Three new horror films from Fantastic Fest, including a sequel to an indie hit from 2024 and the latest from the Adams family.
Paired with incisive, witty insights into family dynamics, the mysteries are sharp as blades and prickly as barbed wire.
The Cycle” isn’t the first film to transform a family drama into a monster movie, but it feels fresh due to the commitment of ...
The Midnight Madness section at TIFF has a reputation for its histrionics and crowd-pleasing thrills, but it’s also a programming block that stealthily introduces delightful eccentricities off the ...
A dispatch on three Midnight Madness releases from Toronto.
While “A Prayer for the Dying” has been in production for over a decade, and while it is based on a 1999 novel by Stewart ...
As one of the first festivals to have a slate dedicated solely to television, the 11th year of the Toronto International Film ...
There’s no way you can watch Barry Avrich’s empathetic documentary “Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been ” and leave without ...
The prison drama is a tried-and-true B-movie foundation for several reasons. It can keep budgets low by allowing for limited ...
John Wilson ‘s HBO series “How To with John Wilson” was an original and disarming achievement. It drew on old-school, observation-based documentary filmmaking, first-person YouTube and Instagram ...
The main character, Ethan Hawke ‘s Samuel Murphy, might be Steinbeck’s plainspoken Tom Joad reimagined as an action hero who thinks before he acts, and can read a situation more plainly than anyone ...
Given that he’s embodied some pretty nasty villains in his time—including the brutal Roman emperor Caligula and the futuristic ultra-violence-addicted “droog” Alex DeLarge in “A Clockwork Orange”— ...