Movie Reviews and Previews Dune has worms and desert love There’s not an official rule about it, but the Motion Picture Association of America suggests film trailers run no longer than two and a half minutes, and that is where most full-length trailers clock in. However, studios usually reserve a few exceptions each year and do a three-minute trailer By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 01:08 pm
TV Updates Will Ferrell and the Cow Bell Will Ferrell is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend with musical guest King Princess. I can’t figure out what he’s promoting, if he’s promoting anything, or maybe he’s just cruising by for a visit for old times, to do Lorne a favour. Is it Succession? For By Lainey • Nov 22, 2019 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hell Lives Inside Me: I Saw Nine Lives The ordeal began with a trip to the ticket window. The movie in question, Nine Lives, had not screened for critics, so I had to pay actual money to see the movie in which Kevin Spacey gets turned into a cat. As I was paying to see the movie in By Sarah • Aug 09, 2016 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Jungle Book is true magic Disney has already had one family hit this year, with Zootopia, and they’ve got another one on their hands with Jon Favreau’s update of The Jungle Book. It’s not only an eye-popping piece of mostly-digital filmmaking, but it also manages to fix pretty much everything creepy and By Sarah • Apr 15, 2016 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Forget Revenant Bear, now we have Bill Murray Bear And isn’t that the best of all fake computer movie bears? A new trailer for Jon Favreau’s update of The Jungle Book was released as part of the Super Bowl Trailer Apocalypse, and goddamn this movie looks gorgeous. Watch the new trailer and keep in mind two things: By Sarah • Feb 09, 2016 12:36 pm
TV Updates Peter Pan, starring Captain Hook I feel like there should be a rating system on Twitter for how long you stayed with Peter Pan last night. I had on-the-laptop errands to do so I thought I’d be in for the long haul, but I definitely found myself blinking awake during one of the various By Duana • Dec 05, 2014 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole is Annie, not Camille Nicole Kidman acquired the rights to Kevin Wilson’s The Family Fang almost 3 years ago. Click here for my coverage of the story and my thoughts on the book. Briefly, The Family Fang is about Caleb and Camille Fang, renowned performance artists, who use their children in controversial public By Lainey • Jul 16, 2014 11:53 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: TIFF premiere of A Late Quartet TIFF premiere of A Late Quartet . By Lainey • Sep 10, 2012 10:26 pm
LifestyleArticle Christopher Walken: The Best Pants at TIFF Come on. There was probably no one else at Pearson today with his pants hitched up higher than Christoper Walken's. Imagine - standing at the bar with Walken and Bill Murray at the same time...? I might want this more than I want Johnny and Winona to get By Lainey • Sep 07, 2012 03:58 pm
BFFs Whatever is happening here... I’m into it. Even though I worry that Pacino’s work, lately, has been super sh-t. Like Robert DeNiro. Is DeNiro broke or something? Anyway, this movie, with Christopher Walken, is called Stand Up Guys. A group of aging thugs get together for one last scam. So like George By Lainey • Apr 12, 2012 11:23 am
Will Ferrell What SNL needs Written by Jacek Christopher Walken was photographed in NY the other day looking…old (attached). I love Chris Walken. An amazing career. Wicked comedic timing. And he’s managed to stay relevant over a long period of time in an industry that quickly forgets and leaves people behind. But as By Lainey • May 14, 2010 05:50 am
Amazingness Honouring The Continental Well, not really, but he totally deserves an award for that too. Christopher Walken was honoured at the Marrakesh film festival this weekend, a tribute to his work. Next up for Walken: Broadway. He’ll be headlining A Behanding in Spokane about a man whose hand goes missing so he By Lainey • Dec 07, 2009 05:13 am
Hayden Panettiere At the beginning… There was Guiding Light. For many of them… Including Oscar winners Christopher Walken and Mira Sorvino, nominee Ruby Dee, Calista Flockhart, Hayden Panettiere, and also Kevin Bacon in a rather hot kinda homoerotic scene, all of them at the beginning of their careers made appearances on Guiding Light. The news By Lainey • Apr 03, 2009 09:48 am
