Title: Tabloid Director: Errol Morris Featuring: Joyce McKinney, Jackson Shaw, Peter Tory, Troy Williams, Kent Gavin There are true stories that make good movies and then true stories that are so rife with implausibility that they make terrible movies, and in Tabloid, masterful, Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris has taken the latter and made an incredibly entertaining nonfiction film with all the wily narrative surprise of a tawdry B-movie run amok. A jaw-dropping, wonderfully bonkers look back at one of the stranger gossip-rag human interest tales of the 1970s, Tabloid is a streamlined treat that offers up a crafty, academic case-study overview of both romantic obsession and journalistic overreach, all without sacrificing for a moment any of…

Title: L’Amour Fou Director: Pierre Thoretton Documentaries are great, in that they can shine a light on all sorts of niche subjects heretofore unexplored, but they can also be a major drag or bore, especially when their makers become too convinced of the grand, sweeping importance and inherent interest level of their subject matter. Case in point: L’Amour Fou, a hagiography of haute couture legend Yves Saint Laurent that played at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Solemn to the point of utter suffocation, director Pierre Thoretton’s wildly tedious exploration of the French-Algerian designer — who studied at the feet of Christian Dior, and following his…

By Patricia Martinez The Toronto Film Festival has become runner up to importance on all things indie horror. It was learned that Brightlight Pictures’ They Wait was officially accepted as Canadas first picture inside. Written by Carl Bessai and Doug Taylor, story by Trevor Markwart. They Wait is directed by Ernie Barbarash that brought us Cube Zero, Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming. A supernatural thriller starring Jaime King, They Wait is inspired by true events and tells the terrifying tale of one family’s life-threatening encounter with angry spirits during Hungry Ghost Month, a festival still celebrated in Taiwan but which has virtually disappeared from mainland China.