LA folks returning to Toronto for the World Series.

Happy Halloween. I revisited The Shining for the @theguardian.com's round-up of scariest movies of all time. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Trying out a daddy-daughter Halloween fit.

Read up on disgraced Yale power couple, Jed Rubenfeld and Amy Chua, and consider how much more potent After The Hunt would have been were it just about them. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

One Battle After Another will be fine down the line with awards & word of mouth. But as it stands, no one I talk to over the age of 30 (outside of media) heard of this movie. Maybe spending $70 mill to market a movie for grownups on Fortnite and TikTok was a stupid idea. variety.com/2025/film/bo...

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

Because Mary Bronstein's excellent If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is hitting theatres, the @theguardian.com put together this round up of the most stressful movies. I wrote on a Safdie joint (no not that one). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

So who told Derek Cianfrance to lighten up? www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/re...

Talking the disappointment of The Life of a Showgirl (and Actually Romantic, especially) for the pop culture column. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

A good read on The Life of a Showgirl. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

One more time on One Battle After Another: its beautifully messy politics, towering artistry, where it stands in PTA's work and how I hope it will be a gateway drug back to Inherent Vice. Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Went longer on One Battle After Another on my CBC pop culture column. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

This was a really great conversation on One Battle After Another, digging into its radical and sexual politics, with @elamin.bsky.social, El Jones and @jacksonweaver.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/live/5_r2lj2...

Love that One Battle After Another stars Chase Infiniti. Too fitting for a chase movie obsessed with time - how nothing changes over time, how its main character can't crack a secret password that revolves around time, how the only way to measure time passing is through her character!

My two favourite movies of the year are in conversation with each other in interesting ways. That's a conversation for another day.

Introduced my teen son to Inherent Vice this week and he gave it a 7/10, which I think is a perfectly fine first response. Now to get him to watch it again, which is when he'll realize Inherent Vice is so sublime that it exists on a transcendent spectrum where rational numbers don't belong.

I don't know that I ever gave anything five stars in The Guardian before. The Lowdown deserves. tinyurl.com/4kfxrdhp

I don't know that I ever gave anything five stars in The Guardian before. The Lowdown deserves. tinyurl.com/4kfxrdhp

5 years ago, I wrote about how PTA rankings get me in my feelings, because Inherent Vice rarely gets its due among Anderson's best. It's an achingly beautiful & melancholic tragedy, which I think is superior to One Battle After Another (which I also really love). www.gamesradar.com/inherent-vic...

Kogonada, Colon Farrell and Margot Robbie make it hard to completely dismiss what they're up to in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/re...

Hate to admit, but Warner Bros. was right not to take ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER to festivals. It would have thoroughly crushed any other film, instantly rendering the rest of the programming null and void. Rather considerate of PTA to let everyone else breathe for a moment or two.

Not like the world didn't already know but ... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

One Battle After Another: Remember when people said this was gonna be a mess. 😅 (Also, updated PTA ranking) boxd.it/Fi4pK

The Voice of Hind Rajab: As devastating as you'd expected. There's also really smart and heartfelt filmmaking (like moments when actors just listen and process the audio from real life) in a film mapping out the different ways people helplessly push back against calculated indifference. #TIFF50

There's a whole TIFF in 12 playlist helping you plan your final festival weekend y'all. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #TIFF50

On @ctvyourmorning.bsky.social talking movies that made a splash at #TIFF50 and who's gonna dig the final Downton Abbey and The Long Walk. youtu.be/WzQbXo-7qt0?...

Yesterday's TIFF in 12: Teri and I get into the Canadian highlights. youtu.be/rZkQfbcdlhc?...

Thanks to @justsayrad.bsky.social for offering insight into this screening.

Spoke about how the Barry Avrich movie at TIFF (The Road Between Us) is ultimately here to manufacture consent for genocide. open.spotify.com/episode/0R1F...

Spoke about how the Barry Avrich movie at TIFF (The Road Between Us) is ultimately here to manufacture consent for genocide. open.spotify.com/episode/0R1F...

Very much agree w @justsayrad.bsky.social on this one as someone w a little bit of insider info due to being Toronto-film-scene-adjacent for a couple of decades now. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

Listen to the audience response when Lisa LaFlamme (the airdropped moderator) simply recognizes Palestinian lives lost since October 7 at The Road Between Us premiere. This is exactly who this documentary manufacturing consent for genocide is made for.

TIFF in 12: @elamin.bsky.social @terihart.bsky.social and I on the weekend with Christy, Elvis and The Secret Agent. youtu.be/nlkZPel5r5c?...

On the hollow spectacle of Nuremberg, which is maybe more reflective of the state of international law today than intended. shorturl.at/V3TVT

Rental Family had me choking on all its forced pleasantness. #TIFF50 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Scenes from a Q&A starring Michael Shannon and Rami Malek. #TIFF50

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert review – Baz Luhrmann’s electric yet avoidant documentary

My review of EPiC. Sorry Elvis stans. #TIFF50 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of EPiC. Sorry Elvis stans. #TIFF50 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Matthew McConaughey says his real son auditioned to play his movie son in The Lost Bus without using his last name so Paul Greengrass wouldn't play favourites. Also, America Ferrera! #TIFF50

Also, #tiff50 opening ceremonies began with a short doc looking back at the festival's history, directed by...Barry Avrich. Awkward! 😬

Mark Carney introducing John Candy: I Like Me at #TIFF50.

Sentimental Value: There's a few moments here that come by its emotions honestly. I was never a big fan of Worst Person in the World so not surprised this follow-up is mostly hollow. #TIFF50

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You: Rose Byrne great! Relentless in the right ways. A festival fave so far. #TIFF50

The only standing ovation I care about.

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

20 years ago, I won tickets to an advance screening of The Constant Gardener and decided on a lark that I would write my first ever film review and submit it to the UofT school paper. That's how this whole thing started.

For the pop culture column, had to talk once again about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, and how insufferable the next wedding season is gonna be, but also thoughts on Sabrina Carpenter's new album. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Happy long weekend Friday! 🥳 Our pop culture guy @justsayrad.bsky.social and I always have these funny, entertaining chats about what we REALLY think. Today we talked about the T-Swift/Kelce engagement 💍 Check out the chirp: ➡️ soundcloud.com/jessica-ng-9... ⬅️ 🤳

Back for Season 10 baby!!! Here's Teddy and I on @ctvyourmorning.bsky.social wading through some pretty good new movies (Caught Stealing, Splitsville and Lurker) and The Roses. Watch at the 1:19:30 mark. www.ctv.ca/shows/ctv-yo...