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By DUANE DUDEK Toronto -- The genre film is alive and well and living at the Toronto International Film Festival. For reasons having to do with good things enduring -- or a shortage of fresh ideas -- filmmakers with films showing here have flocked to familiar forms like comfort food.

By Scott Bowles Imagining the end of the world is never easy, especially if you're not going to create one with a computer, but director John Hillcoat and filmmakers of "The Road" believe they discovered it in Pittsburgh. "It's a beautiful place in fall with the colors changing," Hillcoat says.

By Phil Miller One day - maybe in these, our own days - life on this earth will end and humanity with it, and the planet will orbit the sun barren and cold. This book is as shattering an invocation of that ultimate desolation as you will read. It is a tale both simple and devastating.