Movie Reviews and Previews Real live Toothless (sort of) I’ve lost track of how many Disney live action remakes there have been—and do we count something like Maleficent, which isn’t so much a remake as a reimagining, but still brings an animated world to live action?—and we still have more coming, with Mufasa due this By Sarah • Nov 20, 2024 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton in BlackBerry Of the “brand-as-IP” films of 2023, Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry is easily the best of the lot. With humor and the crystal-clear insight of hindsight, writer-director-star Johnson depicts the rise and fall of Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry, the world’s first smartphone, and the men who By Sarah • May 12, 2023 03:21 pm
Style Cate and Jon Snow Cate Blanchett was in Cannes last night for Chopard. She presented the Chopard trophy to two young actors, Adele Exarchopoulos and Logan Lerman. Today she was back on the Croisette at the photo call for How To Train Your Dragon 2. Some of my favourites were there with her: Djimon By Lainey • May 16, 2014 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The bromantic comedy That’s what it’s called, right? These movies about “boys will be boys” hijinks, stuff like The Hangover, Wedding Crashers/The Internship, Old School, Pineapple Express—basically all the movies the Stiller/Apatow crews have been making for the last 10+ years. (Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy’s The By Sarah • Jun 05, 2013 10:23 am
Break Ups The Canadian Screen Awards...and Jay Baruchel Thank you for your emails requesting coverage of the Canadian Screen Awards. They happened in Toronto last night and etalk will be all over it tonight -- 7pm on CTV. The reason I haven’t posted about the event until now is because I’ve been waiting for more photos By Lainey • Mar 04, 2013 03:57 pm
Maple Leaf SO cute For those of you who email regularly asking for Jay Baruchel – he and Alison Pill are engaged. A little bit of Canadian entertainment royalty! He’s 28, she’s 25. Jay confirmed it last night at the Genie Awards, thanking his “fiancée” onstage during his acceptance speech. They’ve been By Lainey • Mar 11, 2011 03:07 am
Maple Leaf Goon >Love Guru Then again, it’s not hard to be better than The Love Guru. Woah wait. Wasn’t Jessica Alba in The Love Guru. Was she forced at gunpoint? Because, you know, she’s all discerning and sh-t right? Anyway, there’s another Canadian who is making a movie about hockey. By Lainey • Nov 25, 2010 03:15 am
