Who you gonna call? I’ve discovered that wearing my Ghostbusters jersey (or sweater, as Americans call it) and t-shirt are fast ways to getting people to smile at you. That, and shout out the phrase, “who you gonna call?” This week’s episode of The Rundown is in honour of the original movie, and a throw-forward to the new one, starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon. I had actually been working on this route for a while – I thought of it last year and just didn’t have the time to put it together. Now that I’ve seen the new film and it’s being released this weekend, the time…
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The Toronto Film Festival – Howzit Canada!
Howzit T.Dot! So happy to be back in Toronto for a third time, covering the film festival. It’s the only time I get to visit Canada, which is a shame really, as I always enjoy being here and would like to experience the place without the rush of having to get myself to a darkened cinema on time. But that is the aim for the next few days. The festival runs until the 14th but I will be leaving just before that to go to LA for another set of interviews. So, today begins the frenetic pace of fitting in film-watching, moviestar-interviewing, press-conference-hopping and of course, since I’m training for…
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Entertainment Express: Bill Murray, Sia, Songza, Nile Rodgers, Neil Gaiman
Hello! Team USA put on a valiant effort at the World Cup, but it was not to be. A little Nile Rodgers should help ease the pain… * One can never get enough Bill Murray, especially when he’s playing curmudgeon characters at the centre of a story. After supporting roles in The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Monuments Men, he returns to the lead role in St Vincent, in which he plays neighbour to Melissa McCarthy’s character and her son (cute newcomer Jaeden Lieberher). In the trailer for the film, which is due out in October, we see Murray offer to babysit as a way to earn a little extra money. It looks like the kind of…
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The Cannes Diaries – Of Bill, Bruce and Gaultier
And with that – the 65th Cannes Film Festival is a go! Wes Anderson’s movie, Moonrise Kingdom officially opened the festival. I saw the screening in the morning – pain au chocolat in hand – and was carried away by the whimsical delight of first love, set against a backdrop only Wes Anderson himself can create. At the press conference, the cast of Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Bruce Willis delighted us with anecdotes about the kind of set the director creates and how much fun and relaxed it is to work with him. Bill, dressed in a fantastic checked shirt, joked that he only works now…
