Not knowing a thing about the new film Bad Apples, which is having its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, it took me awhile to realize “Oh wait, this is really a very, very dark comedy.” So once I got what director Jonathan Etzler and writer Jess O’ Kane were up to, I could…
Sports movies are fast becoming a cliché, if they ever weren’t. The triumph-against-all-odds stories so prevalent in many of them is hard to make fresh. And coming off two last year — the wrestling drama Unstoppable that merged family with domestic abuse, and the female boxing story The Fire Within — both had similar trajectories,…
Restaurateur and former Food Network queen Paula Deen could use a bit of good news right about now, and she’s getting it from the Toronto International Film Festival. Little more than a day after Deen announced the abrupt closure of two of her restaurants – including her flagship The Lady & Sons venue in Savannah,…
Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants’ feature Steve, starring Cillian Murphy, has been added to the Platform lineup for this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Steve was among nine titles added to the Platform competition Tuesday morning. Those titles are: Farnoosh Samadi’s Between Dreams and Hope, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s Bouchra, György Pálfi’s Hen, Pauline Loquès’ Nino,…
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