Alden Ehrenreich Gossip

After all the behind-the-scenes drama and production strife, Solo: A Star Wars Story turned out okay. Better than okay—parts of it are really good. Unlike Rogue One, which bears the Frankensteinian scars of a multiple-director vision, Solo is cohesive from beginning to end, tonally and narratively consistent. Full Story

Quiet Cannes, right? There was the women’s march, and Kristen Stewart took off her shoes Full Story

Because everything is happening all of the time, before we can recover from our Avengers hangover—hell, before we can even enjoy the drunk—we’re already warming up the Solo press machine. The new Han Solo (NuHan), Alden Ehrenreich, covers Esquire this month with a profile that is part typical “on the cusp” celebrity profile and part damage control. Full Story

We’ve all just resigned ourselves to Solo happening to us, right? Like a trip to the dentist—it’s just something we have to get through. A jaunty new trailer has been released to encourage us to take our Star Wars fan service with grace and good cheer, but the most this trailer musters for me is: I like that editing beat with the buttons after “Push it!”, and also the voice of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s droid (she is the creator of Sandra Oh's project Killing Eve Full Story

Yesterday it was announced—surprising literally EVERYONE—that directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are leaving the young Han Solo movie. Yes, that young Han Solo movie, the one starring Alden Ehrenreich Full Story

The Han Solo spin-off does not yet have a title, so for now I’m calling it Han Solo & Friends. The just-released first cast photo shows off Han (Alden Ehrenreich), Lando (Donald Glover Full Story

It’s been fifteen years since Warren Beatty has appeared in a movie, and nearly twenty since he last directed a film, but Beatty returns to film—in front of and behind the camera—with Rules Don’t Apply, his long-gestating Howard Hughes movie. Full Story

Star Wars Celebration, a sort of mini-Comic Con dedicated solely to all things Star Wars, was held in London over the weekend. (There won’t be a Hall H Star Wars presentation this year, and one wonders how long before Disney starts doing this for Marvel, too.) There wasn’t much actual news to come out of the event—we already knew about Alden Ehrenreich Full Story

Warren Beatty has being trying to get a movie about Howard Hughes made for as long as I’ve cared about movies. I have never known a time when the “Warren Beatty/Howard Hughes movie” wasn’t some mystical idea of the next Citizen Kane. Full Story

A couple of months ago, it was revealed that a long, LONG list of actors was being considered to play young Han Solo. Click here for a refresher. Then they narrowed it down to a shortlist, supposedly. Full Story

After my review of The Choice, which I hated, I got a slew of “why do you even review movies if you hate everything” emails, including one from a person who suggested that I just “try and put a positive spin” on my reviews. Full Story