Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson unplugs from the Matrix I know Ghost in the Shell comes from a super famous manga comic from the 1980s, but the teasers just released for the movie make it look like a knock-off Matrix. The teasers, which you can watch below in one video, are just a few seconds each and reveal distinct By Sarah • Sep 23, 2016 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt in The Magnificent Seven Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven—itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai—was the opening film at TIFF. I missed the press screening, so I had to wait a couple days to see it, and during that time everyone kept By Sarah • Sep 23, 2016 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks in Sully In 2009 airline pilot Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully landed a passenger jet on the Hudson River, saving the lives of everyone on board. It was a truly amazing feat, and “Sully” became an overnight hero. The predictable media wave followed—interviews, book deal, and, now, a feature film directed by By Sarah • Sep 22, 2016 04:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jared Leto to ruin Andy Warhol next This week in “Of Course, Of F*cking COURSE” news, it’s been reported that obnoxious dickhead actor Jared Leto will portray Andy Warhol in a biopic of the artist titled simply Warhol. Leto will not be pissing out this performance as he did all his previous performances, since being By Sarah • Sep 22, 2016 01:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Conversation with Gabrielle Union Yesterday, Gabrielle Union tweeted out what she called, “One of [her] favorite interviews of [her] career.” She sat down with Zon D’Amour of xoNecole.com to talk about white privilege, sexuality, consent, The Birth of a Nation and her op-ed on the controversy surrounding her co-star alleged rapist Nate By Kathleen • Sep 21, 2016 09:42 am
Media Manipulation Capitalising on the end of Brange As you know, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in Allied, due out November 23. That’s around US Thanksgiving. That’s a favourable movie release date. It means they have some hopes for it at the box office and, perhaps, for awards consideration. Allied is about two spies who By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 09:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews America’s Sweethearts to the rescue As 2016 continues its quest to destroy everything we love, let your feelings over #JolieSplitt (h/t Dianna) be soothed by Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, America’s Sweethearts, coming to save you, literally, in the first trailer for their movie Passengers. The never-ending cycle of franchise movie advertising has By Sarah • Sep 20, 2016 04:31 pm
Douchebags Marky Mark doesn’t need a pardon Mark Wahlberg was at TIFF earlier this week to promote Deepwater Horizon. There is one reason I might – might – see Deepwater Horizon and it’s not Mark Wahlberg. It’s Gina Rodriguez. Most people who go see Deepwater Horizon, however, are going for Marky Mark. Because … I can’t finish By Lainey • Sep 16, 2016 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pass on Blair Witch Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett have made two of my favorite genre films of the last several years, You’re Next and The Guest. These guys are really good at remixing genre standards into something fresh and a little weird. So when it came out earlier in the By Sarah • Sep 16, 2016 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Woody Harrelson as LBJ Bryan Cranston won the Tony for his portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way, and he's up for two Emmys this weekend for the televised version of the same role. So, when news broke that Woody Harrelson would also play LBJ in a Rob Reiner film By Joanna • Sep 16, 2016 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o covers Vogue There’s a quote in Lupita Nyong’o’s new Vogue feature I love so much I want to tattoo it on my body. Her roots are strong, which is why she flies. Lupita’s roots are in Kenya, where Vogue travelled with the star to shoot their October cover. By Kathleen • Sep 15, 2016 05:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Brimstone Though it’s not mentioned in the article about male directors tackling rape narratives that I linked to in the Una review, the last film I saw at TIFF is another instance of a man directing a female protagonist in a rape narrative, and that is Dutch filmmaker Martin Koolhoven’ By Sarah • Sep 15, 2016 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rebecca Hall as Christine According to Rebecca Hall, the challenge of making a movie about Christine Chubbuck — a Florida-based reporter who died by suicide (reportedly on-air) barely a month before her 30th birthday in 1974 — is creating "a film about sensationalism without being sensationalistic." That's what she told the CBC, By Joanna • Sep 15, 2016 11:49 am
Maple Leaf Ryan after the premiere Ryan Gosling was not in Venice for the world premiere of La La Land. He did, however, show up to support the film at home in Toronto at TIFF. La La Land, as you’ve heard, has bewitched critics and audiences all over the place and is now considered to By Lainey • Sep 15, 2016 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooney Mara in Una While standing in line for Una, the film adaptation of David Harrower’s play Blackbird, earlier this week, one of the PR reps for the film told me she had already noticed an audience divide forming around it—men almost uniformly hated it, but women were moved by it. Then, By Sarah • Sep 15, 2016 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews All eyes on Tupac’s biopic The teaser trailer for the upcoming Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me came out on his 45th birthday. The full trailer was released yesterday, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It has been TWENTY years since Pac died. There are full grown adults of drinking age who don’t By Kathleen • Sep 14, 2016 03:09 pm
