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TIFF: Miss Julie or, Acting: The Movie!
The 2014 edition of TIFF ends tonight and so will Nathaniel's review coverage with Still Alice. Wrap-ups and Oscar updates coming shortly thereafter. Now Liv Ullman's Miss Julie... "Kiss my shoe!"...
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Yes No Maybe So: Serena
Manuel here to walk us through the recently released trailer for a film many of us had surely written off, Susanne Bier’s Serena. The 2012 film will finally see the light of day when it premiere next...
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TIFF Awards Brunch, Or 'But I Saw So Many Movies!'
Little known factoid: I actually don't like hearing about festival awards IF I attended said festival. Unless I'm on a jury of course. Invariably it makes you feel like a lightweight no matter how many...
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TIFF: "Still Alice," or Adjust Your Best Actress Charts
The final TIFF feature review. Whew, 25 films screened and written up. And all by closing night! Please give me a round of applause in the comments. I've never been this successful at managing a...
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Box Office Report - No Good Dolphin Tale
Margaret here, back to report on another quiet weekend at the box office. Powered by the considerable force of charisma that Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson supply, home-invasion thriller No Good Deed...
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Back to School with, um, Back to School
Andrew here with the late and last back to school entry, which makes sense because the 1986 mega-hit Back to School is all about heading back to school late. Those first few back at school are always a...
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Open Thread. What did I miss?
THE LEFTOVERS just gets better and better. how phenomenal is Ann Dowd any way?It occurred to me yesterday while making an exceedingly poor attempt to fully recuperate from TIFF madness (I should have...
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Beauty vs Beast: American Beauty vs American Beast
JA from MNPP here - it's that "Beauty vs Beast" time again! Over the past few months a lot's been written about the wonderful movie year that was 1999 now that we're a solid fifteen years away from it...
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Thoughts I Had...While Admiring the Beauty of Brangelina in "By the Sea"
abstew here with some random thoughts on the just released new stills from the newest directorial effort of Oscar winner Angelina Jolie, By the Sea. EW received the exclusive pics (hence the magazine's...
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Curio: Actorly Outerwear
Alexa here. Sweater and jacket weather is upon us, that brief time of year where I can pretend to be strolling through the Upper West Side autumns of Woody Allen, or imagine myself on the golden...
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Amir Sat on a Branch Reflecting on TIFF
Amir here, looking back at the Toronto Film Festival that recently wrapped up. "Girlhood," superior to Boyhood and one of the best of TIFF 14 You may have noticed that after a few years of covering the...
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An Evening With Patty! (Also "Maze Runner," Something Something?)
Patty Clarkson last night in NYCLast night I attended Teen Vogue's Maze Runner screening and though I'll be writing it up for my gig at Towleroad later this week, I must share with you, my devout...
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Review: The Guest
Hey, folks. Michael Cusumano here to give some love to one of the under-the-radar gems of 2014. Watching Adam Wingard’s The Guest lets the viewer experience what it would be like to fish an unexpected...
View ArticleLesbian Request Accepted
Manuel here to share a rather beautiful coming out story from the Orange is the New Black set that has been spanning salacious headlines for the past twenty-four hours. The short version: Lauren...
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Thoughts I Had... While Looking at Posters for Three New Musicals
You know how this works. Thoughts as they come to me without self censorship to speed up the blogging... Musical No. 1 INTO THE WOODS • This is how I look in the morning when I accidentally fall...
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The Link Graze
okay, more like The Link Gorge because there's so much of it. But how long has it been since we did a link roundup? whoopsie daisy. Chew away on these blog cuds today good readsNew York Times amazing...
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Top Ten: Movie Stars Coming to TV
Margaret here, with a Tuesday Wednesday Top Ten. Ready to rank the incoming class of movie stars trying their hand at the small screen. Every TV season, a new group of movie actors crops up on the fall...
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TIFF Jury of One: Nathaniel
Channing & Chastain hit TIFFAnd now, a superfluous but fun-to-write "awards" wrap of the 25 films I saw at TIFF to close out the coverage. I did a little wrap post for Towleroad as well, focused on...
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A Year with Kate: The Trojan Women (1971)
Episode 38 of 52: In which even Katharine Hepburn and Vanessa Redgrave cannot save a 3,000 year old stinker. As a budding theater and film student, my freshman year of college I landed in Intro to Set...
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157 days 'til Oscar
We're still five months and a few days away from Oscar night so is it possible that things are starting to lock up? Ehhhh yes but mostly no. Every year all over the web casual movie fans and awards...
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