TIFF debuts continue to turn heads

Plenty of excited reactions continue to emerge from the Toronto International Film Festival, the biggest festival in North America and a reliable weather vane of the Oscar fortunes for the remainder of the year, with none garnering more notice than Eddie Redmayne, whose portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything received an astonished standing ovation from Toronto audiences, taking TIFF by storm. Following his years at Cambridge and battle with motor neurone disease, as well as his relationship with his first wife, played by Felicity Jones, the film is poised to be front-runner sensation.

Steve Carell's performance in Foxcatcher continues to be considered an Oscar nominee shoe-in, and now that people have seen Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler, his career redefining performance set in the underworld of Los Angeles crime journalism is said to be utterly stunning.

Noah Baumbach's While We're Young scored a $4 million distribution deal, after its festival debut. Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Amanda Sayfried and Adam Driver star in the multi-generational Brooklyn comedy.

Keep an eye out for a Ukranian picture called The Tribe, a story told entirely in sign language with no subtitles, dialogue or voiceover, The Tribe is wordless cinema unlike anything we've seen before following a teenager's arrival at a boarding school for deaf signers - it's audacious, disturbing and by all accounts, sensational.

The reviews and buzz will keep unspooling through Sunday, so stay tuned!