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
Movie Reviews and Previews Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba in Three Thousand Years of Longing Sandwiched between two Mad Max films (Fury Road and the upcoming Furiosa), Australian auteur George Miller brings us Three Thousand Years of Longing, a curiosity, a romantic drama adapted from A.S. Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” (Miller co-wrote the script with Augusta Gore) By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Adam Driver help save Netflix? Netflix has had a rough year, but maybe a strong awards season run can turn things around. Wall Street doesn’t seem to be buying streamers’ bullsh-t anymore about the promise of endless money at the end of the rainbow, but maybe a strong slate of must-see films will draw By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth is unrecognizable WITNESS HIM! Chris Hemsworth is on the set of Furiosa, the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel centered on Charlize Theron’s character, Imperator Furiosa, that instead stars Anya Taylor-Joy as the young Furiosa. Hemsworth is sporting a big gray beard and dirty long hair, and honestly, I mostly recognized him By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 26, 2022 Dear Gossips, I promise, I will stop writing about Warner Bros. Discovery and HBO Max just as soon as they stop constantly shooting themselves in the foot. The latest in the “burning down one of the last legacy film studios before our very eyes” stories is that Warner Brothers has By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 09:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pinocchio wants to eat your soul The teaser for Disney’s live-action remake of Pinocchio brought us another patented Tom Hanks Silly Voice, and the full trailer, which dropped yesterday, gives us a clear look at CG Pinocchio and by the old gods and the new, I vow to find this abomination upon our world and By Sarah • Aug 25, 2022 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Glass Onion peels back one layer Y’all know that I am excited for Glass Onion, aka Knives Out 2. I LOVE Knives Out, I have seen it at least ten times at this point, since it came out in 2019, it has been one of my go-to comfort movies (it got a lot of play By Sarah • Aug 24, 2022 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Honk for the Jesus Four Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. opens in theatres and premieres on Peacock next week. The story behind it is amazing. The movie started out as a short film, director Adamma Ebo’s thesis project at UCLA, which then attracted attention from Issa Rae, who promoted it on her channels. By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 02:24 pm
Music Understanding Chloe x Halle Halle and Chloe Bailey are on the front cover of the September/October issue of Essence. They dished about Halle’s upcoming starring role (yes, a Black Ariel) in The Little Mermaid, her relationship with YouTube star DDG, and they also discussed what it’s been like coming into their By Stephanie • Aug 23, 2022 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt’s search for good luck Brad Pitt is really popular in Japan – they call him “Burapi” there – so interesting to see him promoting Bullet Train there right now, on multiple levels. The film was adapted from Japanese author Kōtarō Isaka’s novel Maria Beetle. There have been accusations of whitewashing with the movie or, as By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, Top Gun: Maverick has now surpassed Avengers: Infinity War to become the sixth highest grossing domestic film in US history. It’s an impressive achievement considering the lead-up to Infinity War, with all those superheroes coming together over the course of the preceding decade or more to face By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The time of their lives: Dirty Dancing at 35 Want to experience the crushing passage of time? Dirty Dancing was released thirty-five years ago, on August 21, 1987. It remains one of the most enduringly popular films of the 1980s, a foundational text in the contemporary romantic drama canon. But it’s also an artifact of 1980s nostalgia, as By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry and Olivia’s New York premiere Harry Styles played two shows in Toronto earlier this week, and it was kind of a spectacle – and I’m not talking about the concerts (although, of course his performances were amazing), but about the city’s reaction to him being in town. Downtown was buzzing and they were doing By Lainey • Aug 19, 2022 10:00 am
