Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF REVIEW: BAD 25 Until I saw this film on the TIFF schedule, I didn’t even know it existed. But damn am I glad it does. Bad 25 is a fantastic documentary – a Spike Lee Joint – that takes you on an intimate tour behind the scenes during the making of Michael Jackson’s By Dan • Sep 17, 2012 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lincoln looks amazing, and hollow Abraham Lincoln is fascinating. Read his speeches, articles or the letters he left behind and he sounds amazingly modern. It is really incredible—pick a year in his life and study anything written by anyone else and then compare it to Lincoln and it’s like he’s speaking another By Sarah • Sep 14, 2012 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF REVIEW: The Paperboy I saw The Paperboy with a few friends. Half of them were thoroughly entertained, half of them were bored by it. I found myself caught somewhere in the middle. The Paperboy, for those of you who are unfamiliar, is that movie where Nicole Kidman pees on Zac Efron. Or at By Dan • Sep 14, 2012 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor gets Strange One of the biggest ongoing questions surrounding the Avengers franchise is the potential involvement of Dr. Strange, a dude who messes around with space-magic sh*t, and he sometimes helps the Avengers out. A lot of folks, myself included, have thought Benedict Cumberbatch might be down to play Strange, By Sarah • Sep 11, 2012 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF REVIEW: End Of Watch End Of Watch is the latest gritty cop thriller from writer/director, David Ayer. He’s made an eye opener of a movie that gives us a glimpse into what it’s like to patrol the mean streets of South Central Los Angeles. And I’ll tell you one thing, By Dan • Sep 10, 2012 04:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF REVIEW: The Perks Of Being A Wallflower I have to begin by confessing that I have not read The Perks of Being a Wallflower. And I can safely say that I regret letting it slip through the cracks. Because if a movie this good came from a book, I can only imagine how transformative that book must By Dan • Sep 10, 2012 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF REVIEW: On The Road I can’t wait to hear people’s reactions to this movie. Director Walter Salles was faced with a daunting task, one that many might argue was virtually impossible to successfully accomplish: turn Jack Kerouac’s barely fictionalized autobiography, On The Road, often referred to as one of the most By Dan • Sep 07, 2012 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar kick off: TIFF 2012 It’s time once again for the Toronto International Film Festival, the official kick-off of award season. TIFF feels really huge this year. It’s one of the world’s premiere film festivals in general, but this year it seems like the line-up is extra special loaded, like By Sarah • Sep 06, 2012 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hansel. So hot right now. Hansel. I love bad action movies. Road House is one of my all-time favorite films. I can quote Point Break, chapter and verse. I will happily sit through Bad Boys II. I have a high threshold of pain when it comes to bad action movies. I like fairy tales too— By Sarah • Sep 05, 2012 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender rides with Nicole...and Natalie Fresh photos of Michael Fassbender today in London on his bike with girlfriend Nicole Beharie. Fassbender’s been working on Ridley Scott’s The Counselor. It was reported yesterday that he may also sign on to Jane Got A Gun with Natalie Portman who is also producing. Jane Got A By Lainey • Aug 29, 2012 04:14 pm
Maple Leaf Snuggle Bunny to direct a fairytale Your favourite colouring book subject, hug toy, v-neck wearing man puppy is becoming a director. Ryan Gosling announced today that he’s written a “modern day fairytale” called How To Catch A Monster and that he’ll assume directing duties himself. He’ll be working with the same producers By Lainey • Aug 29, 2012 02:22 pm
Media Manipulation Thor is a free agent Literally, he is free of an agent. Deadline reports that Chris Hemsworth, after the success of The Avengers and coming off his biggest payday ever, Snow White and the Huntsman, has broken up with his agent of four years, IFA’s Ilene Feldman. They cite differences stemming from negotiations for By Sarah • Aug 27, 2012 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leo from the 80s Leonardo DiCaprio is shooting a new movie with Martin Scorsese called The Wolf Of Wall Street. Here he is on set in New York the last few days wearing dark hair and a suit cut from the 80s. Costume designers don’t get enough credit sometimes for hitting exactly the By Lainey • Aug 27, 2012 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JKL NYC Oh look it’s Matthew McConaughey chilling on a street bench in New York today, wearing and living his motto... Just Keep Livin’ I mean, where else would you find him? This is what he actually does. As he tries not to think about food. McConaughey is supposed to lose By Lainey • Aug 22, 2012 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’ leading lady is… Captain America 2 is casting its female lead, with the final choice said to be down to Anna Kendrick, Imogen Poots and Felicity Jones. That’s an intriguing list, not only for what it says about which character they might be playing, but what we can expect Cap 2 to By Sarah • Aug 21, 2012 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Master in Chicago The crowd stretched down the block and around the corner, hundreds of people pouring onto Southport on a night when the Cubs weren’t in town for the special Chicago screening of The Master last night. People were palpably excited, checking and re-checking tickets, everyone worried about an oversell. By Sarah • Aug 17, 2012 10:40 am
