Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Angelina Jolie’s Without Blood Angelina Jolie is something of a frustrating filmmaker. She has no lack of technical skill, her eye is good, and she has a deft touch with actors, but her films never seem to add up to much. That is especially prevalent in her latest film, Without Blood, an adaptation of By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 02:32 pm
Media Manipulation Blake Lively’s Feelings It Ends With Us opened in theatres a month ago yesterday and has gone on to become Blake Lively’s highest grossing movie. That’s typically an achievement to be celebrated but there really hasn’t been all that much celebration, at least not publicly. Because of the scandal that By Lainey • Sep 10, 2024 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Destin Daniel Cretton is taking over Spider-Man When TIFF is happening, I don’t like to think about anything else which, naturally, means Marvel is up to some nonsense. Whenever you least want to work, you can count on Disney and/or Marvel to force you to work. (I’m glad they seemed to have broken their By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 12:26 pm
Style This is Brad Kelce Brad Pitt is in New York, ahead of the Apple TV+ release of Wolfs, his new film with George Clooney that received aggressively medium reviews coming out of Venice. That premiere is happening soon and these days, since he and Ines de Ramon have hard launched their relationship, she is By Lainey • Sep 10, 2024 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch Sometimes in my reviews I will cheekily dub a character “Lady Mom”, such as in my review of Unstoppable, in which Jennifer Lopez stars as a stereotypically underwritten mother character. “Lady Mom” is a derogatory shorthand for characters definable only by being female and mothers, with no real individual narrative By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 10:16 am
Music Intro for September 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Country Music Association Awards nominations were announced yesterday and you’ll never guess, Beyoncé was not nominated in a single category despite having released the country music masterpiece that is COWBOY CARTER. Shaboozey, however, received two nominations – for New Artist of the Year and Single of the By Lainey • Sep 10, 2024 09:36 am
What Else What Else? I posted earlier about Angelina Jolie in Toronto and the fan who rushed her and related that to what Chappell Roan has been saying about boundaries. The Boys star Valorie Curry is also speaking up about f-cked up fan interactions after attending a fan convention. What happened is appalling. Last By Lainey • Sep 09, 2024 05:11 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 9, 2024 This morning, Lainey tackled TNT in New York and this is the most invested I’ve been in this storyline because Taylor’s superpower is also her albatross – her fans. To see her play with, and defy, their orders is riveting. In a way, her fans should be grateful she By Maria • Sep 09, 2024 03:41 pm
Reality TV The Mormon wives delivered (on good TV) Over the weekend, I cleared my schedule to make time for the return of Selling Sunset. It had been months since I got to indulge in watching a bunch of rich, catty realtors that don’t believe in sneakers or trackpants fight with each other while getting to indulge in By Stephanie • Sep 09, 2024 03:24 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie, the Movie Star at TIFF George Pimentel is the most well-known celebrity and special events photographer based in Toronto. He’s a fixture at TIFF, and works directly at and for the festival, given special access to roam the red carpet and go backstage at the screenings and premieres, to photograph the biggest stars. His By Lainey • Sep 09, 2024 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Unstoppable Here I am being a grump about a well-intentioned film again. But as with We Live in Time, the issue with Unstoppable is how extremely well-trod the genre is, and how the film does not find a way to inject new life into it. Unstoppable is an underdog sports drama By Sarah • Sep 09, 2024 01:48 pm
Royals Princess Kate: An Impressive Return This year feels like it’s been a decade. And one of the biggest stories of the year, even though it seems so long ago, was the announcement from the British royal family that Princess Kate was going through health issues, and in the weeks that followed, the speculation over By Lainey • Sep 09, 2024 12:45 pm
Break Ups JLo comes back to Toronto The last time Jennifer Lopez was at TIFF it was for Hustlers and on the strength of the strong reaction to the film in Toronto, she was, for a time, in conversation during award season as she was nominated for a Golden Globe. So she has good memories here, and By Lainey • Sep 09, 2024 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: We Live In Time It seems like every few years, we get a good old-fashioned weepy, usually about a romance doomed by disease, often cancer, that sunders a lovely couple, often when they are still young, and their fate feels all the more deeply unfair. The most recent entry into this very specific yet By Sarah • Sep 09, 2024 11:04 am
BFFs TNT… overshadowed? The NFL schedule is working out for TNT, since Kansas City played on Thursday it left Travis Kelce free to be in New York the whole weekend with Taylor Swift. They were photographed out for dinner, attending Karen Elson’s wedding, and yesterday they were at the US Open being By Lainey • Sep 09, 2024 10:25 am
Music Intro for September 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, The big news coming out of NFL weekend 1 is that the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime performer has been announced: Kendrick Lamar. For the last few years ago, Jay-Z has been overseeing the selection for the Halftime show. And this, by far, is his most political and potentially By Lainey • Sep 09, 2024 09:06 am
