It was doctor's orders, but sadly Ian McKellen couldn't attend the Toronto Film Festival premiere of "The Christophers," a new Steven Soderbergh film that gives the Oscar nominee his meaties…
How do you follow a mega-all-star tribute like the one the inimitable Ozzy Osbourne received in England in July? The VMAs chose their spots by enlisting a pair of suitable, generation-spanni…
SPOILER ALERT:Â This interview contains spoilers for the series premiere finale of "Task," now streaming in HBO Max. "Task," Brad Ingelsby's follow-up to "Mare of Easttown," starts out lik…
Mariah Carey graced the MTV VMAs stage on Sunday to accept the Video Vanguard Award from Ariana Grande, delivering a speech and giving a career-spanning performance of songs including "Honey…
Sabrina Carpenter brought a high-speed and ultra punchy energy to her performance at the MTV VMAs on Sunday night. Emerging from a manhole, Carpenter recreated the same shimmering look and f…
Any questions about how '80s-influenced Doja Cat's next chapter will be were laid to rest within the opening minutes of the 2025 MTV VMAs: After being introduced first by LL Cool J and then …
For her feature directing debut, "Eleanor the Great," Scarlett Johansson needed to tackle a character far removed from the roles she has played as an actress: an elderly woman who assu…
Aziz Ansari is making his directorial debut with the existential comedy "Good Fortune." But technically, it's not his first time helming a feature. In 2022, he was halfway through directing …
Based on the real life of Tourette Syndrome campaigner John Davidson, who takes an exec credit here, "I Swear" is a biopic about a man who came of age in 1980s Scotland at a time when Touret…
Wagner Moura is no stranger to intense roles, but his latest performance in Kleber Mendonça Filho's "The Secret Agent" may be the one that defines his career, at least to U.S. audiences. …
Jodie Foster takes on her first French-language leading role in "A Private Life," but she already has her sights set on her next dream project: teaming up with Kristin Scott Thomas in a Fren…
Variety and Chanel rolled out the red carpet on Saturday night for their annual Women in Film Dinner during the Toronto Film Festival. Shailene Woodley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ethan Hawke…
Angelina Jolie admits she was "nervous" filming "Couture." The Oscar winner stars in writer-director Alice Winocour's French and English language ensemble as Maxine Walker, a director of low…
A film editor friend of mine makes the same complaint every time I see him: "No one makes movies about the way people live now." It's not incorrect. The "slice of life" genre doesn't necessa…
For Argentina's Pablo Trapero, best known for his lauded crime drama "The Clan," directing his first English-language feature film "& Sons," feels both new and familiar. An adaptatio…
"Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery" is an enticingly clever and droll, nearly pitch-perfect piece of murder-mystery fun " a whodunit that lives up to the expectations set six years ago …
Six years ago, the inimitable Werner Herzog made "Family Romance, LLC," an odd pseudo-documentary about a Japanese service that specialized in hiring actors to play a loved one, colleague or…
Merritt Wever has won the Emmy for guest actress in drama for AppleTV+s "Severance." This season, her character is revealed as Outie Dylan's wife, Gretchen. She visits her husband's innie…
Julianne Nicholson has won the Emmy for guest actress in a comedy. Nicholson is a double nominee this year, scoring two Emmy nominations " for her haunting turn in Hulu's post-apocalyptic po…
Emmy week begins in earnest Saturday as the TV Academy hosts the first of two ceremonies celebrating the Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The first e…
A ticking bomb in the heart of London sets the stage for "Fuze," a taut new British crime thriller from director David Mackenzie. The film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film …
Brendan Fraser is making the rounds to promote his new film, the theatrically-bound "Rental Family," which is set to be released by Searchlight Pictures on Nov. 21. During an interview at Va…
Would comedy be the same without the 1972 Toronto production of "Godspell"? So many of the performers who turned "SCTV" and "Saturday Night Live" into cultural phenomenons in the '70s and '8…
Please Don't Destroy isn't going anywhere. The "Saturday Night Live" comedy trio, comprised of Ben Marshall, Martin Herlihy and John Higgins, reunited Friday night in Portland for the first …
Twelve-year-old Jacobi Jupe, who plays the title role in "Hamnet," broke down in tears mid-interview at the Variety studio at the Toronto Film Festival, describing the devastation of embodyi…