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 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 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- 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 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 By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Are the publicists okay Today in Has Anyone Checked On The Publicists Lately, Somebody Probably Should news, Lionsgate pulled the latest trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis because they got caught using fabricated quotes attributed to famous film critics in the trailer. Here’s what happened: Yesterday morning, Lionsgate, the US distributor for By Sarah • Aug 22, 2024 01:32 pm
BFFs Everybody at the bar with Zoë There was another Blink Twice screening in New York last night ahead of its premiere on Friday. Reviews are starting to come out now and they’re solid (Sarah’s will be posted tomorrow) – like no one’s calling it a masterpiece but most are saying that Zoë Kravitz’s By Lainey • Aug 22, 2024 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Todd Phillips won’t call his musical murder clown movie a musical We’re two weeks out from Joker: Folie à Deux premiering at the Venice Film Festival. Given the billion-dollar, Oscar-winning success of the first film, the expectations are high for Folie à Deux. There’s really no reason to expect the sequel won’t deliver, I think Folie By Sarah • Aug 21, 2024 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan outside Behold, it is Sebastian Stan, outside in Los Angeles. The last time we saw him was at Kevin Feige’s Walk of Fame ceremony, which precipitated Marvel’s triumphant return to Hall H at Comic-Con. There, the trailer for Thunderbolts*, which represents his next outing as Bucky Barnes, was By Sarah • Aug 20, 2024 11:18 am
