Movie Reviews and Previews The New New Fantastic Four Ending actual years of speculation, yesterday the cast of Marvel Studio’s (new) new Fantastic Four team was announced. As previously reported, Pedro Pascal will star as stretchy science man Reed Richards, and he is joined by Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, and The Bear’ By Sarah • Feb 15, 2024 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews KStew turns up for Rolling Stone Kristen Stewart was trending yesterday after a new cover profile with Rolling Stone dropped, featuring a sexy, provocative photoshoot in which KStew poses in underwear, a jock strap, and leans hard into butch-bordering-on-androgynous style. Of the photoshoot and profile, she said: “If I go through the entire Twilight series without By Sarah • Feb 15, 2024 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews New generation, new Twister(s) Twister was one of the films in the 1990s, along with Jurassic Park and Titanic, that represented a significant leap forward in visual effects. It was also part of the disaster movie trend of the Nineties, albeit one of the better entries into the genre. Not that it’s an By Sarah • Feb 14, 2024 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Fall Guy is Barbenheimer We’re still getting caught up on all the Super Bowl trailers and the next one we’re covering is for The Fall Guy, which looks so dumb fun it’ll have to be REALLY bad to put me off. The latest trailer boasts all the things the film includes, By Sarah • Feb 13, 2024 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Let BCoop be BCoop Every year has one, a villain in the narrative of the Oscar season, some person or film everyone can rally around, as if to say, We might not agree on what should be Best Picture or who should win Best Actress, but we can all agree X sucks. In past By Sarah • Feb 13, 2024 10:55 am
Douchebags The immoral disappearance of Coyote vs Acme Last November, we learned that Warner Bros. Discovery, under the leadership of David Zaslav, the human equivalent of a lumpy motel pillow, was going to shelve yet another film for a tax write-off, this time tanking Coyote vs. Acme—a completed film about Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation By Sarah • Feb 12, 2024 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wicked is the latest stealth musical The other biggest trailer of Super Bowl Sunday is that for Wicked, the first in a two-part adaptation of the Broadway musical, itself adapted from Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel. Does Wicked need to be two parts? I don’t think so! But then, I also don’t think it By Sarah • Feb 12, 2024 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel Jesus The Super Bowl happened yesterday, and with it came movie trailers (and other stuff, but this post is about trailers). One of the biggest game-day trailers was for Deadpool 3, now officially titled Deadpool & Wolverine. It’s no secret Hugh Jackman is returning as Wolverine for this film, though By Sarah • Feb 12, 2024 01:09 pm
What Else What Else? New York fashion week is happening, and Christian Siriano’s front row included Alicia Silverstone, Busy Philipps, Melanie Lynskey, and J. Smith Cameron. I have a bet going that Siriano designs Margot Robbie’s final Barbie look for the Oscars. He has designed for Barbie in the past, and he By Sarah • Feb 09, 2024 04:02 pm
TV Updates Let Kate Winslet be fun Kate Winslet is one of the most admired actors of her generation, but she has never been “above TV”, as many of her peers insisted they were, at least until the prestige revolution of the 2010s. She starred in a miniseries adaptation of Mildred Pierce all the way back in By Sarah • Feb 09, 2024 03:15 pm
BFFs Mark Ruffalo and Barry Keoghan are friends? Mark Ruffalo is a four-time Oscar nominee, all in the Best Supporting Actor category, and once again, he is not the favorite to win. He’s probably going to lose to his old buddy RDJ, but he’s enjoying his award campaign anyway, which most recently includes getting a star By Sarah • Feb 09, 2024 09:56 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Oscars are a month away, so now is a great time to talk about the 2026 Oscars. Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their first new Academy Award category in more than twenty years—since Best Animated Feature was introduced in 2002 (and By Sarah • Feb 09, 2024 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita is back in A Quiet Place John Krasinski’s directorial career really took off with A Quiet Place, one of the better (mainstream) sci-fi films of the last few years. The third entry into the franchise, though, comes from filmmaker Michael Sarnoski, who previously directed the phenomenal Nicolas Cage film Pig (seriously, you should see it) By Sarah • Feb 08, 2024 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Celine and Margot get back to work The Oscars are still a month away, but some nominees are already moving onto their next projects. Notably, Celine Song is preparing her Past Lives follow-up, described as a rom-com which will be produced by A24, which also produced Past Lives. The film is called Materialists, and the log line By Sarah • Feb 08, 2024 12:43 pm
TV Updates Austin Butler and Callum Turner in Masters of the Air Twenty-three years ago, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg began their epic project of adapting stories from World War II with Band of Brothers, which became a seminal HBO miniseries in part for its expensive, cinematic look—it’s an early step in the prestige TV era—and for its large By Sarah • Feb 07, 2024 02:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Riverdale Reunion Lisa Frankenstein opens at the end of this week—the closest thing to a mainstream romantic movie coming in time for Valentine’s Day, where the F-CK was the planning for that holiday this year?!—and there was a screening in LA the other night for the film. I bring By Sarah • Feb 07, 2024 12:19 pm
