Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel rejects in Thunderbolts* It’s no secret that Marvel has been in a skid for a couple of years now, churning out subpar films that increasingly disinterest audiences, but even before that, when Marvel was at the height of their cultural power, it was a common acknowledgment that Marvel movies are rarely about By Sarah • May 02, 2025 01:50 pm
Style The Thunderbolts last push T-minus 3 days to Thunderbolts*, and it came up on the Squawk chat that this film has not gotten the wall-to-wall coverage Marvel has been afforded in the past. It’s not a reflection on the film, Thunderbolts* is EASILY the best movie Marvel has done since Guardians of the By Sarah • Apr 29, 2025 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Almost all the Thunderbolts* As Sarah just pointed out in her post about Sebastian Stan earlier today, even though he’s sort of the unofficial leader of the Thunderbolts* with his Marvel seniority, he was not at the UK premiere last night because he’s working on another project. I feel like they’ll By Lainey • Apr 23, 2025 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Flo is a world record holder Thunderbolts* is coming out in two weeks this Friday and Marvel has big hopes for this one, expected to be one of the biggest movies of the year. That means that from now until release date, we’ll be seeing the ensemble everywhere. Thunderbolts* is an ensemble but the truth By Lainey • Apr 15, 2025 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, CinemaCon concluded yesterday—at least, the studio presentation bit did—by bringing out the big guns. Literally Tom Cruise, who might as well be christened Mr. CinemaCon at this point, turned up for Paramount’s presentation, as did Edgar Wright and the stars of his new adaptation of By Sarah • Apr 04, 2025 09:25 am
Style Flo P at Harris Reed London fashion week has begun, and yesterday Florence Pugh opened Harris Reed’s runway show with a monologue commanding the audience to “be vulnerable”, “be chaotic”, and “always, always be yourself” while wearing a partially sheer gown with giant shoulders and eyelashes. Flo is a friend and muse of Harris By Sarah • Feb 21, 2025 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thunderbolts* looks promising The teaser trailer for Marvel’s Thunderbolts* officially dropped yesterday—“officially” because it leaked during Comic-Con—and whew, it’s a good one. Arguably the best teaser/trailer Marvel has released in a while. Like, take Marvel off it, and this just looks like a good movie. Thunderbolts* is sort By Sarah • Sep 24, 2024 10:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: We Live In Time It seems like every few years, we get a good old-fashioned weepy, usually about a romance doomed by disease, often cancer, that sunders a lovely couple, often when they are still young, and their fate feels all the more deeply unfair. The most recent entry into this very specific yet By Sarah • Sep 09, 2024 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The FloField movie is here At last year’s Oscars Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield set the internet ablaze with their palpable chemistry when they presented Sarah Polley with the Best Adapted Screenplay award. They were immediately dubbed “FloField” by Lainey, and just as quickly we learned they were making a movie together. Well, that By Sarah • Jul 11, 2024 10:43 am
Assy Style What color is Lupita’s dress? Oscars fashion controversy! Lupita Nyong’o wore a custom Armani Prive gown to the 2024 Oscars with a feathered peplum and hem, which was 1) a dress originally designed for 2020 but Lupita ended up hanging onto it till now and 2) supposedly a “tribute” to her iconic 2014 Oscar By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Youths in Dune: Part Two When Dune came out in 2021, I concluded my review of that mixed-bag film by saying that “We can only hope that Part Two will stand better on its own than Part One does.” Well, Dune: Part Two is here and while it does work better on its own as By Sarah • Mar 01, 2024 11:47 am
Zendaya Coleman Zendaya, Oscars… INCOMING! If you come here often, you were already excited for the Oscars, because it’s the gossip Super Bowl. But now, now that the first wave of presenters has been announced, that excitement just went nuclear. Because… ZENDAYA. As if this Dune: Part 2 press tour wasn’t enough with By Lainey • Feb 26, 2024 03:09 pm
Hook Ups Flo and Paul: Made by the Internet Florence Pugh and Paul Mescal were both at the BAFTAs this weekend. And of course they hit the afterparties. Now according to the British tabloids they might be a thing – the Sun is reporting that they were hanging out at the Netflix post-BAFTA event. Here’s how they reported it: By Lainey • Feb 20, 2024 10:35 am
Style Zendaya, and everyone else The Dune films come from the same studio, Warner Bros, that is trying to delete Coyote vs Acme . Denis Villeneuve’s involvement with WB for Dune pre-dates current CEO David Zaslav, but I am mentioning this because he now has a reputation for f-cking up art and f-cking with artists By Lainey • Feb 16, 2024 10:21 am
Style Team Dune cares about the looks I’ve been calling them the Dune Fab Four – Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, and Austin Butler, the young cast of Dune: Part 2, who just kicked off the press tour last week – because of the place they each occupy in pop culture, all of them internet fixations in their By Lainey • Feb 08, 2024 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Dune Fab Four blast off This has been one of the most highly anticipated press tours of the last few years – Dune: Part 2 opens on March 1 and this week its young cast has started promotion. The first film was released in 2021 when the box office was still really struggling from COVID and By Lainey • Feb 02, 2024 10:42 am
