‘Riddle Of Fire’ Review: Weston Razooli’s Whimsical Fantasy Feature Debut Struggles To Sustain Its Magic [TIFF]

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has taken a step toward what could be a major economic package to boost local film, TV and digital production.

Magic Johnson is no less ambitious than he was when he was winning championships with the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1980s. Johnson is always seeking out new business ventures, having recently become part owner of the Washington Commanders and Los Angeles Dodgers. But amidst these new endeavors, Johnson’s dedication to HIV/AIDS advocacy has never wavered.

Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance are honoring their close friends Magic Johnson and his wife Cookie.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is now a dad of three!

TORONTO – “American Fiction,” the directorial debut from Cord Jefferson, is genuinely a very, very funny movie. And that’s hyperbole on our part.

Tiffany Haddish doesn’t care what anyone says about her behavior at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards!

Tiffany Haddish knows that you’re talking about her after she went viral at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, and she has something to say in response.

J. Kim Murphy What happens when an immovable object meets a fatigued force that keeps whacking its head against said object in defeated frustration? That’s the question proposed by Niclas Larsson’s debut feature, “Mother, Couch.” Executive produced by and starring the once-boyish, now often forlorn Ewan McGregor, the film follows David, a frumpy middle-aged family man whose mother (Ellen Burstyn) plants herself on an old couch in the storage room of a furniture outlet, flatly refusing to vacate the premises.

Shakira was the star at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she took home the iconic MTV Michael Jackson Vanguard Award. Her performance was epic, taking fans on an incredible ride with her biggest hits spanning her career. Everyone wanted to meet Shakira that night, and one eager celebrity was caught on camera in pursuit of her, screaming her name through the halls - Tiffany Haddish.A post shared by NOW WUT (@nowwutdotcom)The video has gone viral, with many opinions on the matter.

Unassuming Japanese master Ryusuke Hamaguchi was jolted into the dehumanizing glare of the Oscar machine after “Drive My Car” became an unexpected cause célèbre a few years ago. That generational masterpiece saw him ascend to the pinnacle of instant and unanimous global adoration and forged a salivating fanbase eagerly anticipating his subsequent work.

READ MORE: Toronto International Film Festival 2023: 26 Must-See Films To Watch At TIFF A transformation suddenly bubbles to the surface right around the crucial first-act closing mark of the period drama, “Widow Clicquot.” And it’s not a second too late. About the widow who nearly single-handedly transformed Veuve Clicquot into the world-renowned champagne brand it is today, just as the film threatens to suffocate the viewer with the dreary, stately, oh-so-proper and drab sheen of tragedy and frumpy dourness that overwhelms so many dowdy period dramas of this ilk, it froths to life, its cup running over.

It is an overused cliche to describe visually stunning films as “every frame of this movie could be a painting hanging on the wall.” It is now an actual fact for at least two films. “Loving Vincent” was the first animated feature-length film composed exclusively of hand-painted oil paintings as its individual frames.

Shakira was honored at the MTV VMAs 2023 with the Video Vanguard Award for her career in music. Ahead of accepting the special Moon Person trophy, the Colombian superstar performed a medley of her greatest hits.

The high-concept elevator pitch description for Christy Hall’s “Daddio” would probably be something along the lines of “‘Locke’ as a two-hander,” or maybe “‘Collateral’ without the killing,” though it’s better than either of those loglines might lead you to believe. The premise is a simple one: Dakota Johnson (never named on-camera) plays a young woman coming home to New York who takes a cab from JFK to her home in Hell’s Kitchen.

In a time when ponderous, navel-gazing attempts at profundity have invaded even the superhero movies of the day, “Boy Kills World” stands apart as an actioner liberatingly unburdened with meaning or cheap sentiment. Instead, it delivers exactly what it says on the tin, a gleeful orgy of violence and blood-letting – wrapped in a stylish and imaginative package.

New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori has dabbled in big-budget Hollywood film-making (“Die Another Day,” “XXX: State of the Union”) as well as more intimately-scaled films exploring his Māori heritage (“Once Were Warriors,” “Mahana”).

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is so fraught and thorny most filmmakers these days who are not of Israeli or Palestinian heritage or from somewhere nearby the region generally tend to steer clear of all the loaded burdens and pitfalls. Versatile filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, however, is braver and/or has less compunction about that—for better and perhaps for worse.

Tiffany Haddish has first-hand experience on the importance of strong unions in Hollywood: She says she was stiffed by producers of her first – and non-union – film.

Flesh-eating sewer monsters, genitals with wings, grave robbing, two confused “identical twins” and 90 minutes of sexual innuendo is what you can expect from comedians Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp’s stage show-turned-movie. Directed by Larry Charles and written by and starring the duo, the film also features Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Megan Thee Stallion and Bowen Yang. As a viewer, I often wondered how the hell this got turned into the movie because it is so outrageous. Thankfully, it succeeds at being fun and funny because anything less would have amounted to torture. 

“What if you put 10 of reality television’s most iconic and infamous supervillains together under one roof?” We’ll all soon find out. So begins a new trailer for E!’s upcoming competition series House Of Villains, which features some of the most conniving villains from reality shows including Vanderpump Rules (Jax Taylor), The Apprentice (Omarosa) Flavor of Love (Tiffany Pollard) and more.