Film News

TORONTO (AP) — August Wilson ’s “The Piano Lesson” deals profoundly with ancestry and heritage, which makes it all the more fitting that the new film adaptation, produced by Denzel Washington and directed by his son Malcolm, is a family affair.

The arts rarely have anything good to say about critics. That they’re not generally the hero of many stories is, at the very least, understandable.

TORONTO — Jason Reitman says showing his film about the origins of "Saturday Night Live" in Toronto feels "amazing," given the sketch-comedy institution's Canadian roots.

Quick. Has there ever been a horror film set in a country home with a decent cell signal? Nope, and there’s no signal at Paddy and Ciara’s house, either, deep in the English countryside.

They say tripping on psychedelic mushrooms triggers hallucinations, anxiety, paranoia and nervousness. In the case of Elliott, an 18-year-old restless Canadian, they prompt a visitor.

TORONTO — Five hours ahead of the first screening of "Saturday Night" at the Toronto International Film Festival, fans were already lined up along the red carpet and waiting for celebrities to arrive.

Ontario's public broadcaster says it won't be airing a documentary about Russian soldiers it helped produce, amid protests against the film's screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.

TORONTO (AP) — Many of the expected conventions of music biopics are present in “Piece by Piece,” about the producer-turned-pop star Pharrell Williams , and “Better Man,” about the British singer Robbie Williams .

TORONTO — Giancarlo Esposito first read the script of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" more than two decades ago, and he says it somehow feels more relevant now.

TORONTO — Ukrainian officials are calling on the Toronto International Film Festival to pull a documentary about Russian soldiers from its schedule.