There's always magic in the air in Toronto when the festival starts. The TIFF takeover buzzes with excitement; thousands of people descend on the city to experience everything the festival has to offer. Movies, events, markets, celebrities, and great food that even a spoiled Californian can enjoy.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a master class in sequels. While fans have been begging for the return to Runway, the story of waiting 20 years is exactly what was needed. The film is a sequel built on patience, not nostalgia bait, and that restraint pays off. When we last saw Andy Sachs (Anne
When Steven Knight’s excellent gangland tale Peaky Blinders wrapped its sixth series, it was a mighty satisfying end to the story of Tommy Shelby. A sober Arthur Shelby (Paul Anderson) avenged Aunt Polly (Helen McCrory) by killing Captain Swing, but he skipped out of a farewell meal with brother
Sports are truly the last colossus left in our pop culture landscape. It’s a holdover from when video did away with the radio star and everyone gathered around to have the monoculture laid out before us. Goat is an animated feature that reminds older viewers what the thrill of having that first
Queens of the Dead had its Los Angeles premiere at BeyondFest at American Cinematheque on Sunday. The film marks the directorial feature debut of Tina Romero, daughter of George A. Romero. The elder Romero was a legendary filmmaker known for helming zombie movies. Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of
Biopics about musical icons can make for very compelling films. Tina Turner's life was explored in explicit and ultimately triumphant detail in What's Love Got To Do With It? while the heart of Selena Quintanilla Perez was captured to its fullest in Selena. Some feature great performances, but the
Lost in the Reel's video review for Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon Writer/Director Ana Lily Amirpour is one of those filmmakers that's voice, vision, and vibe is so distinctly her own… that it's impossible not to get excited about a new project from her. Yet she returns with her third feature,
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
Daemons of the Shadow Realm reveals the depths a certain hunter named Ivan has in Ep. 20 "The Hunted and the Hunter". It's very bloody and dark depths, but it does show that Ivan will likely be a major recurring villain in the story, and will play a major role in that story somehow. As well as
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually