Movie Reviews and Previews Get out the tissues for Wakanda Forever The big finale of Marvel’s three-year plan presentation was the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever panel and the teaser for the movie. The overwhelming sentiment after the first look landed on the internet was “already crying”, and there’s no doubt everything around and about this movie is going to By Sarah • Jul 25, 2022 04:03 pm
TV Updates Marvel’s terrifying three-year plan In the binary winner/loser parlance that has overtaken the Comic-Con discourse, Marvel “won” Comic-Con, hands down. No one came CLOSE to the level of in-room hype or social media dominance as Marvel did Saturday night. Most of what was announced was just titles and dates, only two actual trailers By Sarah • Jul 25, 2022 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves’ Comic Con surprise On Friday afternoon at Comic-Con, Keanu Reeves stepped into Hall H for a panel about his comic book, BRZRKR, which has a pending live-action adaptation and anime spin-off in the works. Footage from those projects does not exist yet, though, so Reeves surprised the trailer-happy crowd with a teaser for By Sarah • Jul 25, 2022 11:36 am
What Else What Else? The January 6 hearings are slowly driving us all mad. Exhibit A: Twitter went nuts for a mildly cute white dude in the audience who looks like Clark Kent, if the criteria for looking like Clark Kent is just “wears glasses”. (DListed) Zac Efron adds fuel to the fire that By Sarah • Jul 22, 2022 04:00 pm
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
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t Worry Darling looks like Hitchcock in Palm Springs Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling is tipped to premiere at the Venice Film Festival this fall, which means it will be a busy festival season for Harry Styles, who will also have My Policeman at TIFF. A new trailer dropped for Darling yesterday, and I hope this one By Sarah • Jul 22, 2022 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who is the Gary of Dungeons & Dragons? You guys! They got crusty Hugh Grant to Comic Con! And he actually seemed to have a good time! Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was the only film panel in Hall H yesterday, and Hugh Grant showed up, ready to play. Check him out working the crowd with a By Sarah • Jul 22, 2022 11:07 am
Style Ryan Gosling’s jacket devotion We started the week with Ryan Gosling, let’s end the week with Ryan Gosling. Here is The Gos in New York, promoting The Gray Man—now on Netflix—and stopping by FAO Schwartz for some Barbie stuff. Is Mattel not flinging swag at him, their live-action Ken? If they By Sarah • Jul 22, 2022 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, Do you need a break from, you know, all of it? Just everything? At the end of your rope, exhausted, all full up on bad news? If you are, Ethan Hawke is providing a perfect escape via his new docu-series, The Last Movie Stars. It’s about legendary By Sarah • Jul 22, 2022 09:34 am
TV Updates Dorkstorm 2022: Return of the King San Diego Comic-Con is back for its first full convention since 2019. This year, it’s less about specific panels and the schedule of events, as it is determining what Comic-Con is in a still-COVID world. Comic-Con rose to pop cultural prominence throughout the 2000s and 2010s, but by 2019, By Sarah • Jul 21, 2022 01:23 pm
Douchebags Surprise: The SnyderCut phenomenon was fake! Cheeky headline, but it is at least partly true. Monday night, Rolling Stone released a comprehensive report of how the “SnyderCut”, Zack Snyder’s $100 million mulligan of The Justice League, came to be, and guess what? Just as everyone who has ever used social media already knew, there was By Sarah • Jul 20, 2022 11:37 am
What Else What Else? Jenifer Lewis got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame over the weekend. She wore this chartreuse pantsuit and told everyone to vote like our lives depend on it, because they do. (Go Fug Yourself) Tom Bower, a royal reporter, has a new book coming out about how Meghan By Sarah • Jul 18, 2022 04:07 pm
TV Updates The Weeknd’s The Idol The Weeknd is an artist whose music has always translated into a highly cinematic visual style through his videos and visual albums, especially his later works like After Hours and his Superbowl halftime show. So, I was interested when it was announced that he would create, produce, write, and star By Sarah • Jul 18, 2022 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson in "Persuasion" Carrie Cracknell’s new film about a Regency spinster whiling her days away after suffering a heartbreak during her younger years is called “Persuasion”, but let’s be clear—this is NOT an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, Persuasion. Despite the title and surface similarities like character names and By Sarah • Jul 18, 2022 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A little less love for Thor It should have been a relatively quiet weekend at the box office, with the only major new releases being a kids’ movie, Paws of Fury, and a female-driven literary adaptation, Where the Crawdads Sing. But a furious debate ignited online over whether or not Marvel is in trouble because Thor: By Sarah • Jul 18, 2022 01:30 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan Gosling’s double denim Ryan Gosling is one of those celebrities who can go to ground when he wants, but he’s currently making a high-profile movie, Barbie, and releasing a high-profile movie, The Gray Man, so he’s more visible right now than he is during one of his work-droughts. Here he is By Sarah • Jul 18, 2022 12:38 pm
