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Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco wanted to make a movie for and about his father. Salvo Maniscalco had immigrated from Sicily to America in 1960 when he was 15. At 18, he became a hairdresser and raised and supported a family in Chicago.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Throughout his life, Paul Schrader has had a complicated relationship with Christianity.

Paul Schrader plants the seeds of an intriguing melodrama in his latest creation “ Master Gardener .” Sigourney Weaver is a wealthy dowager with a stately name (Norma Haverhill), a large house and a dog she’s named porch dog.

TORONTO — Elliot Page is set to speak in Toronto following the release of his memoir "Pageboy" next month.

Laurel Parmet’s directorial debut “ The Starling Girl ” puts the viewer in the modest shoes of a 17-year-old girl named Jem.

Several new movies infiltrated theaters nationwide this weekend, from a lighthearted trip to Italy with Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Diane Keaton and Mary Steenburgen to a Ben Affleck-fronted detective thriller.

I've always liked Michael J. Fox and always will. I suspect most people feel the same way. That's surely partly because, as Marty McFly in “Back to the Future" and Alex P. Keaton in “Family Ties,” Fox was a fixture of so many childhoods.

TORONTO — “BlackBerry” director Matt Johnson is enjoying the controversy simmering around his latest film.

TORONTO — An onslaught of high-profile films set to hit movie theatres this summer has the chief executive of Canada's largest cinema chain confident that his business is charting a successful rebound from its pandemic woes.

The most interesting part of “ The Mother ,” a decent if forgettable action pic starring Jennifer Lopez, is the one that is left largely unexplored.