With the chaos of Sundance 2022’s opening weekend now behind us and the dust beginning to settle, we’re taking a break from screenings to catch up…
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Emergency stars Donald Elise Watkins and RJ Cyler as two best friends with a singular mission: to become the first Black students at their university to…
When You Finish Saving the World finds Jesse Eisenberg stepping behind the camera for the first time, adapting his acclaimed audio drama into a feature length…
Belle, the latest offering from Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda, posits a world where a social media platform known as “U” has become the preferred choice of…
Nearly two decades after becoming the first Black woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress, Halle Berry takes on arguably her biggest challenge yet, stepping…
Allow me to open this review of Red Notice by saying that I’m a huge fan of Dwayne Johnson, and I often find myself able to…
Much in the way Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood hearkened back to the Los Angeles of yesteryear, director Edgar Wright’s new psychological thriller Last…
Denis Villeneuve’s most ambitious project to date finds the director shepherding Frank Herbert’s impossibly dense sci-fi novel Dune to the big screen. It’s a daunting task,…
Adam Randall’s Night Teeth, premiering this week on Netflix, offers a sleek and stylish riff on vampire mythology, treading familiar ground but giving the mostly by-the-numbers…
When it comes to staging eye-popping historical action, few are as adept as Ridley Scott. Simply uttering the legendary director’s name will conjure images of the…
Director Michael Showalter is best known for comedic efforts like Wet Hot American Summer and The Big Sick, so you’d be forgiven for assuming he might…
After an all-digital rendition due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the Toronto International Film Festival returned for its 46th edition this month, offering a hybrid…
Just three years after Gustav Möller’s taut low-budget Danish thriller The Guilty, Antoine Fuqua helms this glossy American remake, leveraging his action sensibilities to squeeze a…
Michael McGowan’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’ acclaimed novel All My Puny Sorrows seeks to explore mental illness and injuries both physical and emotional through its depiction…
Vampires and filmmaking have been intertwined since the earliest days of cinema, when F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu first terrified audiences in 1922, nearly a decade before…
The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival is officially underway, kicking things off last night with the world premiere of Dear Evan Hansen, the feature film adaptation…
On paper, Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly’s Queenpins sounds like a surefire comedic premise: two Arizona women (Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste) amass a fortune through…
Playwright John Pollono makes his directorial debut with Small Engine Repair, adapting his acclaimed 2011 one-act stage play into a feature-length drama about a trio of…
Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s charmingly awkward portrayal of the assassin Huntress was one of the highlights of last year’s Birds of Prey, and this week’s Netflix entry…
The 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival has come to a close, and after experiencing heart-pounding scares in The Night House and religious zealotry taken to extremes…
Musclebound WWE superstar John Cena may not have the box office drawing power of fellow wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne Johnson, nor has he shown the propensity to take…
In the infamous Cabrini-Green housing project in 1977, Sherman Fields (Michael Hargrove) was known throughout the neighborhood for passing out sweets to the local children, but…
A wickedly funny but wildly uneven riff on office politics, Kazuaki Seki’s Office Royale — enjoying its Canadian premiere at the 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival…
Edoardo Vitaletti’s feature-length debut, The Last Thing Mary Saw, is a somber horror tale set in the winter of 1843, where a forbidden romance will have…
Revenge thrillers are rarely in short supply, particularly at genre-heavy affairs like the 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival, and often require something truly unique in order…
The exploration of grief through the horror genre isn’t exactly a new concept — examples can be found as far back as 1973’s Don’t Look Now…
In the opening moments of Leos Carax’s Annette, fingers bang out a punchy piano riff while backup dancers bob their heads along with the beat as…
Despite the enduring popularity of the legends, there’s never been a truly great cinematic depiction of King Arthur and his heroic Knights of the Round Table…
Oscar winner Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater finds Matt Damon — saddled with a thick goatee, a trucker cap and a pair of wraparound shades — portraying Bill…
As one of the most iconic and beloved attractions at the Disney theme parks, it was only a matter of time before Jungle Cruise was tapped…
Fear Street Part 3: 1666 sends the final installment of the horror trilogy back a few centuries to explore the truth behind the legend of Sarah…
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain starts by addressing death, specifically that of its subject. But in this case, it’s not the award-winning chef and television…
After more than a decade in supporting roles, former KGB assassin turned world-saving superhero Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) finally takes center stage in Black Widow, a…
After last week’s Fear Street Part 1: 1994 paid beautifully bloody homage to the slasher flicks of the late 90s, Fear Street Part 2: 1978 winds…