How unusual! Not a lot of festivals this week. Just the Indie Can Film Festival this weekend, and the Toronto Arab Film Festival starting on Wednesday. Of course, Cinematheque Ontario continues with their exhaustive Roberto Rossellini retrospective and the Toronto premiere of the acclaimed Au-Dela De La Haine (given glowing reviews in both Eye and Now) but our pick of the week has to be tomorrow afternoon’s matinee, Night of the Hunter. Robert Mitchum is......

You may wish to go to the cinema, but nothing you saw in the Film Friday really tickled your fancy. You may wish to go to the cinema, but you don't actually want to spend money to do it. Or, perhaps, you may wish to go to the cinema, but you actually want to go and see something genuinely good. Starting tonight with The Long Goodbye. Thank goodness, then, for Free Friday Films, held by......

So we’ve already covered Who Killed The Electric Car? then. That’s good. Unfortunately, in the world of general release movies, there’s basically nothing happening, so… Goodnight everybody! No, wait, we can’t do that. Look, we could waste time talking about You, Me and Dupree, which is yet another film with a late press screening and yet another film squandering Owen Wilson, who, despite his excellent work with Wes Anderson we may yet grow to hate.......

Good news, everyone! As Professor Hubert Farnsworth would invariably begin each episode of Futurama, before regaling some terrible news. Which is why, although this is some great news, we almost want to yell 'Terrible news, everyone!' Just to be contrary. And no, we're not talking about new episodes of Futurama on Comedy Central. This good news is far better than that - the Royal is going to continue being a theatre. Bought up for $2.3......

Well, this is it. Tomorrow night is the final Kung Fu Friday show ever thanks to the closure of the Festival Cinemas, and we here at Torontoist are going to head along to lament it’s passing in grand fashion, with one last show of the classic Shaw Brother’s flick Crippled Avengers on the big screen at the Revue. Crippled Avengers stars the Five Deadly Venoms, the heroes (and villains) of one of the most......

So, did anyone see the article in today’s Eye about the imminent death of the Festival cinemas? A nice article reminding us that it’ll take someone with a good deal more money than business sense to save the Royal (at a cool $2.7 million) but it more timely in reminding us that while our cinemas might be dying, we at least still have the Toronto International Film Festival Group’s Cinematheque Ontario to keep us in......

When it comes down to it, we should all be glad Niagara Falls exists. Yes, it’s a gash in the landscape surrounded by tack, but on the other hand, it’s a guaranteed day you don’t have to look after your friends or relatives when they come to visit. Just put them on a bus and forget about them. The George F. Walker penned film, Niagara Motel could probably do some damage to this tourist trafficking,......

New contributor Mathew will be posting regular on all things TIFF. Here goes: With only a few days to go until individual tickets go on sale for the Toronto Film Festival (7am on September 7th) and tickets hitting the heights of $20 when you factor in GST (over $35 for Gala tickets, which should be sold out by now, actually) it's definitely time for film lovers to begin their research into which films to......