Movie Reviews and Previews RPattz on set (without Zendaya) A few months ago we learned that Robert Pattinson and Zendaya will star in a new film from Kristoffer Borgli, the filmmaker behind Dream Scenario. That film, titled The Drama, is now filming in Boston. RPattz was on set yesterday, looking like a normal guy. He’s one of those By Sarah • Nov 01, 2024 10:27 am
Anne Hathaway Intro for November 1, 2024 Dear Gossips, Lainey may hate Halloween, but I don’t. I’m writing this after handing out candy in gale-force winds, nothing keeps me inside on Halloween night, not even a dry hurricane. Halloween also brings out celebrities in force, often in elaborate costumes. But sometimes not! Kirsten Dunst is By Sarah • Nov 01, 2024 09:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mikey Madison in Anora Sean Baker’s latest film, Anora, is drawing a lot of comparisons to Pretty Woman, and it’s easy to see why. That film is about a sex worker and a rich man falling (somewhat improbably) in love, a Cinderella story dressed up with contemporary wit. Anora is also about By Sarah • Oct 30, 2024 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Gotham Awards have some overlap Awards season has officially kicked off with the nominations for the 2024 Gotham Awards, which is the first major stop on the trophy trail (the ceremony is on December 2), though the Gothams are rather hit or miss when it comes to overlap with the Oscars. They’re not the By Sarah • Oct 30, 2024 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ralph Fiennes in Conclave Edward Berger takes a break from the muddy battlefields of Europe to make a film set in a considerably more beautiful location—the Vatican. Conclave is Berger’s follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front, and it is a cinematic palette cleanser, a psychological thriller with a high quotient By Sarah • Oct 25, 2024 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina is showing up The teaser trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Maria promised Angelina Jolie emoting, and the official trailer is now doing a really good job selling Angelina’s performance as Maria Callas in a true career-defining role. The trailer is all about Angelina as Maria, she looks impossibly gorgeous and fragile and By Sarah • Oct 25, 2024 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ke Huy Quan: Action Star Ke Huy Quan’s acting career comeback is one of the most heartwarming and wholesome entertainment stories of the 2020s, and his acting career continues to thrive as he is now starring in his first leading action role. Of course, we saw him do some action in Everything Everywhere All By Sarah • Oct 24, 2024 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions About Venom: The Last Dance What is Venom: The Last Dance? Venom: The Last Dance is the third and probably final entry into the Sony’s only successful Spider-Man spin-off franchise, centered on Spider-Man’s rival, Venom. The film stars Tom Hardy in the dual role of Eddie Brock and Venom, who is an alien By Sarah • Oct 24, 2024 11:42 am
TV Updates Welcome to Chinatown [int] Two years ago, it was announced that Charles Yu would adapt his own award-winning novel, Interior Chinatown, into a TV series starring Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny Chieng, and Chloe Bennet, and co-produced by Taika Waititi, who is also directing the pilot. Well, that series is now here, set to debut By Sarah • Oct 23, 2024 11:24 am
What Else What Else? The Office star Jenna Fischer is talking about her breast cancer diagnosis, hoping sharing her cancer journey will help others walking their own path, and also remind women to get regular mammograms and screenings. One of my aunts was just declared in remission earlier this summer, it is SO important By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 04:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leigh Whannell’s scraggly Wolf Man In the late 2010s, Universal tried to reverse engineer a cinematic universe with the “Dark Universe”, which was meant to start with Tom Cruise’s version of The Mummy, but after that movie ate sh-t at the box office, the whole thing was cancelled, taking down a series of movies By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Christohper Nolan is bullying David Zaslav Speaking of Warner Bros. Discovery and their spiky relationships with filmmakers, over the last year, I’ve been keeping an eye on Christopher Nolan’s next film, chiefly because even after Universal met every one of his demands to release Oppenheimer—including releasing the film in his favored late July By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adrien Brody’s Oscar comeback begins The reason I am leading the site today is that Lainey and I switched from my regular Friday nonsense, since I thought I would be seeing The Brutalist on Thursday night, and that movie is three and a half hours long, so I expected it to f-ck up my whole By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy does the least This week bring us Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy’s capstone project in the world’s least likely superhero trilogy—yes, even less likely than Deadpool, because Deadpool is considered a good movie and Venom is not. Yet fans love Hardy in the dual role of down on his By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 10:30 am
Style Emilia Perez again The press tour for Emilia Pérez has entered its hundredth year as the film celebrated its Los Angeles premiere last night. It feels like this film has been on a never-ending publicity tour since Cannes, giving Wicked a run for its money as the most over-advertised film of the year. By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 09:15 am
Douchebags Intro for October 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Sometimes my folks ask me about movies to decide if they want to bother finding and watching them, such as asking if I’ve heard of “Concave”, aka papal thriller Conclave. So when they asked me about a new Clint Eastwood movie, for which they had seen a By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 08:35 am