The Toronto International Film Festival gets underway this week with over 200 feature films and dozens of special events. We will have multiple people on the ground in Canada to report on the best, the worst, and everything in between. Now, a lot of what people see in Toronto, and some of what we’ll cover, … Read more
Michael Keaton’s stripe-suited afterlife menace makes his anticipated return this fall, but Beetlejuice will be making a quick stop in Venice just a month before. Say it once. Say it twice. The organizers of the 81st Venice International Film Festival have said his name three times to summon him for the opening of this year’s … Read more
The season opens with a scene sure to delight fans and followers of Rodríguez. Based on the books by Karin Slaughter, Will Trent was not originally Latino but with Rodríguez’s casting, not to mention his phenomenal performance as the dyslexic detective who manages to be endearing and prickly, the character’s ethnicity demanded a reexamination. And, … Read more
The legacy of Bob Marley lives on with the new film, Bob Marley: One Love and the film’s premiere holds its own concert with the Marley family in attendance. Bob Marley’s message of love, peace, and unity is being told in the new film, Bob Marley: One Love. Unfortunately, since his time, the world seems … Read more
What if… Marvel released a new show daily instead of weekly? We’re about to find out. The new season of What If…? is here, and Marvel is doing something totally different with this new batch of animated Marvel adventures set in some of the weirder corners of the multiverse. The premiere is available today, December 22, on … Read more
The darkly comedic series Obituary will be released through the Hulu streaming service next week, and today we have the trailer All six episodes of the darkly comedic crime drama Obituary will be available to watch on the Hulu streaming service as of Tuesday, November 21st – and with that date just a week away, … Read more
The following recap has spoilers for the first episode of Loki Season 2. If you were hoping Loki would get the Marvel Cinematic Universe back to an emphasis on characters and their emotional arcs, and away from endless plot convolutions and the broader plot of “The Multiverse Saga” … uh … The Marvels is only a month away? … Read more
Somehow, Eddie Murphy has spent decades in Hollywood headlining comedies, but he’s never made a single Christmas movie. (Personally, I make it a point to rewatch Daddy Day Care every holiday season, but I recognize that that is just me and my weird issues.) That will finally change this year with Candy Cane Lane, a new Christmas comedy coming … Read more
“Finestkind” Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, and Tommy Lee Jones pull you onto their crew in this rousing crime drama by writer-director Brian Helgeland (“Legend,” TIFF ’15) about a group of fishermen who make a habit out of pushing the line. Charlie (Wallace) is looking to get away from his dull college education when he begs … Read more
The Proxima Competition, in its second year of existence, will present ten world and two international premieres, nine of which are fictional features alongside two documentaries from filmmakers like Swiss author Thomas Imbach, Poland’s Olga Chajdas, Cyprus-born Kyros Papavassiliou, French filmmaker Émilie Brisavoine and Romanian documentarist Alexandru Solomon, etc. NRC critic and Rotterdam International Film … Read more