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Usually a month where we tend to avoid the multiplex, the positive buzz on Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class and J.J. Abrams' Super 8 and the inclusion of Blacklist 2008 favorite Bad Teacher means we might be shifting between smaller and larger venues this June.

For the Sales Agent stationed in the Netherlands, 2011 could be considered an off year with only two titles (Leila Kilani's Sur La Planche and Corman's World gets some replay value) in Cannes. Put they have a solid selection of Asian titles in the pipeline and two Brit titles in Kevin MacDonald's Marley and Michel Winterbottom's The Promised Land which we look forward to with much anticipation.

It's hard to really like any of the characters, but that is no excuse to not like the film itself. The Killer Inside Me is an excellent example of a modern day film noir: gritty, sexy, and unsettling in equal measures.

Here's this morning's press conference where Toronto Int. Film Festival co-directors Cameron Bailey & Piers Handling introduced the majority of the titles that will make up this year's stellar Gala and Special Presentations section.

In the Main Comp, there's a new film by Daniel Burman, often referred to as "Woody Allen from Argentina". Brother and Sister appears to continue the regular Burman thread of light, talkative dramas. There is also a new film by Jan Sverak, who is best known for his Oscar-winning Kolya. Sverak's Kooky seems to be a live-action version of Pixar's Toy Story.