Normally there's some kind of debate in what I select for the the monthly pick. There's some great choices in October too, with Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and Jonathan Demme's The Silence of th...

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What’s in a name? For the new documentary feature, The History of Concrete, this particular name might signal a topic that few people would be interested in. But they’d be missing out. Documentary fil...

I didn’t plan to make a third dispatch from TIFF, but sometimes things just happen. There were two additional movies from the festival that I really hadn’t said too much about, I Play Rocky and Ink. W...

As promised, here is my second dispatch from TIFF. I can’t say I was shocked by the winner of the TIFF People’s Choice this year, which went to Netflix’s La Bola Negra. Perhaps stranger was the idea o...

In my attempts to play catch up after TIFF, I’ve fallen a little behind on the dispatches that I planned for the festival, but fear not! They are now. I’ve already reviewed four of the movies I watche...

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Director Jane Schoenbrun trades in the late night TV of the 90s for the camp slashers of the 80s in their newest feature, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. After premiering the film at the Cannes ...

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The last time the world saw Tom Holland’s Spider-Man was way back in December of 2021. That entry in the Spider-Man filmography felt particularly vital, not only because it turned into a celebration o...

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Since premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Alysa Nahmias documentary Cookie Queens, has been one of my most anticipated films of the year. As someone who has volunteered as a Girl Scou...

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First up is Sheep in the Box. Hirokazu Kore-eda has long been one of my favorite directors. His features often focus on themes of found family whether that’s with a child that is not your own like in ...

I was shocked to learn this morning that the great musician Glen Hansard passed away at the age of 56 in a motorbike crash in Dublin. Like many others, I first learned of Hansard through John Carney's...

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The Odyssey star on the “role of his career,” his character’s guilt, and what the goddess of wisdom and war represents in the film.

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This week Evan and Dave sat side by side in the movie house (notably not an IMAX movie house) to watch (2:44), Christopher Nolan's film of Homer's epic poem. Because after OPPENHEIMER, what do you do...

When Oppenheimer released, few could anticipate how well the movie would be received commercially and critically. Universal took a gamble on the project and paid off in spades. Naturally, when you hav...

Olivia Wilde began her directing career with the sensational, Booksmart. I loved that coming-of-age comedy and thought Wilde was a director to watch. Then came Don't Worry Darlin' with its disastrous ...

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Letterboxd has reportedly held exploratory sales talks with Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures and other parties.

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A few years back, Enola Holmes provided a nice distraction from a global pandemic. The film was a vehicle for Stranger Things’ star Millie Bobby Brown to spread her wings into other properties. It has...

The comedian and filmmaker talks about reference, melodrama, and straddling the lines between comedy and sincerity.

Drew will receive a $25,000 cash grant to support production of 'Trandemic.'

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