Best of the Week: Toronto Film Festival Reviews, Batman's New Batsuit and More

The Important News

DC Extended Universe: Zack Snyder unveiled Batman’s new suit for Justice League. Billy Crudup will play Barry Allen’s father in The Flash. Margo Robbie will produce her Harley Quinn spinoff.

X-Men: Mr. Sinister will be the villain in Wolverine 3.

Star Wars: Rogue One will be scored by Michael Giacchino instead of Alexandre Desplat.

Sequels: Benicio Del Toro will star in The Predator. Peter Berg wants to make The Rundown 2. Cailee Spaeny will star in Pacific Rim 2.

Remakes: Conrad Vernon will direct the Toxic Avenger remake.

Alternate Cuts: The “black and chrome” version of Mad Max: Fury Road will hit video in December.

Biopics: Stan Lee’s life will be embellished and depicted in a movie. Harvey Weinstein is making a competing Egardo Mortara movie.

Animation: Dax Shepard will co-direct the Scooby-Doo animated feature with Tony Cervone.

YA Adaptations: Storm Reid will play the lead in A Wrinkle in Time.

War Movies: Tom Hanks has written and may star in the World War II movie Greyhound.

Box Office: Sully is a winner for Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks.

The Videos and Geek Stuff

New Movie Trailers: Fifty Shades Darker, Moana, Miss Sloane, Nocturnal Animals, Annabelle 2, Blair Witch, Bastards, The Promise, The Bye Bye Man, Finding Altamira and Trolls.

Hear: A crazy fan theory about The Blair Witch Project.

Watch: X-Men: Apocalypse mall-set deleted scenes. And a video orientation guide to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.

See: How Captain America: Civil War should have ended. And Captain America: Civil War redone with video game sounds. And Deadpool inserted into Captain America: Civil War.

Watch: A video essay on why the MCU scores are so bad. And a video comparing similar scores. A reponse theory about film scores. 

See: Tim Drake’s action-packed audition video to play Robin.

Watch: 10 ways Indiana Jones uses his whip.

See: All of this week’s best new posters. 

Our Features

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: Here’s what we think of Moonlight, Arrival, A Monster Calls and Loving. And here’s what we think of La La Land, Jackie and Sing. And here’s what we think of Bleed for This, Lion, Nocturnal Animals and Colossal. 

Interviews: Kurt Russell on his future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And Kurt Russell on his TV series with Mel Gibson. And Greg McLean on the horrifying original ending of The Darkness. And Adam Wingard on almost directing Furious 8.

Horror Movie Guide: Here’s all the latest horror movie news and trailers.

Comic Book Movie Guide: Meet Martian Manhunter, heart and soul of Justice League.

Home Viewing: Our guide to everything hitting VOD this week. And our guide to all the best indie and foreign films new to DVD.

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