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…
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“I think without humor, I would die,” says Alison Pill. “And that’s not hyperbolic.” It’s the morning after her latest film, All My Puny Sorrows, premiered…
Opening to rave reviews in 2016, Broadway smash Dear Evan Hansen was nominated for nine Tony Awards, taking home the statue in six of those categories,…
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…
Screening at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Contemporary World Cinema lineup, Blaine Thurier’s Kicking Blood puts a unique spin on vampire…
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…
The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival continues to shape up, with Dear Evan Hansen — director Stephen Chbosky’s adaptation of the smash hit Broadway musical –…