Movie Reviews and Previews Disney quits 2020 Doing the only reasonable thing at this point, Disney has basically given up on 2020, moving 90% of their movies to 2021, including the entire Marvel theatrical slate which will now kick off with Black Widow in May 2021. This brings Black Widow’s total delay to twelve entire months, By Sarah • Sep 24, 2020 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Water Man directed by David Oyelowo David Oyelowo made his feature directorial debut at TIFF with The Water Man, a kid-adventure story that is a little bit The Goonies, a little bit Stand By Me, and a lot The Bridge to Terabithia. Oyelowo sets a decent-sized task for himself, tackling not only an emotional family-in-crisis story, By Sarah • Sep 23, 2020 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Millie Bobby Brown is GREAT as Enola Holmes Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) is a spunky teenage detective whose resilience prevents her from being crushed by the social mores and expectations of Victorian England. When her eccentric mother (Helena Bonham Carter) disappears on her 16th birthday, Enola—who keeps reminding us her name is “alone” backwards—sets out By Sarah • Sep 23, 2020 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Janelle Monae in Antebellum Holy hell, you guys. I thought I had seen the most bonkers twist of the year in Shadow in the Cloud, but then Antebellum came along and said, “Hold my ENTIRE KEG.” There will be SPOILERS because there is no way to discuss this film without getting into the big By Sarah • Sep 22, 2020 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Best of TIFF 2020: Shiva Baby is a loving ode to "neurotica" Imagine being told you "look like Gwyneth Paltrow on food stamps, and not in a good way" by your mother minutes after you walk into a sombre family event. Barely 30 seconds later, you unexpectedly spot your "sugar daddy" talking to your real father in the By Joanna • Sep 18, 2020 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Another Round (Druk) Another Round reunites the Danish dream-team behind The Hunt: writer/director Thomas Vinterberg, screenwriter Tobias Lindholm, and actors Thomas Bo Larsen and Mads Mikkelsen for a middle-aged drinking buddies tale. It follows Martin (Mikkelsen), Tommy (Larsen), Peter (Lars Ranthe), and Nikolaj (Magnus Millang), four friends embarking on an alcohol-fueled journey By Sarah • Sep 18, 2020 03:05 pm
Dumbass I’m The One Person You Know Who Watched Cuties on Netflix I have a major complaint about the controversial Netflix movie Cuties, which was originally called Mignonnes, and it has nothing to do with the online furor you’ve undoubtedly heard about. My issue? The performances in the English-dubbed version (which is what my Netflix account naturally defaulted to) were overdone, By Duana • Sep 18, 2020 02:33 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for September 18, 2020 Dear Gossips, I’ve seen several films this week (virtually) at TIFF – among them I Care A Lot, which Sarah just reviewed yesterday. It’s dark, it’s hilarious, and Rosamund Pike is exhilarating, I’m obsessed with her. But the best film I’ve seen at TIFF this year By Lainey • Sep 18, 2020 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Shadow in the Cloud Well, here it is, the most ridiculous movie I’ve seen from TIFF this year. Shadow in the Cloud stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Maude Garrett, a female pilot in World War II tasked with a secret mission. She joins a transport flight from New Zealand to Samoa, her arm By Sarah • Sep 17, 2020 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: I Care a Lot And the “Most Unexpected Film of TIFF 2020” award goes to I Care a Lot, which sounds like a drama about elder abuse but is, in fact, a wildly dark, pitch black comedy about terrible people doing terrible things. Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike at her most deliciously mean) is a By Sarah • Sep 17, 2020 11:20 am
Amazingness Robert & Suki kiss in the park So… the last time Robert Pattinson made headlines it was pretty recent, because production on The Batman had to be halted after someone tested positive for COVID-19. That, reportedly, was Robert Pattinson, although no one official has officially confirmed it’s him. But Warner Bros hasn’t denied that it’ By Lainey • Sep 17, 2020 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: I Am Greta Swedish documentarian Nathan Grossman happened upon then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg just as she was beginning her “school strike for climate” in Stockholm in 2018. He began documenting Thunberg’s strike, and ended up recording her meteoric year as she rose to international prominence as a climate activist, culminating in her By Sarah • Sep 16, 2020 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya’s Big TIFF Deal It was expected that this would be a slower festival season for acquisitions because of the pandemic. But if there’s anything that most of us did more of during the pandemic, it was Netflix. And Netflix needs more content. So it seems like they showed up (virtually) at TIFF By Lainey • Sep 16, 2020 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Pieces of a Woman On paper, Pieces of a Woman is awards season catnip. An emotionally grand yet intimately domestic portrait of a family in crisis after an unspeakable tragedy, Pieces of a Woman has long, show-stopping monologues and unceasing conflict for actors to play against a backdrop of bleak cityscapes, all things that By Sarah • Sep 15, 2020 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonathan Majors conquers the MCU Jonathan Majors is crushing it. From his breakout role in last year’s Last Black Man in San Francisco to Da 5 Bloods to Lovecraft Country, the dude is on a roll. And now he is doing the thing it seems every breakout star does: he is joining the Marvel By Sarah • Sep 15, 2020 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Get the Hell Out Gonzo zombie action movies aren’t for everyone, but in the vein of South Korea’s Train to Busan and Japan’s One Cut of the Dead comes Taiwan’s Get the Hell Out, a bonkers zombie action comedy/political satire that uses basically every trick in the book. Written By Sarah • Sep 14, 2020 03:13 pm
