Mahershala Ali Finally Made His ‘Blade’ Film With ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’
Bassam Tariq and Mahershala Ali finally made their “Blade” movie. On Saturday night, “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” made its world premiere at the…
Film news
Headlines from the trades, linked to the films and people they cover.
‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ Review: Faith, Family, and Firearms Drive Bassam Tariq’s Intriguingly Strange Action-Drama
Messy contradictions and eccentric side characters drive this memorable story of a devout Muslim hitman played by Mahershala Ali.
‘Misty Green’ Review: Chris Rock Tells the Story of a Party-Girl Actress, Brilliantly Played by Rosalind Eleazar, in The Best Movie About Hollywood in Years
"Misty Green" is an amazing slice of showbiz sociology, riveting in the details of what a contemporary Hollywood actress — even a successful one — is up…
‘Misty Green’ Review: Rosalind Eleazar Stuns in Chris Rock’s Raw but Unfocused Hollywood Character Study
TIFF: The "Slow Horses" star is tremendous as a faded Black TV actress whose tendency for self-sabotage threatens to derail her comeback role.
‘Misty Green’ Review: Rosalind Eleazar Is The Whole Show In Chris Rock’s Sizzling Hollywood Portrait Of A Down-And-Out Emmy Winner Whose Career Is On The Skids – Toronto Film Festival
I have to confess I am a sucker for down-on-your-luck Hollywood stories, especially movies about actresses who once had success and are now scraping the…
‘I Play Rocky’ Review: Anthony Ippolito Channels Sylvester Stallone in Peter Farrelly’s Cleverly Crafted Crowd-Pleaser About the Making of ‘Rocky’
For a biographical drama to work, it’s not required that the central actor do a pinpoint uncanny, so-close-to-…
‘Black Sunflowers’ Director & Stars On Sean Penn’s Support And Coping With Ukraine War By Seeking Ecstatic Release – TIFF Studio
The poster for the documentary Black Sunflowers, the Ukraine war-themed documentary that just made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, shows a…
‘The Surgeon’ Review: Michelle Yeoh Goes All John Wick Taking Her Scalpel To The Bad Guys – Toronto Film Festival
After supporting roles in blockbusters like Wicked, Michelle Yeoh has her first all-out starring role since winning the Best Actress Oscar for Everything…
‘I Play Rocky’ Premieres at TIFF: A Movie About a Best Picture Winner That’s a Best Picture Contender?
Yo Adrian, Rocky did it … again! Only this time, the famed character is at TIFF in biopic form, thanks to director Peter Farrelly, screenwriter Peter Gamble…
‘NAZA’ Review: Israeli Military Accused Of Depraved Indifference To Palestinian Life, Using AI To Kill In Gaza – Venice Film Festival
The devastating documentary NAZA, an investigation into Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, was shot at night on rooftops in Tel Aviv, in part to avoid…
‘Babies’ Review: Lauren Miller Rogen Film Is A Witty, Heartfelt Exploration Of Childless Adulthood & Chosen Family – Toronto Film Festival
After years of fielding questions about whether she wants to be a mom, Lauren Miller Rogen gives the definitive answer in the form of her witty, heartfelt…
Paramount Leaving California Would Devastate Los Angeles Economy, Leaked Report Finds
A leaked report from the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation outlines devastating aftershocks that would follow if David Ellison pulled Paramount…
‘Everybody Wants to F— Me’ Review: Giddily Genre-Crossing Comedy Sees Right Through Taron Egerton’s Nice-Guy Act
Just when the victim/villain discourse about sleeper smash “Obsession” was finally beginning to die down, along comes “Everybody Wants to Fuck Me” — another…
L.A. County Projects Huge Job Losses If Paramount Exits California; Company Slams Antitrust Action By AGs & WGA In Official Rebuke
There will be harsh job losses and severe economic pain if Paramount carries out its threat to leave California over the antitrust action a coalition of blue…
‘Twilight’ Star Kellan Lutz Leading Faith-Based Survival Thriller ‘The Rescue’; Sales Launch At TIFF
EXCLUSIVE: Premiere Entertainment Group is introducing faith-based survival thriller The Rescue, which has Kellan Lutz (Twilight franchise) attached, to…
‘River’ Review: Jane Levy Anchors a Fearlessly Cruel and Visceral Survival Slasher
TIFF: Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe lead Joshua Giuliano's slasher that finds evil in beauty, while reminding us that horror is not simply a vehicle for scares.
May El-Toukhy On Venice Golden Lion Win & Riccardo Scamarcio Remembers Jeremy Thomas — Winners Press Conference
Venice Golden Lion winner May El-Toukhy is not surprised that some pundits considered her win a shock Saturday evening. Speaking at the winners’ press…
Camera-Shy Chrissie Hynde on Finally Allowing a Definitive Doc to Be Made About ‘The Pretenders,’ Bowing in Toronto: ‘I Just Wanted to Be in a Band. I’ve Never Graduated Beyond That Initial Interest in It’
At this late date, what the Pretenders accomplished is no mystery achievement. But it’s also a story that has never been extensively chronicled on film until…
‘Purgatory’ Review: This Charming Catholic Coming-of-Age Story Never Quite Ascends
TIFF: A 13-year-old in the 1980s navigates her parents’ separation in this comedy that relies on boilerplate beats.
‘Letters From the Silenced Country’ Wins Golden Globes Impact Prize for Documentary Presented During Venice Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)
Belarusian director Andrei Kutsila’s “Letters from the Silenced Country,” a portrayal of contemporary Belarus seen through the lives of five individuals whose…