With the imminent release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, fans’ excitement is growing at a rate close to lightspeed. But while pretty much everybody loves Star Wars in some capacity, we’ve all got that one friend/loved one whose adoration for the franchise is larger, even, than a planet like Tatooine. The question is, what do you
A group of upper-crust twelve-year-old girls gather at a friend’s house knowing her mother won’t bother to check up on them. It’s all fun and games until a nasty social media bullying attack pushes them over the edge. #Horror, starring Chloë Sevigny as the hands-off mom, was conceived and directed by her longtime friend, artist,
Bryan Cranston, fresh off the massive success of Breaking Bad, blasts out of the movie gate with an incredible performance in one of the most anticipated films this season – Trumbo. It’s a fast-paced if light-hearted look at a dark chapter in American history, the growing fear of Communism and how it impacted ten Hollywood writers
A new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been released by Disney in Japan – featuring large amounts of previously unseen footage. The trailer centers around Daisy Ridley’s character Rey and droid BB-8, interspersed with other scenes including one where Kylo Ren holds a lightsaber threateningly to Rey’s neck. At one point Rey
You know you’re not in Kansas anymore when you’re hanging on Halloween Night at Mary Pickford’s theater for a screening of the original “Dracula” starring Bela Lugosi, with Phillip Glass’ hypnotic original score performed live by the exquisite Kronos Quartet. The annual Black & White Ball was hosted by The Black Tux, held Saturday, October
Mary Mapes was a high-flying CBS News producer assigned to 60 Minutes II in the early 2000s. She broke the Abu Ghraib story and won a Peabody Award, and went on to break a string of other big stories. Mapes then developed a story for anchor Dan Rather on George W. Bush’s military history during the Vietnam
Star Wars is without doubt one of the most awe-inspiring movie-making phenomenons of all time. So it’s no wonder that the new string of movies has sent fans’ excitement into hyperspace. Here are 10 reasons why we love the Force, and all those who wield it… 1 Because it’s Far, Far Away The excitement starts immediately you
Irish born playwright and literary historian Emma Donoghue’s novel Room is now a movie. And she had the rare opportunity to write the screenplay for the highly anticipated film version. The story of a woman and her son held captive in a basement for 11 years, escaping and dealing with the aftermath won Rogers Writers’
A retrospective called Love Exists: The Films of Maurice Pialat opens tomorrow at Toronto’s TIFF Cinematheque and runs until December 5. A second retrospetive on Pialat is also screening at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image. Here Anne Brodie looks at the work of the late French filmmaker who divided audiences and critics alike. Maurice Pialat
Dean Norris shot to fame as Walter’s brother-in-law Hank in Breaking Bad. Now he’s taking the big screen by storm in the hard-hitting new psychological Nazi revenge drama Remember. The movie tells the story of two former Auschwitz survivors in a nursing home, played by legendary actors Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau, who hatch a plot of