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‘Vermiglio’ Review: Italy’s Award-Winning Oscar Submission Is A Sprawling, Ambitious Family Chronicle

September 26, 2024 12:30 pm

TIFF: Sprawling, historical family sagas used to be de rigueur as culminating artistic statements from our greatest talents. They were characterized by the intertwined lives of a large cast of characters—paren...

‘A Real Pain’ Trailer: Jesse Eisenberg & Kieran Culkin Play Mismatched Cousins In A Sundance Dramedy Coming In Nov

Edward Davis

September 25, 2024 9:16 am

News, Reviews, Trailers

While Sundance 2024 was a bit of a sleepy affair, one of the bigger hits of the festival, quickly acquired by Searchlight Pictures, was “A Real Pain,” the latest directorial effort of actor/filmmaker Jesse Eis...

‘Apartment 7A’ Review: Julia Garner Delivers A Career-Defining Performance In An Otherwise Routine Horror Prequel [Fantastic Fest]

Brian Farvour

September 20, 2024 6:00 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

As the 1960s drew to a close, director Roman Polanski's theatrical adaptation of Ira Levin's novel "Rosemary's Baby" would find immediate success from both the box office and critics alike, eventually finding ...

‘A Mistake’ Review: Elizabeth Banks Confidently Leads A Gloomy Medical Narrative

Brian Farvour

September 19, 2024 3:00 pm

News, Reviews

Let it be said that nothing beats the atmosphere of a good medical drama. Ask the creative team behind "ER," "Chicago Med," or more recent streaming efforts such as "The Good Nurse"; any project able to succes...

‘Agatha All Along’ Review: Kathryn Hahn Leads Marvel’s Playful, Campy, Musical Wicked Witches Tale

Rodrigo Perez

September 18, 2024 9:00 pm

Features, News, Reviews, Television

The witches brew for Marvel Television’s new “Agatha All Along” is what you might expect: a little bit playful, with a dash of comical amusement, some slightly creep witchcrafty macabre notes, a pinch of music...

‘The Old Man’ Review: Jeff Bridges & John Lithgow Grapple With Fatherhood Pain & Identity In Searingly Emotional Season 2

Rodrigo Perez

September 17, 2024 11:29 am

Features, News, Reviews, Television

Family is blood and biology on the surface, but found families—those who are there for us no matter what kinship exists— have taken a central position in our culture in recent years. Those notions, identity, w...

‘The Penguin’ Review: Colin Farrell Leads A Dark, Tragic Tale About The Decay Of The American Dream

Rodrigo Perez

September 16, 2024 6:26 pm

Features, News, Reviews, Television

In the grand tradition of “The Godfather” and “Scarface,” similarly modernistic versions influenced by the same works like James Gray’s early New York crime films and augmented by the dilapidated layer of grim...

‘The Deb’ Review: Natalie Abbott, Charlotte MacInnes & These Aussie Kids Can Sing [TIFF]

Gregory Ellwood

September 15, 2024 2:30 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

TORONTO - There have been a number of unexpected news reports about "The Deb," the feature directorial debut of Rebel Wilson, over the past few months. Wilson has been in a war of words with the producers of t...

‘Hold Your Breath’ Review: A Fantastic Sarah Paulson Can’t Save Formulaic Horror Drama [TIFF]

Ankit Jhunjhunwala

September 15, 2024 9:56 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

“Hold Your Breath“ is directors Karrie Crouse and Will Joines’ debut feature, developed as part of the Sundance Institute’s Writer’s Lab program and likely a passion project. Unfortunately, due to an extremely...

‘Shell’ Review: Elizabeth Moss & Kate Hudson Skewer Hollywood Ageism With Playful Slasher Comedy [TIFF]

Ankit Jhunjhunwala

September 14, 2024 10:49 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Max Minghella’s “Shell” follows in the grand tradition of lurid comedies, like Robert Zemeckis’ “Death Becomes Her,” which satirizes societal pressures on women to look youthful and vital into the later stages...