Ethan Hawke Intro for August 9, 2018 Dear Gossips, We were spoiled earlier this year with one of the best celebrity interviews of 2018 – it was Quincy Jones with Vulture and as I wrote at the time, it couldn’t have happened if writer David Marchese, contributing editor at Vulture and New York Magazine, wasn’t so By Lainey • Aug 09, 2018 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Maybe not the Tesla we’re looking for Nikola Tesla is ripe for a biopic. His story has everything: Genius, madness, rags-to-riches-to-rags, world-changing inventions, and a tragic ending. Tesla is one of the smartest people to ever live—if that sounds like exaggeration, x-rays are just some sh*t he discovered on accident and we’re still not By Sarah • Feb 14, 2018 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ethan Hawke & Amanda Seyfried start festival season Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried are at the Venice Film Festival supporting Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. The film will also be coming to Toronto for TIFF next week. First Reformed is about a priest, a “whisky priest” played by Ethan, tormented by past mistakes and struggling with his faith. By Lainey • Aug 31, 2017 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Maudie is a delight And it’s worth lining around the block for. In Maudie, Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins unexpectedly fall in love and fit together like a "pair of old socks." It's wonderful to watch. Since its world premiere at Telluride and big debut at TIFF, this biopic By Joanna • Apr 17, 2017 11:04 am
Maple Leaf Exclusive: Look out for Ethan Hawke & Sally Hawkins in Maudie According to Ethan Hawke, working with Sally Hawkins in Maudie - a film about Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, who had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis - was a "match made in cinema heaven." Maudie is set in Nova Scotia and shot in Newfoundland and it meant so much that By Joanna • Mar 29, 2017 10:12 am
Girlcrushes Troy & Lelaina kiss again If you recognise the combination of those names, you’re just as happy as I am today. Because you love Reality Bites. Those of us who love and lived Reality Bites know that it’s not the best movie, with not the best acting, and we will tell that to By Lainey • Nov 29, 2016 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt in The Magnificent Seven Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven—itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai—was the opening film at TIFF. I missed the press screening, so I had to wait a couple days to see it, and during that time everyone kept By Sarah • Sep 23, 2016 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Troy & Lelaina If you said “who?” I’m mad at you! Troy Dyer and Lelaina “Lainey” Pierce, from Reality Bites, together again! OK, not really. But there are new pictures of both Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder from yesterday and I had them on my list and it was right there, right By Lainey • Sep 09, 2016 02:37 pm
Ethan Hawke Intro for May 24, 2016 Dear Gossips, Last year The Hollywood Reporter announced that it would no longer be publishing the list of 100 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood because, as editor Janice Min explained, the magazine did not want to be pitting women against each other in competition. I disagreed. In short, why shouldn’ By Lainey • May 24, 2016 09:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 21st century Magnificent Seven Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is one of the most referenced films in cinematic history, and already has an American remake, The Magnificent Seven starring Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner. Well now there’s a remake of the remake, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, and By Sarah • Apr 20, 2016 10:56 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 Yet more NOPE: Emma Watson’s creepy cult movie This is becoming a thing, apparently, trailers for movies that make me go NOPE. First it was Everest (NOPE), then it was The Martian (NOOOOPE), and now it’s the trailer for Alejandro Amenabar’s new thriller Regression, starring Emma Watson and Ethan Hawke. Amenabar made the most excellent The By Sarah • Jun 11, 2015 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Apparently Shakespeare has an undiscovered masterpiece The first trailer for a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, starring Ethan Hawke and Dakota Johnson, has arrived and it claims the play is Shakespeare’s “undiscovered masterpiece”. Though the date of its writing is unknown, a performance of Cymbeline was noted in 1611, and in every century since By Sarah • Feb 27, 2015 10:28 am
BFFs Angelina gets friendly F-ck. Can we rage first about her bullsh-t taste in clothing? This dress is SO old. And SO ugly. And SO … It’s the WORST. Because it’s so obvious. So obvious that she’s all about invoking the Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe Old Hollywood vibe. You know why By Lainey • Jan 16, 2015 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ethan Hawke: Globes buzzkill Safe to say now that Boyhood is the clear Best Picture frontrunner for the Oscars now, right? The Globes don’t necessarily accurately predict Oscars. But they certainly can influence Academy members to pay more attention to the films and actors that they honour. So Ethan Hawke is most definitely By Lainey • Jan 12, 2015 03:19 am