#TIFF19: DAY THREE – JENNIFER LOPEZ, KRISTEN STEWART, DAKOTA JOHNSON, JAMIE DORNAN, CONSTANCE WU, CHRIS EVANS, JAMIE LEE CURTIS, TAIKA WAITITI + MORE

TIFF ’19 officially has kicked into high gear and you won’t believe the star power we witnessed!

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HUSTLERS – #SheInspiresMe Panel

 

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#TIFF19: Such an honour attending the #SheInspiresMe Panel with the Cast of #Hustlers including: #JenniferLopez, #ConstanceWu, #KekePalmer, #LiliReinhart + Director #LoreneScafaria. #TIFF Thank you, @Twitter! #HuaweiP30Pro

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#TIFF19: So touched hearing #ConstanceWu talk about being inspired by other artists as she didn’t grow-up in a family of creatives. So she does it all to inspire others and give back to the world. #SheInspiresMe @ConstanceWu #TIFF #Hustlers #HuaweiP30Pro

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#TIFF19: Hear how #JLo got rid of paps for Constance Wu, filming #Hustlers! @JLo @Elevation_Pics @ConstanceWu #TIFF #JenniferLopez #ConstanceWu #SheInspiresMe #HuaweiP30Pro

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SEBERG – Press Stop

 

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#TIFF19: #KristenStewart winning raves for her work in #Seberg. #TIFF #KStew #HuaweiP30Pro

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SYNCHRONIC – Press Stop

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#TIFF19 : #JamieDornan at #TIFF for #Synchrony + #EndingsBeginnings. #HuaweiP30Pro

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THE FRIEND – Press Stop

 

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#TIFF19: With the Cast of #TheFriend – #DakotaJohnson, #JasonSegel, #IsabellaKai + #JakeOwen. The Cast rolled around town in #LandRovers.

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COLOR OUT OF SPACE – Press Stop

 

SOUND OF METAL – Press Stop

 

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#TIFF19: My biggest crush, #RizAhmed who is at #TIFF for #SoundofMetal. Stay tuned for @davemabaldwin’s chat with him and Co-Star #OliviaCooke! Ahmed just received the #IMDb Star Meter Award!

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KNIVES OUT – Press Stop

 

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#TIFF19: With the Cast of #KnivesOut – #JamieLeeCurtis, #DonJohnson (whose daughter Dakota also is at #TIFF), #ToniCollette, #KatherineLangford, #JaedenMartell, #ChristopherPlummer + #ChrisEvans. #HuaweiP30Pro

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JOJO RABBIT – Press Stop

 

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#TIFF19: The Cast and Director of #JojoWabbit! With #TaikaWaititi, #StephenMerchant + #ThomasinMcKenzie. #HuaweiP30Pro

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THE LIGHTHOUSE – Press Stop

 

The HFPA-Hollywood Reporter Party

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#TIFF19: Always a blast at the #HFPA #HollywoodReporter Party! So happy seeing #AnselElgort who makes me so proud! He remembered me from the first time we met when he was making his first film! Now he stars in #TIFF Gala #TheGoldfinch and next in #WestSideStory! Other awesome sightings: #MatthewGrayGubler, #IslaFisher, #JonBernthal, #AlfieAllen, #CariceVanHouten, #KeeganMichaelKey, #GaryOldman, #GeraldineViswanathan (#TIFF Rising Star) + #CatrionaBalfe! #HuaweiP30Pro

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Also a joy chatting again with CP24‘s Kelly Linehan this morning! Thanks for tuning-in!

Informative and fun segment Will!! We’re on Festival Street tonight and off to a film tomorrow. Hope to see you around town Handsome! You’re always in the heart of all the media excitement. pic.twitter.com/SIZEnlLlxL

— YYZ Bliss (@yyz_bliss) September 7, 2019

(Photo/video credit: Mr. Will Wong)

#TIFF19: “THE FRIEND”

Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong

After Nicole (Dakota Johnson) is diagnosed with cancer, her friend Dane (Jason Segel) moves in to help her and her husband Matthew (Casey Affleck) with her appointments and treatments, taking care of their kids and keeping the house in order. And what is initially planned as a short multi-week stay quickly extends into many months.

The Friend is based on a true story, so that alone makes the emotional turmoil this family endures that much more devastating. While some scenes are heavy-handed, the core ensemble of Johnson, Affleck and especially Segel all deliver terrific work. But the Film around them is a mess. It jumps back and forth around timelines much too often, rarely stopping before jumping back into some part of the present. These flashbacks should be developing the characters better, but they seem to function only to piece together a vaguely coherent backstory. They share some facts with us, but keep others enigmatic (although one needless gut punch gets a lot of focus). I understand the struggle of not knowing what to cut, but feel like there was some pertinent information left out that could have taken The Friend from just being good to being truly great. Make sure you bring the tissues.

THE FRIEND screens during TIFF at the following times:

Friday September 6, 6:00pm @ Princess of Wales [World Premiere]
Saturday September 7, 2:30pm @ Princess of Wales