The Men Who Stare At Goats
After another fairly unexciting Venice Film Festival all eyes turn to the Toronto as they have put together another impressive line-up.
In recent year the Toronto International Film Festival has unearthed some real gems including last year's Slumdog Millionaire, which went on to scoop Best Picture at the Oscars, and Juno the year before, which also was a Best Picture nominee.
So, as you can imagine the talk surrounding the festival is rife with Oscar chatter with everyone excited at what new movie may be thrust into the spotlight this year.
And there are plenty possible Oscar contenders on the line-up. So here at FemaleFirst we take a look at some of the highlights of the festival.
Diablo Cody is back at the festival with her long awaited follow up to her Oscar winning script Juno with Jennifer's Body.
Cody turn her hand to the horror movie genre as Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried star as high school best friends.
But when Fox becomes possessed by a demon force Seyfried must take drastic measures to protect their small town from the seductive teenager's insatiable appetite for high school boys.
And talking of Juno the director behind the movie, Jason Reitman, is also back in Toronto with a new film Up In the Air.
And it's one of two films on show from Oscar winner George Clooney, The Men Who Stare At Goats is also being screened.
Based on Walter Kirn's novel the film follows Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveller woman of his dreams.
Clooney has penned the script to The Men Who Stare At Goats and is the directorial debut of Grant Heslov.
The Coen Brothers return to the festival with their follow up to the Oscar winning No Country For Old Men, The Serious Man.
This is the third time that they have had a movie feature at Toronto after Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink.
A Serious Man is a black comedy set in 1967 and centred on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won't move out of the house.
After being screened to rave reviews at Cannes earlier in the year Fish Tank is also amongst the line up as is controversial film Antichrist.
After the success of Slumdog Millionaire twelve months ago British movies are out in force this time around as they try to repeat that success.
For the first time it wasn't a Canadian movie that opened the festival that honour fell to Brit film Creation. Paul Bettany stars as Charles Darwin as he develops his theory of evolution.
It's well know that biopic pictures are a favourite amongst Academy voters during the awards season, could Creation be the role that really gets Bettany the credit that he deserves.
And talking of biopic pics The Young Victoria, another British film, is also part of the line-up Already there are whispers that Emily Blunt's performance as the newly crowned Victoria could earn her an Oscar nomination.
Other British movies to watch out for include Dorian Gray, Bright Star, An Education, The Boy's Are Back and London River.
But there is one movie that is gathering a lot of interest and that is The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the latest picture by Terry Gilliam and the last movie from Heath Ledger.
Away from the British theme and other movies worth watching out for include the new one from Matt Damon The Informant, Agora, starring Rachel Weisz, Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore and Broken Embraces with Penelope Cruz.
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from 10th - 19th September.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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