#TIFF25: “HAMNET” REVIEW
By Nicholas Porteous
In Hamnet, Chloe Zhao enlivens an enduring masterpiece with a beautiful work of speculative fiction surrounding the real-life origins of Shakespeare's Hamlet, adapted from a novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It's a dark and dramatic counterpart to Shakespeare in Love, working backwards from the classic text (and the very little we know of Shakespeare's life) to uncover a primal story of how we process our pain through art. In this case, it's about a marriage, immeasurably ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TEASER FOR “WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY”
In Select Theaters November 26, 2025and on Netflix December 12, 2025, today we get a new Teaser for WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY.
https://youtu.be/eHM1K1JByBI?si=0zrRfe2dXJ2wU3mA
DIRECTOR: Rian Johnson
WRITER: Rian Johnson
PRODUCERS: Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson
CAST: Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church
SYNOPSIS: Benoit Blanc (Daniel ...
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#TIFF25: DAY FOUR SIGHTINGS – ANGELINA JOLIE, DUSTIN HOFFMAN, KERRY CONDON, JUNE SQUIBB, LEO WOODALL, RAMI MALEK, WAGNER MOURA AND MORE
we don't believe we've finally made it through the first weekend of TIFF, but make no mistake, we're still reaching for the peak! tiff50 monday is expected to be the biggest day of the festival with both FRANKENSTEIN and THE SMASHING MACHINE set to bow.
some highlights from day four:
•kerry condon at tiff for train dreams
•dustin hoffman and leo woodall at tiff for tuner
•alyvia alyn lind at tiff for wayward
•toni collette at tiff for wayward
•sarah gadon at tiff ...
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#TIFF25: “MOTOR CITY” Review
By David Baldwin
Detroit, 1977. Blue collar ex-con John Miller (Alan Ritchson, sporting a ridiculous blonde wig for far too long) is in love with Sophia (Shailene Woodley). Unfortunately for him, she is the ex-girlfriend of local gangster Reynolds (Ben Foster), who has John framed and thrown back into jail for drug possession.
That is the set-up for MOTOR CITY and you can guess (minus a few twists and a bogus ending) where it goes ...
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#TIFF25: “THE CHRISTOPHERS” REVIEW
By Nicholas Porteous
The prolific and unpredictable Steven Soderbergh goes back to basics with The Christophers. It's the story of two artists--one at the tail end of his life (Ian McKellen), and the other (Michaela Cole) near the start of her career, but drifting in a limbo of art-adjacent gigs--including forgery. His money-minded children (James Corden and Jessica Gunning) send her on a mission to secretly complete an unfinished series of his paintings--The Christophers--which reside ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: TEASER TRAILER FOR “HAMNET”
Focus Features and Universal Pictures Canada will release HAMNET In Select Theatres on Thursday, November 27th & Nationwide on Friday, December 12th, 2025.
https://youtu.be/E2xtmPkuksA?si=C6EcN7wbn81SwZY3
Directed by: Chloé ZhaoScreenplay by: Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’FarrellBased on the novel by MAGGIE O’FARRELLProducers: Liza Marshall, p.g.a., Pippa Harris, p.g.a., Nicolas Gonda, p.g.a., Sam Mendes, p.g.a., Steven Spielberg, p.g.a.Executive Producers: Kristie Macosko ...
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#TIFF25: “DEAD MAN’S WIRE”
By Amanda Gilmore
Director Gus Van Sant returns to telling stories about real world events with this unbelievable true crime story. Dead Man’s Wire recreates the fascinating true story of the 1977 kidnapping that made aspiring Indianapolis entrepreneur Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) into an eccentric outlaw folk hero.
Tony feels swindled by Meridian Mortgage Company. A company he partnered with to open a local shopping centre. After years of hollow ...
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#TIFF25: “BLACK RABBIT” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
BLACK RABBIT has all the makings of prestige television and it premieres as part of this year's Primetime programme. The suspenseful upcoming Netflix release sees among others, star Jason Bateman and Laura Linney taking turns directing episodes of this Limited Series.
We meet Restauranteur Jake (Jude Law) thriving with this Michelin-starred establishment, for which the Series is named, and he's about to expand further. The New York Times is about to do a feature, and in ...
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#TIFF25: “ROOFMAN” REVIEW
By Nicholas Porteous
In Derek Cianfrance's Roofman, the nicest robber you've ever met (Channing Tatum), makes a temporary home inside a Toys R Us, and manages to fall for one of the employees (Kirsten Dunst). How will he juggle a growing relationship with a single mom and avoid getting caught in her place of work? If you find the premise unbelievable, you're wrong. It's a true story.
Roofman is a joyfully unexpected genre hybrid. It's a romcom about two divorcees starting over, it's a ...
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#TIFF25: “THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Willem Dafoe plays a mysterious man who rents Corey Hawkins’ basement in this unsettling adaptation of Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name.
Charles Blakey’s (Hawkins) life is falling apart since his mother passed away. He fills himself up with booze, can’t get a job and worst of all: he can’t afford to keep the family home. This sends him on a quest to search through family heirlooms to see if anything is worth money. He ...
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