Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Moonage Daydream Filmmaker Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck) takes a non-traditional approach to his latest subject, David Bowie. Moonage Daydream is neither a traditional concert film nor a traditional documentary, but instead blends concert footage, archival interviews with Bowie, and hundreds—thousands?—of By Sarah • Sep 16, 2022 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde: Worry is a Week Away Well, actually, there’s been a lot of worry for weeks now over Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling with the mess behind the scenes between Olivia and Florence Pugh, and Olivia and Florence and Shia LaBeouf dominated headlines. The situation has calmed down a bit lately as other By Lainey • Sep 16, 2022 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, It’s a Friday mystery! Henry Cavill has a new spy movie coming out—no, not James Bond, sorry—called Argylle. It’s coming from Apple TV+ sometime in 2023. It’s directed by Matthew Vaughn and adapted for the screen by Jason Fuchs (who has a story By Sarah • Sep 16, 2022 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen and Jonathan: My New Favourite Bromance Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, and Joe Jonas were in Toronto earlier this week for the world premiere of Devotion. Glen is a producer on the film and during an interview with all three of them on The Social on Monday, he talked about how he decided to turn the book By Lainey • Sep 15, 2022 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Hunt Squid Game star and newly minted Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae makes his feature directorial debut with Hunt, a spy thriller that elicited an overwhelming WTF reaction from critics at TIFF. Though ever more Korean cinema has crossed over with English-speaking audiences over the last 20 years, there remains By Sarah • Sep 15, 2022 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Banshees of Inisherin After bringing his tales of violence, vengeance, and the difficulty—if not outright impossibility—of forgiveness to America in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh returns to Ireland with The Banshees of Inisherin. Set in 1920s Ireland on a remote island isolated from the civil war unfolding on the By Sarah • Sep 14, 2022 03:32 pm
BFFs Jane Fonda's fight(s) It’s a busy time for Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Their latest collaboration on the big screen, a film called Moving On, made its world premiere at TIFF. So far, it’s getting great reviews – and that should come as no surprise. Tomlin and Fonda are the duo of By Stephanie • Sep 14, 2022 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Women Talking Content warning for sexual assault. Sarah Polley writes and directs this adaption of Miriam Toews’ novel, Women Talking. It’s a gutting drama in which a group of women must decide between two drastic courses of action. As Mennonites, they are at the mercy of the men in their community, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2022 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Babylon says not so fast Lest the fall festival triad of Venice, Telluride, and TIFF convince you that awards season is all but set in stone, the trailer for Babylon dropped yesterday, introducing one of the later-season players and, potentially, a major contender. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle, Babylon has an A++ list By Sarah • Sep 14, 2022 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Fabelmans The Fabelmans is a semi-autobiographical account of filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s childhood, marking the first time Spielberg is credited for a screenplay since 2001’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Playwright Tony Kushner returns after adapting West Side Story for Spielberg last year to co-write the script, and Spielberg By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Since he’s a parody songwriter, a parody biopic suits Weird Al Yankovic perfectly. Though it inevitably draws comparisons to Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story more accurately does for music biopics what Zoolander did for the fashion industry. A zany, silly, deeply funny lampooning By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 12:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Whale Content warning for eating disorders, fatphobia, self-harm, and emotional/verbal abuse. If you ever need proof that film festival audiences can be completely bonkers, look no further than Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, a film that received a 97-year ovation at its premiere at the Venice International Film By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Woman King A battle epic in the vein of Braveheart and Gladiator, The Woman King is based on the Agojie, the women warriors of the Kingdom of Dahomey in 19th century Western Africa (the territory of Dahomey now lies within Benin). Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and written by Dana Stevens—with By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Glass Onion The devil is in the details in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the follow-up to 2019’s whodunit, Knives Out. Rian Johnson is once again writing and directing, and Daniel Craig reprises his role as the gentleman sleuth, Benoit Blanc, but otherwise Glass Onion features a new cast By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 02:44 pm
TV Updates Not now, Marvel Technically, it’s “not now, Disney”, since this weekend was: the end of the Venice Film Festival, the beginning of TIFF, the beginning of New York Fashion Week, tonight is the Emmys, and here comes Disney like tra-la-la, let’s have D23, our Comic-Con-esque fan convention, By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Harry Styles in My Policeman (Lainey: Sarah just posted about The Little Mermaid – remember when Harry Styles could have been in The Little Mermaid?) My Policeman is Harry Styles’ other film coming out this fall, the one that requires no worrying, darling. Directed by Michael Grandage and adapted by Ron Nyswaner from Bethan Roberts’ novel By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 12:20 pm
