Movie Reviews and Previews Cary Fukunaga lands Bond 25 After Danny Boyle was and then wasn’t making the next Bond movie, the “who will direct” merry-go-round started up again. (The “who will play Bond” merry-go-round never stops, even when someone is already playing Bond.) After a month of searching, the new director for Bond 25 has been announced By Sarah • Sep 20, 2018 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Roma break through? (Lainey: the Oscar race is shaping up. Yesterday Variety listed ten possible contenders now that the Telluride, Venice, and Toronto film festivals have happened. Roma is on everyone’s list for the best films of the year. It will begin streaming on Netflix in December and will also have a By Sarah • Sep 19, 2018 05:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel: a woman who won’t stay down We’re six months out from the release of Captain Marvel, which means that Marvel’s internal marketing alarm has gone off and, like clockwork, they dropped the first trailer yesterday. I LOVE IT. On the heels of a strong first look, this trailer manages to both introduce Carol Danvers By Sarah • Sep 19, 2018 10:43 am
Style Kristen & Laura close TIFF Joanna and I worked this weekend. On Saturday night she produced me on the carpet for etalk at the TIFF closing gala presentation of Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy starring Kristen Stewart as JT LeRoy/Savannah Knoop and Laura Dern as Laura Albert/JT LeRoy. I’m sure most of you are By Lainey • Sep 17, 2018 12:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews There’s something about Green Book A Star is Born did not earn the coveted TIFF Grolsch People’s Choice Award over the weekend, like Lainey and so many predicted it could. Instead, the Oscar bellwether — which has previously been awarded to Best Picture winners like 12 Years a Slave, Slumdog Millionaire, and The King’s By Joanna • Sep 17, 2018 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper, the contender As you’re now probably aware, after the reaction to A Star is Born in Venice and especially in Toronto, in front of a North American audience, the film is a now a major contender for award season and, ultimately, for Oscar. A Best Picture nomination seems likely, especially if By Lainey • Sep 14, 2018 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Maggie Gyllenhaal dresses like a winner Rolling Stone called Maggie Gyllenhaal’s performance in The Kindergarten Teacher the “most impressive work she’s ever done", so here she is, dressed like a winner for the international premiere of the film in Toronto last night. I love this black off-the-shoulder Oscar de la Renta dress with By Joanna • Sep 14, 2018 11:27 am
Media Manipulation Lady Gaga’s “overjoyment” This is a word Lady Gaga uses in her new Vogue cover story released earlier this week. Her “73 Questions” came out yesterday. All this, of course, ahead of the release of A Star is Born on October 5 following its world premiere in Venice and its North American premiere By Lainey • Sep 14, 2018 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Munn in The Predator The Predator is the latest (misguided) attempt to extend the mythos of Predator, the 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger classic. Predator, like the DeLorean, was a one-off idea that never should have been franchised, and yet it has been, with The Predator being an attempt to kickstart a new franchise with new, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2018 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 14, 2018 Dear Gossips, As mentioned, last night I moderated the Q&A after the 25th anniversary TIFF screening of The Joy Luck Club at the Elgin Theatre, the same theatre where it premiered at TIFF in 1993. Director Wayne Wang was joined by casting director Heidi Levitt, and cast members By Lainey • Sep 14, 2018 08:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: First Man First Man, Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to La La Land could not be more different than his previous films. For one thing, First Man is not about music. For another, it is a much bigger production in scope, scale, and imagination, and Chazelle takes to this kind of grandiose filmmaking By Sarah • Sep 13, 2018 04:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “That lame Superman guy” no more Henry Cavill is best known as “that lame Superman guy” and/or a mustache, but now he will need to reinvent himself as he has both shaved and, apparently, quit being Superman. Yesterday word got out that after a three-movie run that includes some of the most divisive and unpopular By Sarah • Sep 13, 2018 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mid90s is Jonah Hill’s Lady Bird Bradley Cooper and Jonah Hill are tight, so it’s interesting that both of their directorial debuts, A Star is Born and Mid90s, premiered on the same night, in the same city, right after each other on Sunday. According to Jonah, they watched cuts of each others’ movies, and helped By Joanna • Sep 13, 2018 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Widows To call Widows a leap forward for director Steve McQueen, or to otherwise imply this is some kind of improvement on his already capable and distinct style, is not fair to McQueen or a good assessment of his previous work (Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave). However, there is no By Sarah • Sep 12, 2018 04:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Assassination Nation Sam Levinson’s bonkers satire, Assassination Nation, stumbles into interesting, as is happening lately, by almost having something to say about Trump’s America. Movies take too long to make for it to really be about that, but Assassination Nation winds up there all the same, a festival of violence By Sarah • Sep 12, 2018 03:22 pm
BFFs Timothee Chalamet, fanboy It’s the one year anniversary of my relationship with Timothee Chalamet. This is a one-sided relationship. At least I can admit that, unlike Kathleen with Michael B Jordan. And Noah Centineo. And Chris Pine. Kathleen is a fantasy philanderer. Anyway, TIFF 2017 is when I saw Call Me By By Lainey • Sep 12, 2018 12:57 pm
