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David Cronenberg is not a fan of Kubrick’s The Shining

The work of David Cronenberg is being celebrated in terrific fashion with the newly opened David Cronenberg: Evolution exhibit at TIFF Bell Lightbox, which runs through Jan. 19 in Toronto. Would be wonderful if we could all take a class...
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Review: 12 Years a Slave

PLOT: The devastating true story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man who, in 1853, was kidnapped from his home in Washington D.C, and sold into slavery in the south. REVIEW: At the Toronto International Film Festival premiere...
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Review: The Fifth Estate

PLOT: The story of Wiki-Leaks, from it’s growth under founder/editor-in-chief Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl) to it’s eventual publication of a massive amount of classified data leaked by soldier Bradley Manning. REVIEW: The highest praise...
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Movie Review: Almost Human (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: Two years after being abducted by aliens, Mark (Josh Ethier) returns to his rural small town to reclaim his long lost girlfriend (Vanessa Leigh) and to prepare it for alien colonization through a brutal reign of violence and terror....
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Movie Review: Oculus (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: Tim (Brenton Thwaites) has been locked up in a mental hospital since he was nine years old, when he apparently shot his father (Rory Cochrane) who had just killed his mother (Katee Sackhoff). He's released after his 21st birthday,...
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Review: Starred Up (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: Nineteen-year-old Eric (Jack O’Connell) is transferred to a maximum security prison, ruled by a fierce gang run by lifer Neville (Ben Mendelsohn) who also happens to be the boy’s father. Having not seen each other since Eric was a...
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Review: Tracks (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: The true story of Australian adventurer Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) who, in 1977, set off on a nine-month journey across the Outback with nothing but a team of camels and her dog for company. REVIEW: TRACKS is a major...
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Review: The F Word (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe) thinks he’s met the girl of his dreams after a chance encounter with Chantry (Zoe Kazan) at a party. He’s devastated to learn that she has a boyfriend, but the two nonetheless become friends. As he...
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