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Sofia Coppola turns her lens on an American icon: Priscilla Presley

Sofia Coppola turns her lens on an American icon: Priscilla Presley

In her 25 years of making films, Sofia Coppola has always found the poetry behind the headlines, the banality in the glamour, the soul in the superficial.
Horror comedy from Ariane Louis-Seize wins Windsor International Film Festival prize

Horror comedy from Ariane Louis-Seize wins Windsor International Film Festival prize

A horror comedy set in Montreal telling the coming-of-age story of a teenage vampire is the winner of this year's Windsor International Film Festival prize for Canadian film.
Video game adaptation ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ notches $130 million global debut

Video game adaptation ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ notches $130 million global debut

It hardly mattered that “Five Nights at Freddy’s” was released simultaneously in theaters and on streaming this weekend.
The strike has dimmed the spotlight on the fall's best performances. Here's 13 you shouldn't miss

The strike has dimmed the spotlight on the fall's best performances. Here's 13 you shouldn't miss

NEW YORK (AP) — The fallout from the actors strike , now past 100 days, has been widespread throughout the film industry. Movies large and small have postponed . Sound stages remain shuttered. Adjacent industries have been devastated.
Movie Review: ‘Pain Hustlers' tells a sadly familiar story with a kitchen-sink style

Movie Review: ‘Pain Hustlers' tells a sadly familiar story with a kitchen-sink style

The wife of a man who nearly died of an opioid overdose comes bursting into the office of the sleazy doctor who prescribed it, wrongly, in exchange for personal gain. She slugs the doctor, in her agony.
Want people to tune in to an opioid film? Make it funny, says director David Yates

Want people to tune in to an opioid film? Make it funny, says director David Yates

TORONTO — How do you get people to pay attention to the opioid epidemic? For English director David Yates and Canadian producer Lawrence Grey, the answer was simple: make it funny.
Movie Review: Video game-to-horror flick 'Five Nights at Freddy’s' misfires badly

Movie Review: Video game-to-horror flick 'Five Nights at Freddy’s' misfires badly

Just in time for Halloween comes “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a video game adaptation with the potential treat of demented Chuck E. Cheese-like animatronic creatures running amok. But the trick turns out to be on us.
Movie Review: Teen dreams and adult nightmares in Sofia Coppola's 'Priscilla'

Movie Review: Teen dreams and adult nightmares in Sofia Coppola's 'Priscilla'

Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and early ’60s. But for Priscilla Beaulieu, teenage fantasy became a strange and surreal reality.
Next 'Mission: Impossible' delayed a year as actors strike drags on

Next 'Mission: Impossible' delayed a year as actors strike drags on

NEW YORK (AP) — The eighth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise has been postponed a year, signaling a new wave of release schedule juggling for Hollywood studios as the actors strike surpasses three months of work stoppage.

Movie Review: 'Persian Version' finds laughter, tears in Iranian American tale of resilient women

Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz doesn’t know how to start a movie.