The Toronto Star had a look at TIFF buzz films. The paper followed up to day with some capsule reviews of selected films.

Very helpful, except the deadline for advance ticket orders was Friday at 1 p.m.

Some of the ones they tout are gala films, which are pretty much sold out, according to the chatter in the TIFF box office down at College Park.

And for those looking to buy tickets next week, many more films will be sold out as the advance pass buyers get first crack.

Ultimately, the Star is advising what films to see at a time when your probability of being able to see them has dropped precipitiously. They should have published this stuff on Thursday.

Now had 70 capsule reviews that day. I guess they were trying to be useful to their readers.

I shouldn't go soft on the Globe. It has really low-balled its advance TIFF coverage this year. The Seven Days pullout had one story that mentioned 11 films plus another that mentioned CanCon titles, but again, many of those were already sold out by the time a prospective TIFF-goer saw it. Most of the Globe's coverage focused on star-watching. The paper does promise 50 capsule reviews next week, which will be helpful for the rush crowd, I guess.

Remember the Battle for Panjwaii, the relatively bloody Canadian success story of September 2006? The New York Times is reporting that the Taliban are back in Panjwaii and Zhari Districts.

I'm not sure what happened, but the images didn't load at the Beeb when I went there. And it looked a little something like this:

To that, I say, "Ewwwwww."

Update

The site went down completely for me. That's a rare thing for the Beeb. It's generally been technically exemplary in terms of stability.

When it came back, the pix were gone again. Oooo-eeee-oooo.

The Brockville Recorder and Times newspaper knew about bizarre practices at Grenville Christian College nearly 20 years ago, but then backed off the story when abandoned by terrified sources and threatened by a high-powered Toronto law firm.