Movie Reviews and Previews Destin Daniel Cretton is taking over Spider-Man When TIFF is happening, I don’t like to think about anything else which, naturally, means Marvel is up to some nonsense. Whenever you least want to work, you can count on Disney and/or Marvel to force you to work. (I’m glad they seemed to have broken their By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 12:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch Sometimes in my reviews I will cheekily dub a character “Lady Mom”, such as in my review of Unstoppable, in which Jennifer Lopez stars as a stereotypically underwritten mother character. “Lady Mom” is a derogatory shorthand for characters definable only by being female and mothers, with no real individual narrative By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 10:16 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie, the Movie Star at TIFF George Pimentel is the most well-known celebrity and special events photographer based in Toronto. He’s a fixture at TIFF, and works directly at and for the festival, given special access to roam the red carpet and go backstage at the screenings and premieres, to photograph the biggest stars. His By Lainey • Sep 09, 2024 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Unstoppable Here I am being a grump about a well-intentioned film again. But as with We Live in Time, the issue with Unstoppable is how extremely well-trod the genre is, and how the film does not find a way to inject new life into it. Unstoppable is an underdog sports drama By Sarah • Sep 09, 2024 01:48 pm
Break Ups JLo comes back to Toronto The last time Jennifer Lopez was at TIFF it was for Hustlers and on the strength of the strong reaction to the film in Toronto, she was, for a time, in conversation during award season as she was nominated for a Golden Globe. So she has good memories here, and By Lainey • Sep 09, 2024 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: We Live In Time It seems like every few years, we get a good old-fashioned weepy, usually about a romance doomed by disease, often cancer, that sunders a lovely couple, often when they are still young, and their fate feels all the more deeply unfair. The most recent entry into this very specific yet By Sarah • Sep 09, 2024 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Kaniehtiio Horn’s Seeds On the heels of appearing in television series like Letterkenny and Reservation Dogs—where she plays the inimitable Deer Lady—and films like Alice, Darling, Kaniehtiio Horn is now making her feature directorial debut with Seeds, a thriller she also writes and in which she stars. Seeds is equal parts By Sarah • Sep 06, 2024 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo: Not About The House Jennifer Lopez is expected in Toronto tonight for the world premiere of Unstoppable. Sarah’s review of this film is coming on Monday and even though JLo is involved, and we all know the noise that accompanies her, especially lately, we should definitely also be talking about Jharrel Jerome. He’ By Lainey • Sep 06, 2024 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetleju— Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice is the definition of a cult classic, a film that did okay enough in its own time only to go on to spawn a rabid, multi-generational fanbase. It’s Burton’s sophomore film, sandwiched between Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Batman, and is arguably the quintessential By Sarah • Sep 05, 2024 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams is Nightbitch One of the films Lainey and I are both super looking forward to at TIFF is Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel of the same name. The trailer just dropped ahead of the film’s TIFF premiere, and in it, Amy Adams stars as a stay-at-home-mom By Sarah • Sep 04, 2024 01:52 pm
Douchebags Joaquin is asked The press conference for Joker: Folie à Deux happened today in Venice ahead of its world premiere with director Todd Phillips, Lady Gaga, and Joaquin Phoenix in attendance. This is the role for which Joaquin won his Best Actor Oscar and anticipation is high for the sequel, especially with Gaga’ By Lainey • Sep 04, 2024 12:30 pm
Style Intro for September 4, 2024 Dear Gossips, Daniel Craig is getting very strong reviews for his performance in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer after its premiere in Venice last night. Queer has been acquired by A24, we know they can run a successful Oscar campaign, so Daniel seems to be in good position to contend for By Lainey • Sep 04, 2024 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Demi’s pre-Midnight Madness Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley were in London last night for a screening of their film, The Substance. The Substance premiered in Cannes back in May and as I wrote at the time, even before her 13-minute standing ovation, there was buzz about this movie and Demi’s performance in By Lainey • Aug 28, 2024 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thanks, I Hate It: The new The Crow The Crow began life as a comic book by James O’Barr, then it became a cult classic film from 1994, starring the late Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Bai Ling, and Ernie Hudson, which was directed by Alex Proyas and was successful enough to spawn three sequels and a TV By Sarah • Aug 26, 2024 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Jack Black sign up for slithering Today in Let The Past Die news, Paul Rudd and Jack Black are in talks to star in a remake of the 1997 film Anaconda which was Owen Wilson’s first big Hollywood role, and Jennifer Lopez’s follow up to Selena (look, it can take time for a movie By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice Get Out introduced us to a new sub-genre of horror, the “social thriller” which uses the style and themes of the horror/thriller genre(s) for social critique. Get Out took on racism and how white supremacy is built on the literal exploitation of Black bodies. Nope takes aim at By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 12:12 pm
