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I’m seeing (at least) 25 movies this year at TIFF – the most so far for me! 10 of them I am seeing with friends, and the other 15 are with the new Daytime Lite Package. I’m pretty excited and very grateful that I was able to take six days off this year.

I will post my selections when I receive the results from the advanced ticketing. Also, this year I may actually review some of them… It sure would be great if that was what I did for work!

Here are a few pics from tonight’s Radiohead concert. I’ll add a link to the full gallery later.

I noticed this a couple of months ago and I’m still pissed off about it. I thought of it again while listening to a /film podcast rant on overly revealing trailers. The trailer for Boy A (2008, John Crowley) is absolutely terrible! It gives the entire film away and that’s a real shame because one of the best things about this movie is the way that the backstory unfolds.

John Crowley did a great job of telling this story. You meet the character, and just as it often is in real life, you slowly begin to learn about who they are and how they came to be that way. I saw this film at TIFF last year (and of course have not mentioned it until now, almost a year later) and it was one of my favourites. The storytelling is very sensitive and Andrew Garfield’s performance is really something to remember.

Check the film out (it was in limited release as of 23 July, 2008) but if you are just interested in the story, you might as well check out the ridiculously revealing trailer below.

p.s. When looking for a movie poster to include in this post, I found one that gives a lot away, too! Why didn’t The Weinstein Company let this film tell the story itself?