In what we would consider a bit of a surprise, Stephen Frears' The Queen has swept the Toronto Film Critics Association awards, winning Best Picture, and picking up three other awards (and even sharing another). Helen Mirren won as Best Actress for playing Queen Elizabeth II; Michael Sheen won Best Supporting Actor for Tony Blair (who he looks basically exactly like and has played before, so that’s a bit of a cheat); Peter Morgan won......

Today, the provincial government announces a much needed relief package for the city's flailing film industry. The news drops at the Toronto Film Studios, and you can bet the usual ACTRA activists will be on hand. - Meanwhile, Torontoist offers up a film relief package for all you holiday filmgoers. A few day's back we reported (ahem) that the Toronto Film Critics Association had voted Sideways as the year's best movie. We erroneously attributed this......

Not content to be outshone by TIFF's upstart Top Ten release, the Toronto Film Critics Association waited nary a minute before sending out their definitive list of good and bad. Filmwise. Sideways? Torontoist is all for cursory surveys, and dubious research methods. And the results of our shoddy audience assessments of Alexander Payne's latest effort tell us that people over forty love this movie, and people under forty see it for the well-intended pap that......