Movie Reviews and Previews The video game curse comes for Alicia Vikander After Assassin’s Creed’s failure, the video game curse remains unbroken, and now it is coming for Alicia Vikander. They have tried everything with video game movies, from 1990’s super-cheese to high fantasy (Warcraft) to artsy realism (Assassin’s Creed). None of it worked, and nothing in the By Sarah • Sep 20, 2017 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gossip Genie Says What? Yesterday in Smutty Social Media, I said that I’d like to Gossip Genie Alexander Skarsgård and Halle Berry, if for no other reason than their collective beauty. Well ask and someone (not me) shall receive. Yesterday Halle went “Insta official” with someone named Alex. Not the Alex I was By Maria • Sep 20, 2017 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Official: Angelina goes for Oscar Just as everyone was coming down from the Emmy Awards yesterday, people in Hollywood were making moves for another awards show, the Oscars, still almost 6 months away. It was confirmed that the Cambodian Oscar Selection Committee has chosen to submit Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father for By Lainey • Sep 19, 2017 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harrison & Ryan begin the press tour What is Harrison Ford’s nickname? He probably doesn’t have one. It definitely isn’t his vibe. But if you had to say his name quickly, like if it was a sort of emergency, would he be pissed you called him Harry? Hare? I can’t imagine Ryan Gosling By Lainey • Sep 19, 2017 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence is the Black Widow Every time an Avengers movie comes out, the internet asks where the Black Widow movie is, but despite lots of platitudes from both Marvel and Scarlett Johansson, a standalone Black Widow movie has never happened. So Fox decided to make one with Jennifer Lawrence and call it Red Sparrow. The By Sarah • Sep 19, 2017 11:32 am
BFFs Jake knows about Taylor’s… music Stronger, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Boston marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, opens this weekend. Click here for my thoughts on the film after its TIFF world premiere. To promote Stronger, Jake and Jeff interviewed each other which turns into Jeff giving Jake sh-t, kinda like Zach Galifianakis’s Between Two By Lainey • Sep 19, 2017 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson joins the Avengers Following her directorial debut at TIFF—which Joanna liked a lot— Brie Larson was spotted arriving in Atlanta with Chris Evans. They’ve known each other for years (and both worked on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World), and Joanna, the resident Brie Larson expert, informs me Larson is still engaged By Sarah • Sep 19, 2017 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry wrote, “One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know or react to the miseries which afflict this world.” It’s a variation of, “if you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” That quote has now become synonymous with Heather Heyer, By Kathleen • Sep 15, 2017 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The best comedy so far this year: The Death Of Stalin Armando Ianucci (Veep, In The Loop) is one of the best satirists working today—certainly the best working in narrative forms. His latest piece of satire is The Death of Stalin, a Cold War era comedy about, you guessed it, the death of Joseph Stalin. Or rather, it’s about By Sarah • Sep 15, 2017 02:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool may be the one for Annette Bening Annette Bening and Jamie Bell dance their way into your hearts in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. Really, they do. Within the first 10 minutes of the movie, they’re grooving to Boogie Oogie Oogie inside Gloria Grahame’s boarding house. Yes, obviously, there’s an age difference By Joanna • Sep 15, 2017 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake & Tatiana in Stronger Many of you have written to ask about Stronger and the truth is, I totally forgot to write about it and then the New York premiere happened last night which works out well for me, almost like I had that planned. Here’s Jake Gyllenhaal, with Jeff Bauman, and Tatiana By Lainey • Sep 15, 2017 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) lives at the end of a lonely road in rural Missouri, the only thing marking her way are three decrepit billboards. She buys the ad rights for the billboards and up go three violently red billboards asking the town police chief why her daughter’s murderer By Sarah • Sep 15, 2017 12:12 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina’s big New York premiere Angelina Jolie met with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday at the United Nations headquarters. Details of what was discussed were not released but he was formerly the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and she’s the Special Envoy for the UN Refugee Agency so it’s probably not hard By Lainey • Sep 15, 2017 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Borg McEnroe The other tennis movie that played at TIFF is Borg McEnroe, which was the opening night film because…someone at TIFF really likes tennis? It’s a tennis themed year. If you’re a big tennis fan, you might enjoy Borg McEnroe for its recreation of the 1980 Wimbledon finals By Sarah • Sep 15, 2017 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Current War The Current War is about Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) scrambling to build the electrical grid that will power a nation. When the movie begins, Edison is already a famous “inventor”, known most recently for the invention of the lightbulb, and Westinghouse has made an enormous By Sarah • Sep 15, 2017 08:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Chappaquiddick - Recount or Game Change on steroids Chappaquiddick and the story of what happened to Mary Jo Kopechne in 1969, a loyal Kennedy family devotee and political campaign specialist, is kind of like the slogan for MTV's old show Diary: You think you know, but you have no idea (what it's like to By Joanna • Sep 14, 2017 04:05 pm
