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The Outlander franchise has become known for its push and pull when it comes to its central romances, and that’s on full display during Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2 Episode 1.

Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Gala Presentations), Sept. 12, 2026. Running time: 97 MIN. Production: An Aggregate Films, August Night production. (World sales: Cornerstone Films, London.) Producers: Courteney Cox, Jason Bateman, Michael Costigan, Benjamin Hung, John Buderwitz. Executive producers: Patricia Arquette, David Harbour, Amy Jarvela, Amanda Anka, Courtenay Miles, Barbara Schroeder, Trey Borzillieri, Paula Manzanedo,…

Reviewed at New Horizons Film Festival, (in Cannes Critics’ Week, Toronto Film Festival), Jul. 27, 2026. Running time: 145 MIN.  Production: (France) A Les Films du Poisson production in co-production with Arte France Cinéma, Bibi Film TV. (World Sales: MK2, Paris.) Producer: Inès Daïen Dasi. Co-producer: Angelo Barbagallo.   Crew: Director: Marine Atlan. Screenplay: Marine Atlan,…

Production: Executive Producers are Academy Award-nominee Alexander Rodnyansky, Jason Sarlanis, Sam Linsky, Stuart Manashil, Michael Kupisk, Tamer Mortada and Leslie Greif. Produced by AR Content, who optioned Nixon’s book, Big Dreams Entertainment, and Aroma Studios in association with WatchIt. Crew: The series is created by Daniel Stiepleman and Jonathan Wakeham, and written by Leslie Greif, Graham…

This trip, fraught with danger, death, and mayhem, is bringing out the worst in some people.

Reviewed at Unifrance, Paris, Aug. 27, 2026. In Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti). Running time: 118 minutes. (Original title: “Yak mai”) Production: (Thailand-Singapore-France-Netherlands) A Diversion, 13 Little Pictures, Nord-Ouest Films, Sluizer Film Prods. production in association with Lucky Number. (World sales: Lucky Number, Paris.) Producers: Mai Meksawan, Bee Thiam Tan, Ola Byszuk, Anouk Sluizer. Crew: Director,…

This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join Naga Munchetty to review ‘Adults’, ‘Turning Point: Generation 9/11’ and ‘Tea with Judi Dench’.

The term “nepo baby” had yet to be coined by the time that Sofia Coppola — prematurely defined by her punchline of a performance in daddy Francis’ “The Godfather Part III” — re-emerged in her late 20s as one of the most gifted filmmakers of her generation, but few celebrities in her position, before or since,…

Photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti has published two books about Guillermina and Belinda, a cousin duo that she met in the Argentine Pampas in the late 1990s. The first book visually chronicles their transition from preadolescence into their teenaged years; the second spans into their mid-twenties. Her debut documentary, “The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer,” an intimate…