, it was definitely a far more bittersweet experience than past years, maybe because we didn’t feel there was an Up in the Air or No Country for Old Men or Slumdog Millionaire or 127 Hours in the bunch – a movie that’s guaranteed to be… Continue reading Toronto Film Festival 2012 Wrap-Up and 'Best of the Fest'
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We hear you. Leo Tolstoy? Nineteenth-century Russian literature? You’re eyes are burning holes in the theater’s “Exit” sign, already. But trust in me – better yet, trust in Joe Wright – when I tell you this latest adaptation of Anna Karenina is an intoxicating, intelligent, fresh and intensely passionate take on a timeless piece of storytelling.
The first sound you hear will be the chatter of a live audience settling… Continue reading 'Anna Karenina' Toronto Review: A Bold, Brash and Intoxicating Take on a Russian Classic
While the Roy Lee production, Abduction, starring Taylor Lautner — emphasis on the word abs — hits theaters today, another Lee film is already in the works. The producer is remaking TIFF favorite, the French thriller Sleepless Night — about a cop who steals a mountain of cocaine from a gangster and has to race against the clock to recover his son from the thug — into an English-language
CELEB SIGHTINGS
On the final day of the Toronto International Film Festival, the biggest celebrities are the filmmakers (and we don’t mean George Clooney and Madonna). Gareth Evans, right, directed action thriller The Raid, which won the People’s Choice Award for the Midnight Madness section, and seems very happy about it. (See a link to Christopher Campbell’s review of the movie, which generated a tremendous amount of… Continue reading Toronto 2011 in 60 Seconds: A Collection of All Our Coverage
A busy new star makes time for her fans, two more deals are announced, and a wave of festival roundups begin.
CELEB SIGHTINGS
Jessica Chastain, above, signed autographs before the gala screening of Take Shelter at the Toronto International Film Festival last night. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images.) The actress, who appears in seven (?!) films this year, including the currently showing The Help and The Debt