Movie Reviews and Previews Greta Gerwig’s colorful Narnia is here One of Netflix’s biggest gambles of all time comes in February of next year in the form of Greta Gerwig’s first post-Barbie project, Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. The trailer dropped yesterday, and it is certainly fantastical and colorful. I would have really liked to have an By Sarah • Oct 14, 2026 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Deep Cut Romance Cailee Spaeny was seen in New York yesterday on the set of Deep Cuts, the film adaptation of Canadian author Holly Brickley’s bestselling book. It’s a good, quick read – about two people who are brought together and then torn apart by music. This is a classic soundtrack friend By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews MV85 LFG I like this thing that studios are doing just as production begins on a film – sharing footage from the screen test process as the actors begin to find their characters and their performances through their wardrobes. It helps to build anticipation for the project but also they often time it By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 11:14 am
What Else Here comes John Malkovich Programming note: it’s Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday. We’ll resume on the site on Tuesday but as always, we’ll keep the chat threads going on The Squawk. Join us there! The BFI London Film Festival is happening, which is the stop on the trophy trail that best serves By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Grace Moretz is back with a rom-com It’s October! It’s spooky season! You know what that means…it’s time for a rom-com! Seriously, there’s a history of romantic comedies coming out in October. I clocked it first twenty years ago with Sweet Home Alabama, when I spent half the film pondering the By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 02:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aaron Sorkin’s insufferable attitude in The Social Reckoning Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for The Social Network, a film about Facebook’s and Mark Zuckerberg’s rise to power that has aged incredibly well, as it is more scathing and prescient now than it was in 2010. Now, Sorkin is back with a sequel-ish film, The Social By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 11:20 am
Glen Powell Intro for October 9, 2026 Dear Gossips, Glen Powell is on the cover of Esquire’s October issue, because JJ Abram’s The Great Beyond, in which he stars, was supposed to hit theaters in November, only it got moved to October 2027, taking over The Batman Part II’s original(ish) release date (that By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 09:15 am
Jessica Chastain All of Jessica Chastain’s Horrors Jessica Chastain was at Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to promote her movie Other Mommy, opening this weekend, and I will not be seeing it because I am not built for that kind of fright – but I do LOVE that she’s a scream queen, a proud scream queen, a By Lainey • Oct 08, 2026 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Debut in theatre kid central As I’ve already mentioned a number of times, The Debut was my favourite film of TIFF 2026. I LOVE this movie SO MUCH, to the point where it became my festival personality – all I wanted to do was talk to people about The Debut, perhaps to verify that the By Lainey • Oct 08, 2026 12:53 pm
What Else Noah Centineo is Street Fighter now The Street Fighter hype has completely missed me until today. I was never into the video game beyond having to listen to my friends talk about it so it makes sense that the movie hasn’t infiltrated my algorithm and that I’ve been barely aware that it’s about By Lainey • Oct 07, 2026 04:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben and Kerry do good press Ben Affleck and Kerry Washington have been all over my feed for at least a week now as they promote their new movie, Animals, arriving on Netflix on October 9. Kerry plays Abigail to Ben’s Mark Kimball, who is running for mayor when their son is kidnapped. It’s By Lainey • Oct 07, 2026 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 7, 2026 Dear Gossips, Ang Lee’s sumptuous 1995 film, Sense and Sensibility, is widely considered to be a gold standard for Jane Austen adaptations. As Sarah often says, though, every generation deserves their version of Austen – and they’re getting it this fall in theatres and on television. Netflix’s Pride By Lainey • Oct 07, 2026 10:20 am
Top Reads Here comes Artificial Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, about Meta and Mark Zuckerberg and whistle blowing, opens this Friday. Reviews are embargoed until tomorrow but from the early reactions that I’ve seen so far, the most common description is that it’s “solid”. Solid is good, but it is not spectacular, By Lainey • Oct 06, 2026 02:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Biel gets a moment The cast of Matchbox: The Movie was in New York last night for the premiere. John Cena, Sam Richardson, Arturo Castro, Teyonah Parris, and Jessica Biel have been making the press rounds lately and showed up on the red carpet. Matchbox is going straight to streaming on AppleTV on October By Lainey • Oct 06, 2026 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson in Verity Colleen Hoover strikes again, as another adaptation of the best-selling author’s work is launched into theaters with Verity. The latest Hoover-on-film comes from screenwriter Nick Antosca and director Michael Showalter, who maybe had a vibe that the source material is a bit ridiculous and shouldn’t By Sarah • Oct 05, 2026 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Connor Storrie in April X April X, a vaguely dystopian, vaguely cyberpunk sci-fi thriller is the kind of first-time film no one really remembers…unless someone involved happens to hit the Hollywood lottery. In this case, it’s star Connor Storrie, who filmed April X months before landing the role of Ilya Rozanov By Sarah • Oct 02, 2026 02:36 pm
