Mark Mundan’s adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s book, released Friday on-demand from STX Films, struggles to burrow into the interiors of its characters but it’s sluggish and too withdrawn for such a vibrant tale
‘Steve McQueen is one of the essential artists of our time, and he reaches a new level of mastery with the Small Axe films,’ said Dennis Lim, the festival’s programming director. ‘These are works of historical drama that speak powerfully and urgently to our present moment of reckoning over police brutality and systemic racism’
Normally, TIFF is the largest film festival in North America. This year, it has drastically scaled down its plans and scraped together 50 films or TV series from around the world, leaning on projects set to debut on streaming services or television this fall
The Emmy Award nominations announced Tuesday included some snubs and surprises.
Festival director Alberto Barbera noted that almost half of the competition film selections this year are directed by women. The festival has had notoriously...
‘Nomadland’ is the first film announced in the new partnership among the Venice, Toronto, New York and Telluride festivals -- the fall’s biggest movie launch...
Hollywood has now gone more than four months without a major theatrical release. While some films have found new streaming homes, the biggest upcoming ones...
In Marjane Satrapi’s biopic of the renowned Polish-born French physicist, Rosamund Pike's Curie is tough, prickly and potent but, with some exceptions, this...
Popular myth has it that the Renaissance painter, who was said to have had an active sex life, succumbed to syphilis in 1520, though experts widely agree that...
‘It’s not that [small publishers] don’t have any fear,’ said one Hong Kong journalist, asking to use just a first name, ‘they just don’t know what...
Before making its way to the Gulf, rap emerged as an art form in other Arab countries where performers defy censorship and repression to address sensitive...
'It’s our way to say to ‘Thank you’ to the Lebanese Army, from the people, for all they’ve been doing and are still doing, for being an institution that...
Celebrities, brands, leaders and ordinary people are all falling foul of "cancel culture," a movement that seeks to call out offensive behavior but that...
She is quickly becoming the internet's favorite Donald Trump impersonator but Sarah Cooper does it without saying a word -- preferring to let the president...
TIFF to open with Spike Lee doc of David Byrne’s Broadway show, VIFF will hand lifetime achievement awards to British actress Tilda Swinton and Hong Kong...
A row over Turkish censorship has deepened after a writer claimed that work on a new Netflix show was cancelled because it contained a gay character.
Organized by Lalaland Lebanon, the outdoor event plans to show 14 movies almost back to back July 24-26, spanning 48 hours, on a Nahr al-Kalb beach
Australia is hoping its success in dealing with the coronavirus will lure more big budget Hollywood productions Down Under, with the government announcing...
So unremittingly committed it is to depicting humanity’s worst -- sometimes accurately, sometimes gratuitously – “The Painted Bird” at times it verges on a...
'Until the past week or so,' the festival said in a statement, 'we had a very good plan to put on the show safely. But with a seemingly unending number of new...
"American Trial: The Eric Garner Story" depicts the trial that did not happen after a white New York police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, was videotaped using a...
‘As Above, So Below’ is a down-to-earth reflection on some lofty ideas
Though most of the films that have debuted during the pandemic never got to screen for packed movie houses, "Palm Springs" had the kind of premiere filmmakers...
The show will go on for the Venice Film Festival in September, but with a few modifications due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tom Hanks is "heartbroken" that his World War II thriller must skip the big screen due to the pandemic -- but hopes it can still teach audiences at home a...
The Oscar winner said it can be hard for Black children to "kind of imagine the possibilities" when so few films and television series are centered on...
The faces seen in 'Welcome to Chechnya' belong to 22 volunteers, most LGBTQ activists, whose faces were superimposed on the people in the film. The 'face...
Prize-winning Lebanese documentary filmmaker Carol Mansour fears the world has learnt nothing from the novel coronavirus shock and will go back to square one...
A survivor of Nassar’s abuse says the physician -- who in his 29 years as the USA Gymnastics women’s team’s doctor used medical treatment as a guise for...
'Irresistible' does have its laughs and real pleasures. For one thing, the lead actors are perfectly cast, with Steve Carell managing to both annoy and endear...
As many movie theaters reopen in the coming weeks, "Antebellum," set to be released Aug. 21 by Lionsgate, will debut during the height of a reckoning in...
Woody Allen's new romantic comedy "Rifkin's Festival,” is to open Spain's San Sebastian film festival in September, which will also be its international...
When Jeff Pope and his family were sickened by COVID-19, getting well was the first concern. That accomplished, the British writer-producer decided to make...
TIFF is radically remaking itself. The normal 10 days of festival-going will be halved. For the first time, TIFF will roll out a platform of digital...
The film follows a young man called Karim living somewhere in Iraqi and Syrian territory occupied by Daesh (aka Islamic State) militants and dreaming of...