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Toronto is abuzz with celebrity chatter as Hollywood’s brightest begin to descend on the city.

Stars on stage at the closing of the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Weekend and Awards in Toronto in June.

Tower Heist is a big, slick Hollywood comedy starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. They should project it onto the side of a building near Zucotti Park to give the “Occupy Wall Street” occupiers some comic relief.

A stunt double who was seriously injured in an accident involving an explosion on the set of “The Expendables 2” movie near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia last Thursday, is in stable condition.

Imagine a world where your body stops aging at 25, and your time on earth is counting down. Oh, and one more thing—the time you have left is what you will be using to pay for necessities and luxuries from food to rent.

The 11th Annual Russian Film Week is back in New York with new and interesting movies. From Oct. 28 to Nov. 4, a collection of modern Russian films will be displayed at the Village East Cinema.

The first in what I’m sure will be a series of spinoffs from the successful “Shrek” franchise, “Puss in Boots” stands out on its own, with multidimensional characters inspired by classic fairy tales, lots of laughs and adventure.

The story is of a famous journalistic super sleuth Tintin (Jamie Bell) and his faithful partner, Snowy the dog.

While the plot is somewhat oversimplified, Margin Call is very rich in Hollywood royalty. Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, and Paul Bettany all deliver excellent performances and keep the audience on its toes.

Johnny English Reborn” is a delayed attempt at bringing new credibility to its characters and storyline, but again fails to provide original and creative humor.

Clutching to her dream of becoming Miss Bala, a title awarded to the local beauty queen, Laura Guerrero (Stephanie Sigman) sees the prize as more than just a crown.

The Awakening is hopefully the last of the Del Toro influenced, Spanish haunted house horror knock-offs. It isn’t a bad film, but it is so heavily influenced by his work that the audience are always one step ahead of the narrative.

It’s time to kick off those Sunday shoes as the “best of” remake compilation shuffles Footloose onto the contemporary dancefloor.

The Ides of March a well-told tale of filthy politics and betrayal, is a virtuoso hat trick (writing, directing, and starring) by George Clooney.

Yet in his latest film, Connick Jr. found his co-star to have an extraordinary past, saying in the press notes, “…it’s a privilege just being around her.”

The annual Toronto Film Festival, the second biggest international film festival in the world, closed its curtains for the 36th time this September, but as we all know an end always marks a new beginning, and this is especially true for Canadian film producers.

Restless” is a wonderful, sweet, playful, sad tale of young love, death, ghosts, and transformation. Hovering over all, are questions of the afterlife.

Actors, celebrities, film critics, and enthusiastic festival goers alike attended the Toronto International Film Festival screenings and press conferences to preview a fresh batch of fall films since the festival began on Thursday, Sept. 8.

Kill List is at times extremely derivative, but its genius lies in the melding of multiple genres to form an original (ish) whole. There are aspects of Tarantino in the way that the intrusive camera conversations unfold.

Toronto-born David Cronenberg looked none too pleased at the nerve of Keira Knightly and Viggo Mortensen who chose to bug the director by attending the press conference for A Dangerous Method wearing Montreal Canadiens jerseys.