Day: September 14, 2015

Jennifer Jason Leigh cast as Lady Bird Johnson in Rob Reiner’s LBJ biopic

September 14, 2015

Jennifer Jason Leigh has signed on to play Lady Bird Johnson in Rob Reiner’s upcoming presidential biopic LBJ, EW has confirmed with Leigh’s rep. Woody Harrelson will star as Lyndon Baines Johnson, and the film will portray the 36th president’s life from his humble beginnings in Texas all the way to Washington, focusing on his chaotic […]

Rachel McAdams joining Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange

September 14, 2015

Rachel McAdams will work her magic opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange. EW has confirmed that the Midnight in Paris and The Notebook actress is set to join the upcoming installment of Marvel Studios’ blockbuster cinematic universe, which is to tell the story of neurosurgeon-turned-sorcerer Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch). Details have yet to be revealed about […]

Toronto Film Review: ‘Beeba Boys’

September 14, 2015

Like personality in domesticated animals, originality goes a long way in genre cinema, and Deepa Mehta’s “Beeba Boys” deserves recognition for being the first hyperviolent, Tarantino-inspired comedy to take place entirely within the Canadian Sikh criminal underworld. But as intriguing as it is to see the respected arthouse auteur cut loose with this deliriously unserious, […]

Toronto Film Review: ‘Freeheld’

September 14, 2015

Courtesy of Lionsgate It may be a sign of the sweeping changes that have occurred in the gay-rights arena that “Freeheld” — a fact-based drama about two New Jersey women who fought for due recognition of their domestic partnership in the mid-2000s — at times plays like a period piece, populated by cardboard bigots, flamboyant […]

Toronto Film Review: ‘Sunset Song’

September 14, 2015

Courtesy of TIFF After meticulously capturing the subtlest of emotions in such films as “The House of Mirth” and “The Deep Blue Sea,” director Terrence Davies turns his attention from the terrain of the human heart to that of the physical world beyond in “Sunset Song.” In full anamorphic 65mm splendor, the resulting landscapes are […]

Frank Gilroy, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter, dies at 89

September 14, 2015

Frank D. Gilroy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director, died Saturday of natural causes, his family confirmed. He was 89. Gilroy wrote the 1964 play The Subject Was Roses, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He also adapted the work for a 1968 film version that […]

Room wows Toronto, gains awards momentum

September 14, 2015

There are actually two stories in Room, director Lenny Abrahamson’s adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s best-selling novel about a young woman who’s help captive for seven years in a small shed along with her 5 year-old son, Jack. He’s never stepped a foot outside, never even seen a tree, and she’s taught him from birth that the entire world […]

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Caused This Plane Crash?

September 14, 2015

A plane was destroyed during the shoot of the latest film of Tom Cruise, this crash killed two people and critically injured one here, according to the country’s aviation authority and production banner Universal Pictures. The crew members had just wrapped up work on the new film Mena, Universal Pictures said in a statement. Colombia’s […]

Toronto Film Review: ‘The Ones Below’

September 14, 2015

Courtesy of Protagonist Pictures “In London, you never know your own neighbors,” observes the cosmopolitan creep downstairs in “The Ones Below,” a compact psychological thriller that makes a mostly persuasive argument for why that’s the case. With apologies due to Roman Polanski, David Farr’s debut feature brings the maternal anxiety (and “la-la-la” choral accents) of […]

Toronto Film Review: Ethan Hawke in ‘Born to Be Blue’

September 14, 2015

In a cinematic landscape awash with hairsplittingly literal musical biopics, it comes as a pleasant surprise to discover that Robert Budreau’s Chet Baker film, “Born to Be Blue,” is not a Chet Baker biopic at all. It is, instead, a film about a character who happens to share a name and a significant number of […]

See X-Men: Apocalypse’s Olivia Munn flaunt Psylocke fighting skills in latest video

September 14, 2015

Even after X-Men: Apocalypse wrapped production, Olivia Munn is still showing off her sword skills. The actress, who portrays Psylocke in the Bryan Singer-helmed sequel, posted a new video to Instagram to dazzle fans with her katana. ”One last freestyle session for the road,” she wrote, tagging her X-Men trainers Karine Lemieux and Ken C. Tran. […]

Frank Gilroy, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter, dies at 89

September 14, 2015

Frank D. Gilroy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director, died Saturday of natural causes, his family confirmed. He was 89. Gilroy wrote the 1964 play The Subject was Roses, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He also adapted the work for a 1968 film version that […]