TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014 Award Winners

By PAUL ZIMMERMAN 09/25/2014
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TORONTO — After ten days and over 300 films several awards were passed out. Here are the highlights and the TIFF winners 2014. THE PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRITICS (FIPRESCI PRIZES) The Festival welcomed an international FIPRESCI jury for the 23rd year. The jury members consisted of jury president Dana Linssen (Netherlands), Marco Lombardi (Italy), Ola Salwa (Poland), Télesphore Mba Bizo (Cameroun), Jorge Gutman (Canada) and Thom Ernst (Canada). Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI) for Special Presentations was awarded to Oren Moverman’s TIME OUT OF MIND. The jury remarked, “For Oren Moverman’s sensitive and human depiction of homelessness, and […]Read On »


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2014 Toronto International Film Festival Wrap Up: Part 3 – The Cold List

By PAUL ZIMMERMAN
Adam Sandler in THE COBBLER | ©2014 Image Entertainment

When they’re good they’re very good, when they’re bad, whew, stand back. Here’s the bottom of the barrel. PART 3: THE COLD LIST AMERICAN HEIST Not all the mannered acting of Adrien Brody can save this misfire that wants to be both MEAN STREETS and THE TOWN. A miscast Hayden Christensen co-stars as Brody’s step brother ex-con trying to go straight and fall back in love with his high school sweetheart (Jordana Brewster). Enter one dimensional bad guys to divide up the brothers and the girlfriend. The bank heist climax shows director Sarik Andreasyan has a certain amount of style, […]Read On »


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2014 Toronto International Film Festival Wrap Up: Part 2 – The Warm List

By PAUL ZIMMERMAN 09/22/2014
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING | ©2014 Focus Features

Killer cubs, hipsters, physicists and more constitute the good movies that fell short of great at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. PART 2: THE WARM WHILE WE’RE YOUNG Film festival favorite Noah Baumbach is admittedly an acquired taste (think Waspy Woody Allen), but there is no denying he gets some of the best work out of Ben Stiller. Four years ago they worked well in GREENBERG, this time it’s a tale of aging hipsters (Stiller and Naomi Watts) getting a young couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried) to show them how to be relevant again. Funny, poignant and somewhat […]Read On »


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2014 Toronto International Film Festival Wrap Up: Part 1 – The Hot List

By PAUL ZIMMERMAN 09/19/2014
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The 2014 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival will go down in history as the year of the actor. With the absence of breakout films like last years mighty duo, GRAVITY and 12 YEARS A SLAVE, critics and audiences dug deeper and ended up focusing on the actors. And I mean the actors, much more so than the usual festival stars, the directors. Several mainstream actors in search of a makeover of sorts, including Richard Gere, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, Chris Evans and Bill Murray appeared in smaller, grittier, character driven fare. The results were decidedly mixed. As in […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the BLENDED Los Angeles Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER 06/11/2014
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore at the Los Angeles Premiere of BLENDED | ©2014 Sue Schneider

Recently Warner Bros. Pictures held the Los Angeles premiere of BLENDED at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. BLENDED is the third comedy that Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore have appeared in together … THE WEDDING SINGER and 50 FIRST DATES were the other two films. Seen walking the carpet were the stars of the film, which included: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Kevin Nealon, Terry Crews, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Bella Thorne, Joel McHale, Jessica Lowe, Emma Fuhrmann, Kyle Red Silverstein, Zak Henri, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Lauren Lapkus, Frank Coraci (Director), Ivan Menchell and Clare Sera (Writers). Joining the stars were guests, […]Read On »


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Interview: Terry Crews brings some muscle to BROOKLYN NINE-NINE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/10/2013
Terry Crews in BROOKLYN NINE-NINE - Season 1 | ©2013 Fox/Mary Ellen Matthews

Terry Crews is a man of many talents. Former NFL player, painter, writer, producer and actor – credits include THE LONGEST YARD remake, Chris Rock’s father on the series EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS, TERMINATOR SALVATION and the EXPENDABLES films – the man fromFlint,Michigan feels his most important job is as married family man with five children. This said, Crews sounds very happy about his current gig, playing Brooklyn police sergeant Terry Jeffords on Fox’s new half-hour comedy BROOKLYN NINE-NINE, Tuesdays at 8:30 PM. The actor is available for follow-up conversation after a Television Critics Association Q&A session for the series, created […]Read On »


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WHITE HOUSE DOWN Highlights this week in Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Releases

By PETER BROWN 11/10/2013
WHITE HOUSE DOWN | (c) 2013 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies WHITE HOUSE DOWN – I could have sworn I just watched this movie not too long ago. You know, a story about an attack on the White House and all of the highly trained guards and Secret Service can’t kill one person but one super bad ass […]Read On »


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HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA Highlights this week in Blu-ray and DVD Releases

By PETER BROWN 01/29/2013
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA | (c) 2013 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA – This is one hell of a fun movie. Made for kids but with a ton of great gags for adults that always makes watching these type of films with your children that much better. Count Dracula is deathly afraid of humans. So much so, […]Read On »


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CHERNOBYL DIARIES Highlights this week in Blu-ray and DVD Releases

By PETER BROWN 10/20/2012
CHERNOBYL DIARIES | (c) 2012 Warner Home Video

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: CHERNOBYL DIARIES – This was purported to be a found footage film about a group of tourists that go on an “extreme” adventure into the wastelands of Chernobyl. Luckily, there are no shaky cams as it is only filmed from the perspective of the poor bastards rather […]Read On »


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Movie Review: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA

By CARL CORTEZ 09/30/2012
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA movie poster | ©2012 Sony Pictures Animation

Voices: Adam Sandler, Andy Samburg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Cee Le Green, Jon Lovitz Writers: Peter Baynham, Robert Smigel based on a story by Todd Durham, Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman Director: Genndy Tartakovsky Distributor: Sony Pictures Animation Release Date: September 28, 2012 With CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, last year’s ARTHUR CHRISTMAS and now HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, Sony Pictures Animation is eking out a wonderful identity for their children’s animated films. Fun, quirky, and very funny, each film proves to be a little ball of creative comedic energy that defies expectations and […]Read On »


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