TIFF 2018: The Hate U Give Has the Potential to Empower a Generation
A teenage girl and boy who didn’t know each other were making friends in line for the 2nd screening of The Hate U Give at TIFF. “So, you already saw it?” he asked her. “Yeah, at the premiere with the cast and everything. They came out after to talk about it,” she said excitedly. This would be his first festival film. “I didn’t even know until recently you could come to this. I thought it was some snobbish thing,” he said.
The Solo: A Star Wars Story Cast On What It’s Like to Jump into Hyperspace
In the fall of 2019, Star Wars fans will have the opportunity to climb into the Millenium Falcon cockpit and try their hand at flying like Han in Disney World. Until then, we’ll have to take the cast of Solo’s word for it that it’s incredibly awesome. The special effects team actually built the Star Wars ride of our dreams for the infamous Kessel Run scene. i09 has an exclusive featurette from the Solo: A Star Wars Story home video release where the cast recalls filming on board the ship.
Henry Cavill is Hanging up the Cape as Superman
Henry Cavill is hanging up the cape after playing Superman in three films. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story that Cavill and Warner Bros. have parted ways (neither side has confirmed this as of yet) after three films, beginning with 2013’s Man of Steel, then 2016’s Batman v Superman and last year’s Justice League. Cavill’s arc as Superman saw him in a bruising three-part story that began with his arrival on Earth,
TIFF 2018: First Man Actor Skyler Bible on Working on Damien Chazelle’s Revelatory Space Drama
First Man represents the first time we’re getting a full-blown biopic about the legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong. Academy-award winning director Damien Chazelle‘s film, scripted by Spotlight and The Post‘s Academy-award winning scribe Josh Singer (based on the book by James R. Hansen) tells the story behind the first manned mission to the moon, with the focus squarely on Armstrong (Ryan Gosling). The Apollo 11 mission that ultimately leads to Armstrong’s iconic first steps on the moon took a decade to prepare,
TIFF 2018: Hans Zimmer on The Dark Knight, Wonder Woman 1984 & More
Hans Zimmer is no stranger to working with directors who have a ferocious passion. Yesterday, we published our interview with the Oscar-winning composer about his score for Steve McQueen’s thrilling crime drama Widows. Zimmer’s minimalist, intimate score blended perfectly with McQueen’s film about three women navigating the criminal underworld in Chicago to pull off a nearly impossible bank heist. They’re attempting to pay off their dead husband’s deaths and forge their own paths,
TIFF 2018: Legendary Composer Hans Zimmer on Scoring Steve McQueen’s Sensational Widows
Hans Zimmer’s minimalist, intimate score for Widows gets under your skin. The legendary composer creates a sonic environment that feels as pressurized and cloistered as the predicament of our four heroines. When you see Steve McQueen’s brilliant crime drama, you’ll notice a persistent humming throughout. As the stakes rise for the three women at the center of the story (the widows of three dead criminals who now must pull off a monumentally dangerous heist to pay off their debts and forge a path of their own),
TIFF 2018: Compassion Transcends a Harrowing True Story in Hotel Mumbai
Hotel Mumbai is searing. It is a full two hours of terror that seems nearly unbearable at times. Just recalling it, I find myself shifting in my seat, made anxious by the memory. It is the type of film that needs no 3D or virtual reality technology to immerse you fully. There is no way to transfer trauma, but this film is the closest I could imagine you can get to understanding the pain of these victims.
Jordan Peele in Talks to Bring Back the Candyman
Hellraiser might be the film that comes to mind most quickly when you hear the name Clive Barker, but Candyman is an even juicier slice of Barker’s works. The horror legend began both ideas as short stories with Candyman being adapted into a 1992 film starring Tony Todd. If you’re unfamiliar with the 90s trilogy, the story is gruesomely scary. It also has a socio-political narrative that begs to be explored and Jordan Peele may just be the man to do it.
Here’s Photographic Proof that Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye Will be in Avengers 4
We all had a lot of fun in the lead-up to Avengers: Infinity War regarding Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye. It became reasonably evident about mid-way through the promotional period that Hawkeye was not going to be in the Russo Brothers franchise-tilting epic. Once Hawkeye didn’t appear in any of the teasers or trailers, an entire cottage industry of “where’s Hawkeye?” faux outrage was born. It was fun. The artist Boss Logic got involved,
TIFF 2018: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s A Star is Born Shimmers & Soars
We’ve seen a lot of really good films at the Toronto International Film Festival thus far, including the Halloween‘s return to terrifying form and Jason Reitman’s political drama The Front Runner. David Mackenzie’s bloody, muddy epic Outlaw King gave us Chris Pine as the 14th-century Scottish nobleman and rebel Robert the Bruce, and Shane Black delivered a funny, vicious buddies-versus-aliens romp in The Predator.
TIFF 2018: The Front Runner Depicts a Politician who Pays for his Infidelities
Pity the politician whose purity of purpose is undone by a puerile media (and pardon the journalist’s alliteration). This seems to be the overarching belief of 1988 presidential candidate Gary Hart (an excellent Hugh Jackman) in Jason Reitman‘s The Front Runner. Hart had the misfortune of running for the highest office in the land just as the media landscape was changing forever. He’d been in politics nearly two decades by then,
TIFF 2018: Halloween Really is That Good
I have never belonged to the camp that believes something you truly love can be tarnished in the slightest by adding to it. Don’t like an adaptation of your favorite novel? Enjoy the book. Hate the film version of your favorite Broadway musical? No need to rip up the playbill. Loathe the sequel to your favorite film? Enjoy the original. In short, love what you love and ignore the rest.
And yet, I shuddered a little when I first heard a new Halloween was in the works.
TIFF 2018: David Mackenzie’s Bloody Epic Outlaw King
Muddy, bloody and massive in scope and scale, David Mackenzie’s Outlaw King might be Netflix’s most ambitious, sprawling release to date. The historical epic stars Chris Pine as the Robert the Bruce, the 14th-century Scottish noble whose legitimate claim to the throne was contested by fellow Scot Lord John Comyn (Callan Mulvey) and ultimately nullified by the English King Edward I (Game of Thrones’ Stephen Dillane).
Piecing Together the Captain Marvel Details that Will Affect the MCU
It has been long foreshadowed that Captain Marvel will be the future of the MCU. She is possibly the most powerful character, which will likely be tested in a showdown with Thanos in Avengers 4. But before that can occur, we need a proper introduction to the Starforce member.
In the Avengers: Infinity War post-credits scene, Nick Fury sends out a signal to humanity’s only hope, who appeared to be Captain Marvel.
How Fight Trainer Don Lee got Jennifer Garner Back in Action for Peppermint
Seventeen years after her star-making turn as Sydney Bristow in Alias, Jennifer Garner is back in action and back in action shape for the new movie Peppermint.
In the new movie (out today), Garner engages in hand-to-hand combat, knife fights, gunfights, and even a little boxing. She did the majority of her own stunts.
“She is heavily involved in her fight scenes. The majority of things she could do she does,” said Don Lee,
TIFF 2018: The Predator Premiere Heats Up Midnight Madness
The Predator kicked off TIFF’s Midnight Madness series to a rowdy crowd last night. The production filmed in Vancouver and premiered to a welcoming Canadian audience. Many of the fans were willing to come alone to one of the festival’s farthest flung theaters to experience what Shane Black had cooked up. We were rewarded for it with some of the smartest laughs of a modern action film and outrageously gruesome new conflict. Even if we didn’t know any of our seatmates,
TIFF 2018: DP Pepe Avila del Pino on Bending Genres in The Kindergarten Teacher
Director of photography Pepe Avila del Pino lensed Sara Colangelo‘s daring The Kindergarten Teacher (Netflix, premiering on October 10, 2018), starring Maggie Gyllenhaal about the unusually intense bond Gyllenhaal’s kindergarten teacher Lisa Spinelli forms with a student, Jimmy Roy (Parker Sevak) she’s sure is a child prodigy. Written by Colangelo and based on a script by Nadav Lapid, an Israeli writer/director whose 2014 feature of the same name inspired the film,
Who is Truly Featured in this Suspiria Poster?
If the eyes are the window to the soul, do these eyes reveal the soul of Lutz Ebersdorf or Tilda Swinton? Suspiria has released a character poster of Ebersdorf, a novice actor, as Dr. Jozef Klemperer. Yet, why is his initial foray into filmmaking so mysterious? The poster is actually an incredible image and is interesting in itself. However, the unknown actor is rumored to be Tilda Swinton in prosthetics.
The Doctor Strange actress is credited in the film as Madame Blanc,
The Incredible De-Aging of Samuel L. Jackson in Captain Marvel
Yesterday we shared the first batch of Captain Marvel photos (courtesy of Entertainment Weekly), which offered our first look at Brie Larson and her co-stars in the highly anticipated upcoming film. The film is set in the 90s and tells an origin story (of sorts) of how Larson’s Carol Danvers became Captain Marvel, arguably the most powerful superhero in the Marvel universe. Because of Captain Marvel‘s 90s setting,
The AHS: Apocalypse Trailer is a Greatest Hits Bonanza
The first trailer for American Horror Story: Apocalypse is completely batty. Familiar characters may have returned, but the suffocating angst of Murder House and glamorous sophistication of Coven have given way to the outrageous. Some of the most fun personas from the series return in a wild mashup mixed with a wild new storyline.
“No need for the rules anymore. The chaos has won,” the trailer declares.
