Movie Reviews and Previews Fifty Shades … of a lot of stalkers The first trailer for Fifty Shades Darker dropped today and… I was EXCITED to watch this! When you’ve been immersed in a film festival and you’ve been screening Films with a capital “F” for a few weeks, sometimes it all gets a little too… Filmy. Sometimes you just By Lainey • Sep 13, 2016 05:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: A United Kingdom There’s a common problem with biopics and historical dramas of trying to do too much. It’s what makes a biopic feel overstuffed and shallow at the same time—there’s a lot of information being imparted, but the constant stream of exposition means less time devoted to story By Sarah • Sep 13, 2016 05:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Xavier Dolan deserves a break I have a ton of respect and admiration for Xavier Dolan. It’s hard not to, right? He’s 27. Every profile or review of his work mentions his age. He’s had movie after movie at Cannes, so much acclaim, directed Adele’s Hello video, has an LV campaign By Joanna • Sep 13, 2016 04:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews American Honey really wants you to think it's as good as Spring Breakers... but it's not Kristen Stewart and Alicia Cargile dancing on the famous red steps in Cannes alongside the American Honey cast, including Shia LaBeouf? It was one of the more memorable moments from May's otherwise ultra-formal film festival. The couple attended to show support to Kristen's friends, who By Joanna • Sep 13, 2016 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams makes Arrival Space movies are making a comeback, thanks to audiences who only turn out for widescreen spectacles (same reason Westerns are coming back), and in Arrival we get one of the better recent space movies, even though technically, it doesn’t take place in space. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, and adapted By Sarah • Sep 13, 2016 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rachel Weisz in Denial at TIFF The phrase "never forget" has taken on a sarcastic connotation on social media, or in pop culture, and is often used to memorialize shortlived celebrity couples, fads or memes. But its origins stem from a scarier idea: that we need to remember certain moments in history (the Holocaust, By Joanna • Sep 13, 2016 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling at their best in La La Land (Lainey: Sarah texted me right after the La La Land screening yesterday to tell me she liked it. “You liked a musical?” I started laughing. Because if Sarah couldn’t find a way to loathe a musical, it says something about the musical. This is why La La Land and By Sarah • Sep 13, 2016 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Queen of Katwe Queen of Katwe is a Disney movie set in Uganda starring an all black cast and directed by a woman. Its heroine is a girl. There are no white saviours. It’s about an 11 year-old chess prodigy who overcomes impossible circumstances to achieve greatness in a game usually By Kathleen • Sep 12, 2016 05:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Moonlight Moonlight, the second film from writer/director Barry Jenkins, poses a lot of questions about race, class, identity, sexuality, masculinity, what it means to be black in America, to be gay in America, to be black and gay in America, and whether or not we’re ready to admit that By Sarah • Sep 12, 2016 05:22 pm
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 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 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 By Kathleen • Sep 12, 2016 09:01 am
