Movie Reviews and Previews Keira Knightley dances to Cardi B Here’s something you’ve seen before: Keira Knightley, dressed in Chanel and with her hair in a messy topknot. Here’s something you don’t see every day: dancing along to Cardi B’s "Bodak Yellow" and grooving to Fleetwood Mac’s "Dreams" at the By Joanna • Sep 12, 2018 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF REVIEW: If Beale Street Could Talk Prepare to be frustrated and heartbroken. Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk is a beautiful, melancholy, infuriating meditation on race in America. Jenkins both adapts and directs and he preserves Baldwin’s poetic fury and his own well of empathy, all while evoking By Sarah • Sep 12, 2018 10:54 am
Quiveration Peter Noah: the puppies and the letdown Sierra Burgess Is A Loser started streaming on Netflix last Friday. It’s TIFF time and this week was the kickoff of The Social’s season six so it’s been hectic. On my one night off, I was a little busy getting hugs from my best friend Childish Gambino By Kathleen • Sep 12, 2018 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kit Harington is loving married life Kit Harington is a happily married newlywed, and he really wanted the press to know that at the world premiere of Xavier Dolan's The Death and Life of John F Donovan in Toronto last night, which I covered, producing etalk host Devon Soltendieck. Speaking to the premiere, Xavier& By Joanna • Sep 11, 2018 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Front Runner Gary Hart, the senator whose affair during campaign season ushered in the era of gossip-driven political reporting, is the centerpiece of Jason Reitman’s new film, The Front Runner. Despite Hugh Jackman’s best efforts and general screen charisma, Gary Hart is the least interesting figure in his own story, By Sarah • Sep 11, 2018 12:49 pm
Quiveration Fashion Week with Henry Golding Henry Golding has been in New York to promote A Simple Favour, opening on Friday. At the same time, it’s also New York Fashion Week. And he and Liv Lo, my New Obsession, have been front row at some of the biggest shows, prominently placed in VIP positions, including By Lainey • Sep 11, 2018 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Beautiful Boy Combining memoirs from David and Nic Sheff, a father-son duo who both reflected on Nic Sheff’s addiction to crystal meth and heroin, Beautiful Boy is about as pedigreed as films come. Starring Steve Carell, long since transitioned to Dramatic Actor, as David Sheff and breakout phenom Timothee Chalamet as By Sarah • Sep 11, 2018 11:30 am
Maple Leaf Nicole’s ready to cash in on the hype for Destroyer By now, you’ve seen that photo of a nearly unrecognizable Nicole Kidman in Destroyer, with her ash grey hair and worn-out-looking eyes: The buzz has been building steadily for her performance since its Telluride launch and knowing this, and knowing the first time it will be seen by a By Joanna • Sep 11, 2018 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Hate U Give A few years ago, book-to-screen YA adaptations meant sci-fi worlds of vampires or dystopian futures. Their heroines were named Bella or Katniss or Tris and even though their stories were unique in their own ways, a few things were constant. Love was as integral to these teen girls as forces By Kathleen • Sep 11, 2018 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Everybody Knows with Penelope and Javier Following two Oscar wins for Best Foreign Language Film (A Separation and The Salesman, for which he did not accept his Oscar in person, in protest of Donald Trump’s travel ban), Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi takes us to a small, drama-drenched Spanish village for his latest film, Everybody Knows. By Sarah • Sep 10, 2018 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman’s “mommy moves” in Vox Lux If you liked Natalie Portman’s raps and “mommy moves” on Saturday Night Live, you’ll get a kick out of her as a glam rocker in an encrusted silver and black jumpsuit with neon accents, chrome nails and wild makeup singing original new songs by Sia. But even with By Joanna • Sep 10, 2018 01:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia comments and campaigns Get ready to see a lot more of that Julia Roberts grin. Pushing the A Star is Born team aside, Julia was the biggest star at the Toronto International Film Festival all weekend, hustling for two new projects, Amazon’s new thrilling mystery series Homecoming, and the devastating and completely By Joanna • Sep 10, 2018 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: A Star is Born Even though this is the FOURTH iteration of the classic Hollywood rags-to-riches fable A Star is Born, I will do my best not to spoil it because apparently some of you took exception when Lainey let fly with the ending. At this point every age of cinema has its Star, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2018 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Isabelle & Chloe open TIFF and the OOTW Greta, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz, world premiered on opening night of TIFF. Neil described it to me as a “horror”. And Isabelle told me that her character, Greta, is pretty f-cked up. So it’s the story of two women and their complicated, By Lainey • Sep 07, 2018 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder in Destination Wedding Destination Wedding is now available on VOD. A romantic comedy for cranks, Destination Wedding supposes two things: 1) The best cinematic romances are spiky and full of tension, and 2) audiences want to see Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder fall in love. Writer/director Victor Levin, veteran of Mad About By Sarah • Sep 07, 2018 11:24 am
Quiveration Best Chris, Best City Chris Pine was in Toronto last night for the TIFF opening gala world premiere of his new Netflix epic Outlaw King. For those of you asking, I did not attend his red carpet. There was no professional reason for me to be there and despite what my overall Intense Crush By Kathleen • Sep 07, 2018 10:05 am
