Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Paul Dano and Jude Law in The Wizard of the Kremlin They say the truth can be stranger than fiction, but sometimes the truth is so twisted that only fiction can cut through to something real. Such is the case with The Wizard of the Kremlin, a fictionalization of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in post-Soviet Russia. Directed by Olivier By Sarah • Sep 12, 2025 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Dumb Money Director Craig Gillespie has a thing for unlikely underdogs. Whether it’s Tonya Harding in I, Tonya or Pamela Anderson in Pam & Tommy, or even Cruella De Vil in Cruella, he makes movies about protagonists we might not otherwise think of as being an underdog. But in Dumb Money, By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Smart Dumb Money Remember the “meme stock” phenomenon of 2021, which was driven by the GameStop short squeeze on Wall Street? Well, there’s now a movie about it, two and a half years later, which is about as fast as you can turn around a feature film. From director Craig Gillespie, who By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Fabelmans The Fabelmans is a semi-autobiographical account of filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s childhood, marking the first time Spielberg is credited for a screenplay since 2001’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Playwright Tony Kushner returns after adapting West Side Story for Spielberg last year to co-write the script, and Spielberg continues his By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Batman’s super hot cast The Batman is just two days away, and the cast is in New York for the world premiere yesterday. (This is not to be confused with the “fan screening” in Miami earlier this week, or the “special screening” in London last week.) Robert Pattinson, sticking his ENTIRE foot down the By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Batman gets Goth and weird Matt Reeves’ The Batman was only filming for a couple months at the beginning of this year before it was shut down (and Robert Pattinson devoted his quarantine to nightmare-inducing Italian bakes), but that did not stop Reeves from debuting a trailer during DC’s Fandome event. The first look By Sarah • Aug 24, 2020 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Dano > Jonah Hill There was a report circulating for the last month that Jonah Hill was in talks for a villainous role in The Batman, with everyone guessing who he could be playing and how much he would get paid (the Penguin and $10 million were betting favorites). But yesterday, Hill passed on By Sarah • Oct 17, 2019 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal in Okja First and most important the “animal endangerment” warning: Okja can be hard to watch. While it’s not as bloody as it could be, it’s frank about the slaughterhouse and the treatment of animals raised to slaughter in agri-business abattoirs. It’s not exploitative, but there are a couple By Sarah • Jul 07, 2017 11:40 am
BFFs Jake in plaid Jake Gyllenhaal was photographed in London today heading to BBC Radio presumably to promote Nocturnal Animals. The film will be released in November but it will screen at the London Film Festival next week. It’s been quiet in Jake news lately – unless you count Tom Ford telling us that By Lainey • Oct 03, 2016 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Dano and DanRad’s farting corpse Swiss Army Man screened at Sundance to mixed reviews. It stars Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe as two guys stranded on an island, except one of them is dead. People who love it, really love it; people who hate it can’t seem to get past the fart jokes. The By Sarah • Apr 05, 2016 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Preview 2016: 10 to Watch The Sundance Film Festival begins this tomorrow, which means we’re officially eyeballing movies for the 2017 award season. As always, narrowing this down to just ten movies was a son of a bitch. There are a lot of interesting and good-looking movies at Sundance this year, but here are By Sarah • Jan 20, 2016 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Cusack and Paul Dano in Love & Mercy Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) By Sarah • Jun 18, 2015 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Awesome Movie About Awesome Beach Boys Looks Awesome Very exciting pictures coming out today from the Malibu set of the new Beach Boys movies. What we can see are Paul Dano (yay!), Kenny Wormald (hubba hubba), Brett Davern and Graham Rogers (Lucy Hale’s boyfriend) as the young band in the 60s, horsing around on the beach. They’ By Dean • Aug 07, 2013 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews I want to see Ruby Sparks Ruby Sparks opened in limited release this weekend. I haven’t seen it yet but really, really want to. For a few reasons: I love Zoe Kazan and she wrote it. I love Paul Dano (remember how wonderful he was in Little Miss Sunshine?). I love that Zoe and Paul By Lainey • Jul 30, 2012 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews My Bourne What’s the Katniss equivalent for the boys? Has to be Jason Bourne in Tony Gilroy’s Bourne Legacy. Everyone is said to be gunning for it – Jakey, Josh Hartnett (well there’s a long lost name!), Pettyfer…and Shia LaBeouf who I hear may have the best shot, though By Lainey • Mar 04, 2011 04:44 am
Photo Assumption Katie’s cry face Katie Holmes on set in New York of The Extra Man yesterday shooting a scene in which she had to put on an extra sad face. I laughed. Are you laughing? I’m especially laughing at Paul Dano’s photo assumption expression, like he’s thinking to himself: What the By Lainey • Feb 25, 2009 09:44 pm
