ShowbizMonkeys.com is sometimes lucky enough to cover major events and festivals in film, music, comedy, and pop culture. Whether a major international spectacle like the Academy Awards or a more regional festival like the Winnipeg Folk Festival, we're on the scene with interviews, photos, video, and special commentary.

The new film Can You Ever Forgive Me?, starring Melissa McCarthy, had its world premiere Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

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Action speaks louder than hope.

That's the message – albeit a buried message – of Michael Moore's sharp expose, Fahrenheit 11/9, which premiered Thursday night at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

The film examines the conditions that helped make President Donald Trump a reality.

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88th Annual Academy Awards Coverage:

• Oscar Talk: Hear Leo Roar
• Complete List of Oscar Nominees & Winners
• Our Academy Awards Telecast Live-Tweeting
• Oscar Talk: Straight Outta Contention
• Oscar Talk: The Curious Case of Creed for Best Picture

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It's Oscar Sunday, and ShowbizMonkeys.com once again ventured down to Hollywood, California to bring you our own unique coverage live from the Academy Awards.

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For those of you who don't know me in person or on stage, I can be pretty cynical. Prior to this week, I didn't know if there was a way left for me to feel alienated. Los Angeles found a way, my friends. I have always escaped into a rich fantasy life, facilitated by the silver screen.

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86th Academy Awards Coverage:

• Oscar Talk: Importance vs. Influential
  
• Critical Perspectives: The Un-Reality of The Wolf of Wall Street
• 86th Academy Awards Official Nominees List

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A little over a week ago the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival ended so what better time to ruminate on the good and the bad. And what better way to do so than create a "best and worst" list? (Sure, lists are reductive to the point of absurdity, they force an arbitrary ranking system, I usually come to regret them at some point, etc., etc.

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In all the hubbub of the Toronto International Film Festival, sometimes it's easy to forget where you are. Amidst the wall of people crowding the streets, the buzz of foreign languages, and Hollywood celebrities emerging from black SUV's you might be at any major world film festival.

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A teenage boy stares at his reflection in a fogged mirror shrouded in darkness. Moments later the same boy watches a train derail off a bridge. Then he is trapped in one of the train's cars as it fills with water. He impotently slams his hands against the ceiling in an attempt to free himself.

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85th Annual Academy Awards Coverage:

• Oscar Talk: Argo Annointed Hollywood's Best
• Oscar Talk: Can Big Ben Get It Done?
• Critical Perspectives: Thoughts on America in Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty
• Critical Perspectives: Am I the Only Person on Earth who thought Silver Linings Playbook Sucked?!
• Critical Perspectives: Django Unchained and the Post-Modern Question

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