
There's a broader vibe than the usual Hollywood A-listers this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the world's top cinema showcases and a prelude for contenders at the Academy Awards.
Actress Vanessa Redgrave said Tuesday a local authority's attempts to evict a group of Irish Travellers from a site where they have lived for years is a breach of their human rights.

"The Whistleblower" is a movie that labors to be taken seriously — and has too little to show for its efforts.
Michael Cacoyannis, the Cyprus born-filmmaker and screenwriter who directed the 1964 film classic "Zorba the Greek," starring Anthony Quinn, has died at an Athens hospital. He was 89.
Will James Earl Jones be driving on the other side of the road?
The scene would have been hard to imagine three months ago, when Julie Taymor was pushed aside as director of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," an unprecedentedly expensive production whose well-publicized troubles had already made it the butt of late-night jokes.

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The scene would have been hard to imagine three months ago, when Julie Taymor was pushed aside as director of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," an unprecedentedly expensive production whose well-publicized troubles already had made it the butt of late-night jokes.
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" opens Tuesday. Where have we heard that before?