Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most enduring works of English literature, often considered one of the first, if not the first, science fiction novels, as well as an early flagship in horror literature. It has been adapted and reimagined countless times over the centuries, the latest iteration By Sarah • Sep 10, 2025 10:42 am
Only Murders In The Building Intro for August 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, The trailer for Only Murders in the Building season five was released yesterday featuring of course our favourite podcasting trio – Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez – and several Arconia residents, plus a lot of Oscar winners. Double and triple Oscar winners, actually. Meryl Streep has three of By Lainey • Aug 13, 2025 09:30 am
Oscars 2024 Just dudes being bros This year, the Oscars brought back the five-presenter format for the acting awards, in which previous winners personally introduced each of the five nominees. It’s a fun piece of living Oscar history, even if I would ALSO like to see clips of the nominated performances (make the show four By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Downsizing is about shrink rays?! Alexander Payne is an Oscar regular. He’s one of those filmmakers who gets instant consideration, thanks to films like About Schmidt, The Descendants, and Nebraska. (His best movie is still Election.) And he’s back in contention this year with Downsizing, starring Matt Damon—also Oscar-friendly—Kristen Wiig, and By Sarah • Aug 30, 2017 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spectre is Daniel Craig’s worst Bond movie In 2006 Daniel Craig debuted as the dark, gritty James Bond for an updated—read: dark and gritty—take on the Bond franchise in Casino Royale. That is a good movie and it opened up Bond to a new generation of fans. He reprised the role in 2008’s Quantum By Sarah • Nov 06, 2015 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The longest Bond The world premiere of Spectre is on Monday in London. The movie will open in North America a couple of weeks later. The junkets and major press commitments are happening now. Here are shots of the cast at a photo call today. And Daniel Craig, James Bond himself, is smiling By Lainey • Oct 22, 2015 05:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gorgeous, Grim Bond There’s a new trailer for the latest Bond movie, Spectre, and we finally get a clear look at some of the new characters in play, including Dave Bautista as Mr. Hinx, Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux as the femme fatales, and Christoph Waltz as Totally Not Blofeld. Officially Waltz’ By Sarah • Jul 22, 2015 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond 24: Spectre I like Bond movies but I'm no Bond historian. Spectre, the title of Bond 24, just announced today, will mean something to Bond nerds though the way "alohomora" means something to Potterheads (me). For many, a Bond film is an Event. My best friend Fiona is By Lainey • Dec 04, 2014 01:44 pm
Leonardo DiCaprio A Eulogy to Leo’s Sexiness What is Leo’s problem? The NY Django Unchained premiere happened last night and if you flip through the pics below you’ll see Olivia Wilde, Jamie Foxx, even Christoph Waltz having a great time, understandably excited to be celebrating one of the year’s best reviewed movies. Then there’ By Dean • Dec 12, 2012 02:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Django’s first trailer As I’ve been saying for a while now... this is the movie I’m waiting for. More than The Dark Knight Rises, more than anything else, even Les Miserables, it’s Django Unchained. Advance footage from the film, opening in December, was screened in Cannes. In comparison this trailer By Lainey • Jun 06, 2012 04:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leo the villain Entertainment Weekly has the first look at Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated Django Unchained starring Jamie Foxx as a slave liberated by Christoph Waltz and their efforts to free Foxx’s wife, Kerry Washington, who’s held at a plantation owned by a sadistic f-ck played by Leonardo DiCaprio. What By Lainey • Apr 26, 2012 12:31 pm
