Filmmaker Penny Lane has a knack for making sympathetic documentaries about reviled and seemingly irredeemable people — her last one…
In today's Movie News Rundown: Sacha Baron Cohen has reportedly made a secret Borat 2; a commentary on how Mulan gets Chinese…
People pause when they speak for all sorts of reasons: for dramatic effect, because they forget they wanted to say,…
Continuing to explore her interest in lost souls, found elsewhere in her films The Holy Girl (2004) and The Headless Woman (2008),…
We’ve all heard the stories. Paranormal Activity, a film with a budget slightly less than a used Honda, made $193…
The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of…
This year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) chose to cut the number of films it opted to include in…
A brief history lesson: After the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland in the 17th century, when Irish land was confiscated from Irish Catholics…
The contrast between absolute power and total impotence is the thematic core of Albert Serra’s latest portrait, The Death of…
Olivier Assayas' Personal Shopper is an attempt to evaluate cinema's potential to represent and reflect upon the invisible. For the…
Accidentally seeing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at the age of six is the perfect origin story for a horror…
No continent in the world hosts as many horror film festivals as North America, so the task of selecting a…
Adult Beginners, premiering tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival, follows the story of a young entrepreneur whose world suddenly…
MovieMaker's latest dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival 2013, courtesy of Jeff Meyers. On Day Three, our intrepid correspondent…
Toronto International Film Festival 2013 correspondent Jeff Meyers continues his screening diary in this installment, covering screenings of Like Father,…
This is Jeff Meyers, reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival for MovieMaker Magazine. I'm a film writer and critic…
MovieMaker’s Crowdfunder of the Week is The Dog, a fascinating documentary on John Wojtowicz, the real-life bank robber who inspired…