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......

(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.) This Filthy World: Torontoist loves John Waters. Who doesn’t? Well, obviously people who don’t revel in bad taste, but who would want to know those people anyway? This Filthy World is almost an astoundingly hard film......

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......