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…
Cillian Murphy has appeared in six Christopher Nolan movies, including 2023's "Oppenheimer," which earned them both Oscars. But the cinematic collaborators are taking a break, as Murphy won'…
Berlin and Lyon-based sales outfit Films Boutique has announced sales for Agnieszka Holland's Kafka biopic "Franz" to additional territories following its world premiere Friday at the Toront…
SPOILER ALERT:Â This story contains spoilers from "Twinless," now in theaters. James Sweeney has a thing for twins. In his new quirky dark comedy, "Twinless," he and Dylan O'Brien play Den…
For her starring role in the female boxing drama "Christy," Sydney Sweeney kept an ice bucket handy. "I was getting pummeled," Sweeney said during an interview at the Variety Toronto F…
"Sk+te'kmujue'katik (At the Place of Ghosts)" is a simple story with a lot on its mind. At its core, writer-director Bretten Hannam's tale follows two siblings (played by Blake Alec Miranda …
Back in 2017 and fresh out of drama school, David Jonsson auditioned for "Wasteman," Cal McMau's debut feature and a violent pressure cooker thriller set in a British prison. The drama bows …
Lesley Manville travels to 1981 Poland in Kasia Adamik's "Winter of the Crow." Premiering at TIFF and then closing San Sebastián, it's based on Nobel and Booker Prize winner Olga Toka…