Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves in Good Fortune Aziz Ansari’s feature directorial debut comes at an awkward time. Good Fortune, which Ansari also wrote, produced, and stars in, is a well-intentioned film about the meaning of life, a naked attempt at bringing Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life to late-stage capitalism. Ansari stars as Arj, By Sarah • Oct 17, 2025 11:26 am
Maple Leaf Intro for October 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, It was Thanksgiving here in Canada yesterday and over in New York, two Canadians were on the red carpet at the premiere of Good Fortune: Keanu Reeves and Sandra Oh. When I post about Keanu, I often say that we don’t see a lot of him, since By Lainey • Oct 14, 2025 09:32 am
Theatre Nerd Godot’s Excellent Adventure Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Waiting for Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter opened on Broadway last night. Broadway openings always draw a crowd but because of Keanu and Winter, last night’s crowd was especially starry. Besides Keanu and Winter, the premiere drew out Ethan Hawke, Chris Pine, By Sarah • Sep 29, 2025 04:27 pm
Angelina Jolie Intro for July 22, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Toronto International Film Festival is marking its 50th anniversary this year and they’ve been rolling out the lineup. It was confirmed a few days ago that Rian Johnson is going three-for-three at TIFF with the world premiere of his third film in the Benoit Blanc Universe, By Lainey • Jul 22, 2025 09:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu won’t be going A palate cleanser after the unsavoury spectacle of the last post and a celebrity in Italy that we can feel better about.. Keanu Reeves and his partner Alexandra Grant were in Italy last weekend for the Motorcycling Grand Prix. He’s a motorcycle enthusiast, has been riding for decades, not By Lainey • Jun 26, 2025 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise, and then Ana de Armas I can’t wait to read Sarah’s review of Ballerina coming later this week. As she wrote after the London premiere of the film, “this is the first spin-off feature film in the John Wick universe, there is pressure on this film to deliver and prove that John Wick By Lainey • Jun 04, 2025 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charming Angel Keanu Early last year, we saw photos of Keanu Reeves on set with Seth Rogen for Aziz Ansari’s new film, which is now called Good Fortune. The teaser dropped yesterday, the film stars Keanu as a guardian angel seeking more responsibility and so he sets out to save a lost By Sarah • May 29, 2025 03:02 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 23, 2025 Dear Gossips, For a while now, the already fractious relationship between movie studios and film critics has been worsening as studios lean harder and harder on influencers to promote their movies. It’s one thing when they’re using influencers to fill a marketing void left by the devaluing of By Sarah • May 23, 2025 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Happy Ballerina The box office is dog sh-t right now, and five years post-COVID (the start of it, I know it’s still around, a part of life now), movie-going still hasn’t recovered. Live sporting and music events are booming, Broadway is 95% back to pre-pandemic business, but movies are still By Sarah • Mar 20, 2025 01:06 pm
Maple Leaf Jim and Keanu: A Canadian Double Photos like this, where I’m from, are kind of a big deal. I’m off from ETALK until the New Year but if I had to guess what would be leading our show content today, it would be that Jim Carrey and Keanu Reeves were at the premiere of By Lainey • Dec 17, 2024 02:04 pm
Quiveration This is an excuse for Keanu Sonic the Hedgehog has become an improbable hit franchise, cranking out three films and one streaming series, Knuckles, in the last four years. The franchise stars Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic, James Marsden and Tika Sumpter as his human friends, Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik, and Idris Elba By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 02:06 pm
Top Reads Leave Keanu’s beard alone and Eva Longoria is John Wick’s fairy godmother Keanu Reeves was at the 2024 London Literature Festival yesterday to promote his novel, The Book of Elsewhere. As you can see, he is bearded. He’s been bearded for at least a decade – I can’t recall seeing him barefaced in at least ten years. I’m talking about By Lainey • Oct 23, 2024 02:13 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Intro for October 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, If I was in LA last night I would have tried – and probably not succeeded – to go to Beyond Fest’s 30th anniversary screening of Speed that was followed by a panel discussion featuring director Jan de Bont and Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves… !!! Up until yesterday, Jan, By Lainey • Oct 09, 2024 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas is a dancing assassin In 2014, John Wick became a sleeper hit, ten years later, it’s the foundation of a whole ass franchise. There have been four John Wick movies, one TV show, and now, the first cinematic spin-off, the awkwardly titled From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. We really have to By Sarah • Sep 27, 2024 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Short haired Keanu This week has been nine years and it’s only Wednesday. I am TIRED, I am OVER IT, I am mentally on my COUCH under a BLANKET, do not call me, I have thrown my phone into the SEA. And just when I think I cannot TAKE any MORE, lo, By Sarah • Apr 03, 2024 10:25 am
Keanu Reeves Keanu Reeves: Honoured and Honours To another award show that happened this weekend and a much less controversial acceptance speech. Keanu Reeves received the inaugural Lance Reddick Legacy Award at the Saturn Awards last night. The award is not only in recognition of a performer’s talent but also their character. Keanu and Lance worked By Lainey • Feb 05, 2024 01:49 pm
