Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Spotlight Hands down the best movie I’ve seen at TIFF, Spotlight is a phenomenal film, absolutely pitch perfect from start to finish. This could be my whole review—this film is flawless and if it doesn’t affect you, then you are a monster. It will break your heart. It By Sarah • Sep 15, 2015 09:28 am
Maple Leaf Rachel’s home Spotlight Sarah’s review for Spotlight will follow this post. Here we are focusing on Toronto’s own Rachel McAdams. But I begin with an article in the Globe & Mail, Canada’s newspaper of record, published yesterday about how Hollywood has affected the festival, specifically how the Hollywood marketing and By Lainey • Sep 15, 2015 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Black Mass It’s not that Black Mass is bad—it’s too technically proficient to be called “bad”—it’s that it’s…cold. It is unengaging. Yes, Johnny Depp is very good as Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, but we’ve seen him do so many transformations at this point By Sarah • Sep 15, 2015 08:55 am
Dumbass Johnny’s hairline…and “eye contact” Black Mass premiered at TIFF last night. Sarah’s review is coming up. But first…because it’s Johnny Depp, and there’s been so much drama about Johnny and Amber in Toronto, we’re starting there. As I mentioned in my post yesterday – click here for a refresher – I By Lainey • Sep 15, 2015 08:27 am
Dumbass Matt Damon opens mouth, world face palms Matt Damon and Ben Affleck used to have a show called Project Greenlight, in which they and a panel of filmmakers chose a script and a director and set them loose with a small budget to make a movie. It aired three seasons on Bravo from 2001-2005, and the only By Sarah • Sep 15, 2015 08:04 am
Henry Windsor Intro for September 15, 2015 Dear Gossips, A quick programming note: Marcus, our dog, needed an emergency blood transfusion yesterday and is still in hospital. We’ve been on standby as the situation can change quickly. If that’s the case, there may be a long interruption to the blog schedule. I’ve prepared as By Lainey • Sep 15, 2015 07:43 am
Smutty Tingles Smutty Social Media, Monday September 14, 2015 Lindsay Lohan’s completely clear, not at all drug-induced late night Instagram post. But if money means more than freedom, stay in California. they always come back. I love you NYC 💋they always come back. I love you NYC 💋 #godblesstheworld #michaeljackson #rip miss you as my real only private friend. By Maria • Sep 14, 2015 04:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Perfect or Pretentious? Hi Duana, My husband and I are in need of your help. I am due at the end of October with twins, and we are searching to find names for our new babies that we love just as much as our two older children. We already have a boy named By Duana • Sep 14, 2015 03:01 pm
Maple Leaf Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page’s plus ones Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page play sisters in Into the Forest and spent the weekend in Toronto. Ellen, Evan and I are the same age. I've watched their careers closely and admire them both for speaking their mind, and standing up for women in Hollywood. Since Ellen By Joanna • Sep 14, 2015 01:52 pm
Relationship Assumption Tom & Lizzie This happened to me the last time I interviewed Tom Hiddleston for The Avengers. I don’t know how I forgot. That he’s SOOOOOOOO f-cking charming and thoughtful and smart and nice. Tom was my first interview yesterday, followed immediately by Elizabeth Olsen. As Sarah just noted in her By Lainey • Sep 14, 2015 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: I Saw The Light I had high hopes for the Hank Williams biopic, I Saw the Light, because Hank Williams’s life is inherently cinematic—gifted musician with a meteoric rise, tragic death, and a drama-ridden life in between—and also because Tom Hiddleston plays Williams. Hiddleston is a brilliant mimic and a good By Sarah • Sep 14, 2015 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wet Tom Hardy It was pouring on Saturday night for the Legend premiere at TIFF. And the fans, they stood out there in the rain, waiting patiently for Tom Hardy. Meanwhile, I was under the red carpet awning, waiting impatiently for an interview. It didn’t happen. The film was supposed to start By Lainey • Sep 14, 2015 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: About Ray I feel bad sh*tting on About Ray, but…I’m going to sh*t on it—it’s not very good. Starring Elle Fanning as transgender teen Ray and directed by Gaby Dellal (Looking), About Ray is more about everyone else talking about Ray than Ray himself. It’s By Sarah • Sep 14, 2015 11:10 am
Media Manipulation Jake & Dakota in Toronto Jake Gyllenhaal opened TIFF on Thursday. On Friday he was in New York participating in the Cantor Fitzgerald annual charity day. Last night however he was back in Toronto, hanging out at the Shangri-La lobby with his brother-in-law, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joel Edgerton who are here for Black Mass. Then By Lainey • Sep 14, 2015 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Danish Girl Josh Brolin snuck into the premiere of The Danish Girl on Saturday night. This is unusual for a star at a film festival to do, to make time in their busy interview and party schedule to check out another movie. But when asked about it the next day by etalk By Joanna • Sep 14, 2015 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny’s late night meeting Black Mass premieres at TIFF tonight. On Saturday though, Johnny Depp showed up at The Danish Girl gala to support Amber Heard. These photos? Trust me, it’s worse in person. And it’s even worse than that at 2am. Saturday was my friend Traci’s birthday. I worked until By Lainey • Sep 14, 2015 09:37 am
