Movie Reviews and Previews Trolling the NFL with horror It’s sort of wild that Jordan Peele has only directed three feature films, because he so quickly and completely set a benchmark for horror cinema, popularizing the concept of the “social thriller” with Get Out, loading his horror movies with imagery and metaphors for Black American life. Horror movies By Sarah • Aug 07, 2025 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Monkey Man is coming We’re a little more than a week away from Monkey Man, Dev Patel’s directorial debut in which he also stars as an ass-kicking revenge machine. I am SO stoked. Road House was a surprise because I expected literally less than nothing from it, but I have HIGH expectation By Sarah • Mar 26, 2024 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 21, 2023 Dear Gossips, It was announced yesterday that there will be two Jordan Peele movies coming in 2024. The first is from his production company, Monkeypaw Productions, and the second he will direct himself, scheduled to be released on Christmas Day, 2024. And…because this is Jordan Peele, that’s all By Lainey • Mar 21, 2023 09:00 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Ke and Keke win together The New York Film Critics Circle announced their winners list a few weeks ago but the award ceremony happened last night with several recipients in attendance, including the most awarded actor of the season so far: Ke Huy Quan, named Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Everything Everywhere All By Lainey • Jan 05, 2023 01:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, As expected, Jordan Peele’s Nope was the #1 movie at the box office this weekend so he’s three for three, as all three of his films have opened at #1 at the domestic box office. But that hasn’t been the dominant conversation about Nope on By Lainey • Jul 25, 2022 09:33 am
Steven Yeun Nope is the ultimate “nope” movie Nope is Jordan Peele’s third feature film, and it is the most “nope” of any movie I have ever seen. It’s hard to describe exactly what that means without spoiling things, but basically, it’s the feeling you get when you KNOW something is a bad idea expressed By Sarah • Jul 22, 2022 02:06 pm
Gorgessity The Jordan Peele Cinematic Universe I love Jordan Peele and I hate Jordan Peele. I love him because, well, he’s a generational talent, an incredible filmmaker. I hate him because I typically do not f-ck with the kind of films he makes – Jordan Peele specialises in horror/thriller, not my genre. But his movies By Lainey • Jul 19, 2022 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aw, Nope, WHY We are now just under two months out from Jordan Peele’s new film, Nope, and the hype train is rolling with a final trailer that gives a whole lot away. What the hell, Universal?! WHY? The joy of a Jordan Peele movie is the surprise! It's not By Sarah • Jun 10, 2022 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele’s Bad Miracle Last year, Jordan Peele teased us with a poster for his new film, Nope, which might be a play on the way people “nope” out of things, like horror movies. When the first trailer for Nope debuted on game day, Lainey texted me that she will be nope-ing out of By Sarah • Feb 14, 2022 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Teyonah Parris in Candyman Candyman opened at #1 at the US box office over the weekend, making Nia DaCosta the first Black female director to open a #1 film in North America. That is simultaneously a great accomplishment for her, and sad/embarrassing for the industry at large that it took until 2021 for By Sarah • Aug 30, 2021 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele’s Nope A common refrain whenever a new horror movie trailer drops is “nope”, which Jordan Peele is making literal by titling his new movie Nope. He dropped the first poster on Twitter yesterday, confirming the title, the release date—July 22, 2022—and the leading cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and By Sarah • Jul 23, 2021 01:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele’s and Issa Rae’s scary sinkhole Jordan Peele and Issa Rae are partnering on a…I guess we’ll call it a supernatural thriller, called Sinkhole. They will co-produce the project, and Rae might star in it. Based on Leyna Krow’s short story of the same name, it’s about a couple who move into By Sarah • Jul 30, 2020 11:36 am
TV Updates Welcome to Lovecraft Country HBO’s next big thing, they hope, is Lovecraft Country, a sci-fi/ horror/ adventure series based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name. It was developed by Underground’s Misha Green, and is produced by Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams. It has a lot going for it: prestige By Sarah • Jul 29, 2020 02:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Say his name Candyman legitimately terrified me when I was kid, to the extent that I white-knuckled a second viewing in a college folklore class ten years later, still as freaked out by it as the day I first saw it. I once threw a bottle of shampoo at a cabinmate at summer By Sarah • Feb 28, 2020 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 25, 2019 Dear Gossips, Jordan Peele’s Us exceeded box office projections this weekend, opening with $70.3 million and setting several records, proving that Get Out wasn’t a fluke (not that anyone thought it would be) and establishing him as an event filmmaker, the kind of storyteller who can deliver By Lainey • Mar 25, 2019 09:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele keeps it simple with Us After a stunning debut like Get Out, anything less than equal success is bound to seem like a disappointment. Such is the case for Jordan Peele’s sophomore feature film, Us. Is it bad? Emphatically NO. But it’s not as deep or thematically grounded as Get Out, which is By Sarah • Mar 22, 2019 09:54 am
