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
Movie Reviews and Previews Gary Oldman goes for Oscar in Darkest Hour Darkest Hour begins as Neville Chamberlain is forced to resign as Prime Minister on the eve of World War II, and Winston Churchill is selected as his replacement after the more popular Lord Halifax—also a supporter of appeasement—passes up the opportunity. It’s a bit of political maneuvering By Sarah • Sep 14, 2017 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer and Darren side by side Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky have been promoting mother! for a couple of weeks – in Venice, in London, in Paris, at TIFF. And they made a point not to stand next to each other at any of the photo calls and red carpets. Until last night at the NY premiere. By Lainey • Sep 14, 2017 12:30 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina’s week of good press First They Killed My Father premieres on Netflix tomorrow. Angelina Jolie was in Toronto on Sunday and Monday with Loung Ung and her kids to promote the film and in New York yesterday for more press. She’s also on the cover of the new issue of PEOPLE and there’ By Lainey • Sep 14, 2017 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lainey: Did we mention Nicole Kidman is riding a wave?) Yorgos Lanthimos makes films so surreal they are almost impossible to describe. He’s not a visual surrealist so much as an emotional surrealist, his stories taking you into bizarre worlds and twisted circumstances. A Lanthimos film is a horror By Sarah • Sep 14, 2017 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman: riding the wave Nicole Kidman is one of the savviest stars I've ever seen walk a red carpet. If she's going to show up - she'll make it worth her time, and your time (for the press). She'll serve it in the photo department and By Joanna • Sep 14, 2017 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding I, Tonya sold during TIFF to distributors Neon and 30West, in a deal said to be $5 million. Lainey thinks that’s low, but it sounds about right to me—the natural effect of the disastrous summer is more cautious spending. Netflix was apparently offering $8 million—I ran across By Sarah • Sep 13, 2017 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Franco and the real Disaster Artist The Room is the most popular cult film of the last twenty years, frequently described as the “best worst movie ever made”, and subject of The Disaster Artist, a half-memoir, half-procedural about the making of the movie and the friendship at its center, both on and off screen, between Tommy By Sarah • Sep 13, 2017 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Rude On Day 1 of TIFF, Lainey mentioned that I would be writing about a couple of films that may not get widespread media attention. One of those films is Clement Virgo’s Rude. Rude will not be in the running for any Oscars come February, mainly because Rude was initially By Kathleen • Sep 13, 2017 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Drake hypes The Florida Project I am and always have been a really bad sleeper. Turns out Drake may be too. And we may have more in common - we both loved The Florida Project, and were thinking about it at 2 a.m. This may be too inside baseball but here goes: Lainey and By Joanna • Sep 13, 2017 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Brie Larson’s Unicorn Store I’ve written today about how I have zero chill, especially during TIFF. I’m genuinely not trying to humblebrag here, but I am so moved by TIFF and the festival and the buzz that I try to follow it as best I can. These movies (can) help define the By Joanna • Sep 12, 2017 04:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Shape of Water If you ask me to describe Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water, the short answer is: Amelie f*cks a fish monster. The long answer, though, is that The Shape of Water is a beautiful, tender, sweet, sincere, sorta funny, definitely weird, deeply romantic film about love and By Sarah • Sep 12, 2017 03:24 pm
