Video Blog: 12 Years A Slave, Parkland And Other Toronto Film Festival Highlights

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Welcome, students. The topic of today’s Toronto International Film Festival “lesson” is history. Slavery, presidential assassinations and the vicious living conditions in P.O.W. camps are dissected in 12 Years a Slave, Parkland and The Railway Man, respectively. I was lucky enough to see all three here at TIFF, and I’m catching you up on them below.

One of them, I’m interested in seeing again, and soon. One of them, I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to watch again, no matter how good it is. The third one was … good, but too modest to make much of a splash in this busy festival setting. Find out how these three star-studded TIFF films shook out in our latest video blog from the heart of Canada:

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Sean O'Connell
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Sean O’Connell is a journalist and CinemaBlend’s Managing Editor. Having been with the site since 2011, Sean interviewed myriad directors, actors and producers, and created ReelBlend, which he proudly cohosts with Jake Hamilton and Kevin McCarthy. And he's the author of RELEASE THE SNYDER CUT, the Spider-Man history book WITH GREAT POWER, and an upcoming book about Bruce Willis.