The founder of the Toronto International Film Festival is tired of the griping that the star-studded event has become too big, too Hollywood, too glitzy. 

Kazakhstani reporter Borat's antics on the red carpet stole the show on opening night. But by the midway point of the festival, the tone had become decidedly more sombre, with films on terrorism and politics dominating the lineup. 

The swanky downtown Toronto hotel that allowed actor Sean Penn to light up and smoke a cigarette during a news conference will be levelled with more than $600 in fines. 

The anti-George W. Bush rhetoric that has been a near-constant refrain at this year's Toronto International Film Festival reached a crescendo Friday when Spike Lee sat down to discuss his epic documentary on hurricane Katrina.