TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Mahershala Ali in Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother Mahershala Ali and filmmaker Bassam Tariq were supposed to make a Blade reboot for Marvel, but that project eventually fell apart. What emerges instead is Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, an original action-drama starring Ali and written and directed by Tariq. It is unquestionably a far better movie By Sarah • Sep 17, 2026 02:25 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Andrew Scott in Elsinore Andrew Scott is a very fine actor, no one doubts this. He has in Elsinore, a quasi-biopic of Scottish actor Ian Charleson, what should be the role of a lifetime. Certainly, Scott pours his heart and talent into his performance, but the film around him is so unimaginative and By Sarah • Sep 17, 2026 11:37 am
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise: Greatest stunt choreo incoming As Sarah wrote in yesterday’s site open, Tom Cruise’s greatest role is that of “Tom Cruise”. She is right in saying that his GQ cover story, both in print and on video, is for all the gossip hounds. Pretty sure we’re all still screaming about it. Tom, By Lainey • Sep 17, 2026 11:07 am
What Else TIFF rolls on We’re approaching the final days of TIFF, but premieres are going strong. For instance, Danny Boyle’s Ink, about Larry Lamb and Rupert Murdoch revamping The Sun. The premiere was yesterday, with Boyle and stars Guy Pearce and Jack O’Connell. Lainey has developed a real Jack O’Connell By Sarah • Sep 16, 2026 04:01 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Rosalind Eleazar in Misty Green There is a real theme at TIFF this year of actors giving tremendous central performances only for the film around them to fall flat. Chris Rock’s latest directorial foray, Misty Green, is one such instance. The film, which Rock also wrote, follows down-on-her-luck actress Misty Green By Sarah • Sep 16, 2026 03:20 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Josephine is a shattering experience There are certain films that will stick with you forever, once seen, they can never be forgotten. Beth de Araújo’s Josephine is such a film, an emotionally harrowing cinematic experience that is as tender as it is brutal. Josephine won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance earlier this year, By Sarah • Sep 16, 2026 01:26 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell in Wild Horse Nine Playwright-cum-filmmaker Martin McDonagh is back to challenge everyone’s media literacy with his latest film, Wild Horse Nine. Like his feature film debut, In Bruges, it’s a two-hander centered on bad men contemplating their bad deeds and wondering what is left at the end of it By Sarah • Sep 16, 2026 11:03 am
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: The Maras in Bucking Fastard Werner Herzog makes a return to narrative feature filmmaking after a decade-long absence—he’s been busy with documentaries—with Bucking Fastard, a film inspired by real-life Adult Twins Freda and Greta Chaplin. In the 1980s, the Chaplins became objects of public interest when their neighbor hit them By Sarah • Sep 14, 2026 02:40 pm
Emma Stone Emma Stone’s Professional Personal Relationship There are pictures over the weekend of Emma Stone and Chris Pine shooting The Catch, an upcoming feature directed by her husband, Dave McCary. It’s due out next May and has been shooting all summer, with an all-star cast including Ashley Padilla, clearly beloved by literally everyone, Tim By Duana • Sep 14, 2026 01:33 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Chase Infiniti in The Julia Set Chase Infiniti follows her breakout performance in One Battle After Another with a starring role in The Julia Set, which is basically Good Will Hunting for girls. Infiniti stars as Julia, a brilliant math student at a fake college dubbed GCU. Her mother (Carmen Ejogo) is obsessed with Julia transferring By Sarah • Sep 14, 2026 12:09 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Julianne Moore shines in The Debut Jesse Eisenberg rose to fame playing awkward nerds, and now as a filmmaker he is giving a specific kind of nerd their due: theater nerds. His third feature film as a writer-director is The Debut, a comedy that borders on farce, set in the world of community theater. Eisenberg By Sarah • Sep 14, 2026 11:22 am
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Naomi Watts in The Housewife Back in 2016, Alyssa Hill’s post-Holocaust script, The Housewife, about the discovery and extradition of Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan from America to West Germany for war crimes, landed on the Blacklist. Ten years later, it has finally been made into a feature film, with Canadian filmmaker Ben Shirinian (best By Sarah • Sep 11, 2026 02:37 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve in Fjord Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu collaborates with Romanian-born, American-raised actor Sebastian Stan for the first time in the film Fjord, which interrogates one experience of Romanian men living abroad in the generation following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, an experience of xenophobia and persecution that isn’t By Sarah • Sep 11, 2026 10:58 am
What Else Maitreyi Ramakrishnan: The Best of Everything Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is in New York today making the talk show rounds to promote her new Netflix movie Best of the Best. It’s a dance movie… and right on time, because it’s been a while, we were overdue. This is Step Up and Pitch Perfect and Bring It By Lainey • Sep 09, 2026 04:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Billionaires suck in bad sweaters Since “billionaires suck” is a theme at the movies, I guess it’s a theme on the site today too. Because it’s a theme in real life – all around us billionaires and their billionaire decisions have had an impact on our communities, how we live and how we work. By Lainey • Sep 09, 2026 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Luca Guadagnino has entered the awards chat Just yesterday I mentioned Luca Gudagnino’s upcoming film Artificial, about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and lo, we have a teaser. This film is apparently critical of Altman, and coming from Guadagnino, a director who likes to push buttons, and writer Simon Rich, who finds the sublime in the ridiculous, By Sarah • Sep 09, 2026 10:26 am
