The Toronto International Film Festival got going with a face-smashing, belly-laughing gangster caper from a director best known as Madonna’s husband.

Directed by the Pang brothers (Danny and Oxide), “Bangkok Dangerous” is a halfhearted remake of their 1999 picture of the same name.

“August Evening” explores the strained family ties among illegal immigrants from Mexico and their children living in various parts of Texas.

Claude Miller’s haunting new movie is called “A Secret.” But the gist of this story of repression and family tragedy is that secrets are rarely singular.

“Mister Foe” is infused with enough macabre and comical touches to prevent it from sliding into clinical sensationalism.

The Academy Award the director Frank Capra received for his film “Prelude to War” has been given to the Army, The Associated Press reported.

The Toronto International Film Festival, which opened on Thursday, includes 312 films from 64 countries, 116 of them world premieres.

Had Jorge Ameer, the writer and director of “The House of Adam,” aimed for high-flying camp instead of low-rent earnestness, his movie might have stood a chance.

How atrocious is the comedy “Everybody Wants to Be Italian”? Let me count the ways.

Never quite shaking off its aura of second-rate made-for-TV movie, this gay conversion melodrama has a lot of heart but little nerve and no surprise.

“Ping Pong Playa” mines hip-hop comedy gold from the least gangsta context imaginable: the assimilated Chinese-Americans of suburban California.

MOVIES.

Mr. LaFontaine brought his melodramatic baritone to so many movie trailers, commercials and television promos that he became known in the industry as “the voice of God.”

Mr. Reed was a popular country singer and movie actor whose larger-than-life storytelling and flashy guitar work vividly evoked Southern life.

Abu Dhabi Media, flush with oil cash, is adding to the $1 billion deal it announced with Warner Brothers last year, and is putting another billion in a new movie business.

“The Pool” takes a look at the lives of the haves and the someday might haves in Goa.

Marc Eliot’s book is predicated on the idea that Ronald Reagan is best understood as “a serial populist” and that his career in government had its roots in his long acting career.

At the festival, new movies pay homage to a New York that somehow got away.

Don LaFontaine popularized the catch phrase “In a world where...” and lent his voice to thousands of movie trailers.

Fewer people went to the movies this summer than last, but higher ticket prices and a Batman sequel delivered near-record revenue to the major studios.