CABLE | Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan Age Their 'Beef' – Netflix Season 2

"She has appalling taste in interior design."

A24 Television

Back for another melodramatic spin at tormented domestic rivalries, season two of Beef's anthology series, created by Korean-American writer/producer Lee Sung Jin, takes a turn towards the affluent country club crowd in a personal feud between members of its staff, management, and new ownership.

SCREEN | Falling for the 'People We Meet on Vacation' on Netflix

"How about we die alone together?"

3000 Pictures / Temple Hill Entertainment

People We Meet on Vacation, Netflix's new romantic comedy adapted from bestselling contemporary romance author Emily Henry's 2021 novel of the same name, stars the good-looking duo of Emily Bader and Tom Blyth as best friends who get together every summer for one week to travel somewhere in the world. Director Brett Haley mines the whole When Harry Met Sally-inspired best friends-turned-couple angle, but for contemporary audiences, set against attractive international locations in a flashback format.

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2025

"No fear. Just like Tom f*cking Cruise!"

Warner Bros. Pictures / Ghoulardi Film Company

Click on each film title to read its corresponding review:

1) One Battle After Another ¹ (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

2) Sentimental Value ² * (Affeksjonsverdi, dir. Joachim Trier)

3) Sinners ³ (dir. Ryan Coogler)

4) Marty Supreme (dir. Josh Safdie)

5) Train Dreams * (dir. Clint Bentley)

VIFF 2025 | George Clooney Pays Tribute to 'Jay Kelly'

"I'm grateful I got to see the end before it ended."

Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF 2025—The unofficial Mayor of Hollywood, George Clooney, stars as an aging movie star contemplating his life and legacy in the movies, away from his actual family, in renowned dramatist Noah Baumbach's latest comedy, the unimaginatively titled Jay Kelly. Prepare yourself for a stage-like, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-style look at past relationships where another successful, rich white man went wrong by alienating his loved ones, to only end up being surrounded by people he employs.

VIFF 2025 | 'Train Dreams' Logs the Pacific Northwest Frontier

"That state is a collection of savage lunatics."

Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF 2025—Sing Sing co-writer/producer Clint Bentley remembers the natural beauty and wonder of the Pacific Northwest in his American frontier drama, Train Dreams. Set during and after the Great War, we follow the unremarkable but deeply meaningful life of a contemplative Idaho orphan logger (Joel Edgerton) who travels across the Western United States as it slowly becomes developed before settling in a cabin in the woods of Washington State.

VIFF 2025 | 'Nouvelle Vague' Revives the French New Wave

"Life is short, but art is long."

Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF 2025—Prolific Texas independent filmmaker Richard Linklater's light and casual black-and-white dramatization of the revolutionary French New Wave cinematic movement of the mid-twentieth century offers a delightfully amusing experience for cinephiles at one of film history's most influential collection of artists. Nouvelle Vague follows the humorous making of Jean-Luc Godard's first film, 1960's formally groundbreaking Breathless.

VIFF 2025 | 10 Most Anticipated Films (You Should See)

"This is a festival built on passion, and it shows."

Image | Zak Design Studio

VIFF 2025—(August 27, 2025) Fall movie season is just around the corner. This means the city's eleven-day arthouse cinematic showcase, the 44th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, is almost upon us when it returns in a new timeslot at the beginning of next month. Make a plan for VIFF's yearly buffet of multimedia entertainment programming, featuring hundreds of local, national, and international films from across the globe, screened in celebration of contemporary filmmaking.

CABLE | Netflix Throws Back to 'Everybody's Live with John Mulaney'

"Like the measels, he's back in a big way!"

Sunset Gower Studios

Clipboard-carrying stand-up comedian John Mulaney's highly chaotic but wildly entertaining late night show is back. Everybody's Live with John Mulaney, his follow-up to the bizarrely amusing Everybody's in L.A. streaming experiment, originally a tie-in to the 2024 Netflix is a Joke Festival, started its twelve-week run live on Wednesday nights. Mulaney promised more of the same discomforting type of offbeat fun and, so far, has delivered.

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2024

Amazon MGM Studios / Warner Bros. Pictures

Click on each film title to read its corresponding review:

1) Challengers (dir. Luca Guadagnino)

2) Anora * (dir. Sean Baker)

3) The Brutalist (dir. Brady Corbet)

4) Evil Does Not Exist * (dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)

5) Civil War (dir. Alex Garland)

VIFF 2024 | 'Emilia Pérez' Finds A Musical Crime Odyssey

"I want a new skin."

Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF 2024—No one can accuse Emilia Pérez, French filmmaker Jacques Audiard's Spanish-language transgender musical crime thriller based on his opera libretto of the same name and loosely adapted from Boris Razon's 2018 novel Écoute, of not taking bold risks. His film collects different genres, from its Mexican gangster setup to some telenovela melodrama, crisscrossing with a surreal queer family tragedy and full-on choreographed musical odyssey, for mostly triumphant results thanks to its talented female lead cast that commits to the strange tone.

SCREEN | Anna Kendrick Courts 'Woman of the Hour'

"I felt looked at."

VVS Films / AGC Studios

Based on actual events, Woman of the Hour depicts an incident from an episode of The Dating Game in 1978 where a bachelor contestant looking for a date turned out to be a notorious serial killer (Daniel Zovatto as Rodney Alcala). Actress Anna Kendrick, who plays the (un)lucky bachelorette date, also makes her directorial debut in the sharp but straightforward true-crime thriller that zeroes in on the rampant casual misogyny that allowed a hundred women and girls to be raped and murdered despite numerous reports.

VIFF 2024 | 10 Most Anticipated Films (You Should See)

"VIFF is an overflowing, multidimensional, full-tilt celebration of film and film culture."

Image | Zak Design Studio

VIFF 2024—(August 28, 2024) Embrace the movies for the city's eleven-day arthouse cinematic celebration when the 43rd annual Vancouver International Film Festival starts at the end of the month. Plan ahead for VIFF's smörgåsbord of multimedia entertainment offerings as hundreds of films from across the continent and world are screened in recognition of contemporary cinema.

SCREEN | Getting Along – 'His Three Daughters' Says Goodbye

"It's good that there are three of you."

High Frequency Entertainment

His Three Daughters, New York filmmaker Azazel Jacobs' powerful single-location sibling drama, is an astounding piece of character work set within the confines of a compact Manhattan apartment. Starring Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, and Elizabeth Olsen as estranged sisters who struggle to get along, staying together in their sick father's home as they await his imminent death from cancer.

SCREEN | Faking It – Glen Powell Takes the 'Hit Man'

"I guess I'm just your fantasy."

VVS Films / AGC Studios

Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater reteams with his Everybody Wants Some!! star Glen Powell (also a co-writer/producer) to glamourize journalist and Bernie co-writer Skip Hollandsworth's 2001 Texas Monthly magazine article about the real-life, mild-mannered college professor turned fake hitman for hire, Gary Johnson. Hit Man makes for a near-perfect starring vehicle for the endlessly charming Powell that embraces fictionalizing its true-crime-adjacent material.

CABLE | The Talented Andrew Scott Cons 'Ripley' on Netflix

"Everything about Tom is perfectly vague."

Showtime Studios

Accomplished screenwriter Steven Zaillian tries his hand at adapting mid-century novelist Patricia Highsmith's seminal literary character, Tom Ripley, as a miniseries this time. The succinctly titled Ripley, based on the previously adapted 1955 psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley, stars British actor Andrew Scott, taking over the eponymous role of the menacing, social-climbing American con artist turned serial killer let loose in coastal Italy.

SCREEN | Adam Sandler Ponders – Lost in 'Spaceman' on Netflix

"Your loneliness intrigues me."

Tango Entertainment

Comedian Adam Sandler stars in Swedish music video director Johan Renck's ponderous sci-fi drama based on Jaroslav Kalfař's novel Spaceman of Bohemia. His film adaptation, Spaceman, proves to be an absorbing but detached experience focused on the central character of a lonely Czech astronaut aboard an international space station all alone.

REEL | Bradley Cooper Conducts 'Maestro' x WFF 2023

"You're going to die a lonely, old queen!"

Whistler Film Festival

A Star is Born filmmaker Bradley Cooper once again directs himself in the Leonard Bernstein period biopic Maestro, co-produced by cinematic legends Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Cooper crafts a complex portrait of the famed composer and conductor who had a tumultuous personal life amidst the highs of his professional accomplishments within the context of a difficult but loving marriage.

CABLE | 'Scott Pilgrim Takes Off' Gets Remixed on Netflix

"My parties are curated."

Science Saru / Universal Content Productions

Toronto native and cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley readapts his famed graphic novel series once again—this time in television anime form. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off achieves the remarkable task of creating both something totally fresh and new storywise while also balancing the familiar comfort of the cult source material, including the entire cast of the live-action film adaptation, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, reprising their respective roles vocally.

SCREEN | Natalie Portman Studies 'May December' x WFF 2023

"This is just what grown-ups do."

Whistler Film Festival

Celebrated indie filmmaker Todd Haynes directs the comically meta melodrama May December, loosely inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau scandal of the 1990s, starring Natalie Portman (also a producer) and Julianne Moore as an actress doing research and the controlling real-life tabloid subject of the former's latest film project.

GENRE | David Fincher Catches 'The Killer' on Netflix

"Distance is your only advantage."

Plan B Entertainment / Panic Pictures

Master filmmaker David Fincher heads back to the stylish killer thriller genre he helped revitalize in the neo-noir film adaptation of the French graphic novel series of the same name (aka Le Tueur) by comic book writer Alexis "Matz" Nolent and illustrator Luc Jacamon. The Killer stars the perfectly cast Irish actor turned racecar driver Michael Fassbender, in his return to the screen after a four-year absence as the titular anonymous assassin for hire.