Movie Reviews and Previews Disappointment and Disgust in Clayface Rarely am I so disappointed in a film that I experience it as a physical sensation, but I felt my stomach turn while watching Clayface. The latest entry in the Batman narrative universe created by Matt Reeves, Clayface is written by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini (both of whom have By Sarah • Oct 26, 2026 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Peter Farrelly’s reign of terror continues As we approach November we’re getting into the thick of awards season, and here is one film not to lose track of—I Play Rocky. It’s about Sylvester Stallone and the making of Rocky, a film and a role Stallone wrote for himself. Interestingly, the film does NOT By Sarah • Oct 23, 2026 02:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård in Wicker In a medieval-ish time in an English-type village, no one seems to have proper names, and everyone is addressed by their job or their relation to a man. There is Doctor’s Daughter who is also Tailor’s Wife, there are Baker and Baker’s Wife, everyone in By Sarah • Oct 23, 2026 12:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Men would really rather struggle in the belly of a whale than go to therapy Whalefall, adapted from Daniel Kraus’s novel of the same name by Brian Duffield and Kraus himself, and directed by Duffield, is about a sperm whale minding its whale business in its whale home when a RUDE HUMAN commits home invasion and ends up wrestling a squid inside its stomach. By Sarah • Oct 19, 2026 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Beekeeper tends to his own hive Jason Statham releases a steady diet of B-grade action flicks, but every once in a while, he stars in a movie that’s a cut above his usual fare (see also: Wrath of Man). A couple years ago, one such film emerged, The Beekeeper, which is just the right By Sarah • Oct 16, 2026 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Truth is perspective in You Can See Everything Imagine you walk into a mirrored room, and every mirror shows you a completely accurate reflection of yourself, so accurate that, in fact, you begin to doubt which one of you is the real you. Is it enough to feel your physical body in space or is every reflection just By Sarah • Oct 16, 2026 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Greta Gerwig’s colorful Narnia is here One of Netflix’s biggest gambles of all time comes in February of next year in the form of Greta Gerwig’s first post-Barbie project, Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. The trailer dropped yesterday, and it is certainly fantastical and colorful. I would have really liked to have an By Sarah • Oct 14, 2026 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Deep Cut Romance Cailee Spaeny was seen in New York yesterday on the set of Deep Cuts, the film adaptation of Canadian author Holly Brickley’s bestselling book. It’s a good, quick read – about two people who are brought together and then torn apart by music. This is a classic soundtrack friend By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews MV85 LFG I like this thing that studios are doing just as production begins on a film – sharing footage from the screen test process as the actors begin to find their characters and their performances through their wardrobes. It helps to build anticipation for the project but also they often time it By Lainey • Oct 13, 2026 11:14 am
What Else Here comes John Malkovich Programming note: it’s Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday. We’ll resume on the site on Tuesday but as always, we’ll keep the chat threads going on The Squawk. Join us there! The BFI London Film Festival is happening, which is the stop on the trophy trail that best serves By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Grace Moretz is back with a rom-com It’s October! It’s spooky season! You know what that means…it’s time for a rom-com! Seriously, there’s a history of romantic comedies coming out in October. I clocked it first twenty years ago with Sweet Home Alabama, when I spent half the film pondering the By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 02:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aaron Sorkin’s insufferable attitude in The Social Reckoning Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for The Social Network, a film about Facebook’s and Mark Zuckerberg’s rise to power that has aged incredibly well, as it is more scathing and prescient now than it was in 2010. Now, Sorkin is back with a sequel-ish film, The Social By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 11:20 am
Glen Powell Intro for October 9, 2026 Dear Gossips, Glen Powell is on the cover of Esquire’s October issue, because JJ Abram’s The Great Beyond, in which he stars, was supposed to hit theaters in November, only it got moved to October 2027, taking over The Batman Part II’s original(ish) release date (that By Sarah • Oct 09, 2026 09:15 am
Jessica Chastain All of Jessica Chastain’s Horrors Jessica Chastain was at Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to promote her movie Other Mommy, opening this weekend, and I will not be seeing it because I am not built for that kind of fright – but I do LOVE that she’s a scream queen, a proud scream queen, a By Lainey • Oct 08, 2026 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Debut in theatre kid central As I’ve already mentioned a number of times, The Debut was my favourite film of TIFF 2026. I LOVE this movie SO MUCH, to the point where it became my festival personality – all I wanted to do was talk to people about The Debut, perhaps to verify that the By Lainey • Oct 08, 2026 12:53 pm
What Else Noah Centineo is Street Fighter now The Street Fighter hype has completely missed me until today. I was never into the video game beyond having to listen to my friends talk about it so it makes sense that the movie hasn’t infiltrated my algorithm and that I’ve been barely aware that it’s about By Lainey • Oct 07, 2026 04:15 pm
