Knives Out, Weird Al, and more: eight great movies from TIFF 2022

Going to an event like the Toronto International Film Festival is an overwhelming experience — even if you’re a veteran festival-goer. There are just so many movies spread out across so many days and theaters that it’s hard to avoid feeling like you’re missing out on something. At the same time, it can be incredibly refreshing. As regular movie theaters continue to be dominated by increasing small lineups of blockbusters and never-ending franchises, the breadth of films showing at TIFF is a good reminder of why movies are so great.

This mix of overwhelmed yet refreshed is exactly how I felt after spending the last week at the 2022 iteration of TIFF. I didn’t get to see everything I hoped. In particular, I couldn’t squeeze Park Chan-wook’s new film Decision to Leave into my schedule, and my ticket for the now-controversial The People’s Joker was canceled — but I

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New Horror Movies That Flopped In 2022

Four years after his sci-fi horror feature, “Annihilation,” writer-director Alex Garland took a sharp turn from the realms of science fiction for “Men.” Starring Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear in (multiple) lead roles, Garland’s folk-horror feature received a mixed-to-positive response from critics. General audiences, however, didn’t seem to care much for it.

The film follows the recently widowed Harper (Buckley), who rents a country cottage after the sudden death of her abusive husband. The peaceful solitude of the countryside is ripped apart by strange and terrifying encounters with the men of the local village, all played by Kinnear through costuming and digital effects. Garland’s narrative approach to themes of gendered violence is a mixed bag in the eyes of some critics, but it did receive praise for Buckley and Kinnear’s performances as well as its outlandish and unsettling visual direction.

Official production budget figures aren’t readily available for “Men,” but

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5 high school revenge movies to watch where hell is a teenage girl

They walk down the school hallway in slow motion, perfect outfits, hair billowing in the draft. No one crosses them, because crossing them would mean certain death — or worse, death of social status. Everyone hates them. Everyone wants to be them.

The Heathers, The Plastics, you name it: Each generation has a movie dedicated to the beautiful mean girls of high school. They have more bite than in cozy rom-coms or nostalgia-fueled coming-of-age films, and often, the girls are out for blood, be it through social sabotage or literal murder.

This subgenre has a wickedly fun time with the conventions of teenage girlhood, especially when it comes to the design choices. These movies are united in iconic fashion and specific visual palettes that play with the popular aesthetic conventions of their respective time periods. They bring an edge and a hardness to elements often associated with diminutive girlhood, be

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Renny Harlin Remaking Horror Movie The Strangers | Movies

Here’s one story we’re not sure anyone could have quite predicted: Renny Harlin has already started shooting a remake of Bryan Bertino’s 2008 home invasion horror The Strangers. And he’s planning a trilogy.

Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez and Gabriel Basso are starring in the new film, which finds Petsch’s character driving cross-country with her longtime boyfriend (Gutierrez) to begin a new life in the Pacific Northwest.

When their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, they’re forced to spend the night in a secluded Airbnb, where they are terrorized from dusk till dawn by three masked strangers.

Bertino’s film starred Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman, and became a sleeper hit that spawned a 2018 sequel, The Strangers: Prey At Nightwritten by Bertino but directed by Johannes Roberts.

Harlin and Lionsgate are not looking to have the grass grow under the new movie’s feet, hatching a deal for two follow-up

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7 New Horror Movies Releasing This Week Including Ti West’s ‘Pearl’

Can you believe we’re already halfway through September? The Halloween Season is ongoing and time is moving fast, and as always we want to make sure you’re making the most of the season by watching as many brand new horror movies as you possibly can.

This week, another SEVEN new ones are on the way!

Here’s all the new horror arriving September 13 – September 18, 2022.


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Saban Films entered the House of Darkness in limited theaters this past Friday, and the Dracula-inspired horror movie is now available on VOD platforms beginning today.

Drag Me to Hell and Tusk‘s Justin Long and Kate Bosworth (Black Rock, Before I Wake) both star in this seductive thriller from director Neil LaBute (The Wicker Man).

In the movie…

“Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his

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The Best Sci-Fi Movies on HBO Max

HBO Max is absolutely stuffed with sci-fi movies, from the classics to recent blockbusters to underrated bangers more people need to watch. Try little Spanish gem Timecrimes, Moon (starring Sam Rockwell) or Monsters (directed by Gareth Edwards).

Thanks to the recent Warner Bros. and Discovery merger, HBO Max has seen a few casualties, including the removals of Moonshot, Superintelligence, 2020’s The Witches, An American Pickle, Locked Down and Charm City Kings. thankfully, none of those are worthwhile sci-fi flicks. Here’s everything you need to know about the merger.

Scroll down for the extensive options available on HBO Max.

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Colossal might look like a romantic comedy on the surface, but it has surprisingly dark layers underneath. This black comedy stars Anne Hathaway as an alcoholic out-of-work journalist who moves back home to New Hampshire after her suave British boyfriend (Dan Stevens) dumps her. What happens next is both

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This Map Shockingly Divides The US Up Into Five Different Favorite Kids’ Movies

Ask any parent, and they can probably tell you at least one kid movie that shaped their childhood somehow. These stories stick with us for a lifetime, and we often look forward to sharing the same movie with our kids when they’re old enough.

Of course, we all have our favorite kid movie, but a new map shows how shockingly dividing the US is when it comes to which kid movie is the favorite. Here’s what you need to know.

CableTV.com, a telecom research and comparison site, was curious to find out which kid movie was favored across the country. With so many movies to choose from, they polled 1,126 Americans in June 2022. They asked about their media preferences and which kid movie they preferred above others.

“In our research, we broke the county into nine regions,” CableTV.com explained, “following the names used by the US census.” Looking

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Saloum is the new movie worth watching this weekend

There are a lot of new movies out this week that you could potentially watch at home. Sure, the new Thor movie is on Disney Plus (as is the new Pinocchio), and Morbius morb’d its way over to Netflix. But if you only have time for one new movie this weekend, make it Saloumnow streaming on Shudder.

A Senegalese thriller from award-winning music video director Jean Luc Herbulot, Saloum is 84 minutes of genre-bending excellence. To talk more about how exactly it mashes genres together would be to give some things away, but from the start it’s apparent how spaghetti Westerns had a strong influence on the film.

The movie follows Bangui’s Hyenas, three legendary mercenaries who crash land in a village in the region of Sine-Saloum after completing a mission in the midst of the 2003 coup in Guinea-Bissau. From the beginning, Saloum‘s evocative costuming choices

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Aquaman and Shazam: Why It’s So Hard to Release Christmas Movies

“Shazam! Fury of the Gods” needs IMAX screens. So does everyone else.

Warner Bros. Discovery, continuing its newfound status as entertainment ecosystem disruptor, announced several theatrical release date changes this week, with DC Comics sequel “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” moving its Christmas 2022 date to March 17, 2o23. It replaces “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” which will now open on December 25, 2023.

“Shazam” director David F. Sandberg tweeted that the reason his film’s delay wasn’t the studio; it was “Avatar: The Way of Water,” which gobbled up the IMAX screens in December. (WBD didn’t see that coming?) All in, it’s probably a win for “Aquaman”; the FX could probably use the extra nine months and it gets a higher-profile new date.

The former “Aquaman” date has attractions for “Shazam.” It covers some school vacations (though Easter weekend is the weeks later) and gains full access to IMAX screens.

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The best movies to watch now on Paramount Plus (August 2022)

Kiera Knightley and Ralph Fiennes

Kiera Knightley and Ralph Fiennes
Screenshots: The Duchess

Back in the late 18th century, while England was dealing with rebellion in its colonies and a call for greater democratization at home, Georgiana Spencer married William Cavendish, the Duke of Devonshire, and via her husband’s Whig-affiliated circle of associates, she began taking an interest in politics, primarily by supporting the career of future prime minister (and lover) Charles Grey. In Saul Dibb’s The Duchess—adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from Amanda Foreman’s biography Georgiana—Keira Knightley plays the duchess as a freethinking fashion plate, admired by the ladies of London for her sense of style and her insistence that there’s no such thing as “freedom in moderation.” But her domestic situation tests her public calls for universal liberty, as her husband—played with creepily calm menace by Ralph Fiennes—reminds her that she has no real power in their relationship. He can sleep

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