Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Born To Be Blue More TIFF double duty. Ethan Hawke has two films at TIFF too: Maggie's Plan and Born to be Blue. Just as Boyhood was catching fire in November, Ethan was hanging out in church basements in Sudbury, Ontario channeling his inner Chet Baker. I was on set. Chet Baker& By Joanna • Sep 15, 2015 01:16 pm
Quiveration Benicio is sexy I never used to get it about Benicio Del Toro. You know my type. Charlie Hunnam, Liam Hemsworth… But then I saw Sicario. After Spotlight, it’s my favourite film of TIFF. Like Spotlight, it’s not an easy story. This is two hours of stress and anxiety. But worth By Lainey • Sep 15, 2015 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Freeheld Ellen Page and her girlfriend Samantha Thomas made their red carpet debut at the world premiere of her movie Freeheld in Toronto on Sunday night. It's about the fight for equal rights in domestic partnerships, which eventually laid the groundwork for where we are now in the U. By Joanna • Sep 15, 2015 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Equals Drake Doremus’s previous feature films are all concerned with love, and in Equals, his latest feature, it’s no different except that this time he comes at notions of sex, intimacy, and love from the angle of a society that typically lives without those things. Set in a post-apocalyptic By Sarah • Sep 15, 2015 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Into The Forest Into the Forest is the most insane movie I've seen in years, and I read the book. I knew what I was in for. Lainey did not. More on that soon. Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood are sisters who love each other as much as they love By Joanna • Sep 15, 2015 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Spotlight Hands down the best movie I’ve seen at TIFF, Spotlight is a phenomenal film, absolutely pitch perfect from start to finish. This could be my whole review—this film is flawless and if it doesn’t affect you, then you are a monster. It will break your heart. It By Sarah • Sep 15, 2015 09:28 am
Maple Leaf Rachel’s home Spotlight Sarah’s review for Spotlight will follow this post. Here we are focusing on Toronto’s own Rachel McAdams. But I begin with an article in the Globe & Mail, Canada’s newspaper of record, published yesterday about how Hollywood has affected the festival, specifically how the Hollywood marketing and By Lainey • Sep 15, 2015 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Black Mass It’s not that Black Mass is bad—it’s too technically proficient to be called “bad”—it’s that it’s…cold. It is unengaging. Yes, Johnny Depp is very good as Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, but we’ve seen him do so many transformations at this point By Sarah • Sep 15, 2015 08:55 am
Dumbass Johnny’s hairline…and “eye contact” Black Mass premiered at TIFF last night. Sarah’s review is coming up. But first…because it’s Johnny Depp, and there’s been so much drama about Johnny and Amber in Toronto, we’re starting there. As I mentioned in my post yesterday – click here for a refresher – I By Lainey • Sep 15, 2015 08:27 am
Dumbass Matt Damon opens mouth, world face palms Matt Damon and Ben Affleck used to have a show called Project Greenlight, in which they and a panel of filmmakers chose a script and a director and set them loose with a small budget to make a movie. It aired three seasons on Bravo from 2001-2005, and the only By Sarah • Sep 15, 2015 08:04 am
Maple Leaf Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page’s plus ones Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page play sisters in Into the Forest and spent the weekend in Toronto. Ellen, Evan and I are the same age. I've watched their careers closely and admire them both for speaking their mind, and standing up for women in Hollywood. Since Ellen By Joanna • Sep 14, 2015 01:52 pm
Relationship Assumption Tom & Lizzie This happened to me the last time I interviewed Tom Hiddleston for The Avengers. I don’t know how I forgot. That he’s SOOOOOOOO f-cking charming and thoughtful and smart and nice. Tom was my first interview yesterday, followed immediately by Elizabeth Olsen. As Sarah just noted in her By Lainey • Sep 14, 2015 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: I Saw The Light I had high hopes for the Hank Williams biopic, I Saw the Light, because Hank Williams’s life is inherently cinematic—gifted musician with a meteoric rise, tragic death, and a drama-ridden life in between—and also because Tom Hiddleston plays Williams. Hiddleston is a brilliant mimic and a good By Sarah • Sep 14, 2015 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wet Tom Hardy It was pouring on Saturday night for the Legend premiere at TIFF. And the fans, they stood out there in the rain, waiting patiently for Tom Hardy. Meanwhile, I was under the red carpet awning, waiting impatiently for an interview. It didn’t happen. The film was supposed to start By Lainey • Sep 14, 2015 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: About Ray I feel bad sh*tting on About Ray, but…I’m going to sh*t on it—it’s not very good. Starring Elle Fanning as transgender teen Ray and directed by Gaby Dellal (Looking), About Ray is more about everyone else talking about Ray than Ray himself. It’s By Sarah • Sep 14, 2015 11:10 am
Media Manipulation Jake & Dakota in Toronto Jake Gyllenhaal opened TIFF on Thursday. On Friday he was in New York participating in the Cantor Fitzgerald annual charity day. Last night however he was back in Toronto, hanging out at the Shangri-La lobby with his brother-in-law, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joel Edgerton who are here for Black Mass. Then By Lainey • Sep 14, 2015 10:47 am
