EXCLUSIVE: After creating the John Wick and Nobody action franchises, screenwriter Derek Kolstad is at it again. Premiering last night in the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto Film Festival as an acquisition title – I’ll eat my hat if it doesn’t get a distribution deal as Kolstad already ponders a sequel – comes Normal….
It has been exactly 80 years since the infamous Nuremberg tribunal established international law and put the Nazis on trial for unspeakable evil acts in war. It has been the subject of a landmark 1961 movie from Stanley Kramer, Judgment at Nuremberg, which was nominated for 11 Oscars and won two, as well as TV…
Don’t dare call Maude Apatow a mere “nepo baby.” Her winning directorial debut proves she has the chops behind the camera as well as in front (Euphoria), Apatow name or no Apatow name. Poetic License, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in a prime Saturday night slot, is evidence of…
If Roofman wasn’t a true story, it would be hard to believe. World premiering tonight at the Toronto Film Festival, this Paramount release stars Channing Tatum as Jeffrey Manchester, an Army 82nd Airborne veteran who turned to crime to try and support his wife and three kids after failing to assimilate back into society when…
Not knowing a thing about the new film Bad Apples, which is having its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, it took me awhile to realize “Oh wait, this is really a very, very dark comedy.” So once I got what director Jonathan Etzler and writer Jess O’ Kane were up to, I could…
Sports movies are fast becoming a cliché, if they ever weren’t. The triumph-against-all-odds stories so prevalent in many of them is hard to make fresh. And coming off two last year — the wrestling drama Unstoppable that merged family with domestic abuse, and the female boxing story The Fire Within — both had similar trajectories,…