TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Julianne Moore shines in The Debut Jesse Eisenberg rose to fame playing awkward nerds, and now as a filmmaker he is giving a specific kind of nerd their due: theater nerds. His third feature film as a writer-director is The Debut, a comedy that borders on farce, set in the world of community theater. Eisenberg By Sarah • Sep 14, 2026 11:22 am
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Naomi Watts in The Housewife Back in 2016, Alyssa Hill’s post-Holocaust script, The Housewife, about the discovery and extradition of Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan from America to West Germany for war crimes, landed on the Blacklist. Ten years later, it has finally been made into a feature film, with Canadian filmmaker Ben Shirinian (best By Sarah • Sep 11, 2026 02:37 pm
TIFF 2026 coverage TIFF Review: Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve in Fjord Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu collaborates with Romanian-born, American-raised actor Sebastian Stan for the first time in the film Fjord, which interrogates one experience of Romanian men living abroad in the generation following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, an experience of xenophobia and persecution that isn’t By Sarah • Sep 11, 2026 10:58 am
What Else Maitreyi Ramakrishnan: The Best of Everything Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is in New York today making the talk show rounds to promote her new Netflix movie Best of the Best. It’s a dance movie… and right on time, because it’s been a while, we were overdue. This is Step Up and Pitch Perfect and Bring It By Lainey • Sep 09, 2026 04:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Billionaires suck in bad sweaters Since “billionaires suck” is a theme at the movies, I guess it’s a theme on the site today too. Because it’s a theme in real life – all around us billionaires and their billionaire decisions have had an impact on our communities, how we live and how we work. By Lainey • Sep 09, 2026 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Luca Guadagnino has entered the awards chat Just yesterday I mentioned Luca Gudagnino’s upcoming film Artificial, about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and lo, we have a teaser. This film is apparently critical of Altman, and coming from Guadagnino, a director who likes to push buttons, and writer Simon Rich, who finds the sublime in the ridiculous, By Sarah • Sep 09, 2026 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 9, 2026 Dear Gossips, From Anne Hathaway to Zendaya and Florence Pugh to Robert Pattinson, there are several actors this year with multiple high-profile prestige and/or blockbuster films that have already been released or have yet to be released. Add Penelope Cruz to that list. La Bola Negra, directed by By Lainey • Sep 09, 2026 09:49 am
Chris Rock Chris Rock is no longer hosting As Sarah wrote earlier today, Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder’s You Can See Everything, the documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, bulldozed its way into the festival conversation by surprise, taking the wind a bit out of Venice and claiming the spotlight for Telluride. Award season is taking shape now after By Lainey • Sep 08, 2026 03:37 pm
Nathan Fielder The documentarians are coming for the billionaires A conspiracy theory I have is that social media started driving billionaires insane, and the pandemic finished the job. Social media allowed the proletariat to talk directly at the richest people in the world, and where they expected to be met with ass kissing similar to that which they receive By Sarah • Sep 08, 2026 10:36 am
Jack OConnell Jack O’Connell feels like “the bollocks” Now that the Venice Film Festival is underway, we are allowed to fully speculate on the award season race since so many of the expected Oscar contenders will be screened in Venice this week and next week Telluride and Toronto. One of those films on the list is Danny Boyle’ By Lainey • Sep 03, 2026 02:46 pm
Mark Ruffalo Being Heumann will kick off TIFF The Venice Film Festival has begun, and next week, TIFF begins. We’re in the fall festival crunch, with Venice, Telluride, and TIFF running concurrently (Telluride is this weekend). The opening night film of TIFF is Being Heumann, Siân Heder’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning film, CODA. Being By Sarah • Sep 03, 2026 10:47 am
What Else Saoirse and Jack: Never mind about Bond! Every two weeks there’s a fresh rumour about who will be the next Bond. But it’s not really all that fresh because every “new” story about the new Bond always recycles the same names that have been speculated about for months. One of those names is Jack Lowden By Lainey • Sep 02, 2026 04:03 pm
Sydney Sweeney Sydney Sweeney: Back in Venice I’m not necessarily talking about Sydney Sweeney being back in Venice for the film festival, it’s Venice in general, for other reasons, including Scooter Braun. Because last year she was in Venice for the Bezos wedding and Scooter was there too and that is presumably when their relationship By Lainey • Sep 02, 2026 02:47 pm
Sandra Bullock Sally and Gillian’s Custom Witchwear The Owens girls were in LA last night for the Hollywood premiere of Practical Magic 2. I’m just focusing here on Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, they are two major stars of this movie and in the industry overall, and what’s sending me today are the comments on By Lainey • Sep 01, 2026 12:55 pm
Anne Hathaway Anne Hathaway is stuck with Tom Cruise’s Mello Yello movie In the immediate wake of the monster success of Top Gun: Maverick, people began imagining other Tom Cruise legacy sequels that could be made, and because nostalgia is a helluva drug, the NASCAR romantic drama Days of Thunder topped the list. Well, because we live in the worst timeline, it’ By Sarah • Aug 31, 2026 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cristin Milioti in Buddy The backlash to the children’s program Barney & Friends is so historically severe it has its own Wikipedia entry. It’s mostly humorous, though rooted in real irritation at Barney’s annoying voice, the show’s saccharine, corny tone, and the horror older kids feel for anything meant for By Sarah • Aug 28, 2026 03:15 pm
