2+ hour, 19+ min ago   (841+ words) Given its premise — a post-stroke retiree derives sexual pleasure from his daughter-in-law — the perverse qualities of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s classic “Diary of a Mad Old Man” are plentiful. But by the standards of contemporary mores, the 1961 novel isn’t particularly explicit; in…...

4+ hour, 20+ min ago   (399+ words) The actress spoke at the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health’s Evening From the Heart gala in Los Angeles Kaley Cuoco stepped out Saturday night to pay tribute to her TV dad, John Ritter. She was starring as the television…...

10+ hour, 4+ min ago   (686+ words) “Happily Ever After,” the follow-up feature from Taiwanese director Feng-i Fiona Roan, is bowing in the Toronto Film Festival’s Special Presentations lineup, arriving amid heightened attention following the success of her acclaimed debut, “American Girl.” “American Girl” premiered in the…...

22+ hour, 55+ min ago   (263+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump’s new hairstyle was heavily mocked in “Saturday Night Live U.K.’s” Weekend Update segment. “This week, President Trump stepped off Air Force One sporting a different hair color,” quipped co-anchor Ania Magliano. “He appears to be…...

23+ hour, 48+ min ago   (1032+ words) As delightfully plain-spoken as Hynde is when you get her to sit down and talk, she can be to get into that chair, as a naturally camera-shy personality, so Crowley’s film is particularly useful in further immortalizing a subject who…...

1+ day, 19+ min ago   (789+ words) Mia Wasikowska fills out the screen in Kuba Dorabialski’s “Agata the Writer.” Metaphorically and figuratively, as one especially arresting sequence shows her in close-up looking directly at the audience and recounting the rest of the story. “I was so curious…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (538+ words) Courteney Cox feels as if she was meant to be a director. “I notice everything,” she says. “I love actors, I love people, I love human stories.” Cox is best known for acting — including marquee roles in “Friends” and in…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (653+ words) When it comes to “ Up Against It,” a TIFF title premiering Sept. 12, director Trudie Styler says, “I know this story like the back of my hand.”... Antonio Banderas, Trudie Styler and Eva Birthistle on the Sorrow and Joy of TIFF…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (84+ words) A strong lineup from Taiwan hits the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, with two world premieres in the special presentations strand, a Taiwan-Japan genre title in Midnight Madness, virtual reality, market projects and an international Oscar contender. Feng-I Fiona Roan’s “Happily…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (786+ words) That girl, Kotoko, is the center of Nishikawa Miwa’s “ Children Untold,” a drama built from years of archival testimony about Japan’s war orphans that the director says forced her to ask how much of... Nishikawa Miwa Confronts Japan’s Failure to…...