In their twelfth year of running a festival on the gem of the San Juan islands, it’s basically a given that the small but mighty Orcas Island Film Festival will quietly drops one of the season’s most complete and compelling film festival lineups of the year. The quality of the program is an embarrassment of riches and it’s basically in our backyard (provided that your backyard has a seaplane or a ferry boat).
The 5th Avenue Theatre’s A Chorus Line Is a Big Gamble That Pays Off
When the Fifth Avenue Theatre announced they were kicking off their 2026-27 season with a revival of A Chorus Line earlier this …
John Wilson pours out The History of Concrete
John Wilson’s first feature-length documentary could have been titled How To Make A Movie With John Wilson.
TIFF 2026 Dispatches: Minotaur, A Talent for Murder, Look Back, Tenzing
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 10-20 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
McKinley’s The Weight is heavy indeed
Set during the great depression, dry earth covering everything, near starvation plaguing more people than it isn’t, and no end it sight leaves Samuel Murphy (Ethan Hawke) and his young whip smart and headstrong daughter Penny (Avy Berry) in dire straights. In a manner of seconds their lives take a nose dive as he throws punches to protect her from predators, but the assault lands him in prison. Promising to be back for her, he takes on any opportunity to lessen his sentence. Time is of the essence, so when the warden of his prison-work camp offers a way to freedom within a week he jumps at it knowing full well it could be life threatening.
TIFF 2026 Dispatches: All of a Sudden, Possible Love, The Liberation
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 10-20 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
TIFF 2026 Dispatches: Bucking Fastard, Coward, Bitter Christmas
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 10-20 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
TIFF 2026 Dispatches: Everest: The Other Side; Tender Loving Care; Misty Green
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 10-20 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Practical Magic 2 introduces the next generation of cursed witches
We’ve all heard the stories of the Owens sisters, but it’s been 28 years since we’ve seen them on the big screen. Practical Magic 2 brings back (most of) the original cast, deepens the lore of magic, and introduces the audience to new characters to both love and hate.
TIFF 2026 Dispatches: Rapinoe, Girl Group, Being Heumann, Closing Night
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 10-20 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.