Jude Law, Giancarlo Giannini and Johnnie Walker. It may be an advert, but plays like a short film. From the director of PLUNKETT & MACLEANE (1999).

Kevin Smith's TUSK is screening at the Toronto Film Festival Midnight Madness strand:

A documentary on the man that supposedly inspired Nicolas Cage's Yuri Orlov in LORD OF WAR:

Gripping HORNS has a trailer:

Thirty years on from the last instalment, it looks to have been worth the wait.

Out to own today:

Director Joseph Kahn came to talk on Monday after a screening of his ace, underrated gem, DETENTION (2011). Here are 11 things we learned:

1. Said he didn’t behave on TORQUE (2004), his debut. If he did it again, would be more political.

2. Calls himself a working commercial advert director. Was broke after TORQUE – feature film directors don’t make any money.

3. Kahn makes about 20 music videos a year.

4. No studio wanted DETENTION, because so f***ing weird. Spent his own money.

5. Characters in DETENTION know movies, because it makes the film more realistic; so they reference pop culture – SCREAM, etc.

6. Has not seen a dime from the film yet; though is confident that over a long time (more than three decades) he will eventually make money back. The soundtrack alone cost $1.2 million.

7. The most obscure reference in the movie, “Got to fled”, from the little seen FLED (1996).

8. DETENTION took about five years to put together.

9. David Fincher is a massive influence, e.g. Paula Abdul video. Joseph spent a year drawing out each edit of THE SOCIAL NETWORK.

10. The greatest gift, one artist can give another, is to cut out the a**hole.

11. Up next for Kahn: A Smirnoff ad, a 10-minute short film, and is writing a feature film.

The MADAGASCAR franchise has been uneven, but the Penguins getting their chance to take the spotlight might be a winning move.

The fourth instalment has been a long time in the waiting. Due May 2015.