Within the pantheon of disagreeable display heroines, Pansy Deacon greater than holds her personal. Performed by a ferocious Marianne Jean-Baptiste, the perpetually harried and hostile protagonist of Mike Leigh’s Arduous Truths spews her venom on everybody she encounters — from members of the family to furnishings retailer workers, and all method of unfortunate of us … Read more
Speaking to Russian actor Mark Eydelshteyn, it’s simple to know why Sean Baker solid him in Anora — set to display at TIFF — as Ivan, an extremely likable goofball who marries a Brighton Seaside intercourse employee but in addition occurs to be the son of a Russian oligarch. Eydelshteyn, with limbs that appear to maneuver at twice the common human … Read more
“Nobody leads to my chair by mistake.” So recreation present contestant Michael Larson (Paul Walter Hauser) is instructed late in The Luckiest Man in America by a chat present host (Johnny Knoxville) after he interrupts his taping. The assertion, although reassuring, isn’t true within the literal sense; Michael has completely stumbled into this specific room … Read more
5 Chinese language productions are being offered in market screenings on the sidelines of this yr’s Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition in an effort, organizers of this system say, to provide North American audiences a “three-dimensional” view into up to date China. Put collectively by the China Movie Co-Manufacturing Company (CFCC), the choice contains comic Da … Read more
Conejo Negro 838 Faculty St., 416-637-3868 Toronto’s Little Italy has a brand new Caribbean, Creole and Latin America-inspired restaurant in Conejo Negro. Chef Alycia Wahn, who lived in Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans in her 20s, returned dwelling with Latin consolation meals in thoughts: “As soon as I skilled Creole meals, I seen similarities operating by … Read more
Presently final 12 months, picketers have been strolling outdoors of studio gates, nonetheless two months away from resolving Hollywood’s twin strikes. Of the large festivals, the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition (TIFF), with its give attention to star-heavy impartial initiatives, was hardest hit by the labor motion, with empty pink carpets turning much-hyped premieres into damp … Read more
Elliot Web page is heading again dwelling amid tense household dynamics within the trailer for the drama characteristic Near You. Greenwich Leisure releases writer-director Dominic Savage’s film in theaters Aug. 16 following its premiere on the 2023 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant. Web page stars as Sam, a trans man who returns dwelling for a household … Read more
Whereas the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition was making headlines this week for its most instant plans, the occasion’s CEO Cameron Bailey was 7,000 miles away and looking out a little bit bit additional into the longer term. This yr’s TIFF has introduced the primary batch of highlights for its September 5-15 version, together with world … Read more