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Current Obsession: The Master, back at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in glorious 70 mm
When Paul Thomas Anderson’ s The Master is projected at plain-old 35 mm, the narrative frustrations can start to overwhelm the...
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Best of Fall 2012: five of the season’s most anticipated blockbusters
(Images: From top, courtesy of Alliance Films; Weinstein Co.; Warner Bros.; 20th Century Fox Film Corporation; and Newline)
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and a bespectacled Joseph Gordon-Levitt at The Master
Sure, it’s early, but we suspect the cutest, most endearing and funniest #TIFF12 celeb-spotting moment will be the hunched-over...
Culture
TIFF BUZZ POLL: which film are you most excited to see?
After we narrowed down the 372 films screening at TIFF to the buzziest 50, we started wondering which movie sits at the top of the...
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The 50 buzziest films of TIFF 2012: we slice through the hype so you don’t have to
Single tickets for the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival go on sale this Sunday, September 2. And with a record 372 films...
Culture
TIFF Teaser: The Master, which is most certainly not about Scientology
The Master’ s producers are denying any intentional parallels to the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard , though we...
Culture
TIFF 2011 Roundup: the five o’clock shadow was this year’s hottest accessory for men
We noticed something prickly growing on the chins of many A-list men at TIFF this year (no, not a beard— we’ve covered that...
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TIFF Weekend Roundup: the five buzziest red carpets
The first weekend of TIFF is basically one big long party, with a non-stop crush of big premieres, boldface names and tremendous...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Ryan Gosling and George Clooney and pretty much every famous person ever at The Ides of March red carpet
Dare we say it? People are really into Ryan Gosling, and in Toronto, they’re more into him than they are into—gulp— George...
Culture
Evan Rachel Wood likes Justin Bieber, Ryan Gosling smokes and George Clooney is okay at Grey Goose Soho House
Last night’s Ides of March cocktail party at the Grey Goose Soho House—in a yet-to-be-named lounge space on Duncan Street...
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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Philip Seymour Hoffman on the red carpet for Moneyball
Screaming fans stretched from Wellington to King Street waiting for the horde of stars associated with director Bennett Miller’...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling and Evan Rachel Wood at The Ides of March press conference
Ever the playful (if somewhat glib) trickster, George Clooney was all jokes at The Ides of March press conference...
Culture
George Clooney lays the smack down when asked about his dating life at the Ides of March press conference
This just in: George Clooney does not like to be asked about his love life. When a cheeky reporter at today’s press conference...
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SPOTTED: George Clooney gives a friendly salute to his adoring public
A Toronto Life tipster shared this shot of George Clooney heading back to the Ritz-Carlton less than 24 hours after being spotted...
Culture
CONFIRMED: Philip Seymour Hoffman will make an appearance at TIFF 2011
Philip Seymour Hoffman ’ s publicists have confirmed his attendance at this year’s festival. He’ll be in town to promote The...
Culture
Official TIFF guest list released: Jon Hamm, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Marion Cotillard, Will Ferrell and more
Woot! Woot! The exhaustive official guest list for TIFF has been released (James Franco! Jon Hamm! Uma Thurman!), meaning we can...
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Celebrities confirmed for TIFF: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Mirren and more
Alliance Films is the first distributor to confirm its TIFF lineup and talent, giving us a preliminary look at the stars we'll be...
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TIFF announces 50 films starring awesome famous people who might come to Toronto
Today’s edition of TIFF celebrity stalking is a little meatier, as co-directors Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey announced 50...
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More celeb speculation: David Schwimmer’s second directorial effort coming to TIFF
David Schwimmer is bringing his second directorial feature, Trust, to the Toronto International Film Festival this September. His...
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Yearn after reading: A look back at TIFF 2008
In eager anticipation of September 10, the first day of 2009’s Toronto International Film Festival, we at TIFF.TO are already...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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