film

'Riff Raff' Is a TIFF Laff

Directed by Dito Montiel

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2024

'Riff Raff' is a masterwork of typecasting: there's Jennifer Coolidge as a sloppy drunk, Ed Harris as a gruff patriarch who balances caring...

Kathy Bates Says She's Retiring from Acting After ‘Matlock’

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2024

Kathy Bates has made (and been great in) a lot of movies and TV in her day, appearing in everything from 'Misery' to 'Dick Tracy' to ...

'Nightbitch' Has Both Bark and Bite

Directed by Marielle Heller

PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2024

Of all the human experiences, motherhood is a particularly visceral. There's childbirth, of course, but then there are the the struggles...

'Shook' Tells a Different Sort of Scarborough Story

Directed by Amar Wala

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

Movies set in Scarborough tend to show the beauty of the area through its grit and the trauma that follows. While there's certainly a need...

'The Life of Chuck' Is a Self-Serious Bore

Directed by Mike Flanagan

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with saccharine sentimentality and ponderous monologues about the meaning of life. The...

Anderson .Paak's Star Power Makes 'K-Pops' Pop

Directed by Anderson .Paak

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

Anderson .Paak is hardly the first musician to sidestep from music to movies, but his filmography to date is extremely thin, mostly...

'Paying for It' Is a Wonderful Bit of Oversharing

Directed by Sook-Yin Lee

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

The backstory alone is unlike anything else: filmmaker/musician/artist Sook-Yin Lee and cartoonist Chester Brown were in a romantic...

'Presence' Is an Unexpected Fake-Out

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2024

More often than not, Steven Soderbergh's career is spoken of as this kind of Soderbergh movie or that kind of Soderbergh movie. His...