The Moving Picture Blog

From my 9.24.18 Variety review : “The real-life misadventures of central figures in the 2013 Major League Baseball doping scandal play lik...

From my 9.13.18 Variety review: “It’s difficult for a film to feel timelier than Icebox , writer-director Daniel Sawka’s precisely detail...

Just a few days after his third feature, Demon , had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Polish filmmaker Marcin Wrona died ...

Thought I might not make it back this year, but here I am: All ready to start viewing and reviewing when the press screenings start brigh...

I find it more than a little comical that certain scolds are getting their shorts in a twist because Matthew McConaughey is hawking Linc...

OK, I admit: I was leaning toward seeing Kill Me Three Times next week at the Toronto International Film Festival even before I got a lo...

Funnily enough, this film is not in the lineup for next month's Toronto International Film Festival. At least, not yet.

I went to the Toronto Film Festival -- and came home miserably sick. Mind you, I can't blame it on the films -- as usual, saw some ve...

Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor ? Well, why not? They can't fare much worse with critic...

Les Blank and Werner Herzog (Note: To celebrate the life of Les Blank I am sharing this interview I did with him at the 1982 Toront...

Have not been to a Toronto Film Festival post-screening party in... well, a long time. But I think I made up for it last night, hanging b...

Reason 1: It's directed by Costa-Gavras (whose classic Z , by the way, inspired another promising film that will be on view at the 2...

At the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, Christian Slater told me that he felt like he had "a higher calling to make" ...

Yeah, I know: I haven't completed all my reviews of films I saw at the Toronto Film Festival. And I'm already about 2 or 3 weeks b...

Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman and Joel Schumacher -- together again for the first time. The last time Cage and Schumacher collaborated, the...

How many times have you seen this place in movies, commercials and TV dramas? Probably a lot more than you'd think. It's Honest Ed...

Daydream Nation  -- my favorite of all the movies I saw this year at the Toronto Film Festival -- is the work of a very promising filmmake...

From Mark Hartley, the Melbourne maverick who unleashed Not Quite Hollywood , the explosive expose of B-movies from Down Under, we now ha...

Although it feels more like an authorized biography than an in-depth portrait, Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound should hold interest for adm...

The third feature by Blaine Thurier , keyboardist for the Canadian indie rock band The New Pornographers , A Gun to the Head resembles not...