Movie Reviews and Previews Did you know there’s a Bob Marley movie? A Bob Marley biopic is surely a big deal, but it seems like promotion for Bob Marley: One Love has been relatively quiet. The premiere was last night in London, and it brought out star Kingsley Ben-Adir, who plays Marley; Lashana Lynch, who stars as Marley’s wife, Rita; Naomi By Sarah • Jan 31, 2024 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba in Three Thousand Years of Longing Sandwiched between two Mad Max films (Fury Road and the upcoming Furiosa), Australian auteur George Miller brings us Three Thousand Years of Longing, a curiosity, a romantic drama adapted from A.S. Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” (Miller co-wrote the script with Augusta Gore) By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba washes away the scent of Cats George Miller, the mad genius behind the Mad Max films, filled his time between Mad Max: Fury Road and its prequel, Furiosa, with a similarly fantastic, albeit less apocalyptic fantasy film Three Thousand Years of Longing. Starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, the film premiered at Cannes to mostly positive By Sarah • May 24, 2022 03:18 pm
Top Reads The 2022 Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue Every year around this time, just before the Oscars, Vanity Fair unveils its annual Hollywood Issue and it can often be controversial for who is featured, who isn’t featured, who’s featured on the front and who lands on the folds, and that conversation can say more about Hollywood By Lainey • Feb 17, 2022 10:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonathan Majors, Regina King, and Idris Elba in The Harder They Fall Jeymes Samuel’s revisionist Western, The Harder They Fall, is less interested in history and more interested in aesthetic. It’s a film built on the cultural cache of gunslingers and bank robbers and the inherent coolness of its stars, especially Jonathan Majors. The Harder They Fall, written by Samuel By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Harder They Fall looks cool as hell One of the coolest looking movies this year is The Harder They Fall, a Western starring Idris Elba, Regina King, LaKeith Stanfield, Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo, and Jonathan Majors. It’s from director Jeymes Samuel, aka the musician The Bullitts, and it’s due on Netflix on November 3. Man, By Sarah • Sep 29, 2021 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Suicide Squad, take two First of all, yes, James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is better than the 2016 Suicide Squad. That movie is a mess, this one isn’t, it’s not even a contest. Gunn, who writes and directs, also seems to have freer rein than David Ayer did, as Gunn got By Sarah • Aug 06, 2021 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba shows up in The Suicide Squad I neither loved nor hated the first trailer for The Suicide Squad, DC’s mulligan on their villain team-up movie, but the second trailer is definitely winning me over. I wasn’t super sold on Idris Elba in that first trailer, but this new trailer focuses on his character, Bloodsport, By Sarah • Jun 23, 2021 01:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Re-meet The Suicide Squad The first trailer for The Suicide Squad the sort-of sequel, mostly reboot of Suicide Squad, is here in all its red-band glory to try this whole villain team-up thing all over again. Some of the characters featured in David Ayer’s dismal movie are back, such as Margot Robbie as By Sarah • Mar 29, 2021 12:59 pm
Idris Elba TIFF Review: Concrete Cowboy Based on the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Neri, Concrete Cowboy is a boy-and-his-horse coming of age tale set within the world of urban horsemanship. Urban cowboys gained increased visibility this summer as many urban cowboy groups turned up at protests across the country, a seemingly incongruous spectacle that is By Sarah • Sep 15, 2020 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews THE Suicide Squad lines up for roll call The DC Fandome event gave us plenty of new trailers and teasers to goggle at, from wishful Wonder Woman to samesies Justice League to weirdo Goth Batman, but one of the more promising teasers comes from The Suicide Squad, James Gunn’s soft reboot of the 2016 Suicide Squad. Though By Sarah • Aug 25, 2020 12:16 pm
TV Live Blog What you can watch on Quibi Quibi, the long awaited and much-mocked streaming platform dedicated to short-form entertainment, finally launches on April 6. (That is, assuming a lawsuit doesn’t derail the launch.) I don’t think anything they have on tap will top Daniel Spencer’s TikTok, but I also think a short-form streaming platform By Sarah • Apr 02, 2020 03:34 pm
Books Intro for March 17, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was announced yesterday that the Costume Institute Gala (aka Met Gala) has been postponed following the advisory from the American Centers for Disease Control that all public gatherings of more than 50 people be avoided for at least eight weeks. The theme for this year’s Costume By Lainey • Mar 17, 2020 09:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews THE Suicide Squad suited up James Gunn’s not-a-reboot-but-not-really-a-sequel-either Suicide Squad movie is filming in Panama, which means set photos are emerging that show characters old and new suited up for their do-over. There are blurry shots of Margot Robbie sporting a new look as Harley Quinn, and she is joined by David Dastmalchian as By Sarah • Feb 20, 2020 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cats: They Never Stop Singing Cats begins with Victoria (Francesca Hayward), a cat-human hybrid escaped from the island of Dr. Moreau, abandoned on the streets of London. I am shocked that the location is not called “Meow Town”. Is this mercy? Is Cats mostly harmless, a little weird and off-putting but not sunk so low By Sarah • Dec 19, 2019 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews THE Suicide Squad The cast for James Gunn’s THE Suicide Squad mulligan has been taking shape for the last several months, including additions of Taika Waititi and Idris Elba (now playing an unknown role, as apparently Will Smith wants to hang onto Deadshot in case Gunn successfully reboots this franchise). Friday afternoon, By Sarah • Sep 16, 2019 12:21 pm
