There's no homecoming like an Italian homecoming. The food, the wine, the stories...the secrets. Jerry Ciccoritti's latest film, The Resurrection of Tony Gitone which premiered at the Royal Cinema last night, is a character-led family drama in the tradition of Diner or Goodfellas - but with a focus here on the lives, loves and stories found in the Italian-Canadian community.

The story, set in Little Italy, centers on the return of Nino, a local boy done good played by Fab Filippo. Nino is the neighbourhood golden boy, having left for Hollywood to try his luck in the city of dreams, and now he's returned clutching the biggest one - a leading role in a major feature opposite the Hollywood It-Girl of the moment, Vanessa Luna (Paula Rivera). The bonus? She's also currently his girlfriend.

Sudz Sutherland's new film Home Again champions the cause of deportees from the Jamaican diaspora, in a harrowing and often violent look at the unintended consequences of existing Western immigration policies.

In Home Again, which had its world premiere at TIFF 2012, three very different people - Dunstan from New York (played by Lyriq Bent), Everton from England (Stephan James) and Marva (Tatyana Ali) from Toronto - find themselves fighting for survival when they each run afoul of the law for minor offenses and find themselves sent back to Jamaica, their country of birth, with little more than an entry document and their own wits to start over a new life.

When I first watched Tower, my first reaction was - I don't get it. The latest film from Toronto film distribution company College St Pictures, Tower has been screening exclusively at The Royal Cinema since Friday after having premiered at Locarno Film Festival and TIFF, respectively. The first feature film from director Kazik Radwanski and producer Dan Montgomery of MDFF Films - award-winning creators of shorts like Assault (2007), and Princess Margaret Blvd. (2008) - is described as "a candid, yet perplexing character study of a Torontonian stuck in a rut." "Perplexing" is probably the best word to describe it.

The Toronto Black Film Festival is Toronto's newest film festival. Created by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, which also launched the Montreal Black Film Festival in 2005, the Toronto Black Film Festival bills itself as cool, international, independent, politically incorrect and eye-opening. It aims to celebrate diversity in black communities and showcase this through a variety of films from around the world.

Keanu Reeves just might be the most underrated movie star out there. But Jesse Wente is out to change that. The Head of Film Programmes at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Wente is the brains behind the Keanu Reeves retrospective, "Whoa. The Films of Keanu Reeves" currently underway at the movie house.

Featuring eleven films spanning Reeves' career, the selection goes from 80s hockey actioner Youngblood, which shows Reeves in his feature film debut beside Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze, to stoner comedy Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure [screening Feb 1] which forever cemented Keanu's awestruck, slightly stoned trademark "whoa...", to indie drama My Own Private Idaho [Feb 22], to his iconic and star-making turns in Speed [March 15] and of course, The Matrix [March 22].

December is upon us, traditionally when the snow begins to fall and creatures begin to hibernate in centrally heated caves with cable and WiFi. But Canadian winter and horror go together like David Cronenberg and gore...or at least they should! So this weekend fans of things that go boo in the dark should head over to the inaugural Blood in the Snow Horror Film Festival presented by Fright Nights, which kicked off last night at Projection Booth East at 1035 Gerrard St East.

Featuring Canadian filmmakers showcasing the best in homegrown horror, the festival's opening feature is zombie flick 'Sick', at 7pm by director Ryan M. Andrews, in its world premiere together with the short film "The Post-Lifers" (Toronto Premiere) directed by Greg Kovacs.