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Last night saw the premiere of Eli Roth's ambitious cannibalism-vs-activism scare picture The Green Inferno at the Toronto International Film Festival, and along came the announcement of a sequel.

Ahead of Eli Roth's cannibal movie The Green Inferno premiering at The Toronto International Film Festival next week, the MPAA have - coincidentally, I assume, as they have no jurisdiction North of the border - awarded the film an R rating and explained why. Rated R for aberrant violence and torture, grisly disturbing images, brief graphic nudity,[...]

Jafar Panahi may be banned from making films but that hasn't stopped him one bit. And he's making great films too.

It would appear that there are even more new images on the TIFF website now than I first realised In addition to the images from John Turturro's Fading Gigolo and The Last of Robin Hood there are also first look images from James Franco's Child of God, Fred Schepisi's Words and Pictures, Patrice Leconte's A Promise[...]

TIFF have just announced a number of new titles for the festival in September, including new Gala Screenings and Special Presentations.Deadline have the full list and it makes for tantalising reading The TIFF website have also added the new additions to their website, including images from each of the films.Three of these new images are[...]

Look:Not listed there are topliners Shia LaBeouf and Redford himself.Here's the trailer, courtesy of TIFF, where the film will be premiered any day now.I like that they have these 60s-era pics of Redford they can just use like that.Looks fantastic The subject matter is obviously close to Redford's heart, the dramatic thriller is a genre[...]

The TIFF YouTube account keeps expanding, just now adding the first trailer for Brian DePalma's "erotic thriller" Passion 99.9% of films labelled as erotic thrillers have failed to satisfy on either count, but surely DePalma will manage one or the other?Yeah, that looks like a Brian DePalma film It looks more like a Brian DePalma[...]

What a beautiful combination.

Since then, the director has netted himself a US agent and, as you'd expect, the film has been keyed up for an English language remake.But before then, you can see the original, French language version with subtitles.And before then, you can see the original, French language trailer without subtitles.Lost? Let me throw you even more[...]

This first trailer for The Flying Machine puts me in mind of Will Vinton and Susan Shadburne's wonderful The Adventures of Mark Twain,* but you may chalk that up to a lack of imagination on my part. The film, which has apparently been shot in 3D and features Heather Graham and Lang Lang in live […]

but instead of reprimanding him or screaming for police, she joins him, and they team up to kill and kill again.Two of the following stills appeared on the TIFF website, whereas the third was tweeted by their Midnight Madness account All three make me very keen to see the film indeed.Is that some kind of[...]

Here's the trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's gothic horror gimmick picture Twixt, formerly Twixt Now and Sunrise, with Val Kilmer and Elle Fanning, and Ben Chaplin as Edgar Allen Poe. This is not, appropriately enough, either of the edits shown at Comic-Con. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtLHPKigPc4[/youtube] Coppola's big idea here is that Twixt will tour as a roadshow […]

More scary clowns, and more hope that this is something of a return to form.Anybody able to translate what he's saying?If you still want more, there's some stills from the film at the TIFF site.Alex de la Iglesia's Balada Triste de Trompeta, or The Last Circus, is expected to redeem the director's reputation after[...]