Movie Reviews and Previews David Harbour in Violent Night I love it when movies don’t explain their lore, but simply let us live in their world and absorb details through visual storytelling. This is one of the elements Violent Night has in common with John Wick. Like that movie, Violent Night doesn’t waste time on exposition. There By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sir, you are immortal The first trailer for Indiana Jones 5 dropped yesterday and it is terrible. I know I am deeply cynical about continuing the Indy saga after Indiana Jones and the Cursed Thing That Never Happened broke my heart in 2008, but all I see in this new trailer are the same By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Every Marvel thing is epic now The Comic Con Experience is happening now in Sao Paolo, Brazil. It’s a massive fan event that throws even San Diego Comic Con in the shade. In 2019, Comic Con attracted 135,000 people, while in the same year, CCXP drew 280,000. So CCXP has become a major By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg is saving the world Jesse Eisenberg is having a moment, what with Fleishman Is in Trouble—I’m already behind, what is time, and how do you manage it?—and his upcoming feature directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World. In 2020, Eisenberg wrote an audio drama of the same name about the By Sarah • Dec 01, 2022 01:50 pm
Amazingness Cocaine Bear on a rampage 2023 still doesn’t sound like a real year, but it’s only one month away. Which means it’s time to talk about the films of 2023 we have to look forward to, beginning and ending with Cocaine Bear. The excellently titled film from Elizabeth Banks got a trailer By Sarah • Dec 01, 2022 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will talks to Trevor Will Smith’s new movie, Emancipation, comes out in theaters this weekend, before debuting on Apple TV+ on December 9. Smith is, in a limited way, doing press for the movie. Earlier this week, he stopped by The Daily Show for a long conversation with Trevor Noah, one of his By Sarah • Nov 30, 2022 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 30, 2022 Dear Gossips, Guess what’s opening, or re-opening, in theatres this Friday? Top Gun: Maverick is back for a two-week run. It’s holiday season and Paramount is saying that this film “truly epitomises the magic of the moviegoing experience” and that they’re doing this so that By Lainey • Nov 30, 2022 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 29, 2022 Dear Gossips, Everything Everywhere All At Once! The film that came out in April, before almost every other Oscar contender this year, and steadily picked up momentum, along with acclaim, to end up with over $100 million at the global box office and set the standard for the award season By Lainey • Nov 29, 2022 09:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell in Bones and All Luca Guadagnino and Timothee Chalamet reunite for Bones and All, another young-love romance, though this time, instead of a swoony Italian summer fling, it’s an Americana cannibal feast. Based on Camille DeAngelis’s novel of the same name (adapted for the screen by David Kajganich), Bones and All By Sarah • Nov 28, 2022 02:39 pm
Style Zoe post-Scratch Zoe Saldana is now making the media rounds to promote Avatar: The Way of Water. I didn’t see the first movie, I don’t feel any cultural FOMO from it, so I can’t say I’m at all interested in the second movie. But if I do see By Lainey • Nov 28, 2022 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell is hungry There’s that class of actors who were on the brink of breaking out circa 2019 who had their big moments delayed by the pandemic—like so many other, more important things—but are now enjoying their delayed moments to the fullest in 2022. Ana de Armas is finally having By Sarah • Nov 28, 2022 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell in Devotion In some ways, Devotion is a classic Dad Movie. It’s about a historic war—the Korean War, sometimes referred to as the “forgotten” war because it gets overshadowed in the history books by World War II and the Vietnam War, which bookend it; it features Men Being Men; it’ By Sarah • Nov 25, 2022 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin and Kaia keep it quiet Austin Butler and Kaia Gerber have been dating almost a year now. And it’s not like they’ve kept it a secret but they seem to be much lower profile than she was when she was dating Jacob Elordi. Even more low profile since the release of Elvis and By Lainey • Nov 25, 2022 11:08 am
BFFs Jake will be spatchcocking today Jake Gyllenhaal’s interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show aired last night as he’s promoting Strange World, now playing in theatres. I personally haven’t had great experiences interviewing Jake but I’m small fry, and I can appreciate that he has always been fun on the By Lainey • Nov 24, 2022 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Comeback of Ke Huy Quan Perhaps the highest profile comeback of the 2022 award season has been Brendan Fraser. Brendan will very likely be nominated for an Oscar for his performance in The Whale and he’s been warmly embraced by the industry. There is another comeback, though, on the award circuit, and he too By Lainey • Nov 24, 2022 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 24, 2022 Dear Gossips, Today is American Thanksgiving and our Deputy Editor, Sarah, has tapped out for the holiday (she’s prepared a few film reviews in advance) and I’m trying to leave her alone but I am curious whether or not she’ll be heading to the movies today with By Lainey • Nov 24, 2022 09:08 am
