Movies

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.In Euros Lyn’s intensely inspirational real-life drama Dream Horse, a group of less-than-affluent Welsh townspeople consider financing the breeding of a racehorse. They are advised not to do it for a jackpot, but for the “feeling of...

Scarlett Johansson is suing the Walt Disney Co. over its streaming release of “Black Widow,” which she said breached her contract and deprived her of potential earnings.In a lawsuit filed Thursday morning in Los Angeles Superior Court, the “Black Widow” star and executive producer said her contract guaranteed an exclusive...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Critic’s PickIn this delightful teen comedy, a giant white squirrel costume is destroyed. It’s a metaphor – white squirrels, being rare, stand out and are shunned by other rodents. Later, an Egyptian-Canadian man laughs when he’s told...

It must have been about five years ago that my friend Tim Long first told me about the movie he was writing. Tim had been on staff at The Simpsons since the late 1990s, following a few years as head writer for David Letterman and other TV gigs, and all...

Movies starring Kirsten Dunst, Steven Yeun, Keira Knightley, Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline are heading to this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.On Wednesday, organizers revealed a fresh slate of titles set to play September’s fest from its Contemporary World Cinema and Discovery programs, plus newly announced Gala and Special Presentation...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Critic’s pickSometimes, you just need to watch a humanoid shark tear a man in half. All the better if the fishy beast in question is voiced by Sylvester Stallone. And extra bonus super points if Sly’s slow-grunt...

Can you have adventure and security at the same time? That’s an age-old question, but it feels newly relevant in this COVID-19 year, as we begin to crack out of our carapaces, take a hard look at our lives, and ask, Is what I have what I really want?Every television...

In The Green Knight, the new film from acclaimed director David Lowery (A Ghost Story), the medieval warrior Sir Gawain embarks on a long and perilous mission into the world outside of King Arthur’s court. It is an adventure solemn and strange, marked by fantastical encounters and reckonings with fate...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.We live in a world where sometimes all it takes to get a movie made is that a Disney theme park ride exists. This was the case for The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, which includes some...

Once in a blessed while, there are interviews with filmmakers that I never, ever want to end. Even if I’m not a fan of the work being discussed. Such was the case last week when I got on a camera-less Zoom session with Tom McCarthy, director of the new legal...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Critic’s PickThe movies have not been kind to King Arthur’s court. Think Sean Connery in 1995′s First Knight. Clive Owen in 2004′s King Arthur. The year 2017 alone dealt a particularly mighty blow, with the Arthurian era...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.There are some mysteries that are forever out of our reach. But me, I’m determined to crack the enigma of Tom McCarthy. The American writer, director, and sometimes actor – his fabulist reporter Scott Templeton is the...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Curse you, M. Night Shyamalan. Just when we thought it was safe to go back in the holiday waters, the filmmaker comes along with Old, an outre thriller that screams “stay at home.” But also, paradoxically, “carpe...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.JoltDirected by Tanya WexlerWritten by Scott WaschaStarring Kate Beckinsale, Jai Courtney and Stanley TucciClassification R; 91 minutesStreaming on Amazon Prime Video starting July 23I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a movie quite like Jolt. At once a...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Snake EyesDirected by Robert SchwentkeWritten by Evan Spiliotopoulos, Joe Shrapnel and Anna WaterhouseStarring Henry Golding, Andrew Koji and Iko UwaisClassification PG; 121 minutesOpens July 23 in theatres across CanadaThe movies are back, Canada! And so, too, is...

Last September, Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer stepped onstage to make an introduction at the TIFF Bell Lightbox for the premiere of her first narrative feature, Beans. In the midst of the pandemic, TIFF had capped indoor screenings to 50 patrons – half of whom Deer estimated were her own family...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Critic’s pickThere are three Nicolas Cages in this world.For hardcore bad-movie devotees, there is the Nic (never Nicolas) Cage who cannot, will not, stop making the most dreadfully awful Z-grade trash. Movies so on-the-cheap that they can...

The numbers are in for the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. And while the figures paint a picture of a drastically downsized festival, they also offer hope to TIFF co-heads Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey that their pandemic-era plan succeeded.According to TIFF, 48,280 public tickets were scanned for this September’s...

Movies starring Amy Adams, Jessica Chastain, Riz Ahmed, Penelope Cruz and one extremely Big Red Dog are heading to this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.On Tuesday, organizers revealed a wealth of titles set to play September’s 46th annual festival, which runs Sept. 9-18, including the opening night selection (the musical...

Long floppy ears. Wide eyes. A twitching nose and pompom-like tail. Rabbits, or bunnies – whatever you like to call these creatures related to rodents – have delighted youngsters across the ages. No wonder they figure so prominently in children’s stories, whether the plot unfolds in books or the cinema....