-
Read MoreRecollections & Awards at TIFF 2026
It is funny how quickly the familiar becomes the unfamiliar in that there was a time I was spending five days a week travelling three hours back and forth to Toronto on public transit but with me getting used to remote way of living where I can conduct a interview via the Internet and afterwards start transcribing without having to move, the ways of past become a shock to system when they have to be...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: The Debut – “One of the best films of the year.”
Musical theatre nerds, rejoice! Because The Debut is just as good as you’ve heard through the grapevine. Might it have used a little more Bernadette Peters? Sure, but what couldn’t? This film truthfully isn’t really a musical, but more a movie about a musical which is taking place in a community theatre and they are about to hold auditions for the three-night run of Nosy Neighbors. But regardless of...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: Girl Group
You would be forgiven if you didn’t realize that Girl Group was Rebel Wilson’s second turn in the director’s chair. Back in 2024, Wilson came to the Toronto International Film Festival with her directorial debut called The Deb. It was an original musical and a fairly solid film, however, it ended up embroiled in several legal battles that ended up burying its release (you can find it now on digital...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: Idda – “Insolia and Vergano are very enigmatic and dynamic leads.”
Director Irene Dionisio dedicated her sophomore film Idda to her best friend, who suddenly passed away. Though she co-wrote the film with Marco Borromei, I hope that her friendship was less problematic than that of Adele (Tecla Insolia) and Sofia (Romana Maggiora Vergano). We meet the pair as Sofia returns to her hometown in Sicily. The two friends embrace, but it’s clear that the two haven’t seen each...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: Up Against It – “There was so much potential here.”
The title card of Up Against It may have been strangely indicative of what was to come in Trudie Styler’s complicated misfire. Garish pink early 90’s style font up against the British parliament buildings is such a strange decision, just like many choices in the rest of the film. Up Against it is just tonally uneven, never really knowing whether it should lean into comedy or drama and therefore...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: The Liberation – “The film finds the emotional weight necessary to balance its dark premise with a profound sense of grace.”
Clarity. Honesty. Forgiveness. It’s what is promised on the business card handed to Rita Cooper (Carrie Coon) by a new customer at her bank. All she needs to do is head down to the beach after work to watch the sunset and have an open mind. Rita is a woman plagued by her present and her past. A child during the Holocaust, she watched her mother and sisters get ripped away. She survived, as did her...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: Smudge the Blades
A rag-tag Indigenous hockey team is helped by a reluctant and unlikely coach. Kicked out of a top league, the Treaty 6 Blades need a new coach, who happens to be the local Zamboni driver, more motivated to bed a particular hockey mom than to put together a winning strategy on the ice. Each of the players comes with their own emotional baggage, along with being victims of rampant racism directed towards...
-
Read MoreTIFF 2026 Review: The Diary of a Chambermaid
A Romanian migrant is a live-in housekeeper at the behest of her employers she prepares for an amateur production of The Diary of a Chambermaid. While working for an upper-class couple in France as a live-in housekeeper, Gianina has constant FaceTime chats with her daughter who longs for them to be reunited in Romania; her offspring is jealous that the boy of her employers gets more personal attention...
Recent News
Recent Trailers
Recent Reviews
Most Recent Articles
Watch Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in the trailer for Pathaan
Yash Raj Films has released a trailer for the new Bollywood film Pathaan,...
Read More
Check out Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Abby Ryder Fortson and more in new images from Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
For over fifty years, Judy Blume’s classic and groundbreaking novel Are You...
Read More
Baby Ruby – Watch Kit Harington and Noémie Merlant in the trailer for the new thriller
BABY RUBY tells the story of Jo, a successful lifestyle entrepreneur who is...
Read More
Cleopatra Entertainment has picked up the U.S. rights for Shin Ultraman
Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired U.S. territory rights to the latest...
Read More
Broker – The South Korean drama starring Bae Doona, Song Kang-Ho and Gang Dong-Won gets a UK release date
Picturehouse Entertainment has sent over the new poster for the award-winning...
Read More
Titanic is heading back to cinemas for its 25th Anniversary
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, a remastered version of James...
Read More
Watch Jim Gaffigan and Rhea Seehorn in the Linoleum trailer
Cameron Edwin (Jim Gaffigan), the host of a failing children’s science...
Read More
Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid gets a trailer
Beau Is Afraid (previously called Disappointment Blvd.) is a new surrealist...
Read More
US Blu-ray and DVD Releases: House of the Dragon, She Said, And Just Like That, Dragons Forever and more
It’s a relatively small week this week, as the studios are still suffering...
Read More
Norbert Meisel’s Walking the Edge is getting a new release in March
Radiance Films is releasing a Limited Edition Blu-ray of the gritty crime...
Read More
Jonathan Rhys Meyers is trapped in an abandoned hospital in the Disquiet trailer
Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars in the terrifying, edge-of-your-seat thriller....
Read More
Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel – Watch the trailer for the new documentary
Following a successful international festival run, Amélie van Elmbt and Maya...
Read More
The Last Deal – Watch the trailer for the new crime thriller
Sala Baker (Sauron in TheLord of the Rings) stars in the non-stop action...
Read More
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania gets a new trailer
Peyton Reed is back to direct the third Ant-Man film, Ant-Man and the Wasp:...
Read More
Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool gets a new poster
While staying at an isolated island resort, James (Alexander Skarsgård) and Em...
Read More
Oscar Peterson: Black + White – Watch the trailer for the new documentary
Oscar Peterson: Black + White is an inspiring feature documentary, exploring...
Read More
Juniper – Watch Charlotte Rampling in the trailer for the new dark comedy
Academy Award nominee Charlotte Rampling delivers a tour de force performance...
Read More
Seriously Red – Watch the trailer for the new comedy film about a Dolly Parton impersonator
Starring Krew Boylan, Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, SERIOUSLY RED world...
Read MoreLive for Films is one of the Top 10 UK Film Blogs
Follow Us
Support Live For Films
Film Festivals and Conventions
Recent Reviews
Recent Comments
Check out these other sites
Recent Short Films
Recent Posters
