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Danny Collins Review

Danny Collins has the makings of something terrific, but it doesn’t quite reach the heights to which it aspires.

The Humbling Review

Boasting a script from Buck Henry and the best work Barry Levinson and Al Pacino have done in years, The Humbling might be the more rewarding (and somewhat more difficult) version of Birdman .

TIFF 2014: The Humbling Review

The Humbling Special Presentations These days, the news that a bunch of grizzled old Hollywood types have gotten together to make a film about aging should be received with a mixture of abject terror and disgust. The world needs another Bucket List or Last Vegas about as much as it needs nuclear warfare. Thankfully, the […]

Play It Again, TIFF

Anchored by a week long run of a restoration of The Godfather Part II , the TIFF Bell Lightbox takes a look at some of history's greatest sequels with their latest film series.

TIFF Announces First of Many 2014 Selections

TIFF didn't announce an opening night film alongside today's announcements of Galas and Special Presentations for their 2014 festival this September, but they announced plenty to get people excited for the event.

The New Old: Guns, Drugs, and Tobacco

This week for the archival DVD and Blu-Ray column we dive into the 3-D Blu-Ray release of Tony Scott's Top Gun , Michael Mann's The Insider , the forgotten about horror flick Schizo , and head over to the TV side of things for The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour , the second season of the Being Human reboot, and The Best of WCW Monday Nitro, Volume 2 .

The New Old: Love & Darkness

This week's archival home entertainment column takes a look at some real heavy hitters with Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train , Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love , Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire , the campy Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? , and director's cuts of both Frank Oz's Little Shop of Horrors and the Al Pacino ham-fest The Devil's Advocate .