Why George MacKay Hasn’t Watched Ang Lee’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’
The cast of Georgia Oakley’s Sense and Sensibility graced London’s Leicester Square at the film’s world premiere on Tuesday night, and to quote Jane Austen herself: They were very amiable indeed. The latest Austen adaptation from Focus Features — out Sept. 25 in the U.K. and Oct. 16 in the U.S. — had fans in a frenzy […]
‘Evil Genius’ Review: Patricia Arquette in True Crime Comedy
There are few true crime stories worthier of being filed under “You Can’t Make This Sh*t Up” than 2003’s totally bizarro “Pizza Bomber” case, in which a pair of Erie, Pennsylvania, residents conspired to rob a bank by recruiting a pizza delivery driver to pose as a hostage who showed up at the tellers’ window […]
2026 Emmys Producers Explain How They Pulled Off Taylor Swift Cameo
The 2026 Emmys ended three minutes ahead of its 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT cutoff time Monday night, much to the pleasure of returning executive producers Jeannae Rouzan-Clay, Dionne Harmon and Jesse Collins, the latter of whom told us that when you think you might be in that situation, “You book Woody and Matthew; you […]
2026 Emmys Analysis: ‘Widow’s Bay,’ Sally Field and Variety Series
The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards is now in the books, bringing an end to the 2025-2026 TV awards season. Now it’s time to try to figure out why we wound up with the results that we did. Let’s start with Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay, which essentially swept the comedy categories. Between Monday’s Primetime ceremony and […]
Bulgaria Picks The Dreamed Adventure for Oscar race
Bulgaria has selected Valeska Grisebach‘s The Dreamed Adventure as its official entry in the best international feature category for the 99th Academy Awards. Grisebach’s slow-burning thriller follows a follows a pair of old friends who reunite decades later in the crime-ridden Bulgarian border town they left years ago. When archaeologist Veska (Yana Radeva) tries to […]
Man in Motion Rick Hansen Story Doc Globe-Circling Wheelchair Trek
The story of Canadian athlete turned disability activist Rick Hansen propelling his wheelchair 40,075 kilometers around the world in his 1984 Man in Motion tour to raise money and awareness for spinal cord injuries is already legend. But the notion of a documentary with an “untold story” suggests there’s much that the world didn’t get […]
How ‘Obsession’ Became TIFF’s Biggest Festival Sale Ever
There has probably never been a worse moment to open a film market in Canada. The country is locked in a grinding trade war with its largest partner and closest neighbor; tariff threats have crept from steel and lumber into the entertainment conversation, and the independent film business — the actual product on offer in […]
Candid Broads Productions Profile: Female-Led, Impact, Representation
Naomie Harris narrates Swim Sistas, a short documentary directed by actress and author Catherine Joy White that was designed as a “poetic and visually rich love letter to water, sisterhood, and the resilience of Black women across generations.” Hannah Congdon’s short doc The Long Away Game tells the story of a female Afghan refugee soccer […]
‘Being Heumann’ Review: Ruth Madeley in Siân Heder’s Moving Bio-Drama
In the first and best of many late ‘70s needle drops that punctuate Being Heumann, the punchy guitar groove of Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” starts out over a close-up of wheels turning on pavement before the camera pulls back to take in disability rights activist Judy Heumann, maneuvering her wheelchair around crowded city streets and refusing […]
Practical Magic 2 to Beat Spider-Man: Brand New Day at the Box Office
After six weeks with Spider-Man: Brand New Day at the top of the domestic box office, Practical Magic 2 looks to conjure up a victory. Warner Bros. Pictures‘ Practical Magic 2 debuts in over 4,000 theaters and arrives 28 years after Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman originated their roles as the Owens sisters in the […]