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TIFF from the red carpet: ‘GLOBEANDMAIL’ stops Benedict Cumberbatch in his...

By the end of the first day of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, I had bewildered Benedict Cumberbatch, given a mini-history lesson and accidentally flashed my bum

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Bruce LaBruce has mellowed to the point he can’t even get mad at Russia

Provocative filmmaker won’t rise to the bait when asked about Putin’s anti-gay legislation

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Goodbye Harry Potter, hello Daniel Radcliffe, the grownup actor

Star of Harry Potter comes into his own with three solid performances in TIFF films

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Is Brad Pitt coming to TIFF? Is George Clooney?

Rumours swirl about two big stars arriving in time for weekend

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Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘I’m not leaving my country or the theatre’

British actor has three films at TIFF but plans to continue on stage and in Sherlock series

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Wikileaks Twitter blast knocking The Fifth Estate falls flat

Strange statement about why film will be a commercial failure more confusing than cutting

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I met Brad Pitt. He’s not a jerk

The actor promotes his new film, 12 Years a Slave, at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival

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How one of the hottest TIFF films isn’t a TIFF film

Locke garnering attention and sales, but it isn’t on the festival’s roster

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With Horns, little Daniel Radcliffe has grown a pair

Film’s director says he’s not trying to hide the fact this was the actor who played Harry Potter

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Susan Sarandon’s puppy companion and other snippets from TIFF life

A furry chaperone has been sitting in on many of Susan Sarandon’s interviews at the Toronto International Film Festival

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Hear Donnie Wahlberg's new jingle for Wahlburgers (you won't be...

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That time Daniel Radcliffe friend-zoned me on the red carpet

I should have guessed, that at the world premiere of a movie about the “friend zone” (The F Word), I would have been put in it

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Elaine Lui @ TIFF: Idris Elba gets serenaded, Tom Hiddleston gets cookies

A roundup of the parties and galas on a busy Saturday night at the film festival

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Memoir behind 12 Years a Slave should be required reading, director says

Booy by Solomon Northup should be treated with the same regard as The Diary of Anne Frank: Steve McQueen

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Brad Pitt comes from Canada, Josh Brolin goes pie crazy, and other festival...

A TIFFster’s roundup of scenes and moments from the weekend

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Ralph Fiennes on how people fall in love

The director and star of The Invisible Woman discussing handling Charles Dickens's extramarital romance in his new movie

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How Robert Lepage brings a slice of Lipsynch to the big screen

The theatre artist has turned it into something entirely different with co-director Pedro Pires to create Triptych

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Vive le cinéma français at TIFF

Anglo-Franco alliance is particularly strong at this festival according to uniFrance’s Isabelle Giordano

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James Franco teaming up with Wim Wenders in 3-D

The actor describes the film, being shot in Montreal, as a ‘very slow drama’

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The Lunchbox director tries his hand at onstage improv

Technical glitch has Ritesh Batra entertaining the crowd

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Made in America director Howard weighs the merits of CGI

It all depends on the filmmaker’s storytelling problems, he says

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Elaine Lui @ TIFF: Watching Jake Gyllenhaal wipe food off his girlfriend’s lips

On another rooftop in the city, Witherspoon’s ex-boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal and his new girlfriend, Sports Illustrated model Alyssa Miller, were inseparable at the afterparty for Enemy hosted by Hugo...

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Ben Affleck will make a 'fantastic' Batman, says wife Jennifer Garner

‘He’s going to be fantastic,’ Garner says at press conference for Dallas Buyers Club

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Meet the man at the centre of TIFF’s revealing doc on Egypt’s revolution

Khalid Abdalla speaks in the opposite of sound bites – long, methodical sentences intended to explain a revolution that, for two years, he has helped keep alive

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What happens if you premiere a concert doc and none of the musicians show up?

12.12.12., about the Hurricane Sandy relief concert, has had no buzz thanks to an absence of any stars at TIFF

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Why James Franco is more than just a pretty face

Before walking the red carpet for Child of God last night, the artistic polymath stopped by the Thompson Hotel to introduce The Director, a film he produced that was screened outside the TIFF schedule

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Elaine Lui @ TIFF: Who Scarlett Johansson is eyeing to stalk

Plus Julia Roberts and Taylor Swift in the kind of moment that makes a party

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Moviegoer calls 911 after getting fed up with cellphone use at TIFF

Blogger complained that man was on his cellphone during the industry screening, but 911 dispatch just laughed at him

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What you'll learn from watching the new Jimi Hendrix biopic

The Jimi Hendrix biopic All Is By My Side stars rapper André Benjamin as the mind-blowing, blue-warping guitarist, and covers the musician’s down-and-out days in New York and his fruitful move to...

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Ex-girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix slams truthfulness of new biopic at TIFF

Will the wind ever remember, the names it has blown in the past? John Ridley’s biopic on Jimi Hendrix has stirred up a little fuss for its perceived haziness with the facts

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