Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Limbo First Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen has carved out a niche making neo-noir crime dramas about lonely men in lonely places, investigating lonely crimes. His latest, Limbo, is true to his thematic motif, centered on a lone detective sent to a remote Outback town, the titular Limbo, to investigate the cold-case By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Dumb Money Director Craig Gillespie has a thing for unlikely underdogs. Whether it’s Tonya Harding in I, Tonya or Pamela Anderson in Pam & Tommy, or even Cruella De Vil in Cruella, he makes movies about protagonists we might not otherwise think of as being an underdog. But in Dumb Money, By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Knox Goes Away Yet another actor-director at TIFF! That was big this year, gee, I wonder why? Michael Keaton directs his first feature since 2008’s The Merry Gentleman with Knox Goes Away, a thriller about a hit man battling dementia in a race to save his son. (It was interesting to see By Sarah • Sep 14, 2023 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Holdovers It has been six years since Alexander Payne’s last film, Downsizing, and nineteen years since his previous collaboration with Paul Giamatti, Sideways. Now, Payne is back with The Holdovers, which once again sees Giamatti as his leading man. If Downsizing was a rare miss from Payne, The Holdovers is By Sarah • Sep 14, 2023 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: North Star Kristin Scott Thomas’s directorial debut, North Star, is inspired by her own experience losing her father and stepfather within a few years of each other when she was a little girl. Scott Thomas, who co-wrote the script with John Micklethwait, frames these losses as the core memories haunting Katherine By Sarah • Sep 14, 2023 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Chris Pine’s Poolman Chris Pine’s directorial debut, Poolman, is, to put it nicely, a kooky love letter to Los Angeles with a neo-noir flair. There is a lot of energy on display in Poolman; there is not, however, any focus or successful management of tone. Swinging from hipster homage of bygone eras By Sarah • Sep 13, 2023 03:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Pain Hustlers The best thing that happened to Dumb Money is that I saw Pain Hustlers before that review posts, because after seeing Pain Hustlers, I went back to my Dumb Money review and revised it as “not THAT bad”. Pain Hustlers, however, IS that bad. Directed by David Yates (of Harry By Sarah • Sep 13, 2023 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: La Chimera Italian director Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, Happy as Lazzaro, Futura) is back with La Chimera, a film billed as a romantic drama but that also touches on slapstick comedy, heist thriller, and character study. Josh O’Connor stars as Arthur, an ex-pat Brit in 1980-whatever Italy. He’s fresh out By Sarah • Sep 12, 2023 02:19 pm
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 Gary Johnson, 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, Caste: The 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
Assy Style Michael Kors: The Most Popular Fashion Show There are always celebrities front row at fashion week in New York. The Michael Kors fashion show, however, had an almost excessive amount of celebrities in attendance. MK is always popular, but I feel like this year was on a whole new level. Just a sampling of the people who By Lainey • Sep 11, 2023 02:59 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? (How By Sarah • Sep 11, 2023 10:09 am
Maple Leaf Intro for September 11, 2023 Dear Gossips, Why did everything happen everywhere all at once this weekend? Some celebrities got married, others flaunted their relationships at the tennis, a couple posted apology videos that they looked annoyed about, a talk show host announced her controversial return, and there was a lot going on at the By Lainey • Sep 11, 2023 08:59 am
