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Kristoffer Borgli’s newest film, The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, is a—you guessed it—drama masquerading as a rom-com, but with only bits and pieces of romance and comedy; instead, as the title suggests, it leans very heavily on the drama.
After leaving the theater for the latest Super Mario Brothers movie, I thought, “This movie is cool to look at, the animation is impressive, and the story is thin but harmless but it’s still a fun time. That’s basically what I said three years ago, the last time a Mario movie hit theaters and I feel the same way with this new movie.
Amanda Ogle (Rose Byrne) is more like the average American that we want to admit. She has been living out of her car in the painfully expensive city of Seattle for more than six months and just as she finds a job that could pull her out of the mire, someone steals her car. With a hefty tow bill, caused by the thief, between her and the car throws her world into chaos. She fights back to reign it back in, but it’s no simple task.
Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026 | USA | 108 minutes | Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett) It’s been seven years …
Project Hail Mary (2026 | USA | 256 minutes | Phil Lord & Christopher Miller) Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s hotly anticipated …
Horror movies often tap into the intersection of mortality and grief with a disarming fidelity seldom present in more literal-minded, non-scary mainstream movies. It’s one of many reasons I love the genre. Alongside the rollercoaster endorphin rush and dark escapism that draw me inexorably to them, the best horror films also serve as catharsis of the most profound variety.
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Long after her death, Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) takes a lead role in the story of The Bride! Together with a bored, free-spirited, but troubled young woman (also Jessie Buckley) she intends to dispense chaos in order to relieve her spirit of a story that she deems must be told. In a world where she not only wrote about Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, but they were real beings (manifested by her words or created in reality? We’ll never know) she burns to continue the tale that has yet to conclude in her mind.
Unsurprisingly the studio has come up with a creative, silly, and emotional way to broach a complex subject once again. It’s not the first time they’ve laid their heavy hand on us about the environment, but this one might be the most direct discussion of what humans continue to do to the planet despite the plethora of warning signs it’s been giving us.
One of the best entries in last year’s SIFF Northwest Connections program is situated 800 miles south on I-5 and a half century in the past: the biography of Sarah Jane Moore, one of two women who independently attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford while he campaigned for election in California. Eschewing typical documentary conventions, the story of the would-be assassin is told by the subject herself, having been released from prison 32 years into her life sentence.
