Spike Lee launches pandemic-hit Toronto festival with online premiere

Spike Lee kicked off a unique Toronto film festival Thursday with a tribute to black victims of police violence, as his latest movie premiered online and at drive-in screenings due to coronavirus. With a pandemic and a closed Canadian border forcing Hollywood stars and media to remain home, North America's biggest film festival has scrambled to find socially-distanced ways to present this year's line-up. Even directors have stayed away, meaning that "David Byrne's American Utopia" -- Lee's movie version of the Talking Heads musician's Broadway concert -- officially opened the festival by streaming on the web. The unusual format did not dampen reviews....