Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Paul Dano and Jude Law in The Wizard of the Kremlin They say the truth can be stranger than fiction, but sometimes the truth is so twisted that only fiction can cut through to something real. Such is the case with The Wizard of the Kremlin, a fictionalization of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in post-Soviet Russia. Directed by Olivier By Sarah • Sep 12, 2025 01:14 pm
Style Colin and Margot and different weather The press tour for Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey continues, this time stopping in London. Colin Farrell showed up looking like a private eye in a trench coat, fitting right in with the premiere’s umbrella theme. Margot Robbie showed up in a backless, sheer, sparkly dress by By Sarah • Sep 12, 2025 11:45 am
Style Everyone at Michael Kors Michael Kors is always a draw at New York Fashion Week and today was no exception. One of the most notable guests was Gwyneth Paltrow. She isn’t a NYFW regular, and she isn’t a MK regular (like Emily Blunt and Blake Lively), so it was a surprise to By Lainey • Sep 11, 2025 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet In her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf imagines a sister of William Shakespeare called Judith, every bit as creative and talented as her brother, to illustrate how gender historically limited opportunities for women. Denied education and opportunity, the imaginary Judith dies in obscurity and is By Sarah • Sep 11, 2025 02:59 pm
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
