{"id":8884,"date":"2016-09-08T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/today-in-movie-culture-the-best-of-the-toronto-film-festival-honoring-tom-hanks-the-hero-and-more\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T06:00:00","slug":"today-in-movie-culture-the-best-of-the-toronto-film-festival-honoring-tom-hanks-the-hero-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/today-in-movie-culture-the-best-of-the-toronto-film-festival-honoring-tom-hanks-the-hero-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Movie Culture: The Best of the Toronto Film Festival, Honoring Tom Hanks the Hero and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-best-toronto-film-festival-honoring-tom-hanks-hero-more\/21280?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\">Christopher Campbell<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-best-toronto-film-festival-honoring-tom-hanks-hero-more\/21280?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201609\/dragoncon-2016-cosplay-80.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Video List of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the Toronto International Film Festival kicking off today, Kevin B. Lee and Fandor Keyframe present a countdown of the best TIFF premieres of the past decade: <\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Cosplay of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the best cosplayers of this year&#8217;s Dragon Con mashed up two favorite superhero movie characters of 2016, Deadpool and <em>Suicide Squad<\/em>&#8216;s Harley Quinn (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/collider.com\/dragon-con-2016-cosplay-images\/\">via Collider<\/a>):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Supercut of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen enough Batman movie kill counts, so now it&#8217;s time for love with this supercut of all 60 of his kisses on the big screen (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/and-now-every-time-batman-has-kissed-someone-in-live-a-1786253595\">via io9<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Vintage Image of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Peter Sellers, who was born on this day in 1925, looks on as Stanley Kubrick shows him how to play the title characters of <em>Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb <\/em>in 1963:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201609\/strangelove2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Funny Movie Review of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Onion<\/em>&#8216;s Peter K. Rosenthal reviews <em>Sully <\/em>with focus on how it doesn&#8217;t ignores the tragedy for the geese involved in the story:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Mashup of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Funny or Die highlights how many characters Tom Hanks has played involving airports and airplanes and captains by mashing his movies up for a new version of <em>Sully<\/em>: <\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Actor in the Spotlight: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also in honor of Tom Hanks starring as hero Chesley Sullenberger in <em>Sully<\/em>, Fandango and MovieClips present a supercut of the actor saving the day: <\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Filmmaker in Focus: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Tom Hanks movies about saving the day, The Nerdwriter looks at <em>Saving Private Ryan <\/em>and how Steven Spielberg constructs a battle scene: <\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fan Art of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Paul Feig is another filmmaker in focus today, as one of his fans got a tattoo of his face, a unique kind of director tribute (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulfeig\/status\/773968020767137792\">via Paul Feig<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulfeig\">@paulfeig<\/a> update: this is the finished product <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FWE05D8Y4u\">pic.twitter.com\/FWE05D8Y4u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 frank (@notfrankievalli) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/notfrankievalli\/status\/773671417955098624\">September 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Classic Trailer of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today is the 10th anniversary of the release of <em>Hollywoodland<\/em>. Watch the original trailer for the movie that first put Ben Affleck in a DC superhero suit below. <\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><span>and <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-best-toronto-film-festival-honoring-tom-hanks-hero-more\/21280?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Today in Movie Culture: The Best of the Toronto Film Festival, Honoring Tom Hanks the Hero and More\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-best-toronto-film-festival-honoring-tom-hanks-hero-more\/21280?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/today-movie-culture-best-toronto-film-festival-honoring-tom-hanks-hero-more\/21280?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201609\/dragoncon-2016-cosplay-80.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Video List of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the Toronto International Film Festival kicking off today, Kevin B. Lee and Fandor Keyframe present a countdown of the best TIFF premieres of the past decade: <\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Cosplay of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the best cosplayers of this year&#8217;s Dragon Con mashed up two favorite superhero movie characters of 2016, Deadpool and <em>Suicide Squad<\/em>&#8216;s Harley Quinn (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/collider.com\/dragon-con-2016-cosplay-images\/\">via Collider<\/a>):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Supercut of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen enough Batman movie kill counts, so now it&#8217;s time for love with this supercut of all 60 of his kisses on the big screen (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/and-now-every-time-batman-has-kissed-someone-in-live-a-1786253595\">via io9<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Vintage Image of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Peter Sellers, who was born on this day in 1925, looks on as Stanley Kubrick shows him how to play the title characters of <em>Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb <\/em>in 1963:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201609\/strangelove2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Funny Movie Review of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Onion<\/em>&#8216;s Peter K. Rosenthal reviews <em>Sully <\/em>with focus on how it doesn&#8217;t ignores the tragedy for the geese involved in the story:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Mashup of the Day: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Funny or Die highlights how many characters Tom Hanks has played involving airports and airplanes and captains by mashing his movies up for a new version of <em>Sully<\/em>: <\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Actor in the Spotlight: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also in honor of Tom Hanks starring as hero Chesley Sullenberger in <em>Sully<\/em>, Fandango and MovieClips present a supercut of the actor saving the day: <\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Filmmaker in Focus: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Tom Hanks movies about saving the day, The Nerdwriter looks at <em>Saving Private Ryan <\/em>and how Steven Spielberg constructs a battle scene: <\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fan Art of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Paul Feig is another filmmaker in focus today, as one of his fans got a tattoo of his face, a unique kind of director tribute (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulfeig\/status\/773968020767137792\">via Paul Feig<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulfeig\">@paulfeig<\/a> update: this is the finished product <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FWE05D8Y4u\">pic.twitter.com\/FWE05D8Y4u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 frank (@notfrankievalli) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/notfrankievalli\/status\/773671417955098624\">September 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Classic Trailer of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today is the 10th anniversary of the release of <em>Hollywoodland<\/em>. Watch the original trailer for the movie that first put Ben Affleck in a DC superhero suit below. <\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><span>and <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}