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Kevin Macdonald’s ticking-clock thriller, The Runner, premieres globally on Prime Video on September 2nd, 2026. The official trailer and poster have arrived today. Check out the trailer, down below.    In the pulse-pounding psychological thriller The Runner, Maia Marten (Gal Gadot) has built her life on being one step ahead — a sharp, resourceful, high-powered lawyer at the top of London’s legal world.    During her routine morning run, a single phone call shatters her world: her son has been taken. The instructions to get him back are simple and merciless — keep moving, follow every command, and tell no one. Stop, and he dies. Forced to sprint through the city and obey a series of sinister commands, Maia must confront an impossible question: how…

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In plague-ravaged 14th century England a peasant triggers a rebellion against King Richard II and unintentionally becomes a legend of resistance.

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When an ordinary couple wins an exclusive weekend with their celebrity idols, they discover the glamorous power couple are hiding murderous secrets, forcing them into a twisted game of deception and survival where fame, desire, and identity become deadly obsessions.

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Plus: William Sadler, Robert Kurtzman, all-night ‘Wishmaster,’ 18 new premieres.

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A restrained yet incisive Nordic tragicomedy, The Guest spins the dysfunctional-family drama for a millennial generation through claustrophobic staging, corrosive microaggressions, and Trine Dyrholm’s meticulously ambiguous performance.

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Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter, and Kris Kristofferson star, with Harvey Keitel, Diane Ladd, Vic Tayback, and Jodie Foster.

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The Fantasia International Film Festival, North America’s current largest genre festival runs from July 16 to August 2, in its 30th edition. With its large size, and ‘big tent’ scope of everything from everywhere as long it is never boring, the festival is often given the unofficial tagline we love to repeat, ‘Summer camp for genre nerds.’  The Fantasia audience is a very generous audience, with a seemingly unlimited capacity to embrace everything from quiet Japanese family dramas to head smashing action pictures, to cringe inducing body horror. The festival is a lighthouse to guide people back to watching movies in a public space with a large, often vocal, enthusiastic and emotive crowd. The cool embrace of the Hall and J.A. de Sève auditoriums…

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Chris Pine stars in Carolina Cavalli’s new kidnapping dramedy.

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Christopher Nolan’s new film stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Benny Safdie, and a cast of thousands.

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The words uttered at the beginning of a story don’t have to be precisely ‘Once upon a time’ to lure the audience into a fairy tale. But the form continues to resonate for a reason: we understand that such a story is a truth wrapped in a fable, one in which some kind of supernatural or fantastical element can stand in to explore that which is dark and harsh in our own world. Especially if that fairy tale adheres to how dark and often horrific the originals were. Canadian filmmaker Clement Virgo, even in his more ‘realistic’ work such as Brother and The Book of Negroes, has always tinged his work with something that hints at the dark fantastic of the world, so it’s nor surprising that he…

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