Film News

Fire is in the air this summer, literally, and at the movies.

Barbie, the doll, may be 64 years old, but “Barbie,” the movie, is a pandemic baby. Greta Gerwig, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind “Little Women” and “Lady Bird," started dreaming it up at a time when she wasn't sure movies would ever come back.

Cineplex says the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon is taking hold in Canada, with nearly 345,000 advance tickets purchased for two of the biggest Hollywood movie releases of the year.

Barbie, the doll, may be 64 years old, but “Barbie,” the movie, is a pandemic baby. Greta Gerwig, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind “Little Women” and “Lady Bird,” started dreaming it up at a time when she wasn’t sure movies would ever come back.

“ Stephen Curry: Underrated ” is easily one of the most inspirational movies of the year.

TORONTO — When the Toronto International Film Festivalrolls out the red carpet in September, it may not have the usual draw of movie A-listers.

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is a kinetic thing of dark, imposing beauty that quakes with the disquieting tremors of a forever rupture in the course of human history.

TORONTO — Canada’s competition commissioner is doubling down on its claim that the country’s largest movie theatre chain is using “deceptive marketing practices” to sell tickets.

TORONTO — Canadian director Atom Egoyan will premiere his opera-inspired feature “Seven Veils” at the Toronto International Film Festival. The drama reunites the Toronto filmmaker with U.S.

TORONTO — The high visibility of sister strikes in screenland could lend a further boost to a labour movement that observers say was already on the rise.