Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

In One Battle After Another the struggle is real and worthy. - The SunBreak

The SunBreak @thesunbreak.bsky.social · 11d

📽️In ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER the struggle is real and worthy -- Paul Thomas Anderson's latest -- starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Chase Infiniti is an absolute banger for our times. In theaters now.
thesunbreak.com/2025/09/26/o...

For me and the legions of devotees, every Paul Thomas Anderson film is an occasion. With its setting in the present day and its clear-eyed confrontation of the evil idiocy that plagues our current…

Is it Worth it to Pay Attention to Him? - The SunBreak

The SunBreak @thesunbreak.bsky.social · 13d

📽️ Is it Worth it to Pay Attention to HIM? - Tony dives into Justin Tipping's assault on professional sports and toxic masculinity, a dark stylized fable set in the world of American football.

thesunbreak.com/2025/09/24/h...

This Jordan Peele-produced sports horror movie wears its flaws, topicality, and ambition on its jersey sleeve.

Orcas Island Film Festival reveals astonishing lineup of cinematic riches - The SunBreak

The SunBreak @thesunbreak.bsky.social · 15d

At this point, we'd be flabbergasted if the Orcas Island Film Festival lineup was anything other than astonishingly good. Today they revealed the full list and it's a dizzying array of the best movies of the year, and probably more than a few Oscar winners. thesunbreak.com/2025/09/23/o...

At this point, in their eleventh year, it barely counts as surprising when the Orcas Island Film Festival quietly drops one of the most astonishingly complete and compelling film festival lineups of…

Josh Duhamel is an unlikely babysitter in London Calling - The SunBreak

The SunBreak @thesunbreak.bsky.social · 18d

Josh Duhamel is an unlikely babysitter in 📽️ LONDON CALLING -- Marina reviews an uneven assassination buddy-comedy, now playing in theaters.

thesunbreak.com/2025/09/19/l...

In the opening scene of London Calling, we’re introduced to Tommy Ward (Josh Duhamel), a London-based hitman on a job at a nightclub where everyone is in costume. His mission is to find and kill a…

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey overpromises, underdelivers - The SunBreak

The SunBreak @thesunbreak.bsky.social · 21d

📽️ A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY overpromises, underdelivers -- Marina goes on a magical GPS journey with Collin Farrell and Margot Robbie and lives to tell the tale.

thesunbreak.com/2025/09/17/a...

Indie auteur filmmaker Kogonada gained fame with thoughtful movies like Columbus and After Yang. Now, with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, he’s trying his hand at a blockbuster romantic comedy.…

Stephen King's The Long Walk stirs up mixed emotions - The SunBreak

The SunBreak @thesunbreak.bsky.social · 25d

Stephen King's 📽️THE LONG WALK stirs up mixed emotions - Morgen reviews Francis Lawrence's new post apocalyptic adaptation starring Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Tut Nyout, and Ben Wang on a march to the end.

thesunbreak.com/2025/09/12/s...

We follow Ray (Cooper Hoffman) as he prepares himself to take "The Long Walk", a yearly pilgrimage not to the holy land but something much more deathy. We find he's living in a post apocalyptic type…

TIFF 2025 Dispatches: Wake Up Dead Man, No Other Choice, Orwell 2+2 = 5, Blue Heron, Poetic License, Fuze - The SunBreak

1 2

The SunBreak @thesunbreak.bsky.social · 27d

A last dispatch from 📽️ TIFF 2025 includes quick reviews of Wake Up Dead Man, No Other Choice, Orwell 2+2 = 5, Blue Heron, Poetic License, and Fuze.

thesunbreak.com/2025/09/10/t...

Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.

2

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · 28d

POETIC LICENSE. A mom with no boundaries befriends two buddies with attachment issues. Almost nothing makes sense in Maude Apatow's collegiate comedy of terrible choices except that Cooper Hoffman and Andrew Barth Feldman have a lifetime of buddy comedies in their future. #TIFF

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · 28d

NO OTHER CHOICE. Expected this downsizing comedy to go much differently, but Park Chan-wook digs deeper and deeper into daffy darkness. Not entirely my cup of tea, but have to appreciate the commitment to the bit. #TIFF

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · 28d

NOUVELLE VAGUE. But of course Richard Linklater made a movie about the making of BREATHLESS a rangy hangout pic populated by a comically absurd array of bold-faced names. Zoey Deutch is suitably perplexed as Seberg; Sunglasses/ Marbeck are convincingly iconoclastic as Godard. Appealing vibe. #TIFF

2 2

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · 28d

BLUE HERON. A filmmaker interrogates events of a tumultuous summer from her childhood on Vancouver Island. Using tools of her trade, she constructs layers of artifice to attempt to find truths she was too young to understand, conveying to the audience a small sense of empathetic confusion. #TIFF

TIFF 2025 Dispatches: Tuner, Nuestra Tierra, Sound of Falling - The SunBreak

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · 29d

ORWELL 2+2=5. Drawing on writings from the last year of Orwell's life, Raoul Peck crafts a tapestry of outrageous prescience from film clips, quotations, and present-day imagery. A call to collective action before forcefully prophetic warnings become elegies as we grow deaf to their accuracy. #TIFF

2 1

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · 29d

WAKE UP DEAD MAN. My god, Josh O'Connor is good at this!

My fraying wits could be a culprit, but Rian Johnson's hilariously plotted, elegantly structured mystery's warm embrace in a world of wolves is the most moved I've felt at #TIFF. Keep making these as long as Daniel Craig will do them!

2 1

The SunBreak @thesunbreak.bsky.social · 29d

A few more #TIFF 2025 Dispatches: 📽️ Tuner, Nuestra Tierra, Sound of Falling

thesunbreak.com/2025/09/08/t...

Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.

2 2

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · 29d

TUNER. Amid so many "prestige" ambitions, a welcome jolt when a fun movie executes on a clever concept and is impeccably entertaining from top to bottom. Dustin Hoffman charms, and Leo Woodall hits all the right notes as a hardscrabble piano tech whose acute ears get him into safecracking. #TIFF

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · Sep 8

NUESTRA TIERRA. Questions spiral from a case adjudicating a murder captured on film. Testimony within the courtroom gives way to personal narratives of surviving family, personal histories, a legacy of colonialism, and a discovery of indigenous identitIes buried in centuries of paperwork. #TIFF

TIFF 2025 Dispatches: Rental Family, Dead Man's Wire, The Christophers - The SunBreak

The SunBreak @thesunbreak.bsky.social · 29d

#TIFF 2025 Dispatches: Some instant reactions to three world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival: 📽️ Rental Family, Dead Man's Wire, and The Christophers

thesunbreak.com/2025/09/08/t...

Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.

3 1

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · Sep 8

THE CHRISTOPHERS. Felt more sputtering and searching than I expect from Soderbergh, but Michaela Cole and Ian McKellen make magnificent sparring partners. As far as people talking in rooms go, can't ask for better than these two talking about art and trying to pull one over on his idiot kids. #TIFF

1 2

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · Sep 7

RENTAL FAMILY. Wait. Is this really a Japanese remake of a Werner Herzog movie starring Brendan Fraser as an American actor abroad who gets into the surrogate relative business? HIKARI takes it far more sentimental and comedic; Fraser's big soft vulnerability demands sweet and tidy endings. #TIFF

TIFF 2025 Dispatches: The Testament of Ann Lee, Miroirs No.3, The Lost Bus - The SunBreak

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · Sep 7

DEAD MAN'S WIRE. Aggrieved borrower bound to a slippery lender by loaded shotgun might be too on the nose a metaphor if it hadn't really happened. With Bill Skarsgård as self-righteous captor, Gus Van Sant makes wry hay of the 1977 Indianapolis hostage situation that minted a minor folk hero. #TIFF

2 4

The SunBreak @thesunbreak.bsky.social · Sep 7

A few more reactions to films playing at the Toronto International Film Festival: 📽️The Testament of Ann Lee, Miroirs No. 3, and The Lost Bus.
thesunbreak.com/2025/09/07/t...

Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.

3

Reposted by The SunBreak

Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · Sep 7

THE LOST BUS. Impossible to capture the enormity of the Paradise wildfire, but Greengrass does what he can with a limited budget. Filming the flames like a monster, he puts us inside the dark belly of the beast alongside McConaughey. Ample bravery abounds, but no heroics can rescue this one. #tiff