Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar nominations: Who’s in? It is finally Oscar nomination morning, so we are officially 50% of the way through awards season (the Oscars aren’t until MARCH). The nominations this morning are largely as expected, featuring a lot of movies we’ve been talking about for months now. Everything Everywhere All At Once leads By Sarah • Jan 24, 2023 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Gael Garcia Bernal in Cassandro Gael García Bernal has always had a boyish charm, but in Cassandro, starring as the titular lucha libre and LGBTQ+ icon, he turns that charm into a playful performance that walks the line of camp in just the right places to evoke the flamboyance at the intersection of professional wrestling By Sarah • Jan 23, 2023 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Review: Jonathan Majors in Magazine Dreams Warm halogen lights gild a human body so perfectly sculpted, every muscle bulges with singular presence, as if an anatomy poster has come to life. Here is Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors), an aspiring bodybuilder competing for a place at nationals, and a chance to go pro. But though his body By Sarah • Jan 23, 2023 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s Tronin’ time Today in I’m Sure This Will Work Out news, Jared Leto is set to star in Tron: Ares, a threequel in the Tron franchise, following 2010’s Tron: Legacy. Leto will play a new character, Ares, and right now, it doesn’t sound like Jeff Bridges or anyone from By Sarah • Jan 20, 2023 03:22 pm
Gorgessity Two Jennifers and a Ben The premiere of Shotgun Wedding, starring Jennifer Lopez, happened last night in Hollywood. JLo wore Valentino… and I love it. It’s a nude bodysuit with a yellow sash tied around her waist, and then over top of it a sparkly sheer voluminous dress. Basically a really, really fancy sheet. By Lainey • Jan 19, 2023 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Channing Tatum has no chill Those are Channing Tatum’s words, to Vanity Fair, in his cover interview for the February 2023 issue of the magazine. The quote comes out of the part of the article where he talks about how he tries too hard, especially in relationships, and he’s currently in a relationship By Lainey • Jan 17, 2023 12:20 pm
BFFs What is your Friend Style? Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Lily Tomlin… That’s it. I could just end the post right there and it would be enough. These four women, together, all that’s required is for us to stop and appreciate all they’ve given us. It’s more than enough – but By Lainey • Jan 16, 2023 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics Cast Their Votes The Critics’ Choice Awards came and went last night with more of a whimper than a bang—it was a boring show and I say this as someone who gets to vote for those awards—but it is also the last big moment before Oscar nominations close on Tuesday. So, By Sarah • Jan 16, 2023 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Are You There, God? Because We Are HERE Raise your hand if you thought this day might never come. Just me? No, I didn’t think so. It’s been at least a couple of years since we heard there would be an adaptation of Judy Blume’s seminal Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, and By Duana • Jan 12, 2023 02:09 pm
Quiveration Jonathan Majors and his dogs Sarah posted about Jonathan Majors on the cover of Men’s Health back in October. At the time, the internet was reacting to the feature with extreme thirst. Because… well… I mean I get it, of course I do. For me, though, the hottest shots of Jonathan weren’t the By Lainey • Jan 12, 2023 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The SAG Awards look like an Oscar preview We are in the thick of awards season, coming off the mid-week Golden Globes and diving right into the SAG Awards nominations, which were announced yesterday morning, and voting for Oscar nominations starts tomorrow. The importance of the SAG Awards during awards season is debatable—some people will insist By Sarah • Jan 12, 2023 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Francis Ford Coppola is in trouble (again) A few weeks ago, I wrote about set photos from Francis Ford Coppola’s new film, Megalopolis, shooting now in Atlanta. In that post, I mentioned that Megalopolis is a passion project that Coppola is financing himself after everyone else passed…which is maybe a sign that things aren’t By Sarah • Jan 10, 2023 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t make Ant-Man do Big Lore After the uneven highs and lows of Phase 4, Marvel is moving into Phase 5—do you ever picture Marvel’s multi-phase plan looking like a totally out of control tweet thread? Like, Phase 5/347—with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania coming in February. Last night, they By Sarah • Jan 10, 2023 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2022 If the year 2022 in film can be defined by one word, it would be “most”. This was the year of the most in film, when blockbusters came roaring back, and a lot of filmmakers threw everything they had at the screen in a cinematic excess that reminds us the By Sarah • Jan 09, 2023 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews M3GAN is the only movie you need At one point in M3GAN, the “Model 3 Generative Android” prototype is dubbed “the only toy you’ll ever need”. The same can be said for the movie about “M3GAN”, the fun-sized yassified Real Doll at the center of all the drama. Despite its horror movie roots, coming from By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Goth Rock Dracula and his sad-sack silly boy I am sure that 2023 will bring us a group of thoughtful, emotional, provoking films to make us think and feel and cry, but you know? All I care about, right now, is the silly sh-t. Fill my veins with M3gan and Barbie and Renfield, I don’t need By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 11:53 am
