Issa Rae TOO MANY HANDS Next week is GQ’s comedy issue, and in advance they’ve released the cover which features Kate McKinnon, Sarah Silverman, Issa Rae, and HANDS. SO. MANY. HANDS. It creeps me out. Which is the intent, based on the satirical write up accompanying the cover, calling the plethora of HANDS By Sarah • May 18, 2018 08:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gabrielle Union in Breaking In Breaking In is the kind of movie that can’t stop reminding you that it will, relatively quickly, be over. The plot hinges on a timer counting down ninety minutes, the length of the movie itself, and occasionally characters will draw attention to the ticking clock, as if to assuage By Sarah • May 17, 2018 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart: Director Kristen Stewart is jurying at Cannes, which means a lot of talking to press for two solid weeks, something she is much better at now than she was at the height of her Twilight teen idoldom. (Dakota Johnson is also more relaxed and engaging when promoting anything other than Fifty By Sarah • May 17, 2018 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rami Malek nailed it I’ve been writing about the Freddie Mercury movie since my first days at LaineyGossip. Back then, it was a Sacha Baron Cohen vehicle. Then he dropped out, and Rami Malek took over. After that, coverage of this project took a turn as Bryan Singer was named on the Hollywood By Sarah • May 16, 2018 12:14 pm
Style Lando and Han on the Croisette Quiet Cannes, right? There was the women’s march, and Kristen Stewart took off her shoes, and Lars Von Trier predictably annoyed everyone, but it’s been relatively quiet, yes? It’s been quiet enough that The Hollywood Reporter ran an article devoted to Cannes’ “decline”. Frankly, it doesn’t By Sarah • May 16, 2018 08:56 am
TV Updates Benedict Cumberbatch dominates as Patrick Melrose Benedict Cumberbatch’s five-part limited series, Patrick Melrose, kicked off over the weekend, and the first episode teeters right on the edge of sublime and too much. Cumberbatch stars as the titular Patrick Melrose, an addict attempting to kick heroin—and nothing else—while retrieving his father’s ashes from By Sarah • May 15, 2018 10:36 am
Dumbass Timothy Olyphant joins Tarantino’s bad idea In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s apology tour earlier this year, I’ve been revisiting his movies, and it occurred to me, while re-watching Pulp Fiction, that the pitch for that movie would have sounded INSANE. There is no way to describe Pulp Fiction in a few sentences that By Sarah • May 14, 2018 03:08 pm
Equality Issues The Cannes Women’s March Eva Husson’s Girls in the Sun premiered at Cannes on Saturday, one of only three films in competition directed by a woman. Before the premiere, jury president Cate Blanchett led a march of 82 women up the famous red Palais steps. Significance? In the 71-year history of Cannes, only By Sarah • May 14, 2018 09:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa and Tiffany in The Kitchen Tiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy have gotten to work on their mob movie, The Kitchen, filming in 1970s get ups today. This is a really good look for both, right? 1970s fashion isn’t workable for everyone—the proportions are unforgiving and don’t work for me at all—but By Sarah • May 11, 2018 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Annette Bening goes comic book Captain Marvel filming is ongoing, and Brie Larson is still wearing that green suit that impresses no one. (I will NEVER stop complaining about this.) The movie is also still casting up, adding Annette Bening as “a scientist”. Captain Marvel stories are always full of scientists because Carol Danvers is By Sarah • May 11, 2018 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain made a lady spy movie happen Jessica Chastain has become one of the most visible advocates for women in the film industry, speaking out for more inclusion and using her position to get her co-stars equal pay. And now she’s not waiting for people to bring her starring vehicles, she’s making her own starring By Sarah • May 11, 2018 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cannes 2018: The Canning The Cannes Film Festival opened last night, and as I mentioned the other day when writing about the 2018 jury president, Cate Blanchett, it’s a weird time for Cannes. They’re fighting with Netflix—one of the last big spenders in the indie market—selfies, flat shoes, and #MeToo. By Sarah • May 09, 2018 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron in Tully With Tully, director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody collaborate for the third time, following Juno and Young Adult (one of the decade’s best films). Tully is the richest and most mature of their collaborations, anchored again, as in Young Adult, by a searing performance from Charlize Theron. These By Sarah • May 04, 2018 03:12 pm
Equality Issues Cate Blanchett’s talking point The Cannes Film Festival opens next week, and Cate Blanchett is the jury president. Cannes is somewhat embattled of late, fighting with Netflix, adhering to their (outdated) high-heel policy, banning selfies, and continuing to struggle with representation among the filmmakers and films they invite to the Croisette. Cannes is an By Sarah • May 03, 2018 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ant-Man and the Wasp: For sure less catastrophic Marvel is currently dominating the box office. Avengers: Infinity War is the biggest domestic and global opening weekend ever, and will undoubtedly accrue a massive box office haul (they will definitely be blamed for some other tent pole blanking this summer, because they hogged all the money or whatever), and By Sarah • May 01, 2018 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michelle Pfeiffer gets busy After taking a few years off, Michelle Pfeiffer returned in 2017, appearing in several movies including mother! and Murder on the Orient Express. This year, she returns to comic book movies in Ant-Man and the Wasp—no one is psyched for this movie but the cast is AMAZING, so maybe By Sarah • Apr 30, 2018 12:21 pm
