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Colleen Hoover had written 16 of her wildly successful romance novels before switching gears in 2018 and taking a shot at writing a psychological thriller, Verity. She even self-published it, and it led to yet another literary triumph, one that seems…

Digger is unlike any film coming from a major Hollywood studio in years, at least in my memory. It makes sense it comes from Warner Bros, which is the one major that seems to take real swings with big budgets, directors and stars in films you might say…

Over 30 years have passed since Ang Lee worked his magic on Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility, and, aside from a 2008 BBC miniseries, it's taken until now for someone else to have a bash at a feature film version. It's surprising it's taken…

Going to see Heart of the Beast is a dangerous proposition if you don’t want to be seen crying uncontrollably in public. This man-and-his-dog story is an emotional roller coaster that lays it all out there, and I lapped it up just like I did in My Dog Sk…

You have to give points to DreamWorks’ latest animated feature, Forgotten Island, just simply for being an original from a studio system that rewards familiarity. And it comes from writer/directors Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado who proved with their own sequel, 2022’s Puss In Boots: The Last Wish…

The 2026 Toronto Film Festival kicked off Thursday, September 10, and features a slew of world premieres including the official opening-night film Being Heumann, Oscar winner Siân Heder‘s follow-up to her Best Picture winner CODA. The event’s 51st edition features 10 days of premieres, gala…

Perhaps the title of this Toronto Film Festival premiere says it all. Magazine is a period piece set in a pre-digital world as the long proud tradition of print publications is about to end in favor of quick hits and screen-reading in a new and strange…

The great French icon Isabelle Huppert was honored with the TIFF Tribute Performer Award at the Toronto Film Festival this week, and her latest movie, All About Corinne became one of the earliest sales out of TIFF for U.S. distribution with Cohen Media Group buying it. There is a reason for all of…

Six years after his unhinged social media age horror Spree, writer/director Eugene Kotlyarenko takes a more optimistic approach with his action-packed rom-com out of Japan. In Vintage Violence, Carter (Cole Sprouse) is an urban explorer who finds a…

With a concept that is like a twisted version of The Parent Trap, director Trudie Styler’s sly comedy with drama shows what happens when the messy unforeseen circumstances of life and death interrupt a nasty divorce. Up Against It, an apt title, had its world premiere today at the Toronto Film…

South Park is back for its 29th season and while Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s satire is now called South America in homage to Donald Trump’s mastery of geography, the Comedy Central show’s bite is still stars-and-stripes sharp — on or off “Chinese sh*tty e-bikes.” Yep, it was the kids’ status…

Takashi Miike took to the stage at the world premiere of his new film Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo like a rock star. "I'm Miike" he roared. "I'm back!" Which is immediately funny, because he's never, ever really been away; arguably the hardest-working man in…