Movie Reviews and Previews Apple pulls The Banker Earlier this month, we got a trailer for The Banker, Apple’s first foray into award season. The movie stars Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson as black bankers who hire a white guy to represent them in real estate deals. The story sounded interesting, the movie looked decent, and By Sarah • Nov 22, 2019 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Apple TV+ enters award season Yesterday the first trailer for The Banker dropped. The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie as a pair of would-be bankers who, because of racial prejudice, train a white guy (Nicholas Hoult) to stand in for them as the owner of their bank, so it’s BlacKkKlansman for By Sarah • Nov 05, 2019 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Why does Kristen Stewart have to share Seberg? The Jean Seberg biopic, Seberg, avoids a common biopic mistake: it doesn’t try to cover whole decades, instead focusing on a roughly four-year period when Seberg, an actress discovered by Otto Preminger but most famous for starring in films of the French new wave, got involved with civil rights By Sarah • Sep 12, 2019 12:17 pm
TV Updates Bucky With The Short Hair Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan were at D23 this weekend, promotin their upcoming Disney+ show, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. The show has now progressed to the “having an official poster” phase. The poster reveals Bucky’s new look, including the loss of his bountiful locks. Check it out: By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 04:07 pm
Sebastian Stan Intro for July 31. 2019 Dear Gossips, I would like to talk about snacks. I consider myself an expert on snacks. If you visit this site often, you may be familiar with my passion for Oreos and Cheetos. I have found so many creative ways to incorporate Cheetos and Cheeto dust into my food that By Lainey • Jul 31, 2019 08:41 am
TV Updates Send Bucky To Space For the first time, a Marvel Hall H announcement at Comic-Con this past weekend included television shows. To appease their corporate overlord, Marvel is developing a bunch of limited series for Disney+ which, unlike previous Marvel TV offerings, will be fully integrated in the MCU. TV shows to this point By Sarah • Jul 23, 2019 03:56 pm
TV Updates What the Hell is Going on in the Black Mirror Trailer? The teaser trailer for Season 5 of Black Mirror is out and it’s filled with a powerhouse cast. For starters, Miley Cyrus shows up in a fabulous purple wig, apparently playing the meta role of a famous singer and popstar. There’s also Andrew Scott, better known as James By Prem • May 16, 2019 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Your Monday cry The first trailer for The Hate U Give dropped during the BET Awards last night. If you’ve been reading this site, you know how I feel about Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give. You know how Lainey feels about it. We’ve haven’t been subtle about By Kathleen • Jun 25, 2018 03:00 pm
BFFs Anthony Mackie picking on Tom Holland Last month at Disney’s D23 fan convention, Anthony Mackie, along with Sebastian Stan, picked on Tom Holland. Last year, when promoting Captain America: Civil War, Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan picked on Tom Holland. Well Anthony Mackie was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, and guess By Sarah • Aug 04, 2017 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s time we knew Set during the 1967 riots, Kathryn Bigelow’s next film, Detroit, assembled a tremendous ensemble including Anthony Mackie, John Boyega, John Krasinski, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Jack Reynor, and Will Poulter, but the trailer is focused on Boyega, playing a young security guard in Detroit. His dilemma is compelling—he’ By Sarah • Apr 12, 2017 11:24 am
Media Manipulation The unpopular Team Iron Man Last month I posted an article about how much I appreciate the Captain America: Civil War marketing strategy. They want you to take sides. We are all inclined to take sides. As I mentioned then (click here for a refresher), it’s either Jolie or Aniston. In this case it’ By Lainey • Apr 13, 2016 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Cap looking sharp Last night was the world premiere of Captain America: Civil War, and Chris Evans & Co. showed up looking spiffy. Evans flies under the fashion radar but he’s got solid dude dressing game. He did a mix-and-match patterns thing with a dark teal suit that not many dudes would By Sarah • Apr 13, 2016 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews #TeamCap vs. #TeamIronMan Lainey is #TeamIronMan. I am #TeamCap. We’ve been sniping at each other over text off and on about how she’s wrong. And with the Captain America: Civil War press tour kicking off over the weekend, it’s only going to get worse, because everything is divided by Iron By Sarah • Apr 12, 2016 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Gritty Cop Drama Boasting an impressive cast that includes Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aaron Paul, Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, and Kate Winslet, Gritty Cop Drama is exactly the kind of gritty cop drama you get sucked into watching on cable on a Saturday afternoon. It’s got just enough going on under the By Sarah • Feb 26, 2016 02:00 pm
TV Updates SAG Television – Good Acting Isn’t The Point I love the SAG awards because they don’t pretend to be about anything except the acting, and even then, only 50% of the time. Because some of the nominees are about the very best in acting this year, and others are about getting big stars to show up at By Duana • Dec 09, 2015 04:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scrooged…but with drugs Every year someone tries to make an insta-classic holiday comedy, and almost every year, they fail. We’ve already had one such failure this year, but the other attempt at making a long-lasting holiday comedy, The Night Before is actually the rare exception—a holiday comedy that not only works, By Sarah • Nov 20, 2015 01:19 pm
