Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Paul Dano and Jude Law in The Wizard of the Kremlin They say the truth can be stranger than fiction, but sometimes the truth is so twisted that only fiction can cut through to something real. Such is the case with The Wizard of the Kremlin, a fictionalization of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in post-Soviet Russia. Directed by Olivier By Sarah • Sep 12, 2025 01:14 pm
Style Jude Law before the festival Jude Law was photographed in London on Wednesday after a meeting and it’s been a while since Jude was on the contact sheets, though it used to be a regular occurrence. But we might be seeing a lot more of Jude in the coming weeks and months because he’ By Lainey • Aug 01, 2025 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in The Order Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel has carved out a niche directing taut psychological thrillers out of true crime stories, exploring less the deeds done than the circumstances that drive men—and it is usually men in Kurzel’s lens—to commit them. With The Order, he turns his eye to America By Sarah • Dec 06, 2024 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jude Law and unsilly Nicholas Hoult I really wanted to catch Justin Kurzel’s new film, The Order, at TIFF and it just did not fit into my schedule. But it’s coming in December, so just in time for the holidays, let’s have a film about neo-Nazis and white supremacists. I love how awards By Sarah • Oct 17, 2024 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore looks like a mess A second trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was released this week, and I just have to heave a big ole sigh. There’s the wasted potential, and then there is how GOOD the Dumbledore half of this movie looks and how annoying it is we can’t By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 02:54 pm
Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts isn’t done wasting its potential Because franchise death is slow and grinding, we still have to get through Fantastic Beasts 3, officially titled Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The first trailer dropped yesterday—one day after JK Rowling wrote some new transphobic sh-t in The Times that I won’t link to because it’ By Sarah • Dec 14, 2021 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jude Law: one away from a Quidditch team Jude Law, the young Dumbledore, is soon to be one child away from an entire quidditch team. Here are Jude and his wife Phillipa Coan on Sunday. Jude and Phillipa were married last year and this is their first child together, and the baby will be Jude’s sixth. He’ By Lainey • May 20, 2020 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika never stops Taika Waititi, fresh off an Oscar win and with two (2) film projects on the go at the same time, has every excuse to slow down. And yet, he does not. Taika never stops. With Next Goal Wins due out later this year, and Thor: Love and Thunder set for By Sarah • Feb 18, 2020 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively in The Rhythm Section Super Bowl weekend is typically the softest box weekend of the year, and that is not expected to change this year. If January is a graveyard for unwanted movies, then Super Bowl weekend is an abandoned house on a dead-end road with a mysterious locked room in the basement and By Sarah • Jan 31, 2020 12:04 pm
TV Updates Hello Jude These pictures of Jude Law on the set of The New Pope in Venice yesterday don’t really need much explanation. He’s reprising his role as Lenny Belardo and John Malkovich also stars, no story details have been released but… I mean… I can’t imagine he’s still By Lainey • Apr 09, 2019 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel: a woman who won’t stay down We’re six months out from the release of Captain Marvel, which means that Marvel’s internal marketing alarm has gone off and, like clockwork, they dropped the first trailer yesterday. I LOVE IT. On the heels of a strong first look, this trailer manages to both introduce Carol Danvers By Sarah • Sep 19, 2018 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson is happy to see Jude Law There are new photos of Brie Larson on the set of Captain Marvel—she is still wearing that green not-iconic suit. We have all resigned ourselves to this suit, I just hope at some point between Captain Marvel and Avengers 4 we get to see Carol’s iconic comic book By Sarah • Mar 26, 2018 08:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Very Little Johnny Depp The first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has been released and it, unlike JK Rowling, would like to pretend like Johnny Depp is not in the movie. (I am not inclined to cut anyone associated with this movie slack because A. they could have recast him between By Sarah • Mar 14, 2018 03:57 pm
Style Natalie Portman, popstar Natalie Portman is currently in New York shooting a new film called Vox Lux. She plays Celeste who per Variety “rises from the ashes of a major national tragedy to pop superstardom. The film spans 15 years and traces important cultural moments from the singer’s perspective, starting in 1999 By Lainey • Feb 28, 2018 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlie Hunnam is White Aladdin in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was supposed to be the first in a six-film franchise. But in a classic “the gods punish hubris” result, King Arthur fell on its sword with a $14.7 million opening weekend. This isn’t just a bomb, this is, “Sorry By Sarah • May 15, 2017 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jude Law is Young(er) Dumbledore Variety confirmed today that Jude Law has been cast to play Albus Dumbledore in the next installment of the Fantastic Beasts franchise. As you know from the first movie, Johnny Depp was revealed to be Gellert Grindelwald. He and Dumbledore were friends, Dumbledore may have been in love with him, By Lainey • Apr 12, 2017 02:48 pm
