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Titane Red Band Trailer: Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or Winner is Unleashed Next Month

With Cannes returning this year but pushed back two months from its normal May slot, it means the wait between premiere and theatrical release for most films i...

TIFF Review: Julia Captures a Culinary Icon with Taste

Booked to talk Mastering the Art of French Cooking on public access channel WGBH-TV, Julia Child took it upon herself to call the station and request a hotplat...

TIFF Review: Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava is a Heartwarmingly Funny, Melancholic Romance

Their differences are plenty. Her heritage is Irish; his is Pakistani. She lives in a part of Britain where he knows to worry about getting stones thrown at hi...

TIFF Review: The Middle Man is a Meandering Norwegian Drama of Off-Kilter Absurdity and Bone-Dry Hilarity

Frank Farelli (Pål Sverre Hagen) has been unemployed in a dying town for quite some time. The area used to attract visitors in the past—not many, but enough to...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 443 – Candyman (with Craig D. Lindsey)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Craig D. Lindsey to discuss Ni...

TIFF Review: Benediction Finds Terence Davies Capturing a Complex Life with Wit

Time is everything in a Terence Davies film. In Benediction, his biopic about English poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden), he eventually covers his subject’s ...

TIFF Review: The Wheel Provides a Convoluted, Mirrored Look at Marriage

Despite only being 24 years old, Walker (Taylor Gray) and Albee (Amber Midthunder) head into the woods from their Los Angeles existence to try to save their ei...

TIFF Review: Night Raiders Draws on Canadian History to Tell a Grounded Sci-Fi Tale

German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller coined the poetic confession "First they came…" in 1946. The post-WWII piece spoke about how groups like the Nazis woul...

TIFF Review: Sarah Gadon Stands Out in the Otherwise Disappointing All My Puny Sorrows

It is fitting that All My Puny Sorrows is making its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. This is a quintessential TIFF film. There ...

TIFF Review: Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash Addresses Indonesia’s Hyper-Machismo Culture

Back in the ‘80s, martial arts B-movies from Hong Kong made their way into Indonesian cinema. People were obsessed with them because they were fun and entertai...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Trailers

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Reviews

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

Interviews

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

Podcasts

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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