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The World Premieres We Can’t Wait To See From The 2026 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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The festival season is officially in motion as we get the first tastes of reactions emerging from this year’s Venice Film Festival. While many of the big heavy hitters for this coming awards season come from there and the previous...
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ON A STRING Review: A Comedy Where Everyone Is a Judge and No One Is Very Happy
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Isabel Hagen directs and stars in "a convincing picture of an unforgiving New York," also starring Dylan Baker, Eric Bogosian, Frederick Weller, and Jamie Lee. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Venice Review: Casey Affleck Tells Dull Tall Tales With Company
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To say what Casey Affleck’s Company is really about is to spoil its major twist. It’s not a Sondheim thing, I can tell you that. But outside of setting and framework, there’s not much else I can divulge about plot....
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“PLACE TO BE”
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THE STORY – An elderly woman and a middle-aged man form an unexpected bond during a cross-country journey from Chicago to NY, accompanying a lost racing pigeon back to its home. THE CAST – Ellen Burstyn, Taika Waititi, Pamela Anderson,...
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DAU | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
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Darkness Visible: Khrzhanovsky Reformulates Saga of Shattered Scientists If ex-Attorney General and fascist sentinel Pam Bondi was ever credited as uttering anything worth repeating, it was her childish ‘emperor’s new clothes’ technique testifying before congress in her doltish redirect from...
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Toronto After Dark 2026: First Wave of Titles Announced, Featuring I LOVE PARIS, FROGMAN RETURNS, And 5 MORE MINUTES
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Our friends at Toronto After Dark have announced the first four titles for this year's 19th edition of the festival.    This year's festival will feature the Canadian Premiere of timey wimey flick 5 More Minutes, the fabulously funnny vampire...
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“DAU”
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THE STORY – Inspired by the physicists who built the Soviet atomic bomb, the film DAU follows a brilliant Greek-born physicist from 1928 through four tumultuous decades in the USSR. Driven to uncover the laws of the universe, the idealistic...
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Venice Review: With Union Town, Barbara Kopple Expertly Completes Her Labor-Rights Trilogy
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Coal miners from Kentucky traveled to New York City months into their 1973 strike to increase their struggle’s profile. As documented by Barbara Kopple in Harlan County, USA, one of their most vocal supporters was an NYPD officer. It makes...
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“UNION TOWN”
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THE STORY – “Get up, get down, New York is a union town!” Heard at strikes across the city, this is not simply a rallying cry for unionizing laborers, but also a testament to New York’s legacy as a simmering hub...
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Telluride Film Festival 2026: Table of Contents
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Everything we've seen out of this year's Telluride.
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