For the first time in recorded history I have seen exactly ZERO of the current nominees for Best Picture at the Oscars. Even more shocking to me is that this pattern continues to Best Director category, and onwards to the Best Actor (and Supporting) and even Best Actress nominations for the Oscars this year.

I was spending some time last week redesigning The Roaming Life so Angelina can use it has her main blog, and it really motivated me to redo my own.

If you could describe any movie as the “Geek Feel-Good Movie of the Year” this would be it. I’m reviewing this one, fresh off the heals of having been to FanExpo 2011 (aka Canadian Comic-Con Lite).

Yesterday I saw two very different sort of films, first up was Death of a Superhero, by Ian Fitzgibbon, and starring Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster aka, the Adorable little kid from Nanny McFee & Love, Actually.

It’s already Day 3 of the Festival and I haven’t updated at all! I’ve been quite busy, and rarely tweeting either. This must be corrected, immediately!

I had a very low-key start to the festival, on Opening Night I didn’t attend any parties, scree

Well, the long, hard battle with Maxweb is over, and I came out relativly unscathed. At least I didn’t suffer like those poor folks who spent 12+ hours camping out for tickets at the box office. I’m dedicated, but clearly not that dedicated.

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Before I get into my gripes about TIFFs ticket system, I wanted to share with everyone that I will be one of the Citizen Contributors to CBC.ca’s 2011 TIFF Coverage! This is a fantastic opprotunity for me to share my TIFF experiences with an even wid

So, my Advance Order Book has been submitted, and now I wait with baited breath that box 15 (or something close, before) is pulled tonight to ensure that I get most of my festival picks this year. I’ll have to head in to the Box Office at 6am on Frid

This year it did not take very long (under 2 hours) to put together my tentative schedule for the festival. As it stands, I’ll probably be seeing about 15 Movies. With a good mix of 1 and 2-film days and only a single 3-film day (Midnight Madness, ge

Here we go again! Welcome to another year of me attempting to document my Toronto International Film Festival Experience (As always, available at ChantelleJoy.com/TIFF).

A very small redesign of the site proper, and I’ll be working on getting all the Export (twitter, facebook, etc) kinks worked out before the festival starts.