Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: A Titan at TIFF Denzel Washington at the premiere of The Equalizer last night. BIG star. A titan. Still making action movies. Always a force. The movie opens September 26. They're comparing it to the kind of work Liam Neeson's been doing. Well now there's an idea, non? By Lainey • Sep 08, 2014 09:52 am
Music Tom Hiddleston’s country twang When the news came out that Tom Hiddleston would be portraying country music legend Hank Williams in a biopic titled I Saw the Light, I said I was fine with the choice from an acting standpoint but that I worried about the singing. Hiddles will be doing his own vocals, By Sarah • Sep 08, 2014 09:33 am
Girlcrushes Big crushing on Cara As you may have read leading up to TIFF, Cara Delevingne was on my TIFF 2014 Watch List. I thought she’d be drama. I thought she’d light up the party scene. I thought maybe she’d tear up a few parties. I was right. And I was wrong. By Lainey • Sep 08, 2014 09:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Reese Witherspoon in The Good Lie – Review This is supposed to be Reese Witherspoon's year. She has her name attached to three prestige pictures set for a 2014 release, including two by Canadian directors Philippe Falardeau (The Good Lie) and Jean-Marc Vallee (Wild), and Paul Thomas Anderson's highly-anticipated Inherent Vice. Beyond that, Reese By Joanna • Sep 08, 2014 08:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Waiting for Troy Dyer Troy Dyer was mentioned during one of our segments on The Social. And some people were like …who? Christ Jesus. Was Reality Bites not a seminal movie for everyone????? Clearly not. But Troy Dyer is having an excellent year. He was nominated for an Oscar. Boyhood is one of the By Lainey • Sep 05, 2014 04:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa & Bill’s big night The highlight of TIFF tonight is probably the premiere for St Vincent at 9pm at the Princess Of Wales theatre. The festival is honouring Bill Murray. They’re telling fans to dress up as him. And of course, he’ll put on a show, like he always does. All that By Lainey • Sep 05, 2014 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole Kidman’s “annus horribilis”? Not my words. That’s from The Telegraph’s review of Before I Go To Sleep, the new film starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth. They walked the carpet together last night to promote it in London. The Telegraph’s film critic gave the movie only 2 stars and, at By Lainey • Sep 05, 2014 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rock chooses villainy Dwayne Johnson has been teasing his involvement with the DC cinematic universe for months—over a year, actually—and finally yesterday he announced on his Twitter that he is indeed playing a marquee role in an upcoming DC movie—just not the hero. Johnson will be Black Adam from the By Sarah • Sep 04, 2014 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Perfect Casting: Lizzy Caplan & JGL edition Lizzy Caplan and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are shooting a movie together in New York about Christmas Eve and old friends getting together. (She’s not with Matthew Perry anymore. Remember that???) Great casting, non? In real life, I could totally see these two hooking up. I mean, I know it’s By Lainey • Sep 03, 2014 05:38 pm
Bad Style “Glowing from within” That expression is kinda vommy, non? I don’t love it. But I also don’t deny that people do, um, glow from within when they’re happy. We project that onto people too. Like, you’ve heard again and again recently about how happy she is…so is that By Lainey • Sep 03, 2014 04:37 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Back to school with Hugh Jackman Check out Hugh Jackman in New York yesterday taking his son Oscar to school. Oscar got real tall, real fast. Not sure when he celebrates his birthday but he was 13 years old in February. God. That's so fast. I feel like last year he was riding around By Lainey • Sep 03, 2014 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews And so it begins: TIFF 2014 It’s September and summer is officially over, which means it’s time for festival season. Telluride has come and gone and Venice is underway, and now TIFF kicks off on the fourth, heralding the unofficial start of Oscar season (it’s pretty much year-round at this point, but TIFF By Sarah • Sep 03, 2014 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ: TIFF, Scarjo, and Gwyneth TIFF 2014 opens tomorrow. Sarah’s preview for the festival will be posted shortly as an advance overview of the entire event. But the gala on Thursday night belongs to The Judge. Robert Downey Jr, the biggest movie star in the world, is opening TIFF. Shinan Govani wrote a piece By Lainey • Sep 03, 2014 11:50 am
Quiveration All in agreement In the previous post, we discussed our different flavour preferences. Cumberbatch or The Riot Club. Robert Pattinson or Liam Hemsworth. The only way to move forward is to agree to disagree. But isn’t there someone we can ALL agree on? Who is the Universal? The undeniable. Pan. You know By Lainey • Sep 03, 2014 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The summer box office sucked The summer box office, which was trending downward all season, officially blew chunks. Receipts were down 22.2% from last year, making this the worst summer movie season since 2005 (all numbers are for domestic box office, which is the case throughout, unless denoted otherwise). Accounting for inflation, this is By Sarah • Sep 03, 2014 10:16 am
Quiveration Men vs. boys: British edition Lainey texted me over the weekend about how she’s excited to see The Riot Club, a movie about secret societies at Oxford (it’s playing TIFF later this week). I’m into it for Natalie Dormer, but Lainey’s all over it because of the gaggle of British boys By Sarah • Sep 02, 2014 01:51 pm
