SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Fall Festival 2022 Standouts: The 15 Best Films from Venice, TIFF, and Telluride The first round of fall festivals provide not just a look at this year's crop of awards contenders, but some of the year's best films, full … By Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich

'House of the Dragon' Episode 5 Shows Why Weddings Should Be Banned in Westeros A nuptials takes a sharp, bloody turn. Sound familiar?  By Proma Khosla	'The Woman King' Is an Original, Black Film with a Female Director, and It's #1 Not only that, but the $50 million-budgeted film will be profitable. Take that, naysayers.  By Tom Brueggemann

'Reboot' Review: Judy Greer Boosts a Meta Hulu Comedy That Never Really Gets Going Steve Levitan's first series since "Modern Family" can't commit to its premise — a streaming reboot of a network sitcom — its co … By Ben Travers	'The Fabelmans' Wins TIFF 2022 People's Choice Award The coveted People's Choice Award has historically given a major Oscar boost to its recipients.  By Christian Zilko

	'Blonde' Hijacks Marilyn Monroe to Make an Anti-Choice Statement (Opinion) Andrew Dominik's Marilyn Monroe portrait is a traumatizing anti-abortion statement in post-Roe v. Wade America.  By Samantha Bergeson
	Academy Announces Plans to Incorporate Crafts Into Oscars Broadcast and Improve Membership Engagement Academy CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang also discussed the Oscars' Inclusion Standards and new International Feature requirements.  By Marcus Jones
	Woody Allen Says He Isn't Retiring After All "Currently, he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie, which will be the 50th," Allen's rep … By Samantha Bergeson
	'The People's Joker' Review: Trans Joker Spits Alt Comedy Truth in Scathing Satire TIFF: Comedy editor Vera Drew's bold debut is a zany queer Batman parody that was nearly pulled from the festival over "rights issues."  By Jude Dry
	'Dalíland' Review: A Disappointingly Rote Glimpse Into the Odd World of Salvador Dalí TIFF: Mary Harron's film never digs deep enough to deliver the fascinating character study that it wants to be.  By Katie Rife