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Toni Collette, whose breakthrough role was the socially awkward title character in 1994’s Muriel’s Wedding, has never shied away from playing women who downplay their attractiveness. In Curtis Hanson’s comedy/drama In Her Shoes, which had its world premiere at TIFF in 2005, the Australian actress starred as a slightly dowdy, buttoned-up lawyer who finds herself at odds with her flashier, if unreliable, sister, played by Cameron Diaz, as well as a long-lost grandmother portrayed by Shirley MacLaine.  But as Collette walked the red carpet at Roy Thompson Hall, she looked every bit as glamorous as her two co-stars. Collette, MacLaine testified as…

The great Albert Brooks film Defending Your Life, from 1991, imagines a bureaucratic heaven that prepares the recently departed for their next phase of existence. The movie is a wry look at the petty foibles of life, the fears and neuroses that can impede a person’s path to fulfillment and enlightenment. There’s a romance involved, but the film is more about the individual.  The new film Eternity puts the romance right at the center. Directed by Dating Amber helmer David Freyne from a Black List script by Pat Cunnane, Eternity sets two marriages at odds with one another in the…

For a movie that’s mainly about algorithms and the havoc they wreak on society, the French dystopian thriller Dog 51 (Chien 51) doesn’t appear conscious of the fact that it was made by an algorithm as well. Or at least that’s what it seems like. Directed by Cédric Jimenez, whose heavy-handed, adrenaline-charged films (The Connection, The Stronghold) have always felt rather formulaic, this tale of two crimefighting lovebirds hunting down a killer in near-future Paris will give most viewers a major sense of déjà vu — which, if you don’t speak French, means “already seen.” Dog 51 The Bottom Line…

Few if any filmmakers can build and breathlessly sustain visceral intensity with the command of Paul Greengrass, who brings documentary realism, kinetic energy and heart-pumping adrenaline to stories drawn from life or fiction, generally about people caught in explosive situations. The Brit director is a master of chaos. That makes him an ideal fit for The Lost Bus, which plunges us into the 2018 inferno that ripped through Northern California’s Butte County, decimating entire communities. If the human drama is seldom as alive as the flames, that’s no fault of the fine leads, Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera. About those…

Twinless is not only the most well-reviewed movie of Dylan O’Brien’s career; it’s also his finest outing as an actor. Written and directed by James Sweeney, the dark dramedy centers on O’Brien’s identical twin characters, Roman and Rocky. The former ends up meeting Sweeney’s Dennis at a support group for twins who’ve lost their fellow twin, and they strike up a fast friendship to help each other cope with their own respective losses. The movie then takes a turn structurally and narratively to show the twisty final days of Rocky’s life. Twinless began its decorated run at Sundance earlier this…

Tom Holland knows what Spider-Man fans want.  Going into Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the English actor told LADBible he wanted to make sure the next film appeals to viewers. To do so, Holland admitted he’s been scouring the internet to see exactly what fans want from his fourth Spider-Man movie — while bringing those ideas to the team working on the project.  “I have been actively sifting through the internet and trying to best understand what it is that the fans want from a Spider-Man movie, and that’s been my driving force in these pitch meetings,” he said. “I think…

Things are starting to get complicated between Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the teaser trailer for filmmaker Emerald Fennell‘s Wuthering Heights. Based on author Emily Brontë’s classic novel of the same name, the film is set for theatrical release from Warner Bros. on Feb. 13, 2026. Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell round out the cast. “Do you want me to stop?” Elordi asks in the trailer, to which Robbie replies, “No.” Fennell helmed the movie from her own script that is based on Brontë’s book. Fennell, Robbie and Josey McNamara produce the project…

David Jonsson is beaming with pride as he sits down to talk to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s late August and the in-demand British actor has come to a local school in rural England to counsel the next generation of film creatives. He’s teamed up with BAFTA and EE for a new initiative, Set the Stage, where 16 teens have been selected to form a crew and produce a short film under the mentorship of Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jonsson, 2025’s recipient of BAFTA’s EE Rising Star Award. “I’m relatively quite shy,” the Rye Lane and Alien: Romulus star says to THR.…

Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne Johnson as legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr, delivered a knockout punch Monday at the Venice Film Festival. The A24 film had its world premiere Monday night inside Sala Grande and the audience went wild, responding with a 15-minute standing ovation. It proved to be a special night for Johnson as Kerr also made the trek to Venice for the showing where they were joined by co-star Emily Blunt. Amid cheers of “DJ,” “Benny” and “Emily,” the audience went wild as all four — Johnson, Blunt, Safdie and Kerr — were…

Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter movies, said a reunion with the original cast is “never going to happen” due to author J.K. Rowling‘s anti-trans stances. The filmmaker has previously expressed interest in a film adaptation of the Broadway play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with the cast of the beloved franchise, but has since scrapped his plans because it’s gotten too “complicated.” “It’s never going to happen,” Columbus recently told The Times U.K. “It’s gotten so complicated with all the political stuff. Everyone in the cast has their own opinion, which is different from her opinion, which makes it impossible.”…