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 look By Sarah • Oct 04, 2022 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sorry, Bros Bros, the rom-com written by and starring Billy Eichner, opened over the weekend. It’s the first mainstream studio rom-com centered on a same-sex relationship, grown-ups division. (Love, Simon is the first mainstream studio rom-com centered on a same-sex relationship, teen division, and these distinctions actually ARE important, given how By Sarah • Oct 03, 2022 03:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet devours everything One of the films riding waves of critical acclaim out of the fall festivals is Bones and All, an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’s novel of the same name. The film reunites Luca Guadagnino and Timothee Chalamet (as well as Michael Stuhlbarg in a supporting role), and brings in new By Sarah • Oct 03, 2022 11:22 am
Maple Leaf Marie Clements’ Bones of Crows After world premiering at TIFF earlier this month, Marie Clements’ Bones of Crows was the opening film at the Vancouver International Film Festival last night. Director Marie Clements and star @_gracedove are here to celebrate the #VIFF2022 opening of BONES OF CROWS. ✨ 🎥 pic.twitter.com/ncumxeNlt4 — Vancouver International Film Festival By Lainey • Sep 30, 2022 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cate Blanchett’s third Oscar? At the Venice Film Festival, Cate Blanchett won the Volpi Cup for best actress, for her starring role in Tár, Todd Field’s long-awaited third feature film. In it, Blanchett plays a composer-conductor, Lydia Tár, who lands in some kind of trouble. The logline describes her as a “promethean artist By Sarah • Sep 29, 2022 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney: The Movie Star Wife Guy Today’s open was about Wife Guys and Scaachi Koul’s piece for Buzzfeed about the recent fall of Wife Guys. One of the most famous celebrity Wife Guys used to be Hollywood’s most high-profile bachelor-playboy, a man who’d declared he’d never get married and have kids… By Lainey • Sep 29, 2022 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hocus Pocus 2 with your wine aunts and fun uncle Alright, let’s take a break from how bleak and upsetting Blonde is to gawk at these photos from the premiere of Hocus Pocus 2. I love everything about these photos, except how big Sarah Jessica Parker’s daughters are, because nothing makes me feel older than grown celebrity children. By Sarah • Sep 28, 2022 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas in Blonde Andrew Dominik adapts Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, Blonde, for the big screen, telling a fictionalized version of Marilyn Monroe’s life, from her troubled childhood as Norma Jeane Mortensen, a fatherless girl at the mercy of a mentally ill mother, to Marilyn’s entrance into Hollywood via the casting couch, By Sarah • Sep 28, 2022 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool and decorating One of the surprises back during Disney’s D23 fan convention was that Deadpool 3 was not announced. Of course, there was no promise this—or any other announcement—would happen, no matter how many “scoopers” assert otherwise, but there had been some rumblings just below the official level that By Sarah • Sep 28, 2022 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More Sherlock in my Enola Holmes, please Enola Holmes is one of the more enjoyable Netflix originals, a family film that isn’t tiresome for everyone in the family to watch. It was also a “hit” by whatever measure Netflix uses to determine such things—chicken bones rolled in a blind alley? Tea leaves?—so it’s By Sarah • Sep 27, 2022 03:22 pm
Break Ups Simu Liu: A Breakup and a Win The last few times I’ve posted about Simu Liu it was about his love life. He and Jade Bender made it red carpet official this summer which is newsworthy because Simu is newsworthy – he’s been newsworthy now for over a year, ever since the release of Shang-Chi and By Lainey • Sep 27, 2022 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Not everything is Get Out One of the most surprising things to come out of Netflix’s Tudum event is the first trailer for They Cloned Tyrone, a sci-fi/comedy starring Jamie Foxx, John Boyega, and Teyonah Parris. It’s the feature directorial debut of Juel Taylor, co-writer of Creed II (and Space-Jam: Legacy¸ but By Sarah • Sep 27, 2022 12:06 pm
TV Updates Just here for the Hamm and Beharie I do not watch The Morning Show—I don’t believe anyone except Duana does—and I won’t pretend to care about it, but here are Jon Hamm and Jennifer Aniston shooting a scene with a cool Porsche, with bonus Nicole Beharie filming a different scene in Central Park. By Sarah • Sep 27, 2022 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Stop worrying, darlings (for now) Now that Don’t Worry Darling is (finally) in theaters, it’s time to lay all the worrying to rest, darlings. And it seems with the film’s release, comes a loosening of lips of those who worked on the film. Certain rumors have been floating awhile on different social By Sarah • Sep 26, 2022 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Flo in Don’t Worry Darling Spoilers After much sturm und drang, Don’t Worry Darling is finally here, missing comma and all, and it’s…fine. 100% middle of the road movie. It’s the kind of film you’d find flipping through channels on cable on a lazy weekend afternoon and settle in to By Sarah • Sep 26, 2022 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Mother looks right up JLo’s alley Saturday was Netflix’s now annual and stupidly named “Tudum” fan event, in which they drop a slew of trailers online. Among them, the teaser for The Mother, an action movie starring Jennifer Lopez. Action JLo is my favorite JLo. I know she likes making rom-coms, but honestly, she thrives By Sarah • Sep 26, 2022 11:24 am
