Movie Reviews and Previews Under the sea with MONSTERS The world premiere of The Little Mermaid (live action redux) was last night in Los Angeles. Everyone turned up: Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay—grown up!—Daveed Diggs, who voices Sebastian in the film, and Viscountess Bridgerton herself, Simone Ashley, who plays one of Ariel’s By Sarah • May 09, 2023 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Prince Eric At Last Over the summer, pieces for the live-action Little Mermaid steadily came together, with Halle Bailey signing on to play Ariel, and Melissa McCarthy joining as Ursula, followed by Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay and Awkwafina as Flounder and Scuttle, respectively, and Javier Bardem as King Triton (brilliant choice, hiring By Sarah • Nov 13, 2019 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Good Boys is actually good This summer has seen a greater than ever divide between the haves (Disney) and the have nots (everyone else) at the box office, but Good Boys opened over the weekend with $21 million, making it only the third original movie to top the box office THIS YEAR (yikes on bikes By Sarah • Aug 20, 2019 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey is the real Ariel On the heels of the so-so news about Melissa McCarthy playing Ursula in the live-action Little Mermaid comes the GLORIOUS news that Halle Bailey, of Chloe x Halle fame, will play Ariel. There was some initial confusion that Halle Berry is playing Ariel, which Halley-mark-Berry set straight on Twitter: In By Sarah • Jul 04, 2019 10:19 am
Maple Leaf Good Boys act out Seth Rogen is a busy dude. This month, he has The Long Shot, which Joanna just saw at SXSW and loved. But he’s also in The Lion King, an episode of Jordan Peele’s reimagined Twilight Zone, and is going to play Walter Cronkite in a movie (there’s By Sarah • Mar 12, 2019 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Munn in The Predator The Predator is the latest (misguided) attempt to extend the mythos of Predator, the 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger classic. Predator, like the DeLorean, was a one-off idea that never should have been franchised, and yet it has been, with The Predator being an attempt to kickstart a new franchise with new, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2018 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews First look at Xavier Dolan's John F Donovan is conspicuously timed... but very exciting With the Cannes Film Festival a week away, we finally get our first official photos from the set of Xavier Dolan's highly-anticipated The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. The film is not screening in Cannes because they’re not finished shooting but it does look fantastic By Joanna • May 12, 2017 11:59 am
Maple Leaf Your move, BB-8 Many people thought Jacob Tremblay deserved an Oscar nomination for his performance in Room. Brie Larson won the Best Actress Oscar for Room. And what she gave us in that film could not have happened without the other person in that room – Jacob. Jacob was named Best Actor (over Christopher By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 04:39 pm
Star Wars Well look who it is Industrial Light & Magic was presented with the Genius Award at Critics’ Choice last night. I’ve been to ILM in San Francisco. It’s an amazing facility. Yoda’s all over the place there, as he should be. And if he’d come out on stage to share the By Lainey • Jan 18, 2016 04:48 pm
TV Updates Half of Tracee Ellis Ross Do you watch black-ish? It’s one of the shows I have on auto-record on my PVR. And I will always watch black-ish on a plane. There have been times while watching black-ish on a plane that I’ve embarrassed myself and guffawed out loud. I think it was the By Lainey • Jan 18, 2016 10:51 am
Maple Leaf Intro for January 13, 2016 Dear Gossips, Jacob Tremblay, from Room. And also from Vancouver. I miss you every day, Vancouver. Anyway, Jacob’s dad was trending during the Golden Globes the other night, did you hear about this? Click here if you missed it. Fine…but what about mom? Jacob was accompanied by both By Lainey • Jan 13, 2016 09:05 am
BFFs Brie Larson campaigns with Jacob Tremblay Room co-stars Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay were at the National Board of Review awards last night in New York, both taking home trophies - Best Actress for her and Best Breakthrough Award for him, which he split with Beasts of No Nation's Abraham Attah, who flew in By Joanna • Jan 06, 2016 11:18 am
