Karina Longworth

See our other Toronto Film Fest posts, including: *Cloud Atlas, by the Wachowskis *Threesomes at the Fest, Including James Franco + Vanessa Hudgens *Joaquin Phoenix in P.T. Anderson's The Master As the summer of self-plagiarism comes to a close, add Terrence Malick to the list of those accused of this......

See our other Toronto Film Fest posts, including: *Cloud Atlas, by the Wachowskis *Threesomes at the Fest, Including James Franco + Vanessa Hudgens *Joaquin Phoenix in P.T. Anderson's The Master For maybe the first hour of Yellow (written and directed by Nick Cassavetes, the man responsible for the national treasure......

There's something startlingly noncommittal about many of the initial reviews of The Master that leaked out following the impromptu screenings writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson organized in 70mm-equipped houses across the country, and later in response to the film's official bow at the Venice Film Festival. This is perhaps the natural,......

The best, most daring and form-defying documentaries in the world right now are being funded by the Danish Film Institute, and so it goes that the nonfiction knockout of TIFF thus far is The Act of Killing -- made with Danish support and directed by American Joshua Oppenheimer, executive produced......

One man's ambitious, iconoclastic, like-nothing-ever-before-seen passion project is another man's Battlefield Earth, and so it goes that for some of us who saw the film's world premiere in Toronto last night, Cloud Atlas -- written and directed by Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski from David Mitchell's novel --......

See our other Toronto Film Fest posts, including: *Cloud Atlas, by the Wachowskis *Joaquin Phoenix in P.T. Anderson's The Master This is a blog post about two movies that were screened for the press within the first 24 hours of the Toronto Film Festival, both of which feature three-way sex......

The Horror, the Horror The blitzkrieg of award season is right around the corner, and with it, we can expect an onslaught of stunt performances, designed to wow Academy voters and entertainment news editors (and also viewers?) with their evident degrees of difficulty and demonstrable totality of transformation. With Daniel......

It's pretty Pollyannaish to complain when companies that are in the business of making money on movies make certain movies solely to make money. Yet it seems to be widely acceptable to be cynical about big-budget movies that are made, marketed and released in order to sate an appetite that......

Like antidepressants, artificial sugars, Botox and other miracle inventions of the past century, corporate culture became an omnipresent fact of life before anyone could know how it would affect the human body and brain on an extended timeline. One way to look at writer-director Craig Zobel's second feature, Compliance —......

Boyishly lean, with a brooding angularity that suggests both high maintenance and nefarious vacancy, Robert Pattinson has managed to fill the role of a grade-A male sex symbol without ever evincing anything like carnal energy, to top the Hollywood A-list as a representative of the undead. Pattinson's casting in Cosmopolis......