Tiff 12 - Buzz Talk & News

"It's about the situation time travel sets up and how the characters deal with it." Now playing is one of the best films you'll see all year - Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as the same person from different times. The brillia...

"I am the law!" Ready to talk about Judge Dredd? Arriving in theaters this weekend is the gritty, badass new take on the 2000 AD comic book character, played by Karl Urban this time around. Dredd 3D is directed by Pete Travis, but the screenplay is c...

"I am the law!" Ready to talk about Judge Dredd? Arriving in theaters this weekend is the gritty, badass new take on the 2000 AD comic book character, played by Karl Urban this time around. Dredd 3D is directed by Pete Travis, but the screenplay is c...

At Sundance in 2010 I was first introduced to Derek Cianfrance, an ambitious, brilliant filmmaker who I have become very fond of. At that time he was premiering his second film, Blue Valentine, which went on to earn a lot of acclaim - one of my favor...

The rest is history. Wrapping up the 37th Toronto Film Festival today is the announcement of the festival's awards, most notably the People's Choice Award. It's notable because (as TIFF reminded us with tags in front of every film) in past years Slum...

I'm currently sitting at the Bell Lightbox in Toronto (website), the Toronto Film Festival headquarters built a few years ago. It's where a number of screening rooms are located and where I spend most of my time up at Toronto during this festival. I'...

Oh Terrence Malick, what are you up to? Your films are always beautiful, but they just wander. Following up The Tree of Life last year, legendarily reclusive director Terrence Malick has delivered his next film, To the Wonder, starring Ben Affleck an...

"But above all I am a man. Hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you." In a year where we have new films by Paul Thomas Anderson, Derek Cianfrance, Steven Spielberg, even Terrence Malick, it's tough to get into a discussion about the best of the best...

There are many terrifying experiences in this universe that result in tragedy. In the last decade alone we've watched the world experience some of the worst natural disasters in history. One kind of disaster that has come to cause an enormous amount...

Karma. Fate. Sheer luck. Violence begets violence. These are some of the bigger themes touched upon in The Place Beyond the Pines, the latest film from Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance. Going in to the world premiere screening at TIFF 2012, I...

It's my 6th year back at the Toronto Film Festival (aka TIFF), my 5th at Telluride, 4th year in Cannes, and earlier in the year, my 7th back to Sundance. I love film festivals, and as long as I can continue to cover them, I'll be back to these four e...

"Fear. Belief. Love. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives." It's the movie of the year. A bold, ambitious, grand storytelling accomplishment that I dare say is a true cinematic revelation. I have been anxiously/impatiently waiting to fina...

"You know the rule: never let your target escape." Holy crap this movie is awesome. That's how I'm going to start this, because it's really the first thing that came to mind as the credits started rolling. It also came to mind multiple times while wa...

Today is the first day of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, and our own Alex Billington is already in Canada, getting ready to give us all the buzz from the fest. Over the next week and a half, we'll be catching sneak peeks and reviews of...