Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s #Family We saw the first trailer for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (I’m pretty sure that’s the right punctuation, I hate these titles) one year ago, and now that the film is actually due on July 12, the second trailer is here to show off even more of By Sarah • May 18, 2023 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Find the wolves Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated adaptation of David Grann’s book of the same name, premieres at Cannes on Saturday. It’s one of the most high-profile films at the festival, reuniting Scorsese with both Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio, and also featuring a stacked By Sarah • May 18, 2023 10:33 am
Quiveration LaKeith Stanfield is stupid hot for Disney I didn’t hate the first trailer for The Haunted Mansion, Disney’s do-over on a movie based on the popular theme park ride, and now there is a second, “official” trailer, and I hate it even less. Or rather, I like it even more. It might just be how By Sarah • May 17, 2023 02:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman: Legacy casting roulette James Gunn’s relaunch of the DC cinematic universe (mark eleventy hundred or whatever) is his Superman film, Superman: Legacy. It is tipped to start filming in January, multiple strike statuses pending, of course. But casting is happening right now, and The Hollywood Reporter has the rundown on the potential By Sarah • May 16, 2023 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #Family Feud Redux Spoilers for Fast X We have now entered the era of spoiler culture in which presumably above-board industry trade outlets are straight up posting film spoilers as if they are exclusives. This happened Friday, when The Wrap posted a major spoiler for Fast X—a movie general audiences will not By Sarah • May 15, 2023 11:30 am
What Else What Else? You gotta see what Teyana Taylor wore to the premiere of the White Men Can’t Jump remake. She looks like a couture beekeeper (complimentary). (Go Fug Yourself) A Welsh composer with a giant mustache has had to assure people he was not Meghan Markle in disguise at the coronation, By Sarah • May 12, 2023 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton in BlackBerry Of the “brand-as-IP” films of 2023, Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry is easily the best of the lot. With humor and the crystal-clear insight of hindsight, writer-director-star Johnson depicts the rise and fall of Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry, the world’s first smartphone, and the men who By Sarah • May 12, 2023 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews My Big Fat Greek YIKES Oh no, it’s the curse of the rom-com revival—bringing back a once-beloved rom-com for a threequel nobody asked for. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is one of the most successful independent films of all time, earning over $368 million against a mere $5 million budget. But the second By Sarah • May 12, 2023 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney’s Reality Every time Sydney Sweeney pops up—which has been a lot recently—Lainey and I have some variation of the same conversation, debating her merits as an actor. Lainey maintains Sydney doesn’t make much of an impact, she’s in good stuff, like Euphoria and White Lotus (and The By Sarah • May 12, 2023 01:34 pm
Music Start your day with Dolly Dolly Parton co-hosted the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards last night with Garth Brooks, which means we get to start our day with a little dose of Dolly. It’s a busy time for the iconic singer, as she announced a new album earlier this week, Rockstar, which is By Sarah • May 12, 2023 11:35 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 12, 2023 Dear Gossips, This week, Paramount closed down MTV News for good as part of a larger program of layoffs. The Hollywood Reporter put together an oral history of MTV News that is as much a eulogy for the once-powerful youth news organization as it is recollection of MTV’s heyday By Sarah • May 12, 2023 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone is a Poor Thing Yorgos Lanthimos is back, baby! He’s reteaming with Emma Stone for Poor Things, a Frankensteinian tale adapted from Scottish writer Alasdair Gray’s award-winning novel of the same name. Stone plays Bella, a woman brought back to life by a mad scientist, played, naturally, by Willem Dafoe. The film By Sarah • May 11, 2023 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Beetlejuice…Beetlejuice… For many years now, I have refused to believe in the possibility of Beetlejuice 2, but now, it seems, it is finally happening, it’s real this time. According to Warner Bros. Discovery, Beetlejuice 2 starts filming in London TODAY, with Tim Burton directing, Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder returning, By Sarah • May 10, 2023 01:48 pm
What Else What Else? Rihanna is in her fur—maybe faux—era. (Go Fug Yourself) Lainey didn’t follow the coronation weekend because she was having a Suga concert/life experience in Chicago. I didn’t follow it because there was a shocking lack of tiaras. I mean, I get it, aristocrats breaking out By Sarah • May 09, 2023 03:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hamill + Hiddleston + King Cannes is coming, which means not only the film festival kicking off next week, but also the film market, in which upcoming productions will be sold for financing. One such project is The Life of Chuck, an adaptation of Stephen King’s novella about Charles Krantz, a 39-year-old man with By Sarah • May 09, 2023 01:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Wheatley’s Meg 2 Starring Jason Statham The Meg is a super stupid shark movie that shot itself in the foot by going for a watered down PG-13 rating instead of going hard R and giving us the great cinematic spectacle of a giant water monster eating a lot of dumb people. It’s mostly just good By Sarah • May 09, 2023 11:47 am
