A man returns to a German fishing island after fifteen years, and the village puts him on trial to prove he's really Hein. Our VIFF 2026 capsule review: a roofless, half-built set, a first-time director ten years in the making

A judge just cleared Paramount's roughly $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, and the states made the new mega-studio promise at least 30 wide releases a year. That sounds like a win for moviegoers. Look closer and the 30-film floor has a hole big enough to drive a mid-budget drama through.

A lonely retail worker becomes convinced her cat has been replaced in Adrian Murray's quiet Canadian drama, a world premiere at VIFF 2026.

A Zamboni driver says he was drafted by the Rangers, but nobody can say who he is. Cody Lightning's second feature, a TIFF award winner now at VIFF, is a funny, heartfelt hockey drama where no one winks at the camera. Here's my capsule review.

John Turturro plays a pickpocket past his prime in a city that no longer runs on cash. A quick capsule take from VIFF 2026, with a full review to follow at release.

Steven Knight says his first draft of Bond 26 is done. That's not really the story. This is the first Bond script written without a single Broccoli or Wilson in the room, and between Denis Villeneuve's reverence and Gary Oldman's Jack Lowden slip-up, it's worth asking what a Bond built entirely by outsiders is going to look like.

François Truffaut said a true anti-war film was impossible. Come and See is the film that proves him wrong — and the story of how it got made is almost as disturbing as the film itself.

Joel Potrykus's Buzzard follows a small-time scammer whose anti-corporate rage only ever expresses itself as more scamming. Streaming on the Criterion Channel, this micro-budget character study turns its rough edges into part of the point.

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot skipped Leon, Claire, and Jill entirely, and still opened at #1 with a 96% Tomatometer. A look at why treating the games as a sandbox instead of a script finally cracked the video game movie curse, and why Cregger says he's done doing this again.

Companion just hit Netflix with a strong premise about a robot reclaiming her autonomy, and a lead performance from Sophie Thatcher that deserves a more confident movie around it. Here's why the tonal whiplash keeps it from landing, and how it stacks up against the one film in this current wave that actually commits.