Quiveration Very Important Dev Patel Updates Now that we’re all here, it’s time for some very important Dev Patel updates. One, as you can see from these photos from just yesterday, Dev Patel is still tall and handsome. This is not the most important thing, but let the record reflect that it is still By Sarah • Nov 16, 2022 10:17 am
Quiveration Step Up to Magic Mike Magic Mike XXL is The Empire Strikes Back of the Magic Mike Universe. Yes, I am connecting Magic Mike to Star Wars, LOL, because what I’m trying to say is that the sequel is better than the original. The reason why so many of us feel that way about By Lainey • Nov 15, 2022 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Kravitz: “Curator of Vibe” Zoë Kravitz is one of three cover stars for GQ’s year-end issue, named as the magazine’s Superhero of the Year. As Zoë herself concedes, playing Selina Kyle, Catwoman, in The Batman earlier this year confirmed her status on Hollywood’s A-List. “Batman was the first time By Lainey • Nov 15, 2022 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie at arm’s length Margot Robbie is the cover star of Vanity Fair’s December issue, in support of Babylon, Damien Chazelle’s ode to silent-era Hollywood (on the cusp of the talkie era). How magnanimous of Robbie to give Vanity Fair another shot after that super gross 2016 profile that managed to By Sarah • Nov 15, 2022 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick 4, FINALLY The last of the completed films that were delayed because of the pandemic were released this past summer. But we still have to deal with films that were meant to be in production in 2020 that were delayed and are just now staggering their way into theaters in fits and By Sarah • Nov 14, 2022 02:23 pm
Gorgessity Timothée Chalamet: Movie Star Rock Star Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell, opens this Friday. All three were in Milan this weekend for the premiere, coordinated in triple black on the red carpet. Last week I posted about Taylor’s emergence this year as a new style star and here By Lainey • Nov 14, 2022 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Wakanda Forever power trio talk about grief, but not vaccines Spoilers for Wakanda Forever Last week, Ryan Coogler, Angela Bassett, and Letitia Wright covered the digital edition of Variety, but I put off writing about it until more people got to see Black Panther: Wakanda Forever over the weekend. The Variety profile focuses heavily on the loss of Chadwick Boseman, By Sarah • Nov 14, 2022 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Grief takes center stage in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Usually, the star of a film gets the headline for the review, but in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, grief IS the lead character. Dealt the incredible loss of his friend and collaborator Chadwick Boseman, director Ryan Coogler finds a way to marshal on in the world of Wakanda, though the By Sarah • Nov 10, 2022 01:19 pm
TV Updates Taylor Sheridan’s Americana Taylor Sheridan emerged in the 2010s as one of the leading voices in the neo-Western revival in American cinema, writing screenplays for Sicario and its sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, and Hell or High Water, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. In 2017 he wrote and By Sarah • Nov 09, 2022 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chevalier won’t say his name There is a movie that did not fit into my TIFF schedule, Chevalier, which I regret. The trailer dropped yesterday, and it looks pretty great. Kelvin Harrison Jr., lately seen as B.B. King in Elvis, stars as Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the first recorded Black classical music By Sarah • Nov 08, 2022 03:09 pm
Gorgessity Jodie and Olivia: Gucci, chevron, and gloves Director Park Chan-wook was one of the honourees this year at the LACMA Art and Film gala. You know him from Oldboy and The Handmaiden, the overwhelmingly acclaimed film that was snubbed by the Oscars in 2016. The Handmaiden walked so that Parasite could run. And Park Chan-wook By Lainey • Nov 07, 2022 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill Nighy isn’t Jared Leto As mentioned in today’s open, Danielle Deadwyler looks to be in good position for a Best Actress Oscar nomination, and it’s a competitive field. The Best Actor category, however, isn’t quite as tight this year as it has been in the past and there are still spots By Lainey • Nov 07, 2022 12:01 pm
TV Updates Intro for November 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, Have you finished From Scratch yet? I love this series SO much, I want to hug it, I want to thank it, I want to share it with everyone like it’s mine. And now I’m curious – is From Scratch the kind of show that will be By Lainey • Nov 07, 2022 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrea Riseborough in Please Baby Please Some films are so fascinating, authorial, and/or bold they defy the “good/bad” binary. Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is one such film—is it good? Is it bad? Does it matter, when it’s so INTERESTING? The works of John Waters, Harmony Korine, and Prince fall into this category, By Sarah • Nov 04, 2022 03:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill in Enola Holmes 2 Enola Holmes is a very fun film featuring an incredibly charming Millie Bobby Brown as Sherlock Holmes’s spirited teenaged sister, Enola, with an unexpected assist from Henry Cavill’s surprising, dashing turn as Sherlock. The Holmeses are back for a new adventure in Enola Holmes 2, this time “inspired By Sarah • Nov 04, 2022 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence on the old Jennifer Lawrence With Jennifer Lawrence, it’s always going to be a candid interview. She is currently promoting Causeway, the first film she’s ever produced, in which she also stars, and in a new profile with Kyle Buchanan for the New York Times, she talks about how the project is the By Lainey • Nov 03, 2022 12:52 pm