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An Evening with Ryan Reynolds & Friends Celebrating John Candy

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- On Thursday, September 25, 2025, award-winning actor, producer, and entrepreneur Ryan Reynolds will appear live at State Theatre New Jersey to host a special screening of John Candy: I Like Me. The event is part of a nationwide tour celebrating the life and legacy of beloved comedian John Candy. Showtime is 7:00pm.




 

Engaging feature Mistura screens at the Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, September 12.

by Penelope de la Cruz
published 2025-09-07

Sometimes losing everything is the start of something new. In Mistura, director Ricardo de Montreuil tells the story of a woman in 1965 Lima, Peru, whose comfortable life falls apart and who begins to rediscover her country through food and the people around her.



New Release Review - "The Toxic Avenger"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-09-06

Even as a schlock-obsessed kid I saw right through Troma's cynical attempts to manufacture prefabricated cult movies. Filmmakers don't make cult movies. Audiences make cult movies. Anyone who sets out to make a cult movie is on a hiding to nothing, but Troma thought they could game the system simply by giving their movies lurid titles and VHS artwork that the films inevitably failed to live up to, and in doing so they gave birth to the likes of The Asylum, with their endless Sharknado rehashes.



Terrific Shorts Program at Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Sunday, September 7!

by Al Nigrin
published 2025-09-06

Here is the line-up for the Shorts Program at the Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Sunday, September 7:



Alberta Number One kicks off the Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival TODAY Friday, September 5!

by Al Nigrin
published 2025-09-05

Alberta Number One will be opening the Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, September 5. The film will be Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7 PM in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ. Director Sandy Carson and lead actor Liz Peterson will be on hand to do a Q+A with the in-person audience!