Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Ryan Reynolds in Mississippi Grind Like all actors, Ryan Reynolds is a gambler, and some of his bets have not paid off. The Voices? Awful. Self/Less? Embarrassing. Mississippi Grind? That’s more in line with his work in The Woman in Gold earlier this year - impressive, but not up to his full (and feisty) By Joanna • Sep 22, 2015 12:43 pm
Style Annie & Bob holding hands Nancy Meyers’s The Intern opens this weekend starring Oscar winners Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. Last night was the NY premiere. So far the reviews haven’t been great. They haven’t sucked, and Forbes says it’s “superb” but so far most critics seem to agree that By Lainey • Sep 22, 2015 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Lobster What a f*cking weird movie. I love it, I can’t guarantee you will all love it, too, but if you’re open to trying a different flavor, The Lobster is definitely worth a shot. The first English-language feature from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth), and co-written By Sarah • Sep 22, 2015 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Program Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong movie, The Program, is not the worst movie I’ve seen at TIFF—that’s a toss-up between London Fields and Our Brand is Crisis—but it is probably the most disappointing. Frears has a knack for biopics (see also: Philomena, The Queen), but The By Sarah • Sep 17, 2015 10:56 am
Break Ups Alicia & Michael are over…but not over US Weekly reported exclusively late yesterday that Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender had broken up. Their sources however had no information about when it happened or why. The two haven’t been photographed together in a few months. This morning though, an exclusive from Gossip Cop with a totally different By Lainey • Sep 17, 2015 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Beasts of No Nation I heard some industry folks at TIFF sh*t-talking Netflix for allegedly overpaying for Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation, Netflix’s first original feature film. They were of the opinion that Netflix will keep overpaying for movies and go bust, but just a few years ago TV By Sarah • Sep 17, 2015 09:56 am
Quiveration Idris & Cary As mentioned several weeks before the start of TIFF, the Beasts Of No Nation carpet was the one big ask I put to our producers at etalk. The request was granted. On Sunday night I was in first position at the premiere. This was the 5th or 6th time I’ By Lainey • Sep 17, 2015 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews At the very least, The Jungle Book looks gorgeous I have serious reservations about bringing Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book back, which I discussed last year when it came out that there are TWO new versions of the story coming to the big screen. Well, we now have a trailer for one of those adaptations, the one from By Sarah • Sep 16, 2015 01:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Emma Watson in Colonia Imagine Argo, but worse and about Nazis, and you have Emma Watson’s new movie, Colonia. Set during the 1970s coup of General Pinochet in Chile, Colonia is a thriller (“thriller”) about a young couple in love escaping a prison-cult. It’s the political thriller version of Equals (click By Sarah • Sep 16, 2015 12:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Family Fang I like Jason Bateman’s second film as a director more than I do his first, Bad Words, but then, I didn’t care much for Bad Words. If this is a math equation it would be expressed like this: Bad Words – sh-t brown light filter + Christopher Walken x By Sarah • Sep 16, 2015 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Truth Truth is Spotlight’s more depressing cousin, another investigative procedural but this time, the outcome is less celebratory. Based on her own book, Truth tells the account of Mary Mapes, the 60 Minutes producer who oversaw the story on then-President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard. By Sarah • Sep 16, 2015 10:43 am
Bad Style Johnny & Amber in Boston Last night was the Boston premiere of Black Mass. Black Mass opens this weekend. So does Sicario. Click here for Sarah’s review of Black Mass and click here for Joanna’s review of Sicario. Also click here for my thoughts on Sicario and Benicio Del Toro. My recommendation would By Lainey • Sep 16, 2015 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Room (Queen Brie) Aside from Cate Blanchett's work in Blue Jasmine, to me the best female performance of 2013 came from Brie Larson in Short Term 12. The film was criminally underseen by both critics and audiences, but she'll finally get her shot at golden glory with Room, in By Joanna • Sep 16, 2015 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Maggie's Plan Julianne Moore has Freeheld and Maggie’s Plan at TIFF this year. Julianne and Ethan Hawke were shooting Maggie's Plan at a Brooklyn ice rink barely 36 hours after they were on the Oscar red carpet in February. That's an instant humbling, isn't it? By Joanna • Sep 15, 2015 02:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Born To Be Blue More TIFF double duty. Ethan Hawke has two films at TIFF too: Maggie's Plan and Born to be Blue. Just as Boyhood was catching fire in November, Ethan was hanging out in church basements in Sudbury, Ontario channeling his inner Chet Baker. I was on set. Chet Baker& By Joanna • Sep 15, 2015 01:16 pm
Quiveration Benicio is sexy I never used to get it about Benicio Del Toro. You know my type. Charlie Hunnam, Liam Hemsworth… But then I saw Sicario. After Spotlight, it’s my favourite film of TIFF. Like Spotlight, it’s not an easy story. This is two hours of stress and anxiety. But worth By Lainey • Sep 15, 2015 12:16 pm
