TIFF 2017 Coverage Disobedience: A Powerful Tale of Two Rachels Rachel McAdams may have won our hearts in The Notebook, and she got an Oscar nomination for her work in Spotlight, but her work in Disobedience — a forbidden love story opposite Rachel Weisz — is the performance of her career. When asked about working opposite “Canada’s sweetheart” on the red By Joanna • Sep 11, 2017 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jakey's night before TIFF and his Stronger game Gaga or (Jake) Gyllenhaal: who would you pick? They both have world premieres at TIFF tonight, half an hour apart, across the street from each other. But on his night before TIFF, Jake sat front row with Lupita Nyong'o and Rashida Jones at the Raf Simons Calvin Klein By Joanna • Sep 08, 2017 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF 2017's Most Anticipated Photo: The Oscar Trinity (Brie, Emma, JLaw) Will Take Toronto In less than two weeks, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence and Brie Larson will all be in Toronto to premiere their new films at TIFF... within 24 hours of each other. They’ve all won Best Actress Oscars and they happen to be close friends who namecheck each other in interviews By Joanna • Aug 30, 2017 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain covers ELLE Canada No surprise here: Jessica Chastain will premiere (at least) one of her three upcoming projects, Woman Walks Ahead, at TIFF this September. A Jessica Chastain movie is always an all-caps event for me and so is her new ELLE Canada cover, timed perfectly to coincide with the launch of her By Joanna • Jul 26, 2017 11:02 am
Weddings Kate Mara & Jamie Bell are married Surprise! Kate Mara and Jamie Bell tied the knot recently, and shared the photos on Instagram and Twitter minutes apart this afternoon. In other words, Zoe Barnes is now happily ever after (and alive), if you believe that getting married is the only way to have a happy ending. It’ By Joanna • Jul 17, 2017 03:04 pm
TV Updates Helen Hunt’s sneaky reinvention How do you remember Helen Hunt? She’ll always be Jamie Buchman from Mad About You or an Oscar winner for her great work in As Good as it Gets to me, but now she’s sneaking into the Emmy race with three possible shots at a directing nomination (her By Joanna • Jul 11, 2017 12:16 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Julia & Bailey Salinger: A Party Of Five reunion Ever wonder how the Party of Five Salingers are doing now? I do. Well, Julia (Neve Campbell) and Bailey (Scott Wolf) reunited on Watch What Happens Live! last night... and yes, they spilled some "hot goss" that, in Andy Cohen's words, we've spent " By Joanna • Jun 28, 2017 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews My Cousin Rachel: Rachel Weisz makes it worth it Between My Cousin Rachel and Get Out, white tea cups with blue details are having a moment in two very different but similarly satisfying thrillers. In My Cousin Rachel, Rachel Weisz uses her tea set to (possibly?) poison the young cousin and doppelganger of her deceased husband (Sam Claflin), while By Joanna • Jun 19, 2017 12:36 pm
Come From Away: The Canadian feel-good story of the year It almost happened. A Canadian musical came this close to winning a Tony for Best Musical, which would have been a historic first. The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter both had it down as a favourite to win, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Hugh Jackman, Kevin Spacey, Bryan By Joanna • Jun 12, 2017 11:05 am
Ben Platt: Tonys Most Popular It wouldn’t be the Tonys without the DRAMA. Ben Platt’s vocal rest for the days leading up to the Tonys almost put his Sunday performance from Dear Evan Hansen in jeopardy, but he pulled it off in the end. Ben would have had the best acceptance speech of By Joanna • Jun 12, 2017 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Mara beyond Zoe Barnes Kate Mara’s made some really interesting choices since leaving House of Cards. And her latest project, Megan Leavey, about the real-life U.S. Marine corporate veteran and K-9 handler, gives her an opportunity to show off her teeth-clenching tenacity and sly smugness in a way that would make Zoe By Joanna • Jun 09, 2017 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sofia Coppola & Patty Jenkins: from festivals to the box office – but will Hollywood notice? Sofia Coppola won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend and became just the second-ever female filmmaker to receive that honour. It’s a big deal. And if you ask her The Beguiled star Nicole Kidman, she’ll probably say it’s an even bigger By Joanna • May 29, 2017 12:28 pm
BFFs Kirsten Dunst: Happy tears, PDA, and her Lost In Translation? Kirsten Dunst got emotional at the world premiere of The Beguiled in Cannes last night, and shed a happy tear or two while walking the red carpet... just like she said she would minutes earlier. She’s back at the festival a year after serving on the jury, this time By Joanna • May 25, 2017 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews First look at Xavier Dolan's John F Donovan is conspicuously timed... but very exciting With the Cannes Film Festival a week away, we finally get our first official photos from the set of Xavier Dolan's highly-anticipated The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. The film is not screening in Cannes because they’re not finished shooting but it does look fantastic By Joanna • May 12, 2017 11:59 am
MET Gala 2017 Rose Byrne & Bobby Cannavale: Best MET Gala Hair Sometimes, the early birds make the strongest impressions at the MET Gala. This year, that honour belongs to two of my favourites, Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale. They were definitely the best-coiffed couple of the night, but, if you ask Bobby - they were simply "off to Applebee' By Joanna • May 02, 2017 01:04 am
MET Gala 2017 Barry Jenkins & Julianne Moore at the MET: Best Oscar Victory Lap You win an Oscar, and everybody knows your film Moonlight for all the wrong reasons. Now what? Well, your cast becomes the latest faces of Calvin Klein's underwear campaign, you earn a spot as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People of the Year and get By Joanna • May 02, 2017 12:16 am
