Movie Reviews and Previews Jessie Buckley(x3) in The Bride! The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore feature film as a writer/director, is a wild, unabashedly angry mashup of tones and styles and influences. Jumping off of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, Frankenstein, Gyllenhaal introduces “the bride”, a “reinvigorated” corpse given a second go-round at life, herself a confluence of By Sarah • Mar 06, 2026 12:09 pm
Style Jessie Buckley’s on-theme dressing The Bride! premiered in London last night, and following her “chaotic” fashion energy at the photocall earlier in the day, Jessie Buckley turned up in a sheer dress with a visible corset. As Lainey said, Buckley plays three distinct roles in the film, which is in part about women’s By Sarah • Feb 27, 2026 11:45 am
Style Jessie Buckley’s Bride energy Jessie Buckley is currently the Oscar favourite in the best actress category. Obviously no one is a winner until they actually win so if there is a challenger it’s Rose Byrne. If Jessie prevails at the SAGs this weekend though, it’s safe to say that it’s over. By Lainey • Feb 26, 2026 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bride! and her hot dead boyfriend Jessie Buckley is about to have a huge six months, with Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet sure to propel her to the top of the Best Actress race, and just as the Oscars will be peaking in 2026, Buckley will be in theaters with another movie, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! By Sarah • Sep 24, 2025 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Maggie and Christian’s wrong Frankenstein Maggie Gyllenhaal is currently at work on her upcoming film, The Bride, a take on Mary Shelley’s classic novel adapted for the screen by Gyllenhaal herself. This is her follow-up to The Lost Daughter, which was well received and garnered three Oscar nominations, including one for Gyllenhaal adapting Elena By Sarah • Apr 30, 2024 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian Bale in The Pale Blue Eye Filmmaker Scott Cooper and Christian Bale have a fruitful collaboration going on, with the very good crime drama Out of the Furnace and the better than you expect it to be Hostiles, but their third cinematic effort together is…interesting, to say the least. The Pale Blue Eye is an By Sarah • Dec 22, 2022 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dammit, David O. Russell Dammit, David O. Russell, every time I am ready to quit you—or remember that time you cursed out national treasure Lily Tomlin—you reel me back in, or at least make me forget how convinced I am that you’re a raging asshole. I mean, I am CONVINCED, but By Sarah • Jul 07, 2022 11:26 am
Gorgessity All the pretty Thors Here are all the pretty Thors and other assorted beautiful people at the world premiere of Thor: Love and Thunder last night. This is the first time Natalie Portman looks like she’s genuinely enjoying herself at a Marvel premiere, which might be because she isn’t playing an ornament By Sarah • Jun 24, 2022 10:00 am
Christian Bale Christian Bale’s day at the beach Did you know that American Psycho, the film, turned 20 back in April? I’ve seen it twice, and not for at least ten years. A few months ago, at the time of the anniversary, when there were think-pieces all over the place, I thought about going back and watching By Lainey • Jul 16, 2020 10:47 am
Christian Bale Matt Damon tells a story Ford vs Ferrari opens next week – Sarah reviewed the film in September at TIFF – and there are a lot of people who think it could be an Oscar contender, with both leads, Christian Bale and Matt Damon, submitted in the Best Actor category. Which means they’re going to head By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Men Doing Men Things in Ford v Ferrari Ford v Ferrari, an old-school get-er-done drama in which Men do important Men Things and somehow Change The World with their Men Things, is your dad’s favorite film of the year. It’s a period drama soft-lobbed right down the middle, well-crafted and loaded with good actors. Can’t By Sarah • Sep 11, 2019 04:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Boy sh-t at the race track One of the most fun things I have ever done in my life was go to a test track and drive a 1967 Shelby GT500. I’ve always loved Corvettes, and the way they look like they’re eating the road as they drive, but my boyfriend’s dad was By Sarah • Jun 03, 2019 12:29 pm
Golden Globes 2019 Rami Malek’s big move at the Golden Globes Rami Malek’s win for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes last night over Bradley Cooper was one of the night’s biggest surprises, along with Bohemian Rhapsody winning Best Drama, also over A Star is Born. Because, of course, ASIB has By Lainey • Jan 07, 2019 04:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian, Amy, Bradley: an American Hustle Oscars American Hustle came out five years ago, directed by David O Russell, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jeremy Renner. The film was nominated for several Oscars. Now three of its stars are in this year’s Oscar race, two of them going up against each By Lainey • Nov 23, 2018 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Another Jungle Book Jon Favreau made a hybrid live-action/animated Jungle Book that was really quite good, so much so it bagged him the job of directing the new Lion King, and also good enough that it threw Andy Serkis’s competing project into considerable shade. Back then Serkis’s project was called By Sarah • Nov 09, 2018 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Here comes Christian Bale Last Friday, it was quietly announced that Adam McKay’s film about Dick Cheney, starring Christian Bale, would be released on Christmas Day. Before then, the film didn’t even have a title. Now we know it’s Vice and we also know that, given the timing of the opening By Lainey • Oct 04, 2018 12:19 pm
