Movie Reviews and Previews Kit Harington is loving married life Kit Harington is a happily married newlywed, and he really wanted the press to know that at the world premiere of Xavier Dolan's The Death and Life of John F Donovan in Toronto last night, which I covered, producing etalk host Devon Soltendieck. Speaking to the premiere, Xavier& By Joanna • Sep 11, 2018 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Front Runner Gary Hart, the senator whose affair during campaign season ushered in the era of gossip-driven political reporting, is the centerpiece of Jason Reitman’s new film, The Front Runner. Despite Hugh Jackman’s best efforts and general screen charisma, Gary Hart is the least interesting figure in his own story, By Sarah • Sep 11, 2018 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Beautiful Boy Combining memoirs from David and Nic Sheff, a father-son duo who both reflected on Nic Sheff’s addiction to crystal meth and heroin, Beautiful Boy is about as pedigreed as films come. Starring Steve Carell, long since transitioned to Dramatic Actor, as David Sheff and breakout phenom Timothee Chalamet as By Sarah • Sep 11, 2018 11:30 am
Maple Leaf Nicole’s ready to cash in on the hype for Destroyer By now, you’ve seen that photo of a nearly unrecognizable Nicole Kidman in Destroyer, with her ash grey hair and worn-out-looking eyes: The buzz has been building steadily for her performance since its Telluride launch and knowing this, and knowing the first time it will be seen by a By Joanna • Sep 11, 2018 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Hate U Give A few years ago, book-to-screen YA adaptations meant sci-fi worlds of vampires or dystopian futures. Their heroines were named Bella or Katniss or Tris and even though their stories were unique in their own ways, a few things were constant. Love was as integral to these teen girls as forces By Kathleen • Sep 11, 2018 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Everybody Knows with Penelope and Javier Following two Oscar wins for Best Foreign Language Film (A Separation and The Salesman, for which he did not accept his Oscar in person, in protest of Donald Trump’s travel ban), Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi takes us to a small, drama-drenched Spanish village for his latest film, Everybody Knows. By Sarah • Sep 10, 2018 03:45 pm
Douchebags Olivia Munn, alone at TIFF A few weeks ago, before The Predator was to make its international debut at TIFF, Olivia Munn discovered that Steven Wilder Streigel, an actor she shared a scene with, was a registered sex offender. That phrase should stand on its own, but if you need more, he pleaded guilty to By Duana • Sep 10, 2018 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman’s “mommy moves” in Vox Lux If you liked Natalie Portman’s raps and “mommy moves” on Saturday Night Live, you’ll get a kick out of her as a glam rocker in an encrusted silver and black jumpsuit with neon accents, chrome nails and wild makeup singing original new songs by Sia. But even with By Joanna • Sep 10, 2018 01:51 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Julianne’s white TIFF pleats This is everything I want in a red carpet dress. Almost. Mostly because it doesn’t have anything I don’t want. There’s no tightness. There’s no waist. Which doesn’t mean there’s no shape. The pleats and layers create dimension and different levels. And I love By Lainey • Sep 10, 2018 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia comments and campaigns Get ready to see a lot more of that Julia Roberts grin. Pushing the A Star is Born team aside, Julia was the biggest star at the Toronto International Film Festival all weekend, hustling for two new projects, Amazon’s new thrilling mystery series Homecoming, and the devastating and completely By Joanna • Sep 10, 2018 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: A Star is Born Even though this is the FOURTH iteration of the classic Hollywood rags-to-riches fable A Star is Born, I will do my best not to spoil it because apparently some of you took exception when Lainey let fly with the ending. At this point every age of cinema has its Star, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2018 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Isabelle & Chloe open TIFF and the OOTW Greta, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz, world premiered on opening night of TIFF. Neil described it to me as a “horror”. And Isabelle told me that her character, Greta, is pretty f-cked up. So it’s the story of two women and their complicated, By Lainey • Sep 07, 2018 12:57 pm
Quiveration Best Chris, Best City Chris Pine was in Toronto last night for the TIFF opening gala world premiere of his new Netflix epic Outlaw King. For those of you asking, I did not attend his red carpet. There was no professional reason for me to be there and despite what my overall Intense Crush By Kathleen • Sep 07, 2018 10:05 am
