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  • What a f***ing great title

    When you are as unknown as the cast of your first film, and yet hope it will stand out among the hundreds of movies competing for audiences and distributors at the Toronto festival, it helps to give it an arresting title.

  • More from Michael Moore

    Barely four months have passed since Michael Moore was beating the drum at Cannes for his documentary Sicko. Now he's back on the promotional circuit at the Toronto Film Festival, plugging a new documentary, Captain Mike Across America.

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  • 3:10 to Yuma

    The stars are well cast in this rugged, enjoyable western remake, writes Michael Dwyer

  • Disturbia

    'Rear Window' is given a teen-slanted re-do in this diverting thriller, writes Michael Dwyer

  • Superbad

    NOTING the personnel shared between this riotous, if a bit overlong, high-school comedy and the recent Knocked Up - screenwriter Seth Rogen appears in both films; Judd Apatow, director of the earlier piece, produced Superbad - you could be forgiven for viewing the current release as a kind of Knocked Up Lite.

  • Shoot 'em up

    MOVIE titles don't get any more concise than Shoot 'Em Up, an assembly of relentless action scenes strung together with an outlandish plotline that need not concern the viewer any more than it evidently did writer-director Michael Davis. There is an irony in there, however, and probably a deliberate joke, when it's explained that the story hinges on a politician's declaration to tighten up US gun laws.

  • December boys

    NO CLICHE of the coming-of- age movie, however weary, remains unvisited in Daniel Radcliffe's first, fitful attempt to escape the shadow of a certain young wizard.

  • The serpent/Le serpent

    TOO many of the French films that make it to Irish cinemas these days seem to concern bourgeois dinner parties, during which people wonder what, exactly, Daniel Auteuil is up to. It is, thus, gratifying to get a gawp at a decent piece of genre film-making from across La Manche.

  • Edmond

    MANY critics have seen this strange, terrifying drama as evidence that David Mamet, always eccentric, has finally descended into total gibbering madness. As it happens, Edmond, directed by, of all people, Stuart Gordon, the man behind the gruesome Re-Animator films, is adapted from a play the profane master wrote a quarter of a century ago.

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  • Pronto in Toronto

    In the whirlwind that is the Toronto Film Festival, Michael Dwyer runs from screening to screening, catching two new crime dramas - one outstanding (David Cronenberg's) and one a dud (Woody Allen's) - and a mixed batch from actors-turned-directors Stuart Townsend, Sean Penn and Helen Hunt

  • Magical musical tours

    Two audacious musicals - inspired by Bob Dylan and The Beatles - had screenings in Toronto

  • Super stars

    Three unknowns - Jonah Hill, Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse - take the lead roles in new teen comedy Superbad. They tell Donald Clarke about sudden fame, friendship . . . and drawing penises

  • Screen writer

    Donald Clarke on the censor's wise words

  • The weekly movie quiz

    Questions from the blood simple to the die hard by Donald Clarke

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