Acting stalwart Cliff Robertson dead at 88
Cliff Robertson, the handsome movie actor who played John F. Kennedy in PT-109, won an Oscar for Charly and was famously victimized in a 1977 Hollywood forgery scandal, died Saturday. He was 88.
Actors try A Dangerous Method to irk Cronenberg
David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method explores the early days of psychoanalysis, so it was perhaps fitting that the stars schemed to drive the Toronto-born director crazy in his own backyard.
Kiefer Sutherland ‘heartbroken’ by Jack Layton’s death
Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland says he was shocked and heartbroken by the death of former federal NDP leader Jack Layton, and he is still coming to grips with it.
Faust, Fassbender top Venice film prizes
Russian director Aleksander Sokurov’s Faust won the Golden Lion prize while Michael Fassbender nabbed the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.
McQueen’s Shame picked up at TIFF
The provocative drama Shame, which has earned praise for actors Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, is among the first major films to score a distributor at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Breakaway stickhandles around cultural issues
Rob Lowe has filmed in a lot of movies in Toronto, but as the actor explains, most of the time Canada’s largest city does not usually play itself. But in Breakaway the city actually gets to be itself.
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries’ espionage efforts and …
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