Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: About Ray I feel bad sh*tting on About Ray, but…I’m going to sh*t on it—it’s not very good. Starring Elle Fanning as transgender teen Ray and directed by Gaby Dellal (Looking), About Ray is more about everyone else talking about Ray than Ray himself. It’s By Sarah • Sep 14, 2015 11:10 am
Media Manipulation Jake & Dakota in Toronto Jake Gyllenhaal opened TIFF on Thursday. On Friday he was in New York participating in the Cantor Fitzgerald annual charity day. Last night however he was back in Toronto, hanging out at the Shangri-La lobby with his brother-in-law, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joel Edgerton who are here for Black Mass. Then By Lainey • Sep 14, 2015 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Danish Girl Josh Brolin snuck into the premiere of The Danish Girl on Saturday night. This is unusual for a star at a film festival to do, to make time in their busy interview and party schedule to check out another movie. But when asked about it the next day by etalk By Joanna • Sep 14, 2015 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny’s late night meeting Black Mass premieres at TIFF tonight. On Saturday though, Johnny Depp showed up at The Danish Girl gala to support Amber Heard. These photos? Trust me, it’s worse in person. And it’s even worse than that at 2am. Saturday was my friend Traci’s birthday. I worked until By Lainey • Sep 14, 2015 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Martian The last time I outright enjoyed a Ridley Scott movie, no reservations, no qualifications or conditions, was American Gangster in 2007. Since then he’s given us Grimdark Robin Hood, the space-magic bullsh*t of Prometheus, and the super messy but ambitious The Counselor, plus some other stuff no one By Sarah • Sep 14, 2015 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Our Brand Is Crisis This f*cking movie. I hate this movie. It’s cynical garbage motivated solely by Sandra Bullock’s desire to win another Oscar. You know she’s in Oscar-mode because she’s gone blonde, just like she did for The Blind Side. I have a high threshold of pain when By Sarah • Sep 14, 2015 08:13 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Drew & Toni make them cry The film is called Miss You Already. Everyone I know who has seen it came out of the theatre sobbing. Drew was as Drew is this afternoon on the carpet – hippy, dippy, smiley, and sweet which, actually, is kinda different from how I remember her being the last time she By Lainey • Sep 12, 2015 06:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Jake G in Demolition Jake Gyllenhaal has been on a TREMENDOUS run these last few years, throwing down ace performance after ace performance, including a Hall of Fame-level Cinematic Weirdo in Nightcrawler’s Lou Bloom. In Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition he offers another take on the Cinematic Weirdo, this time starring as Davis, a By Sarah • Sep 11, 2015 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matt’s in town The Martian premieres tonight at TIFF. Sarah saw it today but she’s got four films on her schedule so her review for it will be posted on Monday. Her review for Jake Gyllenhaal’s Demolition is coming up soon. Ahead of the gala, Matt Damon and the cast of By Lainey • Sep 11, 2015 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Blunt in Sicario Emily Blunt landed in Toronto last night, with her husband John Krasinski. She's in town for TIFF, and the North American premiere of her film Sicario - it's not a surprise at all that John is with her. They're not shy about hitting carpets By Joanna • Sep 11, 2015 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman’s A Tale Of Love And Darkness TIFF review What happens when an actress-writer-director arrives on a red carpet with just 20 minutes to go before her North American premiere? She has her publicist walk the press line in advance to tell reporters what she’s wearing, to guarantee you’ll #askhermore. It was Lanvin. Natalie Portman arrived solo By Joanna • Sep 11, 2015 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Assassin My first day at TIFF got off to a rocky start when I lost my phone at the airport, spent all afternoon trying to find a replacement phone in Canada and then sat through Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin, which has just been chosen as Taiwan’s entry for this By Sarah • Sep 11, 2015 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 11, 2015 Dear Gossips, The Program, about Lance Armstrong, played by Ben Foster, is one of the films screening here at TIFF. Ben is so method, he revealed in an interview with The Guardian that he, like Lance, took performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) to prepare for the role. If he becomes a By Lainey • Sep 11, 2015 09:51 am
Quiveration Excuse me while I… Charlie Hunnam on the cover of V Man, OH.MY.GOD. I guess we should try not to be totally low classy and talk about what he talked about so… Fifty Shades Of Grey. Those are the only excerpts that have been released so far it’s been two years By Lainey • Sep 10, 2015 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie’s new attitude Did you miss Natalie Portman? I did. I always do. Remember the teen who charmed David Letterman and went on to become one of his favourite guests? She’s still the same person, except now she loves Broad City Portman sez she loves BROAD CITY & was horrified that GARDEN By Joanna • Sep 10, 2015 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are enchanting in Carol I know, I know, “enchanting” is a stupid word, but I don’t know how else to describe it. The US trailer for Carol, based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel about a mid-century lesbian romance, just came out and it IS enchanting. It’s so beautiful in its period detail By Sarah • Sep 09, 2015 03:52 pm
