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• EXCLUSIVE: 'Happy-Go-Lucky' Poster Premiere!
  

  Filed under: Comedy, Independent, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Toronto International Film Festival, Posters

  
  
  Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for Happy-Go-Lucky (click image to enlarge), directed by Mike Leigh (Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies). The film, which premiered in Telluride and is currently screening at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, stars Sally Hawkins as an eternally optimistic teacher living and working in North London. Apart from the exclusive clip we debuted on Cinematical earlier in the week, Kim had this to say about the film: "All in all, I quite liked Happy-Go-Lucky; it's certainly one of Leigh's more...
  



• Live from TIFF: Burn After Reading, Burn Out After Watching
  

  Filed under: Comedy, Festival Reports, George Clooney, Toronto International Film Festival

  
  
  Burn After Reading, the latest from the Coen Brothers, makes its North American debut this year, following last year's rapturous Toronto reception for the Oscar-winning success of the tense, terse No Country for Old Men. After making No Country for Old Men, in perverse Coen-logic, the timing is clearly right for a messy, mean-spirited, profane punchy comedy. Burn After Reading is built around a classic Coen plot -- there's a valuable something out there, and various ill-equipped, dimwitted people see it as the answer to all their problems -- and the pleasure of seeing the...
  



• Cinematical's TIFF 2008 Coverage Underway!
  

  Filed under: Site Announcements, Festival Reports, Fandom, Toronto International Film Festival

  
  
  In case you haven't noticed, Cinematical has officially kicked off its coverage of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival with reviews of two of the biggest films screening this year: Rachel Getting Married and The Brothers Bloom. We have so much in store for you this year, it's best if you just sit back, relax and thank your lucky stars that someone else is in charge of fighting the crowds, the snarky journalists and the lack of sleep.
  
  Most of our coverage will land on the main page here, but you'll always be...
  



• Live from Toronto: The Muscles from Brussels Takes Toronto
  

  Filed under: Festival Reports, Film Blog Group Hug, Toronto International Film Festival, Cinematical Indie

  It was perhaps indicative of the demographic of tonight's Midnight Madness premiere screening of hotly buzzed JCVD that before the show, the line for the men's' room outnumbered the line for the ladies' considerably. But you didn't have to be a guy to enjoy the film, and especially the vibe of the screening.

  Before the show we attended the Pre-screening party for JCVD at Century Club; the party, like most of the parties at big film festivals, was packed with folks vying for the free booze, but unlike a lot of fest parties...
  




• TIFF Review: The Brothers Bloom
  

  Filed under: Comedy, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Toronto International Film Festival

  
  
  Long awaited in the wake of his 2005 debut Brick, Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom is a magic trick of a film; the second it's over, you want to see it again so you can try to catch how you were tricked, but you also want to see it again so you can return to the joy and wonder of being wrapped up in the nimble, deck-shuffling hands of a born showman. Watching it at first, some of The Brothers Bloom's creative and thematic elements seem like they're on loan from Paul Thomas Anderson (opening...
  



• TIFF Review: Rachel Getting Married
  

  Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Toronto International Film Festival

  
  
  Rachel Getting Married is a terse, smart, funny and tough family drama about forgiveness and failure written by Jenny Lumet; it's also a loose, smart, broad and bright film about family and love directed by Jonathan Demme. When these two things are in sync, the end result is something truly impressive - a moving story that appeals to your heart and soul without insulting your intelligence, a film full of big scenes that never stoops to the most obvious possible iteration of those big scenes, a movie loaded with great and sincere performances from...
  



• Exclusive Clip: 'Picasso & Braque Go To The Movies'
  

  Filed under: Documentary, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Movie Marketing, Toronto International Film Festival, Trailers and Clips

  
  
  The 2008 Toronto International Film Festival is officially underway, and as always Cinematical is your one-stop-shop for all things TIFF. Our reviews, galleries, interviews and scene coverage will begin to populate the main page soon, but in the meantime we've been sharing some great exclusive clips, images and posters from some of the more talked-about flicks screening in Toronto this year. Below, feast your eyes on a clip from Picasso & Braque Go To The Movies, produced and narrated by none other than Martin Scorsese....
  



• Exclusive Clip: 'JCVD'
  

  Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Fantastic Fest, Toronto International Film Festival, Trailers and Clips

  
  
  Cinematical is very excited to bring you this exclusive clip from the new flick JCVD, which, surprisingly, has watched a tremendous amount of buzz build around it since it first screened at this past Cannes Film Festival. Now, as part of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival midnight slate (it premieres tonight!), JCVD will receive a more proper introduction (or should I say, re-introduction) to the world. JCVD, of course, stands for our good friend Jean-Claude Van Damme, star of such...
  



• Live From TIFF: The Festival Starts Before the Festival Starts
  

  Filed under: Festival Reports, Toronto International Film Festival

  
  
  The Toronto International Film Festival starts September 4th - but, not to dash your mental images or anything, the truth is that the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival started a few weeks ago. Toronto has several great films from Cannes this year making their North American debut, to be sure -- like the riveting crime-and-power tales Gomorra and Leonera, or the French films Entre Les Murs and Un Conte de Noel -- but apart from that earlier bow for several films at Toronto this year, press screenings of several big-ticket films have been taking place in Toronto, New York,...
  



• Telluride Wrap: Goodbye, Telluride, Hello Toronto
  

  Filed under: Telluride, Festival Reports, Toronto International Film Festival, Cinematical Indie

  In spite of the writer's strike keeping several larger films that otherwise would have been on the Telluride slate out of this year's fest, and the absence of Cannes Palm d'or winner The Class, which many had hoped to see here (that film is opening the upcoming New York Film Festival, and so was unable to play at Telluride), the 35th Telluride Film Festival was a solid success.

  The fest scored sneak previews of Danny Boyle's hotly anticipated Slumdog Millionaire, which was very well received by audiences, and gave North American premieres to some...