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Fresh from their holiday break, the fine folks at This Is Not A Reading Series kick off the Winter/Spring 2007 season with…a film? Well, partly. This evening, join TINARS at the Royal Cinema as they celebrate the launch of Annabelle Gurwitch’s new book, Fired! Tales of The Canned, Canceled, Downsized & Dismissed. As the title would suggest, the book is comprised of tales of getting the axe from a host of contributors, from Bill Maher to Bob Saget.

(This Filthy World and Radiant City are entirely seperate films showing at this year's TIFF, but as the Radiant City review has what you could consider a spoiler ["In a documentary?" - Ed.], it's been placed behind the jump.)

Documentaries aren’t usually the most hotly anticipated titles at each year’s Toronto International Film Festival, with most people, even by September, still probably a bit burnt out from Hot Docs, but that’s not to say that the documentaries at TIFF are any less valid. This year they’ve announced 22 titles as part of their Real to Reel programme (in addition to the 5 already announced in other programmes). Our pick of the titles confirmed to day include Jeff Garlin’s This Filthy World Starring John Waters, because who doesn’t love Water’s twisted take on life? (Even if he does look like that creepy orange guy on those infomercials). The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair from Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, and AJ Schnack's Kurt Cobain About a Son, because even though we feel like we’ve heard everything we can about Kurt, we still keep coming back to see if we can find out more. The full press release is available at TIFFG’s website.