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TIFF Review: ‘Black Kite’ is a Bittersweet Tale of Perseverance Against Adversity

With the world caught in a time and place allowing it to quickly judge so much on so little, tiny human stories like Black Kite prove to be their most potent. A...

Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson Reunite in First Trailer for ‘The Commuter’

After waxing poetic about the B-movie thrills and genuine vision Jaume Collet-Serra brings to his films, I admit feeling a little vindicated when he finally...

‘The Disaster Artist’ Trailer: James Franco Makes His ‘Ed Wood’ in ‘The Room’ Retelling

One of the most popular films of the century thus far, although perhaps not having anything to do with standard quality metrics, is Tommy Wiseau's The Room...

TIFF Review: Margot Robbie is at Her Best in the Darkly Comedic ‘I, Tonya’

Eclipsed by the subsequent notorious O.J. Simpson murder fiasco, one can’t really blame Margot Robbie for initially believing Tonya Harding to be a fictitious c...

TIFF Review: ‘Darkest Hour’ is a Self-Parody of the British Prestige Picture

Let’s get this out of the way: Darkest Hour is pure, uncut Oscar bait that goes through every bullcrap great-man biopic platitude imaginable in its two-hour run...

TIFF Review: ‘The Current War’ Offers an Electric History Lesson and Overwrought Melodrama

The title is The Current War, but it's subject is truly more history than battle. It's flashier to think about our modern day electrical system as a conflict be...

TIFF Review: Cinematic Sexcapades are Fascinatingly Explored in ‘Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood’

If the phrase "tell-all" hadn't been coined before 2012, Scotty Bowers' memoir Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars wo...

‘Downsizing’ Trailer: Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig Shrink to Live Big

While not arriving with the mostly unanimous acclaim that most of his other films received upon premiere, we still found a lot to like with Alexander Payne'...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 262 – IT

We band together to tackle It, the new adaptation of the Stephen King novel that destroyed the box office this weekend....

TIFF Review: ‘Custody’ is a Steady Crescendo of Suspense

It didn't win the Oscar for best live action short in 2014, but Xavier Legrand’s Just Before Losing Everything was by far my favorite nominee. Discovering his d...

News

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Trailers

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Reviews

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Features

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Interviews

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Podcasts

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