‘The Forgiven’: Ralph Fiennes Shines In John Michael McDonagh’s Thinnest Effort To Date [TIFF Review]

which Consuelos in place of Ryan Seacrest–*the couple opened up a lot about their relationship while discussing the intense marriage drama Scenes From a Marriage, starring Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac. Scenes From a Marriage explores the challenges and unraveling of a marriage. “I was like, none of this would ever be happening in the Mark Consuelos household, because he would have nipped all of this in the bud immediately,” said.

Jessica Chastain is opening up about her role in 2019′s Dark Phoenix.

Mark Consuelos knows what his marriage needs.

Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical, black-and-white drama Belfast claimed the TIFF People’s Choice Award on Saturday night, affirming its status as a major player to contend with in the 2022 Oscars race.

Make your own material. That seems to be the ethos of Jessica Chastain’s production company, Freckle Films that produced and made this year’s TIFF hit “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” in which she stars(and which is already starting to generate Oscar buzz for Chastain; read our review).

Joan Washington was a dialect coach who worked with stars including Penelope Cruz and Jessica Chastain.Washington found her way to working with actors after teaching standard British pronunciation to newcomers to England. When she began working in movies, her first was “Yentl” (1983), starring Barbra Streisand as an Ashkenazi Jewish woman in Poland; Washington taught the movie’s stars an authentic accent.

William Earl As the 2021 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival wraps up, its third annual Tribute Awards are set to take place on Sept.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” the camera, and star and producer Jessica Chastain, dare us to consider what’s underneath.The makeup is never explained or outwardly mocked by the filmmakers, but it is a focal point from the first frame as an unseen woman tries to wipe Tammy's face clean and start fresh only to realize that most of it is permanent. In Chastain’s portrayal of Tammy from her college years through her early 60s, the layers just gradually pile on.

We’re definitely going to be seeing Jessica Chastain on the awards trail next year for The Eyes of Tammy Faye and her campaign just began!

According to the basic tenets of Christian scripture, all god’s creatures are worthy of judgment-free love. And while the hypocrisy of those words is rarely interrogated in “The Eyes Of Tammy Faye” — the bible belt preachers and communities presented in the film often fail to practice what they preach and are never forced to examine their own accumulation of wealth — these parts of the bible are really not the film’s concern.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” Andrew Garfield and Jessica Chastain play Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, the self-styled Christian TV personalities who did more than anyone else to mold televangelism into a game-changing, culture-shaking, credit-card-maxing industry/cult/diversion.

So many stars stopped by the Variety Studio at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival!

Watching the intriguing and unpredictable adult drama The Forgiven, which takes place right in the heart of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco, I couldn’t help but think that if the 2012 book on which it is based were around a few decades earlier this would be the kind of movie Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor would have made.

harpy?” David asks when Jo gives him one too many instructions in the car.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticHave you ever noticed how, in Western culture, when referring to someone’s death, writers feel obliged to insert the word “tragic” somewhere in the sentence? Is there any other kind, a reader might rightly ask. Sometimes they mean “unexpected,” a kind of shorthand intended to show that the life in question was cut short before its time.

Watching the intriguing and unpredictable adult drama, The Forgiven, which takes place right in the heart of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco I couldn’t help but think that if the 2012 book on which it is based were around a few decades earlier this would be the kind of movie Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor would have made.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe 2021 crop of the Toronto Film Festival’s Tribute Awards honorees gathered on Saturday to discuss their cinematic achievements and indulge in some responsible human contact.This year’s recipients — including Jessica Chastain, Benedict Cumberbatch, Denis Villeneuve, Alanis Obomsawin, Ari Wegner, Danis Goulet and Dionne Warwick — sat for a press conference moderated by Variety at premiere festival venue Roy Thomson Hall.Chastain, who took the TIFF Tribute Actor