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In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

Nanny, writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s impressively-imagined, impressively crafted feature-length debut, brilliantly explores one aspect of the the 21st-century immigrant experience that’s too often left either unexamined or under-examined on film, TV, and cable. Wrapped inside cleverly executed supernatural/horror genre tropes with...

[Updated 2/5/18: The full teaser trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story has been added below.] The game of games. The opportunity for history to be made tonight. Or will it go to the underdogs? We will know in a...

For such an obviously small and grass-rootsy kinda dark comedy, Better Living Through Chemistry has a surprising lot going for it. Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Monaghan. That's a lot of solid talent rounding out the three leading parts, all...

We've got a clip from the upcoming thriller Tomorrow You're Gone featuring Stephen Dorff, Willem Dafoe, and Michelle Monaghan. The film is from Down in the Valley director David Jacobson, from a script by novelist/screenwriter Matthew F. Jones. From the...

In my day, I've heard some preachers preaching like a machine gun. Sam Childers, the subject of director Marc Forster's ("The Kite Runner", "Monster's Ball") true-life drama of third world crisis, is not that kind of preacher. No, Childers...

The poster for Marc Forster's Toronto International Film Festival selected Machine Gun Preacher pretty much says it all, and it's leaving me torn as a result.On the one hand this is very clearly an African story from a colonial perspective...

Duncan Jones' sophomore effort Source Code hits theaters today and is the subject of my weekly column over at Showcase. What did I think? Basically solid but not exceptional and I count leading man Jake Gyllenhaal as the weak point....

On the way out of the screening of the mind-bending beat-the-clock thriller "Source Code", I overheard a fellow local critic making the comparison, "It's 'Inception' meets 'The Matrix'." Funny (although he wasn't joking), but I was thinking it's "Groundhog Day"...

Is Source Code an apocalyptic Groundhog Day? It's very tempting to call it that, simply because the premise of the two films are, at first blush, similar: a man must keep re-living a limited period of time in order to...

Memo to the folks at Summit: That image up above? That's the only poster for Duncan Jones' Source Code that should be used from this point on. I mean it.The poster was created by Olly Moss as part of the...

Good news for fans of Moon and director Duncan Jones. Jones' sophomore feature, Source Code, has just been announced as the opening night film of SXSW. Which makes me wish I could be there. But I can't. Sigh.The film is...

After turning heads around the globe with his debut feature Moon Duncan Jones is back for round two with Source Code. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a time and consciousness hopping soldier on the hunt for a bomber this will be...

The man is responsible for the most recycled and reused film score of recent memory for one very simple reason: he's very, very good.Clint Mansell will likely always be most associated with the films of Darren Aronofsky - it's...

Fans of intelligent science fiction, take heart in the news that the recent wave will continue with Moon's Duncan Jones bringing Jake Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga, and Michelle Monaghan to Ottawa to shoot the upcoming Source Code.Gyllanhaal will play a soldier...