Five Films to Look Forward to at TIFF

1. Shame

A drama centered on 30-something Brandon (Michael Fassbender), his myriad sexual escapades, and what happens when his wayward younger sister moves in with him. Directed by Steve McQueen.

2. Martha Marcy May Marlene

Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult. Directed by Sean Durkin.

3. Drive

Ryan Gosling stars as a Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.

4. Take Shelter

Michael Shannon stars as a young man plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions who questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. Directed by Jeff Nichols.

5. A Dangerous Method

Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender star as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, whose intense intellectual relationship gives birth to psychoanalysis. Directed by David Cronenberg.

Christopher Misch

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I've always loved movies, but it wasn't until under the tutelage of Professor Garry Leonard at the University of Toronto that my passion for the industry became an understanding of an art form. With a specific fascination in both the western genre and Asian cinema in general, I am of the view that good movies are either enlightening or entertaining, and if you are truly lucky they are both.