Business of Hollywood Intro for July 21, 2023 Dear Gossips, Happy Barbenheimer weekend to all who celebrate! But before we talk about those two films—reviews for both coming today—let’s check in on Hot Strike Summer. We’re one week into the double SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, and while picket lines remain active and support By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 09:19 am
Gorgessity Lupita and Lily: Tonys Best Dressed I’ve been sleeping on Lily Rabe’s style – and that’s a mistake. I first realised this last week when I saw her outfit at the Tribeca premiere of her directorial debut Downtown Owl. This dress is amazing on her. So then I started poking around at some of By Lainey • Jun 12, 2023 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Grief takes center stage in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Usually, the star of a film gets the headline for the review, but in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, grief IS the lead character. Dealt the incredible loss of his friend and collaborator Chadwick Boseman, director Ryan Coogler finds a way to marshal on in the world of Wakanda, though the By Sarah • Nov 10, 2022 01:19 pm
Style Outfits of the Week: Wakanda Forever in London A week from today, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will be the biggest movie in the world. Sarah’s review is coming next week and while I’m not here to drop spoilers, let me repeat what I’ve already said: be ready for the tears, your own tears and everyone By Lainey • Nov 04, 2022 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita will visit A Quiet Place, too A Quiet Place is one of the few blockbuster hits of the last several years based on an original idea (which came from writers Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, not John Krasinski, no matter how Krasinski spins it). In 2018, it made $340 million. A sequel, released in the pandemic By Sarah • Nov 02, 2022 01:44 pm
Style Wakanda Forever, the premiere I saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever this morning and while official reviews are still embargoed, reactions are allowed. Here’s my reaction: I SOBBED. Hard. And I don’t cry a lot but I cried a lot during this movie. Also laughed a lot. And did that corny thing were By Lainey • Oct 27, 2022 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wakanda Forever in all white The full trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is here, and just like the Comic-Con trailer, it is tugging heart strings while setting up the next chapter in Wakanda’s story, one that will not include T’Challa. Chadwick Boseman’s death hangs over this movie, but it does By Sarah • Oct 04, 2022 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Get out the tissues for Wakanda Forever The big finale of Marvel’s three-year plan presentation was the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever panel and the teaser for the movie. The overwhelming sentiment after the first look landed on the internet was “already crying”, and there’s no doubt everything around and about this movie is going By Sarah • Jul 25, 2022 04:03 pm
Gorgessity The Jordan Peele Cinematic Universe I love Jordan Peele and I hate Jordan Peele. I love him because, well, he’s a generational talent, an incredible filmmaker. I hate him because I typically do not f-ck with the kind of films he makes – Jordan Peele specialises in horror/thriller, not my genre. But his By Lainey • Jul 19, 2022 10:56 am
Oscars 2022 The highs and lows of Will Smith Obviously, this was not how anyone wanted the night to go. Will Smith has long been admired and beloved by his peers, goodwill you could feel every time he was nominated for and then won an award for his performance in King Richard. This was an “it’s his time” By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 11:56 am
Met Gala 2021 Lupita and Tessa: Met Gala Western There were a few western interpretations of In America last night. Jennifer Lopez was probably the most extra – and, obviously, we’ll get to her soon. But there were other western style standouts, like Lupita Nyong’o and Tessa Thompson. Lupita wore denim Versace, perhaps the most elevated jean dress By Lainey • Sep 14, 2021 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The 355 is NOT a comedy I don’t know why, but for some reason I thought The 355 was an action-comedy. This is the all-lady spy movie Jessica Chastain pitched to Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg, and I don’t know what about that made me think it was going to be a By Sarah • Oct 08, 2020 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o on Black Lives Matter We’re just over a month away from Emmy nominations which will be announced on July 28th. Lupita Nyong’o is eligible for the outstanding narration category for her work on Discovery’s Serengeti, a wildlife documentary series that she narrates along with John Boyega. Yesterday, Lupita did an interview By Prem • Jun 19, 2020 09:39 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 8, 2020 Dear Gossips, Leading up to Christmas, the predominant headline about Little Women was that they were having a hard time getting men to come to the screenings which may have been why the film was largely ignored by the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild. So the box office By Lainey • Jan 08, 2020 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o in a zom-com Five years after the apogee of zombies in pop culture, Little Monsters arrives from Australia, a zombie comedy (zom-com) with little in the way of either zombies or comedy. Lupita Nyong’o does what she can with her natural luminous presence, but she cannot rescue an entire movie from By Sarah • Oct 18, 2019 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o kicks ass and sings songs Just when you think The Walking Dead rode the zombie train all the way into the ground, 2019 brings us a slew of zombie comedies to revitalize the genre. First we had the dry, sardonic The Dead Don’t Die, later this year we have Zombieland: Double Tap, and now By Sarah • Aug 01, 2019 11:52 am
