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The Toronto Film Festival today unveiled The Best Of The Decade: An Alternative View, a top ten movie list from the last decade. TIFF asked film curators, historians, and archivists from Canada and around the world to choose the best films of the 2010s — any length, genre, or format. Judging by the list, it’s fair to…

A hybrid of Groundhog Day, Russian Doll, The Hate U Give and Moonlight, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival — and the filmmakers and leading man stopped by for a live recording of the New Hollywood Podcast. As Stanley Kalu’s first screenplay and Ali LeRoi’s…

Taking the mainstage at the Toronto International Film Festival was forthcoming scamming stripper dramedy Hustlers — and the cast and filmmakers of the STX pic also took the stage for one of three live episodes of the New Hollywood Podcast. Actresses Constance Wu and Lili Reinhart were joined by writer-director Lorene…

When Ellen Page read a book by Ingrid Waldron highlighting the environmental and social injustices happening in Nova Scotia, Page—who grew up there—felt moved to tweet Waldron. And so began a conversation that would become the documentary There’s Something in the Water.  For Page, this dark underbelly to where she…

EXCLUSIVE: Making its world premiere at the Toronto International Film, Marc Meyers’ (My Friend Dahmer) drama Human Capital follows the lives of two families as their lives become intertwined after an impulsive business deal and a tragic hit-and-run accident. In an exclusive first look at the film, Liev Schreiber and…

EXCLUSIVE: Dip a toe in the world of the new sci-fi eco-thriller Sea Fever by watching this exclusive first-look clip from Irish filmmaker Neasa Hardiman’s feature-film directorial debut, which looks to make waves tonight with its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The sci-fi horror tale, an…

EXCLUSIVE: In Joey Klein’s Castle In The Ground, two lost souls befriend each other as they struggle with their own addiction during the opioid crisis in Canada. In the first clip, we see Henry (Alex Wolff) and his troubled neighbor (Imogen Poots) share a more light-hearted moment that is likely to lead to some…

EXCLUSIVE: In Kazik Radwanski’s (Tower) new drama Anne at 13,000 Ft., Deragh Campbell (I Used to be Darker) plays the titular character who, as seen in the clip, lives an ordinary life as a single daycare worker in Toronto. But as we watch the clip cut between her everyday life and her skydiving experience, there…

Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal will star together in the Astute Films’ comedy Here Today, a project that the latter Saturday Night Live alum will co-write and direct. Here Today is billed as a May/September romantic comedy – but without the romance. Crystal plays veteran comedy writer Charlie Berns, who is slowly…

EXCLUSIVE: The feature White Lie joins the ranks of dramatic features that puts a seemingly innocent, yet low-key horribly delusional hero front and center who manages to scam people into giving her money because she makes them believe that she has a terminal illness. But in the clip above, her father sees through her…

EXCLUSIVE: The romantic intensity between Kelly Macdonald and Garrett Hedlund in this new clip from the Gregor Jordan’s drama Dirt Music is front and center — but there is also a hint that this is an illicit affair. Based on the novel of the same name by Tim Winton and adapted by Jack Throne, the Jordan-directed…

EXCLUSIVE: From The Matrix to Lord of the Rings, actor Hugo Weaving is known for many of his roles in fantasy films but in Ben Lawrence’s forthcoming feature Hearts and Bones, he stretches his dramatic muscles. Weaving stars opposite newcomer Andrew Luri, who worked as a garbage truck driver before auditioning and…