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TIFF Press Conferences
Culture
Christopher Plummer steals the show at
The Forger
press conference, because of course he does
The Forger is one of those movies that sounds like it was made up by a Mad Libs plot generator. Hatched out of jail early, a...
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Culture
Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon say homelessness is bad
One of those super-topical movies that came a few years too late, 99 Homes stars the Amazing Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield , as a...
Culture
Jennifer Aniston talks about letting herself go for
Cake
Post- Friends, nobody's really figured out what to do with Jennifer Aniston . Since 2002’s The Good Girl, she's popped...
Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch humbly admits that he is not a genius
At TIFF 2013, you couldn't swing around a Sherlock -issue trench coat without hitting Benedict Cumberbatch. The British star...
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Culture
John Cusak talks about the time he met Andre the Giant
Try though he might, Robert Pattinson can't shake the Twi -hards. The alley adjacent to the Lightbox was teeming with adolescents...
Culture
Steve Carell talks about tapping his troubled psyche in psycho-thriller
Foxcatcher
God, it’s about time someone cast Channing Tatum in some kind of strong-guy role, right? In the highly buzzy Foxcatcher , Tatum...
Culture
Jason Bateman on auditioning with Jane Fonda for
This is Where I Leave You
: “She made me cry like a baby”
In This Is Where I Leave You —a film whose poster is basically indistinguishable from a GUESS Jeans ad I saw on Ossington last...
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Culture
Denzel Washington, star of many action films: “I don’t know what an action film is”
In The Equalizer , Denzel Washington teams up once again with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua to play a CIA agent who comes...
Culture
Harmony Korine almost steals the spotlight from Al Pacino—almost
At its worst, David Gordon Green ’s Manglehorn is nothing but a showpiece for Al Pacino . At its best, well, it's a showpiece...
Culture
The Drop
director Michaël R. Roskam talks about being one of the last to work with James Gandolfini
The crime thriller The Drop features one of the final on-screen performances by James Gandolfini . Questions about what it was...
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Culture
Jason Reitman, Adam Sandler and Jennifer Garner talk about today’s youth, or social media, or something
After much delay, the cast of Men, Women & Children finally arrived in the Lightbox's HSBC gallery for their film's press...
Culture
Robert Downey Jr. makes a threesome joke, because that’s his job
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Here comes the cast of TIFF 2014 opener, The Judge: Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall , Vera Farmiga , Vincent...
Culture
Emma Thompson is adorably goofy at the presser for heist flick The Love Punch
Emma Thomspon will never retire. She’d rather become a full-time thief like the one she plays in her newest flick, The Love...
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Culture
Olivia Wilde discusses Italian nude scenes at the presser for Third Person
Some celebrities are just itching to share. At yesterday’s presser for Third Person, Paul Haggis’ s multi-story love flick set...
Culture
Jude Law and Richard E. Grant get super deep at the presser for Dom Hemingway
Jude Law and Brit co-star Richard E. Grant got a head start on the sloppy, late-night bar talk at Monday’s presser for Dom...
Culture
Canada’s film industry elite call on Egypt to release filmmaker John Greyson and physician Tarek Loubani
More than anything else, TIFF is about supporting people who want to tell stories. At a press conference today, festival mainstays...
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Julia Roberts dishes on Meryl Streep’s pot-luck parties at the presser for August: Osage County
Actors don’t just wake up brilliant—they have to work really, really hard at it. Even Meryl Streep. At least, that’s what...
Culture
Sandra Bullock talks uncomfortable contraptions and George Clooney’s tiki bar at the presser for Gravity
What we learned at today’s presser for space drama Gravity: simulating a zero-gravity disaster takes work. Director Alfonso...
Culture
The director and cast of Enough Said remember James Gandolfini
The cast of director Nicole Holofcener ’s Enough Said took time at the presser Sunday to remember the late James Gandolfini...
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Everybody loves Hugh Jackman at the Prisoners presser
Does Hugh Jackman deserve an Oscar for his performance in Denis Villeneuve ’s psych thriller Prisoners ? Co-stars Jake...
Culture
Nobody wants to judge Julian at the presser for The Fifth Estate
The press gallery really, really wants Benedict Cumberbatch to commit to a position on Julian Assange’ s character. After...
Culture
TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: Winona Ryder insists Ray Liotta is more than just a tough guy at the Iceman presser
quite nonchalantly,
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TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: Shola Lynch talks afros and Angela Davis talks Communism at the Free Angela presser
There are few American public intellectuals as recognizable as scholar, activist and former Communist Party USA and Black Panther...
Culture
TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: Tom Hanks gets everyone laughing (and singing) at the Cloud Atlas presser
Okay, first things first. The following four thousand people were in attendance at TIFF’s press conference for the epic...
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Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
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Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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