Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse shines in Brooklyn Actually everyone shines in Brooklyn. Brooklyn was the first film I screened for TIFF. I sat in the theatre beside my friend Teri Hart and we just smiled at each other the whole way through. This film is sweet and warm and difficult and it’s kind. I don’t By Lainey • Oct 13, 2015 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Trumbo for Oscar? (Lainey: a new trailer for Trumbo was released yesterday. Some people think Bryan Cranston could be a contender. He’s so well liked in Hollywood. And he would be the answer if voters don’t want to reward Eddie Redmayne two years in a row, can’t stand Johnny Depp, By Joanna • Oct 07, 2015 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews London Fields London Fields is one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year, and I’ll get to sh*tting on it in a second, but first, an odd thing happened TIFF with this movie. I saw it at a press screening at the festival—Joanna and I were both By Sarah • Sep 28, 2015 03:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Drew Barrymore & Toni Collette in Miss You Already Cancer, the toxic monster that not only attacks the body, but every relationship a person has. In this film it tests the strength of the lifelong friendship between Milly (Toni Collette) and Jess (Drew Barrymore), and these two have already been to hell and back with each other. Miss You By Joanna • Sep 23, 2015 11:43 am
Maple Leaf Nina at home Nina Dobrev was home in Toronto over the weekend to celebrate the TIFF premiere of her horror satire, The Final Girls, at Midnight Madness. The movie (and movie within a movie) is a really fun romp, and after a day of press, she celebrated with her co-stars Malin Akerman and By Joanna • Sep 22, 2015 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Ryan Reynolds in Mississippi Grind Like all actors, Ryan Reynolds is a gambler, and some of his bets have not paid off. The Voices? Awful. Self/Less? Embarrassing. Mississippi Grind? That’s more in line with his work in The Woman in Gold earlier this year - impressive, but not up to his full (and By Joanna • Sep 22, 2015 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Lobster What a f*cking weird movie. I love it, I can’t guarantee you will all love it, too, but if you’re open to trying a different flavor, The Lobster is definitely worth a shot. The first English-language feature from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth), and co-written with his By Sarah • Sep 22, 2015 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Program Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong movie, The Program, is not the worst movie I’ve seen at TIFF—that’s a toss-up between London Fields and Our Brand is Crisis—but it is probably the most disappointing. Frears has a knack for biopics (see also: Philomena, The Queen), but The Program By Sarah • Sep 17, 2015 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Beasts of No Nation I heard some industry folks at TIFF sh*t-talking Netflix for allegedly overpaying for Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation, Netflix’s first original feature film. They were of the opinion that Netflix will keep overpaying for movies and go bust, but just a few years ago TV executives By Sarah • Sep 17, 2015 09:56 am
Quiveration Idris & Cary As mentioned several weeks before the start of TIFF, the Beasts Of No Nation carpet was the one big ask I put to our producers at etalk. The request was granted. On Sunday night I was in first position at the premiere. This was the 5th or 6th time I’ By Lainey • Sep 17, 2015 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Emma Watson in Colonia Imagine Argo, but worse and about Nazis, and you have Emma Watson’s new movie, Colonia. Set during the 1970s coup of General Pinochet in Chile, Colonia is a thriller (“thriller”) about a young couple in love escaping a prison-cult. It’s the political thriller version of Equals (click here By Sarah • Sep 16, 2015 12:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Family Fang I like Jason Bateman’s second film as a director more than I do his first, Bad Words, but then, I didn’t care much for Bad Words. If this is a math equation it would be expressed like this: Bad Words – sh-t brown light filter + Christopher Walken x Nicole By Sarah • Sep 16, 2015 11:31 am
TIFF 2015 Coverage Do you know Liam Hemsworth? Remember when Liam Hemsworth locked his jaw at Comic-Con when a reporter called Chris introduced himself as Chris but Liam thought he was being mistaken for his brother, Chris Hemsworth? Click here for a refresher. This is maybe part 2 of that story. Or not. You decide. Sunday night my By Lainey • Sep 16, 2015 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Truth Truth is Spotlight’s more depressing cousin, another investigative procedural but this time, the outcome is less celebratory. Based on her own book, Truth tells the account of Mary Mapes, the 60 Minutes producer who oversaw the story on then-President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard. The By Sarah • Sep 16, 2015 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Room (Queen Brie) Aside from Cate Blanchett's work in Blue Jasmine, to me the best female performance of 2013 came from Brie Larson in Short Term 12. The film was criminally underseen by both critics and audiences, but she'll finally get her shot at golden glory with Room, in By Joanna • Sep 16, 2015 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Maggie's Plan Julianne Moore has Freeheld and Maggie’s Plan at TIFF this year. Julianne and Ethan Hawke were shooting Maggie's Plan at a Brooklyn ice rink barely 36 hours after they were on the Oscar red carpet in February. That's an instant humbling, isn't it? By Joanna • Sep 15, 2015 02:27 pm
