COMIC BOOK HEROES Programme At TIFF Bell Lightbox Promises To Be Super
Spring Break is just around the corner here in Toronto. And with the icy cold grip of Old Man Winter still lingering and threatening to ruin a perfectly good week off from school, families will want to consider taking in... More »
  

TIFF 2012: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Leads Award Winners
As the Toronto International Film Festival draws to a close and our weary team will return to their homes, families and regular day jobs tomorrow the festival announced the award winners. The People's Choice trophy went to David O. Russell's... More »
  

TIFF 2012: SATELLITE BOY Charms In New Trailer
For a country that has so many disputes about land embedded into its culture, it should be no surprise there is an entire subgenre of Australian movies that deals with underdog characters faced with the threat of big business developers coming and... More »
  

COME OUT AND PLAY Director Makinov Delivers A Perplexing Manifesto
There are many things that Come Out And Play director Makinov doesn't want you to know. Who he is, for one thing. He claims to be Belorussian but given that he never appears without wearing a mask - which he... More »
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Angola Never Looked Sexier Than In THE GREAT KILAPY Trailer!
Effectively blending history and politics with a darkly humorous crime thriller, Angolan director Zeze Gamboa's second feature looks to be suave, sexy and oozing with cool. Set in the mid-1970s, on the eve of Angola's independence from Portugual, O... More »
  

Well Go USA Picks Up Hur Jin-ho's DANGEROUS LIAISONS For U.S. Distribution
In advance of its North American premiere this Monday night at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, the Hollywood Reporter reports that Dangerous Liaisons, Korean director Hur Jin-ho's Chinese-language adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' classic French novel, has been picked... More »
  

TIFF 2012: STORM SURFERS 3D Trailer
Set your clocks. In just under 24 hours, adventure documentary Storm Surfers 3D will have it's North American premiere in Toronto, and if early reports from cinema screenings around Australia are any judge, TIFF audiences are in for an epic... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Feature: LOOPER Offers Originality and Resonance from Tried and True Time Travel Tropes
Empiricist founding father John Locke proposed a curious scenario with, of all things, his socks. It goes something like this: If you had a hole in your sock and had to patch it over, you'd probably call it the same... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Preview: Twitch Raises the Curtain With Our 17 Top Picks

Hooray! At last, the Toronto International Film Festival begins today! We've already got a number of reviews in the system, ready to roll out the moment the films hit the screen. And we have scores more reviews just waiting to... More »
  

UNDERGROUND Trailer Reveals Julian Assange As A Teenage Hacker
One of the unorthodox selections at the Toronto International Film Festival this year is Underground, as it's a made for TV movie that - if it wasn't for TIFF - would have had its world premiere on a major Australian commercial TV network... More »
  

TIFF 12 for '12 Preview: The Best From Other Fests
My goodness has it ever been a week of fun filled previews from the Toronto International Film Festival. We started things off with a look the big boys with The Big Launches. The weekend brought us genre hits in The... More »
  

The Apocalypse Comes Quietly In Belgium's THE FIFTH SEASON
Selected by both Venice and Toronto, Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodsworth's The Fifth Season presents a very quiet take on the apocalypse. One where the end comes simply because spring refuses to. TIFF describes the film like this:In a secluded... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 12 for '12 Preview: The Films That Could
Back again with part five in our weeklong preview of the Toronto International Film Festival. We have talked Galas: The Big Launches, Genre: The Fantastic Side of Things, Asian Cinema: Pacific Rim Offerings, and Documentaries: Big Screen Reality. As we... More »
  

TIFF 12 for '12 Preview: Big Screen Reality
Welcome back for part four of our weeklong preview of the Toronto International Film Festival. If you've been here all week, you will have read about the galas in part one: The Big Launches, the genre in part two: The... More »
  

COLD SWEAT And PENUMBRA Director Brings The Devil To Toronto
While the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival generally steals all the thunder in terms of press attention for big genre titles you can always count on a few other gems being scattered throughout the other programs.... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 12 for '12 Preview: Pacific Rim Offerings
The Toronto International Film Festival preview train rolls on! So far we've covered The Big Launches and The Fantastic Side of Things. Now we turn our attention to some of the notable Asian cinema at the fest. TAI CHI 0... More »
  

TIFF 12 for '12 Preview: The Fantastic Side of Things
It's day two of our week long Toronto International Film Festival preview series. Yesterday we took a look at some of the big launches. Today we turn our attention to the genre side of things with a number of movies... More »
  

TIFF 12 for '12 Preview: The Big Launches
It's kickoff time for one of our very favorite festivals here at Twitch! The Toronto International Film Festival gets started next Thursday and we've got a whole week of previews in store for you in our 12 for '12 series.... More »
  

New Red Band SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Trailer Is Great. Just Fucking Great.
The world premiere of Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths at the Toronto International Film Festival is just around the corner and you know what that means? A new trailer. One with more swearing! More violence! More Tom Waits!Written and Directed by... More »
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THE MASTER Has Found The Source Of All Creation
While major festivals have been less than happy about ongoing, early sneak peek screenings of PT Anderson's The Master effectively blowing up their much desired premiere status, the marketing campaign thus far has been nothing short of, ahem, masterful.Recognizing full... More »
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