Movie Reviews and Previews One Take JLo There was a screening for Kiss of the Spider Woman last night in LA and also a Q&A with director Bill Condon and Jennifer Lopez. The film’s lead, Tonatiuh, was there for the introduction but had to leave to fly to NYC for another commitment. Kiss of By Lainey • Sep 11, 2025 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Tessa Thompson in Hedda Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler invents a character, the eponymous Hedda Gabler, who is considered one of the greatest female dramatic roles ever written. Hedda is a tragic and doomed figure, often compared to Hamlet. Nia DaCosta, adapting Ibsen herself for a new cinematic iteration dubbed simply Hedda, discards Ibsen’ By Sarah • Sep 10, 2025 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Give The Rip a chance Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are back, baby, once again collaborating on a film. Only this one, they did not write nor is Affleck directing, it comes from filmmaker Joe Carnahan, who specializes in well executed schlock like Narc, The Grey, and Copshop. His latest film, reuniting Affleck and Damon, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2025 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most enduring works of English literature, often considered one of the first, if not the first, science fiction novels, as well as an early flagship in horror literature. It has been adapted and reimagined countless times over the centuries, the latest iteration By Sarah • Sep 10, 2025 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Brendan Fraser in Rental Family There is a phenomenon that occurs when an actor wins an Oscar that they often go forth and almost immediately appear in a better film, giving a better performance. Recent examples include Emma Stone winning an Oscar for La La Land only to appear in The Favourite, a better movie By Sarah • Sep 09, 2025 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy in Sacrifice The last few years have seen a glut of “eat the rich” films—and TV shows—and Romain Gavras’s Sacrifice is another of the type. Co-written with Pulitzer-nominee Will Arbery, Sacrifice follows a clash of the rich and the idealistic, perhaps at the end of the world. Movie star By Sarah • Sep 09, 2025 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jacob Elordi is unsingle, just in time Exactly a month ago, I posted about Jacob Elordi and Olivia Jade Giannulli’s breakup after PEOPLE reported it exclusively. The title of that post was “Jacob Elordi is single, just in time”. In time of course for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and, in a few months, Emerald Fennell’ By Lainey • Sep 09, 2025 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wake Up Dead Man is the creepy one As I write this, it is my final night in Toronto for TIFF and Wake Up Dead Man did not fit into my schedule. I am bereft, I am bothered, I am bemused, I am bereaved(?), I am exhausted and running out of b-synonyms. The teaser for Wake Up Dead By Sarah • Sep 09, 2025 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 9, 2025 Dear Gossips, There are a handful of directors who are events unto themselves. Christopher Nolan, for example, is enough to sell a movie. All you need to see is his name in the credits and people are out here buying tickets a year in advance for hundreds of dollars. And By Lainey • Sep 09, 2025 09:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Angelina Jolie in Couture Alice Winocour is an idiosyncratic filmmaker who has yet to work in the same genre twice. Her latest film, Couture, is an anthological drama set during Paris Fashion Week following several different women through their journeys during couture’s most important week. Written and directed by Winocour, Couture is also By Sarah • Sep 08, 2025 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Sydney Sweeney in Christy TW for domestic violence Christy Salters, known for much of her career by her married name, Christy Martin, put women’s boxing on the map, and was the first “lady fighter” to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated and compete in a Pay-Per-View match. She was a champion and a By Sarah • Sep 08, 2025 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Riz Ahmed in Hamlet Hamlet is Hamlet is Hamlet, there’s only so much you can do with Hamlet, it’s been done so many times by so many people in so many mediums over the literal centuries since Shakespeare’s play debuted. The latest update comes from director Aneil Karia and stars Riz By Sarah • Sep 05, 2025 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney changes the subject One of the highlights on the TIFF calendar today is David Michôd’s Christy, a biopic of boxer Christy Martin with Sydney Sweeney in the role. Ahead of the world premiere this afternoon, it was announced yesterday that the film will be released November 7, which means the distributor has By Lainey • Sep 05, 2025 11:32 am
Maple Leaf Intro for September 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, What is your favourite John Candy movie? For me, like probably most people, it’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I can’t get through the final scene without sobbing. John’s subtle expression changes at the end… it’s too much, it’s too good, he was SO By Lainey • Sep 05, 2025 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie’s blonde bob Angelina Jolie is in London, seen yesterday on the set of Marc Forster’s film Anxious People, based on Fredrik Backman’s book of the same name. This is an ensemble, with Angelina playing an investment banker, Zara, who ends up at an open house on Christmas Eve with a By Lainey • Sep 04, 2025 01:42 pm
Style Fun guys at Venice We’re approaching the tail end of the Venice Film Festival, which wraps up this weekend, but first there was a premiere for Julian Schnabel’s new film, In the Hand of Dante, which stars Oscar Isaac and Jason Momoa, as well as Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Louis By Sarah • Sep 04, 2025 12:21 pm
