Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Hit Man Fellow Texans Richard Linklater and Glen Powell have been working together since Powell was a teenager, but their latest collaboration, Hit Man, sees them as more than just director and actor, but as co-writers and co-producers. Jumping off a 2001 Texas Monthly article in which Skip Hollandsworth profiled By Sarah • Sep 12, 2023 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Ava DuVernay’s Origin In Origin, Ava DuVernay faces an almost impossible task, to adapt not just a work of non-fiction, not just a prize-winning text, but an almost academic thematic exploration into the defining characteristic that links oppressive systems across time and continent into a feature film. Isabel Wilkerson’s book, By Sarah • Sep 12, 2023 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Woman of the Hour Which one of you will hurt me? That is the “question under the question” of the cheesy game show, The Dating Game. How will you hurt me? That is the question at the heart of Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour. The film, arguably the best piece By Sarah • Sep 11, 2023 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Next Goal Wins Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins is at once his most typically Hollywood movie, and yet still possessing the quirky humor we've come to expect from the Kiwi filmmaker. Telling the (mostly) true story of the 2011 American Samoa national soccer team, Next Goal Wins depicts coach By Sarah • Sep 11, 2023 01:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Boy and the Heron Legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of famed animation house Studio Ghibli, has not made a feature film since 2013’s The Wind Rises. He was believed to be retired, until earlier this year, a new film opened in Japan with virtually no fanfare. Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka? By Sarah • Sep 11, 2023 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy Is Doing A Voice (with bonus Austin Butler) We are in the thick of it! Strikes! Festivals! Tom Hardy doing another f-cking silly voice! The trailer for Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders dropped yesterday, revealing Tom Hardy’s latest silly voice. The film is an adaptation of Danny Lyon’s photo essay of the same name, about the By Sarah • Sep 07, 2023 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor at the Movies Taylor Swift was photographed in New York yesterday at Electric Lady Studios. She is currently enjoying a ten-week break, sort of, as The Eras Tour will resume in Brazil in November. Sort of because there are two major releases coming up for Taylor before she gets back on stage. By Lainey • Sep 06, 2023 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emerald Fennell’s Brideshead Emerald Fennell is back, and this time she’s not just Barbie’s pregnant friend. Following her Academy Award-winning debut film, Promising Young Woman, Fennell returns behind the camera with Saltburn, a millennial (and Millennial) film about Oliver, a young man invited to stay at his school chum’s By Sarah • Aug 31, 2023 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It has begun The 2023 festival season is officially open. The 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off yesterday, with a notably lighter crowd at the opening day events. Jury president Damien Chazelle was on hand, and the opening ceremony, which included a lifetime achievement award for Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, By Sarah • Aug 31, 2023 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 31, 2023 Dear Gossips, Lily Gladstone season is almost upon us. Killers of the Flower Moon was already expected to be one of the touchstone films of the fall, but now it is getting a global wide release on October 20. The original plan was for Killers to have a limited release By Sarah • Aug 31, 2023 09:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender sticks to the plan The Venice Film Festival kicks off today, and it will be a weird one, with plenty of films launching the fall festival season and awards season, but with considerably less star power than normal on the Lido’s red carpet (not none, but less). One film debuting at Venice is By Sarah • Aug 30, 2023 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott in Bottoms Sometimes a movie gets made that is so unhinged in a very specific way that it makes you wonder if there were ever any adults on set—like a real adult, with a mortgage and a car payment. In its best moments, Barbie feels like that, like getting away with By Sarah • Aug 29, 2023 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Garner: Running for Elektra? Jennifer Garner was photographed while out for a run this week. According to the photo agency, she was out there for an hour which isn’t too long for a run but it’s also not exactly cool in LA right now and my point is, I couldn’t do By Lainey • Aug 29, 2023 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Be upset in spaaace Do you want to feel nervous and upset heading into the weekend! Great, the Foe trailer is here just for you. Garth Davis, director of the crowd-pleasing Lion and Mary Magdalene, the film starring Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix that no one saw, is back with an adaptation of By Sarah • Aug 25, 2023 03:28 pm
TV Updates Intro for August 25, 2023 Dear Gossips, This week in Talking Pirates, there is big pirate news breaking in Hollywood. First is that Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark is going to produce a film about Ching Shih (aka Shi Yang or Zheng Yi Sao). Shih is the most successful pirate of all time, hand’s By Sarah • Aug 25, 2023 09:21 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) The Best Chris Evans with the puppies Chris Evans is here to save your Thursday. I know the Best Chris debate is old by now and I’m not jumping in on that. But the best version of Chris Evans is when Chris Evans is with dogs. His dog, Dodger, is my favourite thing about him, the By Lainey • Aug 24, 2023 10:42 am
