Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo and Adam Driver reunite In 2022 James Gray—an American filmmaker who plays better in Europe than he does at home, even though he has made some banger films like Little Odessa, We Own the Night, and Ad Astra—made a coming-of-age drama inspired by his own childhood called Armageddon Time. It stars Anne By Sarah • Jun 11, 2025 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Megalopolis is Cats Once in a while a film is made which is so ambitious it becomes profound, a film that attempts to encapsulate the whole of human experience, a film that is richly complex, beautifully crafted, perfectly acted, which tells a story of humanity and frailty and greed and loss and love, By Sarah • Sep 27, 2024 01:09 pm
Cannes 2024 Cannes parties and Megalopolis mess After a year of rumor and innuendo that it’s a nightmare production and a mess of a movie, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis premiered at Cannes yesterday and…it’s a mess. Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘MEGALOPOLIS’ includes a sequence in which a man walks onto the physical stage By Sarah • May 17, 2024 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Megalopolis starring Adam Driver Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed new film, Megalopolis, will premiere at Cannes in two days. A teaser trailer dropped this morning, and despite a lot of rumors that this was a nightmare production followed by a baffled reception by potential distributors—the film does not yet have a distribution deal— By Sarah • May 14, 2024 02:15 pm
Theatre Nerd Intro for March 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, Succession’s final award season wrapped up recently at the SAG Awards, though Jeremy Strong, our number one boy, was absent from every show. Jeremy was filming in Toronto last year and then started prepping for his return to Broadway in Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the By Lainey • Mar 19, 2024 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver in Ferrari Director Michael Mann returns after an eight-year hiatus with Ferrari, a biopic of legendary automotive engineer and designer Enzo Ferrari. Adapted from Brock Yates’ biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine by Troy Kennedy Martin, Ferrari is a sometimes frustrating snapshot of a man who shaped By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Where is Ferrari’s momentum? Of all the year-end movies, I am probably most looking forward to Ferrari. I love Michael Mann, I have missed him, and am glad he’s back with a film about cars, sex, desire, competition, and death. The latest trailer for Ferrari is all about Enzo Ferrari as played by By Sarah • Oct 19, 2023 11:08 am
Patrick Dempsey Ferrari is a romance It doesn’t much fit into film criticism and celebrity gossip, but I love cars. (Motorcycles, too, but the older I get, the less I can will myself onto a bike, and I 100% cannot believe I used to ride every day, like for real, how did I not die. By Sarah • Aug 31, 2023 03:33 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 28, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Venice Film Festival will kick off this Wednesday – you’ll recall, they’d originally announced that the opening night film would be Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, starring Zendaya. Due to the Hollywood strike, Challengers was pulled from the festival and pushed back for release; it will now By Lainey • Aug 28, 2023 09:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Infinite Adam Drivers Back in December, we saw a trailer for a new Adam Driver movie called 65, in which Adam Driver fights a dinosaur. I called it cashing in, which is okay because this mountainous man puts up with a lot from us, the thirsty internet, and in exchange for not swatting By Sarah • Feb 13, 2023 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aubrey and Adam in the cold Francis Ford Coppola commenced filming his long-gestating passion project, Megalopolis, in Atlanta in November. Among the sprawling ensemble cast are Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza, who is sporting blonde hair for a character called “Wow Wee”. I’m sure that name isn’t an indication of anything about the movie, By Sarah • Dec 20, 2022 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver cashes in Human sequoia Adam Driver puts up with a lot from his adoring public, from graphic “Reylo” fanfic, to being called things like “human sequoia” on the internet, to John Oliver’s massive crush, and in exchange for his endless patience and not stepping on us all like ants with his By Sarah • Dec 16, 2022 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in White Noise Somewhere there exists a film adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel, White Noise, that is as good as the production design in the currently existing film adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel, White Noise. Written for the screen and directed by Noah Baumbach, White Noise is the odd misfire from By Sarah • Dec 16, 2022 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Adam Driver help save Netflix? Netflix has had a rough year, but maybe a strong awards season run can turn things around. Wall Street doesn’t seem to be buying streamers’ bullsh-t anymore about the promise of endless money at the end of the rainbow, but maybe a strong slate of must-see films will draw By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Gaga and Adam Driver in House of Gucci Ridley Scott has already hit one out of the park this year with The Last Duel, now he returns with House of Gucci, an overlong film that is unequally a family drama and a half-hearted true crime docu-drama. Lady Gaga stars as Patrizia Reggiani, daughter of a middle-class Italian family. By Sarah • Nov 24, 2021 11:08 am
Amazingness Lady Gaga delivers in London It was expected. For this film in particular, for this character, Lady Gaga would bring drama and spectacle, a symphony of extra, to the red carpet. And she did last night in London for the UK premiere of House of Gucci. Should we care about the reviews? Well, you can, By Lainey • Nov 10, 2021 10:21 am
