Film critic | Peter Howell Night Vision

It’s time for witching and watching 🎃

The Frightful Five most anticipated films of horror season.

How Talking Heads beat the break-up blues

“I think we owe (fans) something special.”

TIFF🇨🇦 ’23 Tweet-O-Rama: news and reviews 🎬

⭐️ All the fest news that’s fit to tweet ⭐️

“Chasing the Buzz”🐝 2023: hive mind spills on the hottest TIFF films

We asked 34 insiders which movies they’re most excited to see at the fest.

Five takeaways from the weirdest summer in movie history

#Barbenheimer, Hollywood strikes, a hype surfeit + more made film strange.

Dude, it’s been 25 years for “The Big Lebowski” 🎳

Appreciating the Coen Bros.’ funniest movie as it hits the quarter century mark.

Michael Apted: The life journey ended at "63 Up" — but he had plans

The "Up" director and I had a deal, if we lived another seven years.

Timothée Chalamet talks sex, his name and savouring fame

The "Dune" star's skyrocket launched with "Call Me By Your Name."

"The Manchurian Candidate" has history's strangest movie talk

Talking nonsense or sinister intent? Six decades later, we're still guessing.

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Movies I Can't Live Without

Toronto Star movie critic 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 has written a book about his 25 most-loved movies, with highly personal reviews from "Apocalypse Now" to "The Wizard of Oz." Here's a sample of his review of "2001: A Space Odyssey," his all-time favourite:

"It was billed as The Ultimate Trip and the hyperbole was justified, then as now.

Stanley Kubrick's space opus still seems like the future, 55 years after its release and 22 years after its significant title year. It never gets old and I never tire of seeing it, even after 50-plus viewings ...." 🌓