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Hallmark’s multigenerational time travel series, The Way Home, has captured many fans’ attention, especially after season 3 has recently aired.

While fans of the show have been waiting impatiently for news of season 4, it’s finally time to get excited as Hallmark Channel has officially renewed the show for its fourth season.

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Recently, fans have been waiting for news of the fourth season of The Way Home. What didn’t help was when Hallmark moved the time travel series to its streaming channel before then moving it back to the Og, but on Friday nights. This led to dedicated fans starting petitions and calling out on social media to let the feel-good channel know they want more.

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Way Home Season 3 finale “If You Could Read My Mind.”] With all the reveals that we did get in The Way Home Season 3 finale, there’s still a major one we’ve needed since the previous finale left up in the air: Who Is Casey? Vaughan Murrae’s character is a time traveler — they’re no longer hiding that — but they reveal to Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) in the Season 3 finale that they are not her kid from the future with Max Goodwin (Dale Whibley). Below, executive producers (and mother and daughter) Heather Conkie and Alexandra Clarke explain why Casey’s identity remains a mystery and answer other burning questions while looking ahead to Season 4. (Read part 1 of our deep dive into the finale with the EPs here.) Jacob (Spencer Macpherson) left, but Sam (Rob Stewart) tells Del (Andie MacDowell) it’s going to be okay. So first of all,...

Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers from “If You Could Read My Mind,” the Season 3 finale of Hallmark’s “The Way Home,” which streams on Hallmark+ and Peacock.

“The Way Home” kicked off its third season with the abandonment of a mysterious baby, and fans have waited all season to get more information about the enigmatic scene. By the end of the Season 3 finale, we know one key thing about the baby: who he was. It turned out that the cooing infant was Elliot (played by Evan Williams as an adult) as a baby. He was left by the pond by his time-traveling mother, who jumped into the frigid waters with someone who must be a male Landry, but whose face we never see.

Why they left Elliot by the pond and what connected Elliot’s mother to the as-of-yet unidentified Landry are questions to be explored in “The Way Home...

Hallmark Channel The Way Home spoilers and updates tease the show will finally make a big reveal-Casey Goodwin’s (Vaughan Murrae) identity is unmasked! And is Casey really a time traveler-re ad on to find out!

Tell Me Something Good

The mystery of Casey has loomed large since Season 2, and at last, the pieces are starting to fall into place. Alice Dhawan (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) has held a steadfast belief that Kat Landry Dhwan’s (Chyler Leigh) intern hails from a future time.

With Casey claiming to be a Goodwin—an intriguing family name linked to Cassandra—Alice has also been contemplating the possibility of marrying Max Goodwin (Dale Whibley).

This has led her to dodge him instead of collaborating on a school project. However, by the conclusion of “Tell Me Something Good,” Alice has definitively validated her theory about Casey’s origins from the future!

Time Travel And The...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Way Home Season 3 Episode 7 “Tell Me Something Good.”] Who is Casey (Vaughan Murrae)?! That’s the question that has been prevalent on The Way Home since Season 2, and now, we’re finally getting some answers. Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) has been so certain all this time that Kat’s (Chyler Leigh) intern is actually from the future; with Casey saying they’re a Goodwin (and Cassandra and variations a family name), Alice has also been wondering if she might marry Max (Dale Whibley) and avoiding him instead of working on a school assignment together. Well, by the end of “Tell Me Something Good,” Alice has confirmed that she was right about Casey being from the future! Del (Andie MacDowell), now in the know on all things time travel and the pond, uses an opportunity to ask her boyfriend Sam (Rob Stewart) about seeing him with Casey to get clues. “They called,...

Gregg Wallace has earned a fair reputation as an English broadcaster, writer, and entrepreneur, thanks to his having co-presented MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef, and MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC One and BBC Two. But, as of late, something has been garnering him a lot more attention than all his performances: The inappropriate conduct allegations from Rod Stewart.

Gregg Wallace. | Credits: MasterChef / BBC.

While Wallace was already under fire due to all the recent allegations of s-xual misconduct over him and had reportedly announced in the wake of the same that he would be stepping away from the U.K.’s MasterChef, the British rock and pop singer cum songwriter didn’t hold back while blasting the ‘bald-headed’ presenter for alleged mistreatment of his wife, Penny Lancaster.

Rod Stewart Didn’t Hold Back While Blasting Gregg Wallace Rod Stewart. | Credits: @sirrodstewart / Ig.

As much as Rod Stewart is famous for his music,...

The appeal of sci-fi shows like Black Mirror, Dark, and Station Eleven, some of the best dystopian sci-fi TV shows, is that they explore human truths using the context of technological advancement. From body modifications to time travel, sci-fi presents the dream of breaking boundaries that physics and biology impose on us, and uses that context to confront viewers with questions about the nature of humanity. While some shows like Star Trek have such a legacy that they're not only always remembered but consistently rebooted, some equally great shows have a more unfortunate fate.

The problem of relying on viewership per season led to recent sci-fi shows getting canceled that didn't deserve it. Shows like The 100 which have aired for years provide a rich collection of compelling storylines and complex conundrums, but with rampant cancelations, shows rarely have the prospect of doing that anymore. It's a high-risk, high-reward gamble these days.

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Coming soon to Hallmark Channel, The Christmas Charade is an espionage thriller/rom-com, starring Rachel Skarsten and Corey Sevier.

Airing during the popular Countdown to Christmas, viewers are sure to have fun, as a librarian finds herself working undercover for the FBI! Meanwhile, we’ll get to see the two stars doing some dancing and the occasional stunt. Read on to find out more about the movie and its cast.

The Christmas Charade coming to Hallmark Channel Photo: Corey Sevier, Rachel Skarsten

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According to TV Insider, Whitney (Skarsten) is a librarian living a quiet life. However, she was raised by home security experts, who taught her a lot. Meanwhile, since she was young, Whitney has always been cautious in everything she does. However, one night, she throws caution to the wind and agrees to go on a blind date.

As The Way Home fans brace themselves for the show’s Season 3 premiere, which will likely unravel sometime in 2025, there are so many storylines to get excited about.

One major one is the aftermath of the Colton Landry (Jefferson Brown) reveal, and another potential one is getting to see what will unfold now that Jacob Landry (Remy Smith) has returned to the present time.

For so many years Del Landry (Andie MacDowell) was put through heartache, turmoil, and trauma over the loss of her son. How will she react if and when she finally has him back?

The Way Home Season 3 Spoilers – Andie MacDowell Comments On A Potential Del/Jacob Reunion

Actress Andie MacDowell recently talked about a possible Del/Jacob reunion with TV Line. She starts off by saying that she believes it will be “a lot to process” for Del.

She adds, “I think the only thing in...

The Way Home star Andie MacDowell has a favorite scene from Season 2 of Hallmark Channel’s time-traveling family drama, and it’s one that might have made other performers nervous.

“I had fun skinny dipping, and I thought it was a good thing to do at my age,” the 66-year-old actress told TVLine at an Emmy Awards For Your Consideration event for the show (which is a TVLine Dream Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Drama Series).

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For anyone who watches “The Way Home” knows that sometimes, it can get a little confusing with so many different time periods going on at once. That’s the case for the executive producers too. During an FYC panel for the hit Hallmark Channel series on May 8, the showrunners admitted that it takes a lot of work and research to keep everything straight.

“We start at the end and then kind of work backward. We had a wonderful plan right from the start when Marly Reed created the show and wrote a beautiful bible for it. Alex and I were just so lucky to be part of it and develop it,” said co-showrunner Heather Conkie, referring to her daughter and co-showrunner, Alexandra Clarke. “We really had a three, four, five-year plan? And we’re now working on the third year. We see what worked from the first two years and it’s a process.

Tobi Bamtefa as Deverin “Bunny” Washington in ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ season 2 episode 7 (Photo by Dennis P. Mong Jr. / Paramount + © 2022 Viacom International Inc)

The drug business behind bars is back in full swing on Paramount+’s Mayor of Kingstown season two episode seven. Drones drop packages of drugs into the yard that are then taken by the Aryan Brotherhood to the kitchen to be broken down for individual sales – all with the guards’ tacit approval.

Bunny (Tobi Bamtefa) meets with Mike (Jeremy Renner) in the prison’s kennels and points out the Aryan Brotherhood’s back in business with the help of technology. Bunny also confirms that he moved the hit off Mike and onto the District Attorney. People are tired of broken promises and now that the way’s clear, Bunny orders Mike to get the paperwork signed and get him out.

The drones are flying overhead, making deliveries every few minutes.

A theatrical release is planned for later in 2023.

Joan Carr-Wiggin’s romantic comedy A Grand Romantic Gesture, starrinig Dylan Llewellyn, best known for Derry Girls and Big Boys, has been sold to High Fliers Films for UK-Ireland distribution.

The film is handled by Italian sales outfit Iuvit Media Sales. Gina McKee, Douglas Hodge and Rob Stewart also star.

McKee plays a woman encouraged by her husband and daughter to take up gourmet cooking after she loses her job. Instead, she signs up for a drama class where she is cast as Juliet and falls in love with her Romeo.

It is produced through Paragraph Pictures,...

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Michael Kopsa, a veteran of Canadian-shot TV series and movies like The X-Files, Highlander, Smallville and Fantastic Four, has died. He was 66.

Kopsa died Sunday of complications from a brain tumor, his former wife, Lucia Frangione, announced on Twitter.

“The great Michael Kopsa, my dear friend and the father of my child, Nora, passed away Oct. 23, 2022, of a brain tumor,” she wrote Tuesday. “He was an incredible stage and screen actor, voice actor, carpenter, musician and painter. Most importantly, he was a loving and richly present father.”

Kopsa was a staple of genre TV series shot in Vancouver or Toronto, including Fringe, The Net, Dead Zone and The Sentinel. He also played General Kerrigan on Stargate Sg-1 after moving to Vancouver in 1994.

“Stargate employed just about every actor in Vancouver I think at one time or another. We are all going to wait for our turn.

Witches have always been a source of fascination, and there is no shortage of movies that explore their world. “The Good Witch” franchise is a prime example. With seven films, the series tells the story of Cassie Nightingale, a kind-hearted witch who uses her powers to help others.

So If you’re looking for a fun, spooky film series to watch this Halloween season, look no further than “The Good Witch” movies. Hallmark channel presented this fantastic movie series for all of us.

Starring Catherine Bell as the charming witch Cassie Nightingale, these films are perfect for movie nights with family or friends.

And if you’re looking for a marathon viewing experience. Here’s a list of “The Good Witch” movies in order:

All The Good Witch Movies in Order: The Good Witch (2008) The Good Witch’s Garden (2009) The Good Witch’s Gift (2010) The Good Witch’s Family (2011) The Good Witch’s Charm...

Lifetime has set premiere dates for a pair of Fallen Angels Murder Club movies starring Toni Braxton and others and the Sarah Drew-led pic Stolen by Their Father. which Elizabeth Smart has joined as executive producer.

The Fallen Angels Murder Club anthology pics feature Braxton as Hollis Morgan, an ex-con-turned-amateur sleuth set out to investigate a series of murders at her book club. Fallen Angels Murder Club: Friends to Die For premieres at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 2, followed by Fallen Angels Murder Club: Heroes and Felons a week later, at 8 p.m. April 9. Read more about the films below.

Stolen by Their Father premieres at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 5. It stars Drew as Lizbeth Meredith, a mother who says goodbye to her young daughters for a non-custodial visit with their father — her abusive ex-husband — only to discover days later that he has kidnapped the girls and taken them to Greece.

Exclusive: Lifetime has rounded out cast for both installments of Toni Braxton’s Fallen Angels Murder Club, and Angie Harmon’s Barstow (working title) movies. The movies fall under previously signed deals with Braxton and Harmon, in which they will star in and executive produce multiple films for Lifetime.

Eddie Cibrian has joined the first installment of Braxton’s Fallen Angels, while Kelly Hu joins the cast of the second film. Both films are based on the Hollis Morgan mystery book series by author R. Franklin James.

Cibrian stars as Avery Mitchell, Hollis Morgan’s (Braxton) charismatic boss, while Hu will make her debut in the second installment as the mysterious Joelle. Both productions have started filming and will premiere in 2022. Additionally, Harmon’s Barstow (working title) movies has added Kristoffer Polaha as Elliot, a mysterious stranger with a troubling past.

In the first installment of Fallen Angels Murder Club (wt), members of the Club must have two things in common – a love for books and have a criminal record. Hollis Morgan (Braxton) meets both requirements. Left holding the bag in an insurance fraud scheme concocted by her ex-husband, Hollis served her time and now hopes the court will pardon her conviction so she can return to law school and fulfill her dream of becoming a lawyer. But when a member of her book club is murdered in a scene straight out of the previous night’s novel, Hollis once again becomes the subject of police scrutiny. Refusing to get stuck with another bad rap, Hollis sets out to investigate her fellow club members and after a second book-inspired murder, she races to identify the killer before she becomes the next victim.

Cast also includes Keith D. Robinson, Lisa Berry, Yanic Truesdale (Gilmore Girls), Kaitlyn Leeb (Spinning Out), Humberly Gonzalez (Ginny & Georgia), Rainbow Sun Francks (Umbrella Academy), Henderson Wade, Rob Stewart, Raoul Bhaneja and Shawn Ahmed.

The Fallen Angels Murder Club films fall in line with Lifetime’s Broader Focus initiative which supports the hiring of women in key production roles. The movies are produced for Lifetime by Brain Power Studio and executive produced by Beth Stevenson, Nancy Yeaman, Toni Braxton and Rhonda Baraka. The films are written and directed by Baraka.

In Barstow (wt),Harmon stars as Hazel King, a single mother determined to shield her daughter from the life she once had while protecting and defending those who can’t protect themselves. Plucked off the streets of Las Vegas at 15, Hazel was trained as a hit woman until a surprisng pregnancy drives her to leave it all behind. Living as a single mother running a diner in Barstow with her teenage daughter, Hazel’s past eventually catches up with her and she’s pulled back in for one more hit.

Additional cast include Lauren Richards, George Paez, Tim Granaderos, Gabriel Rodriguez, Casey Mills, Ben Cain, Anthony Reynolds and Nelson Bonilla.

The Barstow movies are produced for Lifetime by Untitled Entertainment and executive produced by Angie Harmon, Michael Rosenberg, Laura Notarianni, Stan Spry and Eric Scott Woods. The first film is written by Tom Evans and directed by Howie Deutch.

’This gives us the baseline library to achieve the strategic goals of the company.’

Ambitious Toronto-based Canadian distributor and sales agent A71 Entertainment has acquired the library of former Canadian outfit D Films.

A71 won an auction after the latter went into receivership last year, enabling A71 to boost its Canadian-first pipeline with 90-100 titles including Andrew Cividino’s Cannes 2015 selection Sleeping Giant (pictured), Bruce McDonald’s Dreamland, and Rob Stewart’s Sharkwater: Extinction.

“This is the next step in the legacy and growth of A71 Entertainment”, said A71 Entertainment CEO Justin Rebelo. “This gives us the baseline library to...

Exclusive: The inaugural Turks and Caicos International Film Festival (Tciff) will open with Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary Sea of Shadows, executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. Pic follows a group of dedicated scientists, conservationists, investigative journalists, undercover agents and members of the Mexican navy who try to protect endangered sea species from Mexican drug cartels and Chinese traffickers. The Caribbean festival, which will have an environmental focus, runs 15 – 17 November 2019. Jonny Keeling, the executive producer of the BBC Natural History unit which produced hit series Planet Earth, Richard Curtis, and Emma Freud, will be among those taking part in panels. Rob Stewart’s film Sharkwater Extinction will screen at the Festival. There will also be an underwater filmmaking session with cameraman Duncan Brake.

The Production Guild of Great Britain has appointed producer Alex Boden (Cloud Atlas) as its newly appointed chair, as Production Controller Guy Barker steps down after four years in the role.

Northern Ontario Heritage Fund, Ontario Creates among financiers.

UK actors Gina McKee from drama series Emmy nominee Bodyguard and Douglas Hodge from Catastrophe have joined the cast of Paragraph Pictures and Highfield Grange Studios’ A Grand Romantic Gesture.

Shooting on the Canada-uk comedy drama is underway in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Linda Kash, Rose Reynolds, Rob Stewart, and Dylan Llewellyn round out the key cast and Joan Carr-Wiggin directs from her screenplay.

McKee plays Ava, who is encouraged by her husband (Stewart) and pregnant daughter (Reynolds) to take up gourmet cooking after she loses her job. Instead, she signs...

In today’s roundup, Showtime sets a premiere date for the final season of “The Affair” and Starz releases the official trailer for “The Rook.”

Dates

The fifth and final season of “The Affair” will debut on Showtime on Aug. 25 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt. The new season sees the cast come to terms with the consequences of their actions after the horrific events of season 4. Helen (Maura Tierney) begins the season with a new affair with a movie star, played by guest actor Claes Bang, while Noah (Dominic West) must swallow his pride and step in to take care of his family during her absence.

The third season of “Mr. Mercedes” will premiere on Audience on Sept. 10 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt. The new season will follow the story in “Finders Keepers,” the second book in the trilogy on which the show is based. Brendan Gleeson, Justine Lupe, Jharrel Jerome...

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The fifth and final season of Syfy’s Killjoys will see the show close things out on its own irreverent terms.

Killjoys, as its fans certainly know by now, is coming to a close with the upcoming fifth season. The space-set Syfy series, which launched back on June 19, 2015, has enjoyed four seasons on the NBCU-owned cable channel in the U.S. and Space channel in Canada. However, by the conclusion of Season 4, it was already revealed that Season 5 would be the final chapter of galactic saga of bounty hunters Yalena “Dutch” Yardeen (Hannah John-Kamen), Johnny Andras Jaqobis (Aaron Ashmore) and D’avin Jaqobis (Luke Macfarlane).

In the latest on the fifth and final season of Syfy’s Killjoys, the full-length trailer has dropped...

Killjoys Season 5 Trailer

Here's the full-length trailer for Killjoys Season 5!

Video of Killjoys Season 5 – Official Trailer

And here is the first teaser trailer...

As Yogi Berra might have put it, it’s “Armageddon deja vu” all over again in the final season teaser for Syfy’s Killjoys.

The sci-fi series is set to launch its fifth and final season on Friday, July 19 at 10/9c, it has been announced by the cabler, and the teaser video above cheekily warns that our heroes will endeavor to prevent “the end of the galaxy… for the last time.”

In addition to series lead Hannah John-Kamen, Luke Macfarlane and Aaron Ashmore, other returning favorites for Season 5 include Mayko Nguyen as Delle Seyah, Thom Allison as Pree; Sean Baek...

Back in 2006, Canadian filmmaker Rob Stewart released a documentary that had a profound effect on the preservation of the world’s shark population.

Sharkwater was a hugely respected, award-winning film that exposed the corruption rooted in the shark fishing industry, particularly in areas such as Costa Rica and Ecuador, while helping scientists understand the importance of sharks in the age of man-made climate change.

With every species of shark still under existential threat, Stewart decided he had to go again, eventually coming up with a sequel – Sharkwater Extinction.

Treading much of the same ground as the previous movie, Extinction exposes the scale at which mankind is destroying the shark population in the name of food, sport fishing and even beauty products.

Stewart sets off on a journey around the the same shark-destroying climes (mostly Costa Rica) with a small team of helpers, filming his experiences as he quizzes locals and politicians about what’s occurring,...

Rob Stewart’s followup to his 2006 feature shines a light on human cruelty – and gains power from the fate of its maker

In the 2006 eco-doc Sharkwater, Canadian activist film-maker Rob Stewart gave us a heartfelt plea to save the planet’s sharks. He was on a mission to reduce overfishing and rehabilitate the creatures’ reputation as stone-cold killers – if only we could love sharks as much as we love cuddly pandas we’d do more to protect them. Back then, you couldn’t help feeling that Stewart wanted us to love him too, with all the shots of himself in tiny Speedos. Watching the sequel, I experienced a sharp stab of self-reproach. Stewart died in a diving accident while shooting this film – he was 37. Sharkwater: Extinction has been scrappily put together from footage he’d already shot.

And there are some striking images here. Since the first film, many countries...

“Sharkwater Extinction” isn’t just a follow-up to 2006’s “Sharkwater”; it’s another in a long line of well-intentioned advocacy docs that end with a website address. The difference, however, is that Rob Stewart’s film also concludes with the Canadian writer-director’s own 2017 demise at the age of 37 from hypoxia, which lends it a gravity — and urgency — that few like-minded efforts can claim. A testament to its maker’s staunch belief in the cause of shark preservation, it’s a plea for transparency and conservation whose gorgeous 4K cinematography should make it an enticing proposition for nonfiction cinephiles and activists alike.

Stewart’s fate isn’t revealed at the outset of “Sharkwater Extinction;” rather, it’s foreshadowed by ominous colleague comments as well as Stewart’s own admission that, while his parents worry about his safety, his success at surviving brushes with death has only amplified his confidence. There...

"The only option I have is to not give up." Freestyle Digital Media has debuted an official trailer for a new documentary titled Sharkwater Extinction, the latest doc by Canadian filmmaker / activist Rob Stewart. This follow-up to Stewart's 2006 doc Sharkwater is once again all about sharks, but this time it's about the billion dollar illegal shark fin industry and the political corruption behind it. By exposing the truth behind all the illegal fishing, he also looks at how this industry that threatens the survival of the world's sharks. "Shark finning is still rampant, shark fin soup is still being consumed, and endangered sharks are now also being used to make products for human consumption. Stewart’s mission is to save the sharks before it’s too late." This looks like it's trying to be Blackfish but for sharks with the hope of actually causing real change. Here's the official trailer...

In today’s film news roundup, Tom Hanks will present Alan Alda with a life achievement award, a new literary management company launches, and documentaries “Sharkwater Extinction” and “Pavarotti” are acquired.

Honors

Tom Hanks will present the SAG life achievement award to Alan Alda during the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 27.

Hanks and Alda starred together in Steven Spielberg’s 2015 thriller “Bridge of Spies” with Hanks portraying attorney James Donovan, representing captured spy Rudolf Abel, and Alda playing law firm partner Thomas Watters.

Alda is the 55th recipient of the SAG life achievement award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. The award is given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession.”

The SAG Awards will be held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in a ceremony, hosted by Megan Mullally. The event will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS.

The eighth annual Napa Valley Film Festival, which takes place Nov. 7-11, continues to have a lot going for it. Beyond top-notch meals and wine from 50 chefs and 75 wineries, the festival has 10 screening venues for 100 new independent films starring the likes of Natalie Portman, Willem Dafoe and Helena Bonham Carter.

“It’s the party of the year,” says Brenda Lhormer, the festival’s co-founder/director, of the nearly week-long event that will be held at various Napa Valley landmarks including the Cameo Cinema, Charles Krug Winery, Farmstead at Long Meadow Ranch, Jam Cellars Ballroom at the Margrit Mondavi Theater, Lincoln Theater, Native Sons, Uptown Theater, the Archer Hotel Napa, Las Alcobas Napa Valley and the Drive-In at the Napa County Fairgrounds.

“It’s really fun,” she says. “It’s a wonderful mix of great films and food and wine and culinary offerings.”

The festival will open with Jason Reitman’s...

This year’s Canadian feature slate — 25 in all — can be seen in six Tiff sections including Discovery, Tiff Docs and Wavelengths.

Among the selected features are highly anticipated films from fest alumni including Denys Arcand, Barry Avrich and the late Rob Stewart.

Arcand’s “The Fall of the American Empire” stars Alexandre Landry as Pierre-Paul Daoust, who faces a moral dilemma after discovering two bags of money. Sony Classics bought the North American rights to the film during the Cannes Film Festival in May. The film, which will play in Tiff’s special presentations section, is a thematic cousin to Arcand’s Oscar-nominated “The Decline of the American Empire” and the Oscar-winning “The Barbarian Invasions” (2003).

Avrich returns to Tiff’s docu section with “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz,” a portrait of the United States’ chief prosecutor during the Nuremberg trial. Stewart’s final film, “Sharkwater Extinction” will...

Lineup

Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2018 Films, Including ‘Beautiful Boy,’ ‘High Life,’ ‘First Man,’ ‘Widows,’ and Many More

Tiff 2018 Lineup: ‘A Star Is Born,’ ‘First Man,’ ‘Beautiful Boy,’ and Many More

Tiff Reveals Full Canadian Lineup, Including 19 New Films and Special Premiere Event of Rob Stewart’s Final ‘Sharkwater’ Doc

Xavier Dolan’s ‘The Death and Life of John F. Donovan’ to World Premiere at 2018 Toronto International Film Festival

Tiff 2018 Announces Platform Lineup, Including New Films From Karyn Kusama, Alex Ross Perry, and Tim Sutton

Tiff Announces Midnight Madness and Documentary Slates, Including ‘Halloween’ and ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ World Premieres

Tiff Announces Chris Pine-Starring ‘Outlaw King’ Will Open Festival and Kristen Stewart’s ‘Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy’ to Close

Tiff Adds More High-Profile Titles, Including Jonah Hill’s ‘Mid90s,’ ‘Boy Erased,’ ‘Hold the Dark,’ and Many More

TV Comes to Tiff: Julia Roberts-Starring ‘Homecoming’ and More Set for World Premiere...

The Toronto Intl. Film Festival has added Denys Arcand’s crime thriller “The Fall of the American Empire” and 18 other Canadian films to its lineup.

Nine of the films are directed by women and 14 are world premieres.

“We’re especially proud to present such a diverse group of films,” said Steve Gravestock, senior programmer. “Ranging from science fiction to fantasy, myth to documentary, and romance to a dystopic vision of our neighbours to the south, this year’s Canadian films come from every region in the country, stretching from east to west and north to south.”

“The Fall of the American Empire” stars Alexandre Landry, Maxim Roy, Yan England, and Rémy Girard and centers Landry’s character discovering two bags of money and facing a moral dilemma. Arcand was inspired to make the film after learning about the 2010 murder of two people in a Montreal boutique.

Sony Classics bought the...

The Toronto International Film Festival​ has added another 19 new titles to its 2018 festival lineup, comprised entirely of features directed by Canadian filmmakers. Each year, Tiff highlights the films that hail from its own shores in a standalone announcement, and this year it includes nine new films from female directors, six debut features, a number of titles from fixtures of the Canadian film scene, and the world premiere of three films that showcase some of the country’s Indigenous talent.

The festival will also play home to a special event world premiere and tribute dedicated to the late filmmaker and conservationist Rob Stewart, centered around his final film, “Sharkwater Extinction.” Stewart passed away in 2017 while working on the film, a followup to his 2006 documentary “Sharkwater.”

“We’re especially proud to present such a diverse group of films,” said Steve Gravestock, Tiff Senior Programmer, in an official statement. “Ranging from science fiction to fantasy,...

New films from Canadian filmmakers Denys Arcand, Maxime Giroux, Jennifer Baichwal and Bruce Sweeney have been added to 2018 Toronto International Film Festival lineup, which announced its slate of Canadian films on Wednesday.

Nine of the films are directed by women, fsix are debut features and 14 are world premieres.

Canadian features will include Arcand’s “The Fall of the American Empire,” Giroux’s “The Great Darkened Days” and Sweeney’s “Kingsway.”

Also Read: 'Beautiful Boy,' 'A Star Is Born' Highlight Toronto Film Festival Lineup

The Canadian documentaries include Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky’s “Anthropocene,” Ron Mann’s “Carmine Street Guitars” and Thom Fitzgerald’s “Splinters.”

Three of the films – Gwaii Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown’s “Edge of the Knife,” Darlene Naponse’s “Falls Around Her” and Miranda de Pencier’s “The Grizzlies” – feature indigenous talent.

A special event will screen the documentary “Sharkwater Extinction,...

Anthropocene and The Fall Of The American Empire are among films joining the line-up.

The Toronto International Film Festival has added another 19 Canadian titles to its line-up, among them the world premieres of documentary Anthropocene, Rob Stewart’s Sharkwater Extinction and Miranda de Pencier’s feature directorial debut The Grizzlies.

The new titles for the forty-third edition of the festival – which runs from September 6 to 16 - include nine films directed by women and five debut features and senior programmer Steve Gravestock emphasised the diversity represented.

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“We’re especially proud to present such a diverse group of films,...

He played a legendary knight on Game of Thrones; now he’ll play Superman’s ancestor.

Ian McElhinney has joined the cast of Syfy’s upcoming Superman prequel Krypton as a series regular, along with five other actors, the network announced on Monday. McElhinney will play Val-El, the grandfather of Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe), the lead character who happens to be Superman’s grandfather. Val-El is a genius fascinated by space exploration — and is convinced his home planet of Krypton is in dire trouble.

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McElhinney is best...

This is not your grandfather’s Superman. It is, however, Superman’s grandfather. (It’ll all make sense in a second.)

British up-and-comer Cameron Cuffe has landed the lead role in Krypton, Syfy’s in-the-works prequel series set two generations before Superman’s home planet went boom. Cuffe will play the Man of Steel’s granddad Seg-El, the scion of the once prosperous El family who is blessed with an intuitive brilliance for all things technical; he is now living in Krypton’s lowest caste after his family was stripped of its rank. Thus far, Syfy has only ordered a pilot for Krypton.

As we prepare to bid summer adieu and rid our closets of the color white, this Labor Day Weekend also brings another batch of TV’s most memorable dialogue.

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This time around, our gallery includes a Mad About You shout-out on Mr. Robot, an incredulous single lady on Bachelor in Paradise and a thinly, thinly veiled reference to Dawson’s Creek on Too Close to Home.

Plus, in the spirit of Sunday Funday, we’ve got a triple dose of You’re the Worst‘s Season 3 debut.

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There's nothing I love more than closing out a season with positive renewal news... Yay!

Especially since Killjoys seriously upped the ante in its second season. The incredible world building opened up, our characters evolved plus we met a few new players, and the writing was consistently terrific. We laughed. We cried. We were shocked, but in the end always entertained.

I have zero complaints about this finale. They even brought Clara back and gave us an outstanding space battle. How about those VFX guys?

Yeah, I could not be more satisfied with Killjoys Season 2 Episode 10.

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A ton of information was thrown at us in the first half of this installment. Though it was important to learn how it all began, I admit I struggled a bit to wrap my head around it all. Things made much more sense after a second viewing.

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The Performers | Hannah John-Kamen and Rob Stewart

The Show | Killjoys

The Episode | “How to Kill Friends and Influence People” (Sept. 2, 2016)

The Performance | The relationship between Killjoys‘ Dutch and Khlyen has always been enigmatic. The Season 2 finale, however, filled in many blanks, setting the stage for an emotional two-hander between John-Kamen and recurring player Stewart.

As the frenemies infiltrated the Archive and scrambled to neutralize the green that had fueled tensions in the Quad, Khlyen detailed his complicity in the Sixes’ deadly scheme —”until I saw you. A face I never thought I’d never see again, in a place that never should have been.

Krypton is beginning to populate.

Georgina Campbell has been cast as Lyta Zod, the female lead in Syfy’s upcoming Superman prequel pilot, our sister site Deadline reports. Lyta is a cadet in Krypton’s military caste and part of the same family tree that spawned super-villain General Zod — which makes it extra-awkward when she strikes up a star-crossed romance with Superman’s grandfather, Seg-El.

RelatedSyfy’s Krypton: Meet Superman’s Grandpa and Other Key Characters

While this marks Campbell’s first U.S. TV series, the English actress won a BAFTA award for her work on the UK drama Murdered by My Boyfriend,...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including The Strain, American Ninja Warrior, Zoo and The Night Shift!

1 | On Killjoys, how cool was D’Av’s “Guns on stun, tunes for fun?” Fps-style sequence? On the flip side, how sad were you to see Pawter take a powder?

2 | Beyonce performed that insane 15-minute Lemonade medley after MTV broke protocol and assured her that “Formation” had won Video of the Year, right?

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3 | When it came out on...

After a solid first season, Killjoys came out in season 2 ready to kick ass, take names, and up the ante. Eight episodes in, the show has not only achieved those goals but has surpassed them; turning in storylines that balance heavy action, light banter, and deep emotions without tilting too far in any one direction. That's not to say that things haven't changed. They definitely have. In season one, Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen) was the focused one and John Jacobis (Aaron Ashmoore) was her partner and grounding force. Whatever came at them, she kept her cool. Even as D'avin Jacobis (Luke MacFarlane) was dealing with everything from mind control to being taken to Arkyn and Red-17. Dutch was John's support as much as he was hers. Season two has flipped that dynamic almost completely. Once he's rescued from Red-17, D'avin starts finding his center as John realizes he wants something more...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including The Night Of, Preacher, Zoo and Mr. Robot!

1 | Boy/Girl Meets World fans, given the parallels between Cory and Riley’s experiences at Mount Sun Lodge, was there ever any doubt this wannabe sherpa was Lauren’s son?

2 | Was it any surprise — any surprise at all — that the fiancé on Killjoys turned out to be a bad guy? Also, how good were Luke Macfarlane/D’Av and Rob Stewart/Khylen at swapping characters?...

I'll be honest, I can't say I'll miss Pawter's folks even though they went out heroes.

Both teams spent time with their wretched parents, but we quickly realized the elders were being tough attempting to make their kids stronger. Was the time wasted worth it though? Killjoys Season 2 Episode 5 proved there's always room for forgiveness.

There were so many great comedic moments here. Man, I just love Johnny Jaqobis.

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Sure, I realize the Killjoys still have to chase warrants while piecing together the larger mysteries of the Quad, but man those "voice-box" Skeever dudes were just plain nasty. Weren't they?

I was hoping this installment might pick up with Khlyen and Fancy Lee, but I guess they had to get the action sequence out of the way early.  

Since Johnny's scenes were going to take place on Qresh with Pawter and her parents, I was...

Although many of our favorite shows are about to take a few months off, that doesn’t mean your TV will become obsolete during the summertime. SyFy intends to heat things up with the release of two trailers promoting the sophomore seasons of Dark Matter and Killjoys.

I admit that it’s not often I become addicted to a summer series, but I found myself pleasantly surprised when Dark Matter effectively entralled me with its intrigue, space exploration, and great characters that were just as unaware of who they were as the viewer was. With the team having been betrayed from within during the first season’s finale, I expect the new dynamic added to extend the scope of what’s been established.

In addition to the promo video, which can be viewed at the top, SyFy has released an official synopsis that provides insight into the coming season as...

Featuring: Jay Bartlett, Billy Mitchell, Walter Day, Patrick Scott Patterson, Warren Davis, Tommy Tallaric | Written by Robert McCallum, Jordan Christopher Morris | Directed by Robert McCallum

Confession time. Between working a full time job and keeping Nerdly going, I don’t have a lot of downtime. Working all day and well into the night also means I also often struggle to unwind at bedtime. But a few years ago I found a solution for that, YouTube. Whereas a lot of people will read a book in bed for going to sleep, I watch videos. In particular the myriad of retro gamers on YouTube making videos about their collections, their game hunts and their general all-round love for old-school gaming. I’ve even made some videos of that nature myself.

Over the years there has been an explosion of well-produced YouTube “shows” that rival Us reality television in terms of editing, production and quality.

In recent years there has been a real boom in documentaries surrounding popular culture. Films such as Electric Boogaloo, Video Nasties, The Search for Weng Weng and Adjust Your Tracking have captured the zeitgeist of fans across the globe, and in turn inspired more people to create their own documentaries about pop culture subjects that matter to them…

But not all these documentaries see the same success. Having been on something of a documentary kick lately, I thought I’d break down the ten of the best little-known, or better yet little-discussed, pop-culture documentaries from the many, many examples I have been watching. So here they are and, for once, they’re in order:

1) Slaughter Nick For President

There’s a good reason this film is at the top of my list. This is the documentary that kicked off my exploration of pop culture documentaries (eventually ending up at compliling this list) and,...

If you spent the weekend reliving season 1 of Beauty and the Beast (like I did), tonight’s season 2 premiere may seem a little bit like learning a foreign language. The characters seem slightly off, the villain appears to have the best intentions, and the plot stinks of recycled storylines.

The truth is that Beauty and the Beast at its core is a love story. When you take away all the layers of fluff and mystery, that’s what it ultimately comes down to. When you take that aspect of the show away and refocus it to encompass a grander scheme of core ideals, there’s a rather gaping hole in the plot.

We spent most of Beauty and the Beast‘s freshman season gushing over the blossoming relationship between Cat (Kristin Kreuk) and Vincent (Jay Ryan). We swooned when they said their first ’I love you,’ giggled when they started having sleepovers,...

Besides starring Kristin Kreuk, Beauty and the Beast's other Smallville connections include executive producers Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders, who guided that series during its final three seasons. Wedding Bells Ring — When Catherine’s (Kristin Kreuk) dad (guest-star Rob Stewart) gets remarried, the bride-to-be and her bridesmaids try to find the daughter-of-the-groom a date for the wedding. Uncomfortable with being set up, Cat reluctantly admits that she’s seeing somebody and confides to Vincent (Jay Ryan) that she wishes he could be her date. At the wedding reception, Cat learns about a research grant that Evan (Max Brown) received to study the mutant DNA cells found at local crime scenes. When she tells Vincent about Evan’s theory of how the cells are changing to become more animal-like and less human, she encounters an unexpected detour that could change the course of their relationship. Meanwhile, Tess (Nina Lisandrello) and...