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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Under the Skin”

A film festival is certainly the place for a feature-length semi-linear flow of unscripted dialogue and bizarre imagery if anywhere is, so welcome to UNDER THE SKIN. The writer/director Jonathan Glazer has gradually b...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Judge”

THE JUDGE (Warners) – Opens October 10 – Watch It At Home Since the first Iron Man opened, Robert Downey Jr. has been one of the world’s biggest (and wealthiest) stars. But he hasn’t used his su...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Meddler”

Lorene Scafaria’s THE MEDDLER spins its way past so many potential crash sites that it’s practically an example of cinematic stunt-driving. The premise itself is something out of a thousand terrible sitcoms...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “A Tale of Love and Darkness”

Natalie Portman certainly hasn’t made it easy for herself with her debut as a writer/director, A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS. The film, which premiered at Cannes (but tellingly, doesn’t yet have a US distribu...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “Trumbo”

It’s an unfortunate irony that TRUMBO, the story of one of Hollywood’s great blacklisted screenwriters, is undermined by an inadequate script. It’s written by John McNamara, also the man behind NBC...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Rush”

The writer Peter Morgan is a whiz at boring into little-remembered (and in the US, sometimes little-known) crannies of recent history and scooping out the rich drama inside, with scripts like The Deal, Frost/Nixon and Th...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “Being Charlie”

Sadly, the phrase “BEING CHARLIE is Rob Reiner’s best film in years” doesn’t mean nearly as much as it once would have. After a decade where he could do no wrong, he has, incredibly enough, been...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival/Series Premiere Review: “Casual”

CASUAL: October 7 on Hulu Hulu has included some original programming in its inventory for a while now, but it’s signaled its intention to join Netflix and Amazon in that realm in a more serious way with its orde...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Labor Day”

LABOR DAY is a beautifully performed, well crafted Harlequin romance. As such, it’s a shock coming from writer/director Jason Reitman (based on Joyce Maynard’s novel), one that goes in a completely differen...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival/Series Premiere Review: “Heroes Reborn”

HEROES REBORN: Thursday 8PM on NBC, starting September 24 This year, for the first time, the Toronto Film Festival has included a slate of television productions from around the world in its line-up, formalizing...

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Under the Skin”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Judge”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Meddler”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “A Tale of Love and Darkness”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “Trumbo”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Rush”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “Being Charlie”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival/Series Premiere Review: “Casual”

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Labor Day”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival/Series Premiere Review: “Heroes Reborn”

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