Movie Reviews and Previews The Imitation Game: TIFF Review In the eyes of his "Cumberbitches" online, Benedict Cumberbatch is a hero. In The Imitation Game, he cracks the code of his hype and fandom, and finally gets to play one. How? It's elementary. As WWII codebreaker Alan Turing, Cumberbatch is a mathematical genius who also By Joanna • Sep 12, 2014 10:20 am
Maple Leaf Xavier Dolan in Elephant Song: TIFF Review Xavier Dolan's duelling enfant terrible and wunderkind personas have become his trademark, often overshadowing his immense talent. Remember, this 25-year-old won the Cannes Jury Prize for his fifth film, Mommy, in May, but barely eight months earlier, he bit back at an unflattering review in The By Joanna • Sep 11, 2014 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Last Five Years: TIFF Review In the last five years, Anna Kendrick "type[d] with purpose" to an Oscar nomination for Up in the Air, carried the a cappella Bellas to a national championship and shook off her role in the Twilight franchise to become a bona-fide star in her own right. By Joanna • Sep 11, 2014 11:09 am
Style My Obsession at Chiltern YES. It’s been a while, after all. Last night, My Obsession, Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson were out in London at Chiltern. I’m perving on these shots of them with their arms around each other and her mouth on the back of his hand. Also her sweatshirt. Which By Lainey • Sep 11, 2014 10:43 am
Gorgessity Keira’s TIFF style And we’re not even done yet. You remember the Chanel dress from the other day – click here for a refresher. And another, and another, and another. Keira Knightley always delivers the style porn. White cocktail length, long white with black spots... And today? Look at this. LOOK AT THIS By Lainey • Sep 10, 2014 05:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hair back Robert Pattison looked good last night. I think the hair has a lot to do with it. This hair reminds me of the early days of Twilight. Here he is at the premiere of Maps To The Stars which was the gala at Roy Thomson Hall. I was across the By Lainey • Sep 10, 2014 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Maps To The Stars: TIFF Review Maps to the Stars is arguably the most polarizing film of the year, but it's one you should see, if you can stomach it. David Cronenberg’s provocative portrayal of Hollywood chronicles the lives of two dysfunctional families and their encounters with sex, violence and incest. But, according By Joanna • Sep 10, 2014 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ethan’s shiny suit Ethan Hawke was on my list for TIFF. It’s a Reality Bites thing. I had to see him. Last night was the premiere of Good Kill. After the screening, Ethan, Jake Abel, and director Andrew Niccol were at Storys for the afterparty. The suit was shiny in person but By Lainey • Sep 10, 2014 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Foxcatcher: TIFF Review Nobody's saying Channing Tatum can't pull his weight. But with Foxcatcher, in walks a real contender: an all-around movie star and actor. Tatum plays Olympic Gold Medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz, who walks into a room, shoulders first, with his jaw always clenched. Naive and By Joanna • Sep 10, 2014 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Julianne Moore in Still Alice: TIFF review Julianne Moore’s unrelenting commitment to her characters and epic crying face merits a thousand viral video super-cuts. Critically appreciated, but woefully under-awarded, 2014 could be the year she receives her fifth (or sixth) Oscar nomination with her prodigious turns in both Still Alice, and Maps to the By Joanna • Sep 09, 2014 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ: Cars and cheeseburgers RDJ covers the new issue of Vanity Fair in advance of the Team Downey release of The Judge. It's a standard RDJ interview, which means he's forthcoming, if not always comprehensible, and generous, and unapologetic without sounding defensive. As always, RDJ speaks openly about his addiction By Lainey • Sep 09, 2014 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miles Teller gets a star IMDB presented Miles Teller with the STARmeter award yesterday in Toronto where he was also premiering his film Whiplash. Whiplash was a big hit at Sundance and both Miles and JK Simmons have been receiving high praise for their performances. They celebrated last night at the Thompson Hotel rooftop. That By Lainey • Sep 09, 2014 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Reese Witherspoon in Wild: TIFF Review Can you picture the perfectly perky Reese Witherspoon hiking through 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail to search for herself? She couldn't either -- at first. "I had never seen myself in a movie like that before," said Witherspoon, at the Wild press conference in By Joanna • Sep 09, 2014 11:41 am
BFFs Eddie supports Andrew right back I interviewed Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones yesterday at the junket for The Theory Of Everything. As already mentioned, the film is SOOOOOOO good. And their performances are …well…everything. The key here is that the story is told from her perspective. So it’s not really a biopic but By Lainey • Sep 09, 2014 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone loves Chris Rock In the last six years—ever since the economy took a sh*t in the world’s bed—the markets at film festivals have drawn down. Deals still get made at a comparable rate to pre-economy-sucking-it-hard days, but where once distributors were willing to throw money By Sarah • Sep 09, 2014 10:31 am
Amazingness “It got pretty wet here” A trailer for Jennifer Lopez’s new movie The Boy Next Door was released yesterday. It comes out in January, not exactly a month for quality pictures. But…I’m totally seeing this. And to all my friends out there, I know what you’re thinking and SHUT UP, this By Lainey • Sep 09, 2014 09:57 am
