Quiveration Tom Ford & half My Obsession I covered the Nocturnal Animals red carpet at TIFF for etalk last night. That's Tom Ford. Blaring at me on my schedule for days. Every time I looked at it I felt sick. It's Tom Ford. He can be intimidating. Not forgiving of fools. And I By Lainey • Sep 12, 2016 02:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman in Jackie If you ask Natalie Portman which performance was more daunting: dancing in Black Swan or mastering Jacqueline Kennedy's poise for Jackie, she might say the former was harder. But on the Jackie red carpet last night, she admitted to our camera crew and my friend and colleague Danielle By Joanna • Sep 12, 2016 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anne Hathaway in Colossal Before I saw Jackie — a masterclass in filmmaking, vision and Americana subversion (more on that later)— I was ready to rave about Anne Hathaway's twisted part-addiction movie, part-monster movie, all dark comedy Colossal as being the most unique and memorable movie of TIFF. But, then Natalie gave me By Joanna • Sep 12, 2016 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ewan McGregor’s American Pastoral Ewan McGregor makes his directorial debut adapting Philip Roth’s novel American Pastoral, and while he doesn’t embarrass himself, he also doesn’t do himself any favors. Working from an adaptation by John Romano (The Lincoln Lawyer), Pastoral manages to feel too long and like not enough at the By Sarah • Sep 12, 2016 11:04 am
Douchebags Leo at TIFF Leonardo DiCaprio was the big draw here at TIFF on Friday afternoon to screen his documentary Before The Flood. You can imagine the media presence at the theatre. It’s Leo. And, as TIFF’s documentary programmer Thom Powers told the audience, “The man at the centre of this film By Lainey • Sep 12, 2016 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lion, the word of mouth movie of TIFF, & a "love letter" to Nicole Kidman's children Word at TIFF travels fast. Sometimes, a little too fast. And Lion surprised everybody when it premiered on Saturday to "ugly cries" and a standing ovation. It's the based-on-a-true-story Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara adoption movie that is seemingly sponsored by Google Earth, and which By Joanna • Sep 12, 2016 09:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nate Parker dodges, Gabrielle Union does the opposite Last week when I wrote about Gabrielle Union’s powerful op-ed for the LA Times where she addressed Nate Parker’s rape allegations, I noted that Gabrielle’s piece made it impossible for the topic to be avoided at TIFF. The cast of The Birth of a Nation did the By Kathleen • Sep 12, 2016 09:01 am
Music Intro for September 12, 2016 Dear Gossips, This weekend, Emma Stone was named Venice Film Festival Best Actress for her performance in La La Land. La La Land screens at TIFF today and, as of this morning, Emma and Ryan Gosling are expected at the premiere tonight. As mentioned last week, La La Land appears By Lainey • Sep 12, 2016 08:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Mara in Morgan One of the all-time great good-bad movies is Deep Blue Sea, the movie about the super-shark that eats a bunch of people, and figures out how to turn an oven on in order to kill someone inside it. Deep Blue Sea is just the right amount of terrible, action oriented, By Sarah • Sep 09, 2016 04:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Troy & Lelaina If you said “who?” I’m mad at you! Troy Dyer and Lelaina “Lainey” Pierce, from Reality Bites, together again! OK, not really. But there are new pictures of both Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder from yesterday and I had them on my list and it was right there, right By Lainey • Sep 09, 2016 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Straddling Ben Affleck The last film Ben Affleck directed was Argo. It went on to win Best Picture. Live By Night is Ben’s next directorial feature, due out in January, although many believe that there will be a limited release in December to qualify for award season. The first trailer came out By Lainey • Sep 09, 2016 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Certain Women introduces Lily Gladstone My first day at TIFF is a split result. On the one hand, I made it here without losing my phone this time, which is a MAJOR improvement over last year. On the other hand, the first film I saw, Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women is not awesome. It has By Sarah • Sep 09, 2016 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson in Free Fire Brie Larson went from TIFF to Oscar last year with her phenomenal performance in Room, but at the premiere of her latest film Free Fire last night, she told me that in spite of the "complete whirlwind" of her past 12 months, she's "still the By Joanna • Sep 09, 2016 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Statham & Jessica Alba in Mechanic: Resurrection I was really hoping that Mechanic: Resurrection, the five-years-later sequel to The Mechanic, would be at least as insane as last year’s Transporter: Refueled. That movie, rebooted without original Transporter star Jason Statham, would have benefitted from retaining The Stath, so I was hoping that Mechanic: Resurrection would be By Sarah • Sep 08, 2016 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Johnny Depp Tupac movie The focus on TIFF is usually centered on the films premiering there, and their Oscar potential, but there’s an active film market going on as well, where movies and the rights to movies—an idea of a movie, really—are for sale. Among the films pre-selling distribution rights, a By Sarah • Sep 08, 2016 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jamie Dornan in The 9th Life of Louis Drax (Lainey: Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan were in London yesterday to promote The Fall S3, even though I can’t find a release date. There is a trailer though. And you can currently see Jamie in theatres in The 9th Life Of Louis Drax. Her review is below. Both trailers By Sarah • Sep 08, 2016 12:20 pm
