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Who loves Will Arnett? Thrilled to chat with him about his latest film, IS THIS THING ON?, directed by Bradley Cooper. In theatres 12.19.25, Arnett pivots a bit more to Drama here, while also trying Standup Comedy for the first time.www.instagram.com/p/DQ6vXwDDSFk/... See MoreSee Less
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I don’t think your ready for this. Just kidding! You totally are. Here is the new Trailer for SCREAM, coming to theatres early next year.
Synopsis:
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past. Neve Campbell (“Sidney Prescott”), Courteney Cox (“Gale Weathers”) and David Arquette (“Dewey Riley”) return to their iconic roles in Scream alongside Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner, Mason Gooding, Mikey Madison, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Marley Shelton, Jasmin Savoy Brown,and Sonia Ammar.
Paramount Pictures Canada and Spyglass Media Group release SCREAM January 14, 2022.
(Photo/video credit: Paramount Pictures Canada/Spyglass Media Group)
Coming this November to Disney+ on Disney+ Day, here is the new Trailer for DOPESICK, starring Michael Keaton!
The eight-episode series stars Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Poulter, John Hoogenakker, with Kaitlyn Dever and Rosario Dawson.
Daniel Craig‘s swan song in the BOND franchise lands on a high note with NO TIME TO DIE debuting on-top with $60 million from 4,407 theatres across North America for Universal Pictures. Despite clocking-in at almost three hours, the longest running time ever for a BOND film, Critics certainly had time for it, giving it 84% on the Tomatometer.
In second is last week’s champ, VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE with $31.1 million from 4,225 theatres for Sony Pictures, a two week total of $140 million over two weeks. Very impressive.
THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2 checks-in third with $9.8 million from 4,207 theatres for Universal Pictures, a two-week run of $31 million.
Fourth spot goes to SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE RINGS earning $4.2 million for Disney/Marvel. Its six week gross is $215 million.
Rounding-out the Top Five is THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK, with $1.5 million from 3,181 theatres, a two-week total of $7.5 million.
Ricky Martin needs no introduction. The King of Latin Pop is a certified international Megastar. One of the world’s biggest stars at the turn of the millennium and of the music video generation, Martin has electrified the world with smash hits like Livin’ La Vida Loca, She Bangs, The Cup of Life, Shake Your Bon-Bon and more, not to mention his adored Spanish-language catalog of hits!
Martin just wrapped a two night stint at Scotiabank Theatre with tour Co-headliner Enrique Iglesias, bringing the audience to their feet, each taking an hour slot to deliver their English and Spanish hits! The Show was the first to welcome audiences back to the venue since the Pandemic.
We are so delighted to catch Martin who was heading-out to his show, rolling-down his window for a masked Selfie! He is so amazing and we’ve loved him forever now! While we didn’t get to attend this Tour sadly (we love Enrique too!), we had such a blast at his Casino Rama show back in 2011. He is mesmerizing and brings so much energy to his shows!
The Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin Live in Concert Tour kicked-off in Las Vegas late September, and heads next to Montreal’s Bell Centre.
RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY takes us back to the start, giving us an origins story for RESIDENT EVIL franchise! Check-out this new Trailer!
Synopsis:
RESIDENT EVIL franchise, fan and filmmaker Johannes Roberts brings the games to life for a whole new generation of fans. In RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY, once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, a group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
Elevation Pictures release RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY November 24, 2021.
We’ve waited forever for this and the new Trailer for THE 355 finally has surfaced!
Synopsis:
When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, wild card CIA agent Mason “Mace” Brown (Oscar®-nominated actress Jessica Chastain) will need to join forces with rival badass German agent Marie (Diane Kruger, In the Fade), former MI6 ally and cutting-edge computer specialist Khadijah (Oscar® winner Lupita Nyong’o), and skilled Colombian psychologist Graciela (Oscar® winner Penélope Cruz) on a lethal, breakneck mission to retrieve it, while also staying one-step ahead of a mysterious woman, Lin Mi Sheng (Bingbing Fan, X-Men: Days of Future Past), who is tracking their every move.
As the action rockets around the globe from the cafes of Paris to the markets of Morocco to the opulent auction houses of Shanghai, the quartet of women will forge a tenuous loyalty that could protect the world—or get them killed.
The film also stars Édgar Ramirez (The Girl on the Train) and Sebastian Stan (Avengers: Endgame).
We love a good Holiday movie! LOVE HARD will be arriving this November on Netflix, as part of their Holiday programming line-up!
Synopsis: Hopeless romantic but eternally single LA journalist Natalie (Nina Dobrev) thinks things are beginning to look up when she swipes right on a dreamy guy from the East Coast, Tag (Darren Barnet). Taking a leap of faith she jumps on a flight to surprise her crush for the holidays, only to discover that she’s been catfished by Tag’s childhood friend who is equally unlucky in love, Josh (Jimmy O. Yang). This lighthearted romantic comedy chronicles her attempt to reel in love. LOVE HARD also stars James Saito, Harry Shum Jr., Mikaela Hoover and Heather McMahan.
The 29th edition of the Rendezvous with Madness Festival runs from October 28 – November 7, 2021. Comprised of 18 feature films and five short programs – a total of 68 films from 18 countries – the Festival will be available in a hybrid format of virtual and in-person screenings. Films will be accompanied by Q&As. The venue will be Workman Arts’ new permanent home at 1025 Queen Street West in Toronto.
The Festival this year opens with Elle–Máijá Tailfeathers‘ KÍMMAPIIYIPITSSINI: THE MEANING OF EMPATHY. Tailfeathers can be seen currently in NIGHT RAIDERS, which just premiered at TIFF ’21.
List of Programming at this year’s Festival:
OPENING NIGHT FILM KÍMMAPIIYIPITSSINI: THE MEANING OF EMPATHY (2021) D: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | CANADA | Documentary | 124 MIN + PANEL IN-PERSON SCREENING – Thursday, Oct 28, 6:30 PM WATCH ONLINE Oct 28 – Nov 7 available across Canada
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy chronicles the impact of the opioid crisis on Indigenous communities. Tailfeathers focuses on Alberta’s Kainai First Nation, where her mother, Dr. Esther Tailfeathers, works tirelessly to support and educate families affected by the overdose epidemic. The film presents viewers with a series of first-hand accounts from local first responders, healthcare professionals, and people with substance-use disorder.
Kímmapiiyipitssini is a Blackfoot word for empathy and kindness. The Meaning of Empathy explains why embracing this practice is critical to combating addictions. Criminalizing drug use does not address the root problem; a legacy of colonialism and intergenerational trauma inflicted by racist government policies. The film reveals the merits of this new approach, even as it faces resistance from conservative policymakers. Tailfeathers has crafted one of the year’s most powerful films, chronicling the Kainai First Nation’s struggles, while honouring its strength and resilience.
RETRO RENDEZVOUS HALLOWEEN:SAFE (1995) D: Todd Haynes | UK/USA | 119 MIN IN-PERSON SCREENING Sun, Oct 31, 8 PM WATCH ONLINE Sun, Oct 31, 8-10 PM ET available across Canada
We’re thrilled to be presenting a special 25th-ish anniversary screening of the seminal film Safe by Todd Haynes, which was presented at the third Rendezvous With Madness in 1995. The timing of this retrospective cannot be separated from the current coronavirus pandemic we’ve all been living through since spring 2020; nor can the serendipitous timing of Halloween; this is a quintessential horror film as seen through the character of Carol White (played magnificently by Julianne Moore). Director Todd Haynes set the film in 1987 and follows White, a well-to-do California housewife who suddenly finds herself struggling to breathe while doctors continually insist that nothing is amiss with her health. Before long, Carol self-diagnoses herself to be reacting to the toxic chemicals around her, stating emphatically that she’s “allergic to the 20th century.” When Safe was originally released many viewers viewed Carol’s plight as a metaphor for the HIV/AIDS epidemic; in 2021 it’s both that pandemic and the current one that will leave their marks on you long after the film’s credits roll.
THIRZA CUTHAND ARTIST SPOTLIGHT (2001-2021) CANADA | 67 MIN + Q&A | Short Film IN-PERSON SCREENING Wed, Nov 3, 6:30 PM WATCH ONLINE Oct 29 – Nov 7 available across Canada IN-PERSON + VIRTUAL Q&A WITH ARTIST Wed, Nov 3, 7:45 PM ET
Rendezvous is thrilled to be presenting a solo artist spotlight on Thirza Cuthand, a prolific artist who works across multiple disciplines to explore interconnected issues related to madness, queer identities, Indigeneity, and oh yes, sex and sexuality.
EXTRACTIONS (2020 | 15 min) A personal film about so-called Canada’s extraction industries and the detrimental effects on the land and Indigenous peoples.
ANHEDONIA (2001 | 9 min) Depression and suicide are met head on in this confessional piece. Anhedonia urges the viewer to open their eyes to the source of illness in Indigenous communities.
SIGHT (2012 | 3 min) Super 8 footage layered with Sharpie marker lines and circles obscuring the image illustrates the filmmaker’s experiences with temporary episodes of migraine-related blindness and her cousin’s self-induced blindness.
LOVE & NUMBERS (2004 | 8 min) A Two Spirited woman surrounded by spy signals and psychiatric walls attempts to make sense of love, global paranoia, and her place in the history of colonialism.
LESS LETHAL FETISHES (2019 | 9 min) “Not a sex video. Maybe a sexy video? About a latent gas mask fetish, but maybe actually about a certain art world tear gas controversy the filmmaker was involved in.” – T.C.
MEDICINE BUNDLE (2020 | 9 min) “A film about a bundle that was used in my family to heal by Great Great Grandfather from a smallpox epidemic and a life-threatening wound from a gun used against him during the Battle of Cutknife Hill in 1885.” – T.C.
WOMAN DRESS (2019 | 6 min) A recent short compiling archival images and dramatized re-enactments, this film shares a Cuthand family oral story, honouring and respecting Woman Dress without imposing colonial binaries on them.
NEUROTRANSMITTING (2021 | 8 min) In this brand-new piece, Thirza and her mother Ruth explore wellness as it connects to mental health, psychiatric institutions, family, and the medical industrial complex. The intimate conversation is held over a backdrop of Ruth’s beaded scans of brains affected by mental illness.
CLOSING FILM DRUNK ON TOO MUCH LIFE (2021) D: Michelle Melles | CANADA | 77 MIN + PANEL | WORLD PREMIERE | Documentary IN-PERSON SCREENING Sat, Nov 6, 6:30 PM WATCH ONLINE Oct 29 – Nov 7 available across Canada IN-PERSON + VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION Sat, Nov 6, 8:15 PM ET
What does it mean to be normal in a world gone mad? That’s the question at the heart of writer-director Michelle Melles’ poignant documentary, Drunk on Too Much Life. The film strives to change how people perceive those with mental health issues, framing their conditions as potentially insightful gifts rather than burdensome disorders.
Drunk on Too Much Life focuses on Melles’ daughter, Corrina Orrego, a young woman who has experienced mental illness for much of her adult life. Corrina describes herself as “being trapped inside her own mind games.” Now, after years of doctors, medications and mental health facility check-ins, her family starts exploring healing methods outside of standard biomedical models. These alternative treatments positively impact Corrina, reflecting the healing power of art, creativity, and meaningful human connections.
ANNY (2020) D: Helena Třeštíková | CZECH REPUBLIC | 67 MIN + Q&A LANGUAGE: Czech with English subtitles CANADIAN PREMIERE | Documentary WATCH ONLINE Oct 29 – Nov 7 in Ontario only PRE-RECORDED VIRTUAL Q&A Available with the film
Anny became a sex worker at the age of 46, and since then has kept returning to the streets of Prague, rain or shine, as cars pass by her at a snail’s pace. Director Helena Třeštíková recorded Anny between 1996 to 2012 as is her unique approach: she follows ordinary people for years in what she’s dubbed “time-lapse documentaries.” These carefully crafted portraits indirectly capture larger lines of histories — in this case, the economic crisis years that sometimes prompt Anny to reflect on communism. Gently edited, this documentary shifts in time between Anny slowly growing older and her daily life that is often challenging, filled with concerns about her grandchildren and her failing health. An insightful portrait of a person who, with courage and determination, carries on despite life’s surprises.
JACINTA (2020) D: Jessica Earnshaw | USA | 105 MIN | CANADIAN PREMIERE |Documentary WATCH ONLINE Oct 29 – Nov 7 available across Canada
Filmed for over the course of three years, this documentary begins at the Maine Correctional Center where Jacinta, 26, and her mother Rosemary, 46, are incarcerated together, both recovering from drug addictions. As a child, Jacinta became entangled in her mother’s world of drugs and crime and has followed her in and out of the system since she was a teenager. This time, as Jacinta is released from prison, she hopes to maintain her sobriety and reconnect with her own daughter, Caylynn, 10, who lives with her paternal grandparents. Despite her desire to rebuild her life for her daughter, Jacinta continually struggles against the forces that first led to her addiction. With unparalleled access and a gripping vérité approach, director Jessica Earnshaw paints a deeply intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma over generations.
LUGINSKY (2020) D: Haiena | JAPAN | 63 MIN + Q&A LANGUAGE: Japanese with English subtitles NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE WATCH ONLINE Oct 29 – Nov 7 available across Canada VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION Tues. Nov 2, 8 PM ET
Winner of the Cinema Fan Award at the 2020 PIA Film Festival at the National Film Archive of Japan, Luginsky is an incredibly unique animated film replete with early and modern computer graphics, still photography and a collage of cut-outs, which are dizzyingly utilized to maximum effect to tell a story which seems as delirious as the protagonist. The main character of the film is named Deerman, whose head is a deer and who recently endured an accident resulting in chronic hallucinations. Deerman has recently lost his job, and in a series of events that led him to become reliant on alcohol, frequently is beaten up as a result of his drunken behaviours. His addiction takes an even worse turn when he stumbles upon a panther-barman-priest who creates a forbidden cocktail for Deerman designed by an ex-boxer named Luginsky that alters his life even further with so-called reality and fantasy dancing in unprecedented ways. A most unique film of fantastical visions you won’t soon forget.
NORTH BY CURRENT (2021) D: Angelo Madsen Minax | USA | 76 MIN + Q&A | CANADIAN PREMIERE | Documentary WATCH ONLINE Oct 29 – Nov 7 available across Canada PRERECORDED VIRTUAL Q&A available with the film
After the inconclusive death of his young niece, filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown to make a film about a broken criminal justice system. Instead, he pivots to excavate the depths of generational addiction, Christian fervor and trans embodiment. Lyrically assembled images, decades of home movies and ethereal narration form an idiosyncratic and poetic undertow that guide a viewer through lifetimes and relationships. Like the relentless Michigan seasons, the meaning of family shifts, as Madsen Minax, his sister and his parents strive tirelessly to accept each other. Poised to incite more internal searching than provide clear statements or easy answers, North By Current dives head-first into the challenges of creating identity, the agony of growing up and the ever-fickle nuances of family.
POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ (2021) D: Celeste Bell, Paul Sng | UK | 96 MIN |Documentary WATCH ONLINE Oct 29 – Nov 7 available across Canada
Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (aka Poly Styrene) is a punk rock legend. She entered the music business as a rebellious teenager with big dreams and then willed those dreams into reality. As the frontwoman for her band X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene was the first Black woman in the UK to front a successful rock band. She would go on to earn legions of fans by producing defiant songs about consumerism, class, and racial identity.
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché looks at the icon’s life and career from the perspective of her daughter, the film’s co-director, Celeste Bell. Bell uses archival footage, electrifying live performances, and her mother’s diary entries to celebrate Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, and Poly Styrene. Narrated by Oscar-nominee Ruth Negga, this intimate portrait of a punk icon offers a candid look at a reluctant public figure who struggled with fame while battling mental illness.
IN(SITE) A Virtual Exhibition In-site, Incite, & Insight
Rather than experience the festival’s exhibition onsite, this year we experience it “in-site” — in a website, in the digital world, in the virtual. The works in the festival this year have been selected with the intention of being experienced virtually.
The artists bring insight to their experiences of the world having changed, how it continues to change and what this change can offer. This includes our growing awareness around mental health, our relationships with both the physical and digital worlds, and how the works can incite us into action. The exhibiting works investigate these themes and more, providing room to engage with the arts in a time when interacting and experiencing work has been significantly impacted. Through these works, we recognize that we are in the moment, in the current, in the site. For full listing of artists in the exhibit visit https://workmanarts.com/rwm-events/insite/
TRUE Presented by Project Undertow Written and directed by Rosa Laborde Various showtimes from Friday, October 29th to Friday, November 5th at 1025 Queen St. West.
With inspiration from King Lear and multiverse theory, Rosa Laborde’s True follows three sisters hurtled back in time with the unexpected arrival of their estranged father who now lives with Alzheimer’s. The play is a tightly woven, poignant, and piercing look into the nature of memory. With Maev Beatty, Layne Coleman, Beau Dixon, Ingrid Doucet, and Shannon Taylor.
We cannot lie, we are intrigued! SEX, LOVE & goop has Gwyneth Paltrow speaking with couples and experts about how better to improve their relationships in understanding their bodies!
Synopsis: Gwyneth Paltrow and the goop team bring us Sex, Love & goop, premiering on Netflix October 21, 2021. This series follows courageous, real couples as they work with experts to explore their bodies and learn methods to enhance their relationships. Through deeper intimacy and an open mind, each couple experiences pleasure, sex and intimacy differently. From the minds behind goop, the series explores how sex and intimacy show up differently – and there’s more to pleasure than you think.
SEX, LOVE & goop arrives October 21, 2021 on Netflix.
Houston’s KESHI is a star on the rise! The 26-year-old Singer-Songwriter was a former Oncology Nurse before going fully into his passion. Things are happening quickly with him having appeared most recently on the Soundtrack for record-breaking smash SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS with “War with Heaven“.
Keshi, born Casey Luong, built a following on Soundcloud and uploading production tutorials onto YouTube. Flash-forward he now is signed to Island Records and tracks like i need u, beside u and right here are bona fide streaming hits and to date he has amassed 700 million streams worldwide.
He currently is in Toronto, having played Coca-Cola Coliseum as he supports L.A.-based Trio LANY on their gg bb xx Tour. While he is the Supporting Act, he already has eclipsed the headlining Act in followers on Instagram!
Keshi opened the night in the first show at the venue since the Pandemic began. He wowed the audience with his emotive, silky falsetto and moody vibes which millions of fans have come to adore.
Keshi got swarmed by group of fans following his performance and was so nice to take a Snap with me!
