Movie Reviews and Previews Wes Anderson’s inauspicious dogs The Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of my favorite movies, so I got really excited when Wes Anderson’s next movie, Isle of Dogs, was determined to be another animated film, this time about dogs. Wes Anderson and his doll-like stop-motion animation, telling a story about a bunch of very By Sarah • Sep 22, 2017 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence’s mother! middle finger As you may have heard, Darren Aronofsky’s mother! was given an F Cinemascore after it opened last weekend. Worse, though, it only brought in $7.5 million at the box office. Paramount, however, is hoping that mother! will gain ground as Megan Colligan, the studio’s head of distribution, By Lainey • Sep 22, 2017 08:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Carey Mulligan writes best celebrity blog post of the year? If ever she wanted to be, Carey Mulligan could be a way bigger star or Jessica Chastain-like. She has game, she's a one-of-a-kind talent, and has a great sense of humour. She told Variety earlier this month that she hasn't really made a major studio movie By Joanna • Sep 21, 2017 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: My Days of Mercy The Flatliners reboot (reimagining? What should we go with?) starring two of my favourite Canadians — Ellen Page and Nina Dobrev — comes out next week. The cast will be hitting the promo trail soon and Internet listings say Ellen will be on Conan on Tuesday. Before all of this though, Ellen By Joanna • Sep 21, 2017 10:21 am
Quiveration Crushing on Taron Taron Egerton and the rest of the cast of Kingsman: The Golden Circle have been premiering the film around the world. They were just in Seoul. London before that. For most of you, when you look at photos of the cast of Kingsman, the one who you’d want to By Kathleen • Sep 20, 2017 02:58 pm
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
