Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, Sarah wrote yesterday about The Banshees of Inisherin and the overwhelmingly enthusiastic response to Martin McDonagh’s film at the Venice Film Festival, possibly propelling Colin Farrell into the Best Actor Oscar race. As she mentioned in her post, Sarah’s on her way to Toronto for TIFF, By Lainey • Sep 07, 2022 09:50 am
Quiveration Colin Farrell has entered the chat Up till now, the only real contenders for Best Actor have been Austin Butler and Brendan Fraser (largely based on working with Darren Aronofsky in a physically transformative role), and while Fraser declared himself a legit contender this weekend in Venice, Colin Farrell has also entered the chat. He’s By Sarah • Sep 06, 2022 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser’s Oscar Season The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser, had its world premiere in Venice over the weekend. It’s on my TIFF schedule and I can’t wait to see it, but in the meantime, I am contenting myself with premium-branded Wholesome Brendan Fraser Content, of which there is PLENTY. EVERYONE is excited By Sarah • Sep 06, 2022 10:46 am
Maple Leaf Bones and Fashion Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All was a slam dunk at the Venice Film Festival on Friday night. This is Luca’s home festival and he received a rapturous welcome back with an over eight-minute standing ovation. Bones and All is about disenfranchisement and identity featuring two young cannibals (Taylor By Lainey • Sep 06, 2022 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t Worry Darling (Chris Pine’s Version) Don’t Worry Darling premiered at the Venice Film Festival yesterday, and it was a MESS. Sunday, it was announced Florence Pugh, erstwhile lead of this movie, would skip the press conference and only walk the red carpet in support of the film. Some outlets tried to play that off By Sarah • Sep 06, 2022 08:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Adult Twins Adamma and Adanne Ebo satirize Black megachurch Evangelical culture in their new film, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Adamma makes her feature debut as writer and director, while Adanne produces, and the result is a film which is both less outright funny and more interestingly humanist than By Sarah • Sep 02, 2022 01:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans and Emily Blunt look hot Chris Evans and Emily Blunt are in Miami, filming their Netflix movie Pain Hustlers. The film is from David Yates, finally liberated from the Harry Potter cinematic universe, and screenwriter and anthropomorphized apartment building Wells Tower, and is described as being in the vein of Wolf of Wall Street and By Sarah • Sep 02, 2022 10:25 am
Gorgessity Cate, Julianne, and Timmy: Scenes from Venice Cate Blanchett is now in Venice to promote Todd Field’s film, Tár, in which she plays a conductor. Early reaction to her performance is overwhelmingly positive, at least from what I’ve seen. The Hollywood Reporter says she “astounds” in the film, and The Guardian calls it a “colossal” By Lainey • Sep 01, 2022 02:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser begins his campaign Awards season 2022-23 officially kicked off yesterday with the Venice Film Festival’s opening night and premiere screening of Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, and yes, Barbie has already come up: here’s the clip of asking if greta gerwig considered casting adam as ken in barbie & adam having By Sarah • Sep 01, 2022 12:47 pm
Douchebags Redemption arc: complete Last week, we observed the mess of Olivia Wilde and Shia LaBeouf and his, er, departure from Don’t Worry Darling in which released texts and email transcripts, and video to show he was not fired, as Wilde was heavily implying in the press. Since then, Shia has been busy. By Sarah • Sep 01, 2022 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy Season You know who knows how to turn it on when it counts? Timothée Chalamet. Timmy can go deep undercover when he’s working or just needs to get away from the heat. But when he’s on the scene, he fully embraces the scene. Timmy stars in Luca Guadagnino’s By Lainey • Aug 31, 2022 02:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Cobweb, Hocus Pocus 2’s non-talking cat Entertainment Weekly—which now that it’s not in print, shouldn’t it be Entertainment Daily?—has some new features on Hocus Pocus 2, including some first-look photos of new and returning cast members, and details about how the sequel will dive into the Sanderson sisters’ origins. The film will By Sarah • Aug 30, 2022 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Youths don’t get Weird Al Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is opening TIFF’s Midnight Madness programming this year, and as of this moment, it is literally the only film I have locked into my TIFF schedule. Not even Glass Onion is locked in yet, but Weird? I know exactly when and where. I am By Sarah • Aug 30, 2022 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will this be Jon Hamm’s new thing? No one doubts Jon Hamm is a great actor, not after his run on Mad Men. Yet, after that series ended in 2015, Hamm hasn’t found his new “thing”. He pops up in a lot of stuff, like Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, Top Gun: Maverick, By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brandy knows no boundaries Multi-hyphenate superstar and Grammy Award-winning icon Brandy Norwood is extending her presence to the world of A24-branded independent cinema. Brandy will star in The Front Room, a “psychological horror” film from Max and Sam Eggers, the younger brothers of filmmaker Robert Eggers of The Northman and The Lighthouse and The By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Shia brought receipts Just yesterday, Lainey wrote about Olivia Wilde’s dishy cover profile with Variety, promoting Don’t Worry Darling. In that interview, Wilde talked about many things, including firing Shia LaBeouf from the lead male role now played by Harry Styles: “I say this as someone who is such an admirer By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 03:17 pm
