Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Ruffalo is coming for that Oscar Back in January, Joanna wrote about Anne Hathaway joining a new film from director Todd Haynes, and why that was a good move for her. The movie is called Dark Waters and also stars Mark Ruffalo, and it now has a trailer. While Hathaway seems to be playing a classic By Sarah • Sep 18, 2019 01:33 pm
Dumbass Intro for September 18, 2019 Dear Gossips, Norman Lear covers the new issue of Variety. He’s 97 years old. He’s busier than ever. But that’s not the detail from the piece that’s making headlines. What’s making headlines and trending on social media is how Tony Vinciquerra, CEO of Sony Pictures By Lainey • Sep 18, 2019 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt says he won’t campaign for Oscar Look at all these Brad Pitt interviews! Yesterday it was the cover of GQ. Last night he walked the carpet at the DC screening of Ad Astra and talked to Entertainment Tonight about going to Kanye West’s Sunday service. And he’s talking to Entertainment Weekly about the film, By Lainey • Sep 17, 2019 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor Russell: The Breakout Star of TIFF 2019 Waves is a film that many thought would win the coveted TIFF Grolsch People's Choice Award, but in spite of not placing, it remains a film festival phenomenon, and growing sleeper hit. When TIFF added an extra screening of the film on Saturday morning due to overwhelming demand, By Joanna • Sep 16, 2019 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Parasite: First Place, Third Place… and Oscar place? Parasite, the latest film from South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, won the Palme d’Or in Cannes back in May and was just named the second runner-up for the TIFF People’s Choice Award. Between Jojo Rabbit and Parasite, the TIFF crowd broke weird this year, because Parasite is F-CKING By Sarah • Sep 16, 2019 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Radioactive closes TIFF Marie Curie is one of those figures who, it seems, should have a million projects ongoing at any moment, but does not. Like how can we have nine Robin Hood movies in development, and NOTHING about Marie Curie? She’s only one of the most important scientists of the modern By Sarah • Sep 16, 2019 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlie Hunnam at the Joker party Charlie Hunnam was at TIFF for two films last week, True History of the Kelly Gang and Jungleland, premiering last Tuesday and Wednesday nights respectively. He came in a couple of days early for press and last Monday night he was at the Joker party and I got some gossipy By Lainey • Sep 16, 2019 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews THE Suicide Squad The cast for James Gunn’s THE Suicide Squad mulligan has been taking shape for the last several months, including additions of Taika Waititi and Idris Elba (now playing an unknown role, as apparently Will Smith wants to hang onto Deadshot in case Gunn successfully reboots this franchise). Friday afternoon, By Sarah • Sep 16, 2019 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt: gazelle seeks gazelle Two years ago, back in 2017, Brad Pitt covered GQ and it was something of a publicity turnaround after months of World War Brange drama following his split from Angelina Jolie. At the time he was promoting War Machine and he spoke about quitting drinking, his “self-inflicted” troubles, the “façade” By Lainey • Sep 16, 2019 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Shia LaBeouf’s Honey Boy: the child actor who became a movie star Shia LaBeouf wrote Honey Boy based on his own childhood as a young star, and plays his own father, here renamed “James”. The film is directed by Alma Har’el, making her feature film debut. Two things about Honey Boy are true: Shia LaBeouf is probably being too hard on By Sarah • Sep 13, 2019 05:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lucy in the Sky: a diaper-free disorienting astronaut love triangle The new Natalie Portman film Lucy in the Sky is not the simmering astronaut love triangle movie you're probably expecting to see. Instead, it's a disorienting look at life after space, raising a question of how "rocket lag" can permanently alter your desires and By Joanna • Sep 13, 2019 04:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Dolemite Is My Name Eddie Murphy returns to acting after a three year hiatus with Dolemite Is My Name, a biopic of Dolemite creator Rudy Ray Moore. Like every other biopic I’ve seen at TIFF this year, Dolemite is standard, run-of-the-mill biographical stuff, taking no real risks and doing nothing particularly inventive with By Sarah • Sep 13, 2019 03:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harriet the Superhero Kasi Lemmons’ first feature film since 2013’s Black Nativity is Harriet, a long overdue biopic of abolitionist, underground railroad conductor, and Union spy Harriet Tubman. It is amazing to me that it is twenty-goddamn-nineteen and we are only just now getting the first feature film about Harriet Tubman. There By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 04:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Laundromat of smugness So far, The Laundromat is my biggest TIFF disappointment. I was looking forward to this film for a few reasons, but only one of them proved out—Meryl Streep’s bucket hat is very jaunty, indeed. Every other element of the film is either miscalculated or confusing. The Laundromat is By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo gets emotional Jennifer Lopez was all over New York yesterday because Hustlers. Who’s a better ambassador for the film than JLo? As I mentioned the other the day, Hustlers is receiving strong reviews and she’s been getting the strongest reviews. David Sims wrote at The Atlantic yesterday that she is By Lainey • Sep 12, 2019 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Why does Kristen Stewart have to share Seberg? The Jean Seberg biopic, Seberg, avoids a common biopic mistake: it doesn’t try to cover whole decades, instead focusing on a roughly four-year period when Seberg, an actress discovered by Otto Preminger but most famous for starring in films of the French new wave, got involved with civil rights By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 12:17 pm
