LONDON (AP) — The London Film Festival kicked off Wednesday with the European premiere of British director Steve McQueen’s whip-smart heist thriller “Widows.”

The film stars Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez and Elizabeth ...

TORONTO (AP) — To play any brother, by blood or not, of John C. Reilly is an intimidating prospect given just how firmly entrenched Will Ferrell is as Reilly’s on-screen sibling.

“Step Brothers,” their 2008 comedy classic that took the adolescent adult to absurdist extremes, looms large. ...

TORONTO (AP) — The response to Bradley Cooper’s romantic saga “A Star Is Born” has been intense. Critics have boasted of crying uncontrollably. Fans outside theaters have swooned for its star, Lady Gaga. Words like “glorious,” ″rapturous” and, of course, “gaga” are running ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s a look at the films coming to theaters through December:

SEPTEMBER

“The Nun” (Sept. 7) — A gothic supernatural horror film and spinoff in “The Conjuring” franchise.

“The Predator (Sept. 14) — Shane Black’s fourth installment in “The Predator” films, with ...

TORONTO (AP) — Of the many who were moved by Barry Jenkins’ James Baldwin adaptation “If Beale Street Could Talk,” none was more shaken than the actor Brian Tyree Henry. “Get it together, Brian,” he told himself on the stage of the Princess of Wales Theatre moments after the film’s premiere at ...

TORONTO (AP) — Lynda La Plante’s 1980s British crime series “Widows” had a curious hold of filmmaker Steve McQueen as a 13-year-old boy.

The show was about a group of women who, after their criminal husbands are killed, band together to pull off the raid their dead spouses had planned. The ...

TORONTO (AP) — A year after his breakthrough performance in “Call Me By Your Name,” Timothee Chalamet — now a seasoned veteran at the age of 22 — is again the toast of the fall film festival circuit.

Though there were few doubters after Chalamet became the youngest best-actor Oscar nominee ...

ROME (AP) — “Roma,” Alfonso Cuaron’s intimate, black-and-white portrait of the women who raised him in Mexico City’s turbulent 1970s, has won the top prize at the 75th Venice Film Festival.

Cuaron accepted the Leone d’Oro on Saturday, which he said was the birthday of the woman who ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Toronto International Film Festival is an overwhelming omnibus of moviegoing that every year, through an onslaught of Oscar contenders and cinematic feasts, reflects the world around us. But more than usual, this year’s festival radiates with urgent topicality, both on screen ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Damien Chazelle’s last movie, “La La Land,” was about a man clinging to nostalgia. His new one, “First Man,” doesn’t merely flirt with the past. It throttles back in time.

But Chazelle’s reason for revisiting NASA’s 1969 mission to the moon isn’t to polish the shining ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The frustratingly long wait for Tamara Jenkins’ follow-up to her 2007 Oscar-nominated film, “The Savages,” seemed to finally be coming to end. She had spent two years on the script to “Private Life,” and secured Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti to star as a middle-aged New York ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Films starring Timothee Chalamet and Hugh Jackman as well as Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut “A Star Is Born” with Lady Gaga are among the selections announced Tuesday for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

“Beautiful Boy” stars Chalamet and Steve Carell ...

TORONTO (AP) — Liam Neeson’s latest film takes viewers into the life of a key player in the Watergate scandal, and he says there are clear parallels between presidents then-and-now.

Neeson plays the high-ranking FBI official who was a key source for Washington Post stories that helped lead ...

There are basically two kinds of Tom Cruise performances, and both can look pretty similar on the surface. Each likes sunglasses, going fast and smiling big.

He never exactly loosens up or slows down — the most unfathomable thing of all in Cruise’s world. But most of Cruise’s best and most ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Director Doug Liman loves spy stories and antiheroes, but he didn’t anticipate having such a personal connection to the little-known story of TWA Pilot turned Medellin Cartel friend, drug smuggler and Drug Enforcement Agency informant Barry Seal, who became a central figure in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — More than four decades after Hal Holbrook stood smoking in a darkened parking lot, urging Robert Redford’s Bob Woodward to “follow the money,” the famed Watergate source “Deep Throat” is, in cinematic terms, finally stepping out of the shadows.

“Mark Felt: The Man Who ...

Stop us if this sounds familiar: A tall, dark, bearded servant of rough breeding comes from far away to suddenly charm a grumpy, widowed Queen Victoria and thus upend Britain’s royal court at the turn of the 20th century.

You were perhaps thinking of the film “Mrs. Brown,” starring Judi ...

TORONTO (AP) — Judi Dench is not tired.

“I’ve had one of those pep-up drinks,” Dench, beaming as she sits down for a recent interview. “I feel rather sparky.”

Caffeinated or not, Dench, 82, remains fully energized. As Stephen Frears, the director of her latest film, “Victoria & ...

″Stronger ” is about a survivor but it is not a feel-good movie.

In 2013, 27-year-old Jeff Bauman went to watch his ex-girlfriend, Erin Hurley, run the Boston Marathon. He was there when the bombs went off and lost both of his legs ...

Can an inspirational movie also be a drag?

That’s the distinct feeling one can’t shake walking out of ”Battle of the Sexes ,” a fictionalized rendering of the 1973 tennis match between 29-year-old Billie Jean King and 55-year-old ...

TORONTO (AP) — As the cast and makers of “Stronger” collectively rose to take a bow after the film’s Toronto International Film Festival premiere, Jake Gyllenhaal realized that Jeff Bauman, whom he plays in the film and who wears prosthetic legs, was still sitting, overwhelmed with ...

TORONTO (AP) — Walking through a tunnel alongside Billie Jean King at the grounds of the U.S. Open, Emma Stone gasped at the size of its main court.

King, of course, was more familiar with the sprawling tennis center in Queens, New York — it’s named after her, after all (the stadium itself ...

TORONTO (AP) — Ben Stiller thought the best way to prepare for his role as a dad taking his son on a college tour in the film “Brad’s Status” was to take the actor playing his son on an actual road trip.

So Stiller and Austin Abrams got in a car and took a drive from Montreal to New York, ...

By now, there should be no debating that Angelina Jolie is a talented director, capable of handling the most challenging subject matter with assurance and sensitivity. Those who continue to denigrate her skills because she’s also a movie star and tabloid fixture are running out of ...

TORONTO (AP) — A transgender Chilean actress has turned in one of the most buzzed-about performances of the year and some are hoping she could be the first trans actor to land an Oscar nomination.

Daniela Vega, 28, stars in Sebastian Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman.” She plays Marina, a ...

TORONTO (AP) — Angelina Jolie arrives for an interview with the familiar harried air of a parent who has just barely managed to withdraw from her children, all six of whom she’s left having breakfast upstairs in their Toronto hotel suite.

“The reason I was a little late is they made me ...

TORONTO (AP) — If the Toronto International Film Festival has proven one thing, it’s that Guillermo del Toro can work a room.

At the premiere of his festival sensation and surefire Oscar contender “The Shape of Water,” the good-humored Mexican director had the audience of the Elgin Theatre ...

Women give, men take and the Old Testament crashes into modern anxiety in director Darren Aronofsky’s ”mother! ” It is an audacious, bold and fascinating fever dream of a film. It’s allegory for, well, everything (the environment, ...

TORONTO (AP) — The spoon-throwing, football-tossing cult of “The Room” was out in full force at the premiere of James Franco’s “The Disaster Artist,” a making-of movie that earned the blessing of the notorious film’s creator Tommy Wiseau.

“The Disaster Artist” premiered at a midnight ...

TORONTO (AP) — Special set of skills or not, Liam Neeson says he’s finished making thrillers.

In an interview, Neeson said that he plans to stop even though it’s hard to turn down the lucrative offers he gets thanks to his box-office success in the three “Taken” films, as well as other ...

TORONTO (AP) — Greta Gerwig stood on the stage of the Ryerson Theatre at the Toronto International Film Festival, wiping back tears from the roaring standing ovation that greeted her directorial debut, “Lady Bird.”

Gerwig was already a successful actress and a proven screenwriter, having ...

TORONTO (AP) — The kind of breakthrough performance where it’s immediately apparent that an actor is going to be a star for years to come is a rarity in movies. Think of Emma Stone in “Easy A” or Jessica Chastain in “The Tree of Life.”

But that kind of thunderbolt moment is striking now ...

TORONTO (AP) — Aaron Sorkin was sitting in a restaurant with producers Amy Pascal and Mark Gordon, ticking off the names of top Hollywood directors who might be a good fit for the script Sorkin had just finished: “Molly’s Game,” a drama about the so-called “poker princess” Molly ...

VENICE, Italy (AP) — “Downsizing” has generated jumbo-sized buzz at the Venice Film Festival — not least as viewers debate how to describe it.

Is it a science fiction film, a romantic comedy, a political parable, an apocalyptic thriller? Alexander Payne’s movie mixes all those elements in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When we last saw Mark Hamill in the “Star Wars” saga, he was a mysterious hooded figure on a jagged, remote island off the coast of Ireland.

“For a cameo that brief, boy did they make me work,” Hamill jokes.

But in “The Last Jedi,” which Disney will release Dec. 15, ...