‘Tis the season. Well almost. And perhaps that is why AMC+ and RLJE recently swooped in and took the new holiday-themed dramedy Silent Nightoff the market (domestically at least) before its Toronto International Film Festival premiere tonight. Who doesn’t love a good ‘ol Christmas movie, perhaps the most reliable…
I am not of fan of movies that resort to breaking the fourth wall, as it were, and letting their key characters talk incessantly to the audience. It is a device that generally feels lazy, a writer’s crutch to explain away story points instead of letting us discover for ourselves. The recent annoying pandemic comedy Tog…
Encounteris more of a promising indication of things to come from rising star Riz Ahmed and British director Michael Pearce than a satisfying work in its own right. A not-entirely-felicitous combination of family melodrama and sci-fi bug invasion, the roots of this Amazon feature stretch straight back to the…
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…
Alanis Morissette has torn into the documentary about her landmark Jagged Little Pill album that's set to world premiere Tuesday night at the Toronto Film Festival.
On a short break in her tour with Garbage and Cat Power, the Canadian-born Morissette shed more light on her absence from today’s Roy Thomson Hall debut…
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…
When a studio is looking to get traction on their awards season contender, there’s no better start at this early point in the fall than the Toronto International Film Festival’s Grolsch People’s Choice Award.
The top prize at the Great White North cinema fest has often been a predictor of Oscar’s Best Picture, or…
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…
Directed by Jean Luc Herbulot and produced by Pamela Diop, Saloum is a Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness selection that premiered this past week. The film weaves together supernatural horror elements with comedy and suspense. All aspects come together to create a unique story about how the cycle of revenge can…
