Movie Reviews and Previews Fassbender the frontrunner and Brie Larson for Jennifer Lawrence? Two Oscar frontrunners were on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon last night — Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs – click here for my review from NYFF) and Brie Larson (Room – click here for my review from TIFF). It’s only October, but already, the two are both top contenders in their respective By Joanna • Oct 09, 2015 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Trumbo for Oscar? (Lainey: a new trailer for Trumbo was released yesterday. Some people think Bryan Cranston could be a contender. He’s so well liked in Hollywood. And he would be the answer if voters don’t want to reward Eddie Redmayne two years in a row, can’t stand Johnny Depp, By Joanna • Oct 07, 2015 11:48 am
Maple Leaf Nina & Austin’s first red carpet Nina Dobrev and boyfriend Austin Stowell walked their first premiere red carpet together at the NYFF premiere of his film, Bridge of Spies, on Sunday. The two were previously snapped together at a New York Fashion Week event last month but this is step-and-repeat. It’s a whole other level. By Joanna • Oct 05, 2015 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs If Michael Fassbender wins an Oscar for playing Steve Jobs in the film of the same name, he has Ashton Kutcher to thank for it. That’s a joke, of course, but it’s one that Fassbender already made himself at the NYFF Steve Jobs press conference on Saturday. He’ By Joanna • Oct 05, 2015 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Concussion could be American Sniper? The New York Film Festival is underway and TIFF just wrapped but AFI Fest is betting big on the stars. Having already secured the premieres and awards season campaign launches of the Brange's By the Sea and the Brad Pitt-Ryan Gosling-Christian Bale-Steve Carell-led The Big Short, now AFI By Joanna • Sep 30, 2015 04:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Beeba Boys Deepa Mehta is the original gangster. Really. Best known for her philosophical and provocative work with films like Midnight's Children or Water, Beeba Boys marks a huge departure for Deepa in that it's her version of The Departed meets Scarface. Beeba Boys profiles rival Sikh gangs By Joanna • Sep 30, 2015 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Susan Sarandon in The Meddler Susan Sarandon has been playing mom for years. Stepmom, Tammy, Speed Racer, even the half-baked About Ray, click here to see Sarah's review, it’s not something she shies away from… and it’s something she embraces in The Meddler, the most well-rounded and true-to-life mother figure she’ By Joanna • Sep 29, 2015 01:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Stonewall A lot of bricks are being thrown at Stonewall, and with good reason. The film has been savagely attacked by critics for whitewashing the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a pivotal turning point for the LGBTQ rights movement in the U.S. Beyond that, it’s been hit by several boycotts and By Joanna • Sep 28, 2015 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Drew Barrymore & Toni Collette in Miss You Already Cancer, the toxic monster that not only attacks the body, but every relationship a person has. In this film it tests the strength of the lifelong friendship between Milly (Toni Collette) and Jess (Drew Barrymore), and these two have already been to hell and back with each other. Miss You By Joanna • Sep 23, 2015 11:43 am
Maple Leaf Nina at home Nina Dobrev was home in Toronto over the weekend to celebrate the TIFF premiere of her horror satire, The Final Girls, at Midnight Madness. The movie (and movie within a movie) is a really fun romp, and after a day of press, she celebrated with her co-stars Malin Akerman and By Joanna • Sep 22, 2015 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Ryan Reynolds in Mississippi Grind Like all actors, Ryan Reynolds is a gambler, and some of his bets have not paid off. The Voices? Awful. Self/Less? Embarrassing. Mississippi Grind? That’s more in line with his work in The Woman in Gold earlier this year - impressive, but not up to his full (and By Joanna • Sep 22, 2015 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Room (Queen Brie) Aside from Cate Blanchett's work in Blue Jasmine, to me the best female performance of 2013 came from Brie Larson in Short Term 12. The film was criminally underseen by both critics and audiences, but she'll finally get her shot at golden glory with Room, in By Joanna • Sep 16, 2015 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Maggie's Plan Julianne Moore has Freeheld and Maggie’s Plan at TIFF this year. Julianne and Ethan Hawke were shooting Maggie's Plan at a Brooklyn ice rink barely 36 hours after they were on the Oscar red carpet in February. That's an instant humbling, isn't it? By Joanna • Sep 15, 2015 02:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Born To Be Blue More TIFF double duty. Ethan Hawke has two films at TIFF too: Maggie's Plan and Born to be Blue. Just as Boyhood was catching fire in November, Ethan was hanging out in church basements in Sudbury, Ontario channeling his inner Chet Baker. I was on set. Chet Baker& By Joanna • Sep 15, 2015 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Freeheld Ellen Page and her girlfriend Samantha Thomas made their red carpet debut at the world premiere of her movie Freeheld in Toronto on Sunday night. It's about the fight for equal rights in domestic partnerships, which eventually laid the groundwork for where we are now in the U. By Joanna • Sep 15, 2015 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Into The Forest Into the Forest is the most insane movie I've seen in years, and I read the book. I knew what I was in for. Lainey did not. More on that soon. Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood are sisters who love each other as much as they love By Joanna • Sep 15, 2015 10:18 am
