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Writer/ director Camille Griffin’s Silent Night takes us to a very stiff upper lip British dinner party hosted by Nell (Keira Knightley) and Simon (Matthew Goode). Among their children are Art, played by Griffin’s own son Roman Griffin Davis (JoJo Rabbit), while the guests include interloping American girlfriend…

When it comes to action movies rallying at the box office, Phillip Noyce knows what works, and his résumé counts a plethora of successes including the Angelina Jolie spy movie Salt and the Tom Clancy movies Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.  But with Lakewood, he’s gone outside the studio system to make a…

After reading Matt Harris’ script for The Starling, director Ted Melfi couldn't get it out of his head. “It was just a beautiful story about a couple trying to figure out how to make it,” he said in a recent virtual conversation, as part of Deadline’s Toronto Studio. “I've been married 25 years, and I'm always trying…

In a departure from his previous comedic films, Steve Pink says The Wheel “is an intimate drama, or a portrait, about a relationship in crisis." The film follows Walker (Taylor Gray) and Albee (Amber Midthunder), a young couple on the verge of divorce, as they travel to an Airbnb in the mountains to get away and work…

In his most personal film to date, Kenneth Branagh's Belfast tells the story of a fictional nine-year-old version of himself during the Troubles in late '60s Northern Ireland. "It's really the story of something that happened to me when I was nine years old," says Branagh, "that happy life with a big extended family…

Directed by Antoine Fuqua, The Guilty follows Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) who is reluctantly answering emergency calls due to a demotion he received prior to a disciplinary hearing. When he receives a cryptic call from a woman who has been kidnapped, he tries to piece together the few clues he has to help her. As the…

Based on the novel by Miriam Toews, director Michael McGowan's adaption of All My Puny Sorrows tells the story of the women in a family struggling with a history of suicide and depression. Yoli (Alison Pill) is a writer going through a contentious divorce and dealing with self-doubt, who comes home when her mother…

Canadian recording superstar Alanis Morissette opens up in the HBO documentary Jagged, reexamining her rise in the music business and revealing that she was the victim of multiple statutory rapes at age 15. But with the film set for its world premiere Tuesday at the Toronto Film Festival, her presence at the event…

For John Michael McDonagh's film adaption of The Forgiven, it was important to highlight the main themes of the Lawrence Osborne novel. "It's about the blindness, and the privilege, and the things you're not seeing," he says. Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes star as Jo and David, a wealthy couple on the verge of…

For The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, star Benedict Cumberbatch and director Will Sharpe were compelled to tell the story of a quiet man whose life bordered on the extraordinary. Louis Wain is "a quiet hero," says Benedict Cumberbatch. "Somebody who, in a very loud world, stayed true to who he was and it cost him a…

British director Rob Savage hasn't let the pandemic interrupt his urge to make movies. Since Covid swept the world he has made not one but two feature horror films. The latest, Dashcam, just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Like its predecessor Host ("a runaway hit," as Rolling Stone called it…

With its world premiere at TIFF, Montana Story explores broken familial bonds and confronting past traumas. Written and directed by Scott McGhee and David Siegel, explores the ramifications of family betrayal and a lack of honest communication. The film follows estranged siblings Cal (Owen Teague) and Erin (Haley Lu Ri…