Movie Reviews and Previews Crime-solving sheep in The Sheep Detectives Advancements in animation and technology means that we can now make photorealistic, hybrid live-action and animated movies about animals going on adventures entirely guilt free. Generations of us were scarred for life by learning of the fates of animals in such films as Free Willy, Homeward Bound, and Heaven’s By Sarah • May 08, 2026 03:13 pm
Pedro Pascal Pedro Pascal is warming up Well, I guess here is one middle-aged heartthrob, though I don’t think we really talk about Pedro Pascal in those terms, but he is fifty-one now. He has that certain timelessness that comes almost exclusively for men who don’t get famous until their thirties. Like Mark Ruffalo has By Sarah • May 08, 2026 10:10 am
Dominic Sessa Dominic Sessa returns as young “Tony” Bourdain You know what is so weird is that on Monday night during the Met Gala, I randomly wondered what Dominic Sessa, breakout star of The Holdovers, is up to, and then boom, a trailer for Tony, starring Dominic Sessa, dropped. Tony is a biopic about the late Anthony Bourdain, set By Sarah • May 07, 2026 12:23 pm
Martin Short The Real Marty Supreme It’s so good to see Martin Short, last night at the premiere of his upcoming documentary, Marty, Life is Short, premiering on Netflix next week. And he was there with his family and so many of his friends. Well now I’m crying already. The film is directed by By Lainey • May 07, 2026 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The iPhone Face Odyssey Tom Holland and Zendaya are going to have SUCH a huge summer because they are in the two movies expected to be among the biggest, if not THE biggest, movies of the season. Of course, there is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but there is also The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s By Sarah • May 06, 2026 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Runway crew reunites in The Devil Wears Prada 2 Since its 2006 debut, The Devil Wears Prada has become one of the most beloved “chick flicks” of the 2000s, a feel-good film about confidence and work that features a cluster of all-time great performances from Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt—who had her breakout role in this film—Stanley Tucci, By Sarah • May 01, 2026 02:32 pm
Jennifer Lopez CEO JLo’s Office Romance The celebrities we most associate with love? At the top or near the top of the list has to be Jennifer Lopez, personally and professionally. Personally we all know the motto: JLo loves love. JLo has been in and out of love since the moment she became famous, about 30 By Lainey • Apr 30, 2026 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Vibe checking Verity Anne Hathaway’s big year continues with Verity, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel of the same name. It’s a psychological thriller starring Annie, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett, and it’s coming in October. Makes sense, the teaser, which dropped this week, is giving big Rebecca, By Sarah • Apr 29, 2026 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B. Jordan’s animated movie Michael B. Jordan is a busy guy. He’s winning Oscars, he’s working on his remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, he’s going to co-star with Austin Butler in Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice remake, which I am sure will be a note-perfect popcorn movie, but as I By Sarah • Apr 27, 2026 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in Mother Mary The crossroad of success and sacrifice is beloved by the devil and storytellers alike, and David Lowery is the latest filmmaker to pitch his tent at that cursèd intersection, staking his new film, Mother Mary, in the same territory as The Red Shoes, Suspiria, and Black Swan, all films interested By Sarah • Apr 24, 2026 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews MBJ and Austin Butler: Miami Vice … manifested! Let’s start with Michael B Jordan because he pretty much went underground after winning the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Sinners but resurfaced last week at CinemaCon during the Amazon presentation to promote his version of The Thomas Crown Affair. This is a project he’s been By Lainey • Apr 23, 2026 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Clayface is the sad-eyed villain of our nightmares Matt Reeves’ The Batman might be my favorite superhero movie of all time. I know, I know, so controversial and brave of me to say out loud. It just understands the mythological nature of superheroes so well, and Reeves’ Batman is such a Gothic weirdo virgin loser, I love him. By Sarah • Apr 23, 2026 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Devil in London It was New York on Monday and now, just over a week before the movie opens on May 1, the cast of The Devil Wears Prada 2 is in London today for the premiere which, I think, is the last stop on the global tour. Unless they added another city By Lainey • Apr 22, 2026 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Coyote vs. Acme, at long last After surviving an attempted deletion by David Zaslav and Warner Bros. Discovery, like a toon escaping Judge Doom’s dip, Coyote vs. Acme has a release date (August 28) and, finally, a trailer. And guess what? It looks good as hell! Having grown up on Looney Tunes, I am all By Sarah • Apr 22, 2026 11:45 am
Top Reads The Owens sisters are back at last With all these legacy sequels coming out over the next year, I am on tenterhooks, living in Schrödinger’s box of managing expectations. As long as the movies are not yet out, they might still be good, which is very much where I am living with Practical Magic 2. Practical By Sarah • Apr 21, 2026 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Devil comes home New York City is unquestionably the home of The Devil Wears Prada. Runway, like Vogue, is based in New York. Runway is the office space, the setting, the spiritual nucleus – and both the sequel and the original are movies about work. They work in fashion, but beyond the clothes and By Lainey • Apr 21, 2026 10:44 am
