Maple Leaf Exclusive: Look out for Ethan Hawke & Sally Hawkins in Maudie According to Ethan Hawke, working with Sally Hawkins in Maudie - a film about Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, who had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis - was a "match made in cinema heaven." Maudie is set in Nova Scotia and shot in Newfoundland and it meant so much that By Joanna • Mar 29, 2017 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gos On The Shill Last week Ryan Gosling popped up at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, and this week he’s back in Vegas, shilling for Blade Runner 2049 at CinemaCon. After Sony boss Tom Rothman sniped, “Netflix my ass,” when debuting an extended look at the film, Gosling got up to hype By Sarah • Mar 28, 2017 12:55 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Oscar’s having a baby …at work and IRL? Should we start with work first? Oscar Isaac has been in New York shooting Life Itself. Life Itself is “an ensemble multi-generational love story that weaves together several characters whose lives intersect over the course of decades from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside and back”. The By Lainey • Mar 28, 2017 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man: Homecoming bringing back your faves (Lainey: OMG …and Gwyneth too???) A new trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming debuted yesterday at CinemaCon, the annual film industry show-and-tell, and today it’s online, bringing us more of the absolutely adorable Tom Holland as Peter Parker. And lots and LOTS of Iron Man. Anyone who’s tired of seeing By Sarah • Mar 28, 2017 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Justice League steps down Last summer at Comic-Con Warner Brothers/DC unveiled the first look at Justice League, and it wasn’t completely awful. But in case you were feeling cautiously optimistic that Warners/DC could fix their sh*t and turn out a good Justice League movie—don’t. The first official trailer By Sarah • Mar 27, 2017 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Summer of Charlize Can you believe it’s the last weekend of March? We are a quarter of the way through 2017. OMG we are three years from 2020. Anyyyyyway, winter is officially over. So it’s blockbuster season. Beauty And The Beast already broke the March opening weekend box office record with By Lainey • Mar 24, 2017 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer is not Barbie In December we learned that Amy Schumer would star in a live-action Barbie movie, which seemed like kind of a bad idea because Barbie, as a toy and cultural landmark, is already loaded with so many issues. Do we even need a Barbie movie, let alone an Amy Schumer Barbie By Sarah • Mar 24, 2017 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds in 'Life' Life is a terribly stupid movie, but it’s dumb in that fun B-movie way, a trashy space thriller full of dumb-sh*t dialogue and wildly convenient circumstances. Despite its stupidity, though, Life is decently scary because space is naturally horrifying as we are instinctively afraid of its vastness and By Sarah • Mar 24, 2017 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Three Billboards and Frances McDormand The first trailer for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was just released and all I really have to say is that in the course of two and a half minutes, Frances McDormand c*nt-punts a teenager, calls Sam Rockwell “f*ckhead”, attacks a dentist with his own drill, cusses out By Sarah • Mar 23, 2017 02:59 pm
TV Updates Ava DuVernay, the great leader Ava DuVernay has been working on A Wrinkle In Time. The film’s budget is at least $100 million making her the first black woman to direct a movie of that size. She posted on Instagram the other day that principle photography is now complete and now they’re in By Lainey • Mar 23, 2017 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Shannon + Deadpool = Magic Deadpool 2 doesn’t have a set release date—a minor miracle these days, when movies are slated years in advance and rushed to meet predetermined deadlines—but it’s aiming for a 2018 release, which means it’s casting up right now. Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz is on tap By Sarah • Mar 22, 2017 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ’s Johnny Depp Decision Looking ahead to a post-Avengers career—or at least, an inter-Avengers break—Robert Downey, Jr. has booked his next non-Tony Stark role and it’s none other than Doctor Dolittle in a remake/reboot/sequel thingie absolutely nobody asked for called The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle. The film is written By Sarah • Mar 21, 2017 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Catface McHornswaggler wins the day Beauty and the Beast had an enormous opening weekend, devouring $170 million. That makes it the biggest March opening ever, taking down Batman v. Superman, and also the largest PG-rated opening, which means we’re in for more family-oriented fare. (Honestly, that would be welcome, since adults have pretty well By Sarah • Mar 20, 2017 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 20, 2017 Dear Gossips, You know who’s been really, really quiet? Taylor Swift. There hasn’t been much on social media. She hasn’t been papped in weeks. Ed Sheeran’s been seen leaving her NYC apartment. But she herself has managed to stay pretty undercover. So it’s possible. And, By Lainey • Mar 20, 2017 08:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews That Superman Man Guy + Tom Cruise So Mission: Impossible 6, which ought to be subtitled At What Point Do We Stop Calling This Impossible, He ALWAYS Does It, starts filming in a few months and has just added a new member to Tom Cruise’s Mission: Not-Quite-Impossible team. Henry Cavill is on board to play a By Sarah • Mar 17, 2017 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Aniston, beauty queen mom If you’ve been visiting this site a while you know my love of YA books. One of my favourite YA books, Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You The Sun is being adapted into a movie for Warner Bros and Jandy is writing the screenplay herself. Sarah just wrote By Lainey • Mar 16, 2017 03:57 pm
