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Yankees-Blue Jays Game 4 takeaways: Toronto rides bullpen day back to ALCS

Yankees-Blue Jays Game 4 takeaways: Toronto rides bullpen day back to ALCS

By Brendan Kuty, Mitch Bannon and Chris Kirschner  For the first time in nine years, the Toronto Blue Jays are heading back to the American League Championship Series. Yankee Stadium released exasperated groans as New York fell to Toronto’s rotating relievers and the Yankees’ bats faltered in late-inning opportunities. The Jays tortured the Yankees all season, and notched one final …

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Toronto stars trying to take down Yankees

Toronto stars trying to take down Yankees

The Yankees are a good way toward proving that their September/October version is their reality, not the June/July edition. Midseason was miserable mainly because the Red Sox won five of six games against the Yankees to resuscitate their season from underperformance toward the playoffs. The Blue Jays won five of six to leapfrog the Yankees and take first in the …

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Hamnet wins top award at the Toronto film festival | Toronto film festival 2025

Hamnet wins top award at the Toronto film festival | Toronto film festival 2025

Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Hamnet has won this year’s people’s choice award at the Toronto film festival. The acclaimed drama, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel, stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal and tells a fictionalised account of William Shakespeare and wife Agnes as they grieve for their young son. The award has come to suggest future Oscar success, with …

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Hamnet Wins Toronto Film Festival 2025 Audience Award

Hamnet Wins Toronto Film Festival 2025 Audience Award

Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” captured the Toronto International Film Festival’s highly coveted people’s choice award, bolstering its Oscars chances. In addition, Zhao is the first director to win the award twice, coming after her 2020 victory for “Nomadland.” Since the Academy expanded the best picture field in 2009, TIFF Audience Award winners have become reliable Oscar barometers. Films such as “Green …

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‘Hamnet’ Wins Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award

‘Hamnet’ Wins Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award

The People’s Choice Award from the just-wrapped 50th Toronto Film Festival has gone to Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, first runner-up is Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and second runner-up is Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Hamnet hails from Focus Features, while latter two are from Netflix. Also in the awards revealed Sunday, the newly created International People’s Choice Award went to …

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Toronto International Film Festival 2025: Best Movies

Toronto International Film Festival 2025: Best Movies

From devastating docs about tragedies in Gaza and Argentina to a Gothic monster movie with a heart and soul — the highlights of TIFF’s 50th anniversary edition Happy 50th birthday, TIFF! The Toronto International Film Festival celebrated its golden jubilee edition by doing what it’s done since in inception as the “festival of festivals”: showed a ton of movies, culled …

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Brian Cox Suffers Kilt Wardrobe Malfunction at Toronto Premiere

Brian Cox Suffers Kilt Wardrobe Malfunction at Toronto Premiere

Brian Cox, a proud Scotsman, left little to the imagination Thursday night as he wore a kilt to the world premiere of Glenrothan, his Scotch whisky drama and directorial debut, at the Toronto Film Festival. “Is it that bad?” an immodest Cox asked after a filmgoer in the Roy Thomson Hall audience during the post-screening Q&A put up his hand to …

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James McAvoy Punched by Random Stranger at TIFF Party, Insider Reveals What Happened | 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, James McAvoy | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

James McAvoy Punched by Random Stranger at TIFF Party, Insider Reveals What Happened | 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, James McAvoy | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

James McAvoy is thankfully laughing off an incident that happened at the Toronto Film Festival, but it sure sounded scary! Keep reading to find out more… It has been reported that the 46-year-old actor was “sucker punched” by a random stranger while attending a party during the festival on Monday night (September 8) in Toronto, Canada. James was at the …

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James McAvoy reportedly assaulted in Toronto bar | Film

James McAvoy reportedly assaulted in Toronto bar | Film

The actor James McAvoy was assaulted in a bar in Toronto, it has been reported. According to People magazine, McAvoy was “sucker punched” by another visitor to Charlotte’s Room bar on Monday evening, two days after the premiere of his directorial debut, California Schemin’, at the Toronto film festival. People magazine quoted “a source close to McAvoy” who said: “James …

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