THEATRICAL
Cardinals
Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley’s first feature stars Katie Boland and Grace Glowicki as sisters forced to confront some hard truths when their mother (Sheila McCarthy) comes home after three years in prison. Read Susan G. Cole’s TIFF review.
Far From The Tree
Rachel Dretzin’s documentary – based on the book by Andrew Solomon – looks at families in which parents are raising children who are in some way different from them.
Juliet, Naked
Ethan Hawke is a trainwreck of a musician, Rose Byrne is the quiet museum curator who captures his heart and Chris O’Dowd is her boyfriend, an obsessive fan, in Jesse Peretz’s romantic comedy (based on the novel by Nick Hornby). Read Rad Simonpillai’s review.
Kin
A Detroit kid (Myles Truitt) discovers that super-advanced weapons create as many problems as they solve in the feature debut of sibling directors Josh and Jonathan Baker, which also stars Dennis Quaid, James Franco, Jack Reynor and Zoe Kravitz. Not screened for press.
The Little Stranger
Three years after Room, director Lenny Abrahamson returns with a thriller about strange goings-on in an old dark house starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson and Charlotte Rampling. (The answer had better not be “a secret room with a mom and a kid inside.”)
Searching
John Cho stars as a widower trying to find his missing daughter by data-mining her social history in Aneesh Chaganty’s very modern thriller, which plays out entirely on laptops, cell phones and TV feeds. Read Norm Wilner’s review.
Trench 11
In the final days of the First World War, an Allied mission behind enemy lines finds something awful waiting for them in a secret German bunker. (Spoiler: it’s rage zombies!) Read Norm Wilner’s review.
TV & STREAMING
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
John Krasinski stars in this new Amazon Video series, the latest to reboot the late Clancy’s heroic analyst and send him out to save the world. Read Norm Wilner’s take on the character’s various incarnations, and how Krasinski measures up. (Eight episodes streaming August 31.)
