‘Everybody Wants To F*ck Me’ Review: A Hard-Working Taron Egerton Is Blameless in Muddled Takedown of the Faux-Feminist Male

The funniest moment in writer-director Jonathan Schey’s waggishly titled debut feature, Everybody Wants to F*ck Me, occurs within the first couple of scenes. After picking up a young woman played by Mia McKenna-Bruce in a crowded bar by positioning himself as her rescuer from a guy refusing to take the hint and buzz off, Taron Egerton’s seemingly wholesome Adam gets up the following morning and returns to the bedroom to present her with a perfect flat white. But he freezes in deal-breaker horror when she puts down the cup not on but next to a coaster. The obsessive neat freak beneath the easygoing surface of the virtue-signaling feminist ally might have made an amusing motif if it were ever referenced again.

‘Everytime’ Director Sandra Wollner on the Emotional Resonance of Her Un Certain Regard Winning Film: ‘We Carry Our Experiences Within Us’

Sandra Wollner’s “Everytime” lands in Toronto this week for its North American premiere, kicking off a run that includes both the New York and Vancouver film festivals, and aiming to amplify the buzz that began with a standing ovation and Un Certain Regard Prize win at Cannes.

Flanders Cinema Finds Global Momentum With TIFF Titles, Cannes Honors and Oscar Buzz

Earlier this year, Belgium’s Flanders region returned to the Berlinale competition after a 45-year hiatus with Anke Blondé’s “Dust.” A few months later, Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne, the two leads in Lukas Dhont’s “Coward,” won a rare joint best actor award in Cannes. Dhont’s drama is headed to Toronto with a recent boost of confidence, having just been selected as this year’s Belgian Oscar entry — the third consecutive time the maverick young director’s films have been tapped for the race, after his dramas “Girl” and “Close” previously competed.

EbonyLife’s Mo Abudu on TIFF Premiere ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives’ and ‘the Consequences of the Decisions We Take as Women’

Nigerian super-producer Mo Abudu returns to the red carpet at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival this week, where “The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives,” premiering in the TIFF Centrepiece strand, marks the fifth official selection in Toronto for her EbonyLife Films production banner.

Netflix, Amazon and YouTube Form D.C. Lobbying Group Amid Backlash Over Cost of Sports on Streaming

As U.S. politicians on both sides of the aisle have taken aim at the growing cost and complexity for Americans to watch their favorite sports teams on streaming services, three of the industry’s biggest streamers — Netflix, Amazon and YouTube — have formed a new Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group to push back.

Heartfelt, Rare Animated Belgian Feature ‘Juul’ Headlines Studio 100 Film’s Expanding Slate at TIFF Market

How far would you go to keep a love one close?

Belgian studio Fabrique Fantastique‘s debut animated feature “Juul” comes to TIFF Market a few days after Studio 100 Film announced having picked up this young adult animated drama, marking a significant expansion in the otherwise family-driven catalogue of the independent sales agency, a subsidiary of Studio 100 International.

Macklemore Speaks Out After Being Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour, Says Singer Claimed That Saying ‘Free Palestine’ Was ‘Hurtful to a Lot of People’

Macklemore has responded to being dropped from the remaining U.S. dates of Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour, after comments he made onstage about Palestine drew controversy.

The rapper responded in a lengthy post on Instagram in which he seemed to place the blame for the ban on New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, saying that the billionaire rallied other stadium owners to refuse to allow Macklemore to perform at their venues, rather than Sheeran or even Pink, who commented on his statements. Contacted by Variety, a rep for Kraft did not immediately have comment.

‘Union Town’ Review: Barbara Kopple’s Labor Rights Documentary Is Both Aptly Angry and Optimistically Community-Minded

Across the harrowing financial realities of late capitalism, an indisputable global fact is the injustices faced by countless workers who deliver everything we have come to rely on, from food orders to Amazon purchases. Despite their hard work under unideal, sometimes even unsafe conditions, it’s no secret that delivery staff have been barely compensated with dignified wages, a topic that Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple tackles in her fiery documentary “Union Town.” Focused on a variety of recent legal cases unfolding in New York, Kopple’s film is both aptly angry and optimistically community-minded in charting the fight of several Big Apple workforce groups: delivery staff, union leaders, Teamsters and others trying to bring about meaningful change to an increasingly corrupt system that leaves these hourly workers behind.

‘Angh’ Cinematographer on How He Captured the Film’s Challenging Nighttime Sequences

Cinematographer Adam Pietkiewicz has been dealing with patchy internet over the past few days. He and his crew have been sailing on the Baltic Sea and have finally docked at an undisclosed location in northeastern Poland. In a few weeks, Pietkiewicz will attend the Toronto International Film Festival to accept the Variety TIFF Artisan Award for his work on the film “Angh,” about the last surviving chief of a village in India near the Burma border in the 1960s. While he has a number of shorts under his belt, this is only his second feature film.

Ali Asgari Doesn’t Believe in a Bright Future After Iran’s January Massacre – Just ‘A Bit of Light’

Iranian director Ali Asgari has no desire to repeat clichés about great expectations for things to come.

“In Iran, we don’t have high hopes for the future anymore,” he states.