Movie Reviews and Previews Some good Angelina news The recent news about Angelina Jolie has been troubling—at best—as it involves her never-ending split from Brad Pitt and their winery-estate, Miraval, and her share of the wine business that she sold, legitimately and above board, to a liquor company. Well! Enough of that! How about some good By Sarah • Jun 10, 2022 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Adam hides #HotJafar We continue inching ever closer to the day that Dwayne Johnson is officially a superhero, as a full trailer for Black Adam, his DC anti-hero project, dropped yesterday. It looks…fine. It kind of feels like this trailer is cutting around something - unfinished effects, maybe, or a plot point By Sarah • Jun 09, 2022 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington are Good & Evil Another of the Netflix “Geek Week” trailers is The School for Good & Evil, starring Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington and directed by Paul Feig. It’s based on Soman Chainani’s YA series about the school that trains the heroes and villains of fairy tales, with Washington playing the By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matt, Ben, and JLo It was announced earlier this year that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are reuniting onscreen for a film about how Nike signed Michael Jordan, a partnership that would result in sneaker culture as we know it now. Sneaker culture is also fashion culture, as you cannot separate the influence of By Lainey • Jun 08, 2022 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Neve Campbell knows her worth Earlier this year, Scream, the fifth movie in the Scream franchise and sadly not titled 5cream, was a hit, earning $140 million against a $25 million budget. Even by non-pandemic standards, that is a solid success story. A successful reboot means the franchise has new life and Scream 6 is By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley and Matt’s on-set kiss Bradley Cooper is currently directing himself as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro which is expected on Netflix some time next year. Will be interesting to see when, exactly, next year. Will Maestro follow the same award season path as A Star is Born with a world premiere in Venice before an By Lainey • Jun 07, 2022 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks is in his silly voice era We are in for TWO Pinocchio movies this year, which is two too many, between the Netflix stop-motion version of the story from Guillermo Del Toro starring Ewan McGregor, and Disney’s live-action version starring Tom Hanks. A teaser for the Disney update has dropped, and between this and whatever By Sarah • Jun 02, 2022 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews On Top Gun: Maverick’s big weekend and big propaganda After two years of COVID delays, it turns out that the long game paid off and Top Gun: Maverick will likely go down as the movie that “saved” summer blockbusters. It has banked $126 million for the three-day weekend and pulled in $156 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend By Sarah • May 31, 2022 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 31, 2022 Dear Gossips, Today marks the end of Asian Heritage Month in Canada and AAPI Heritage Month in the United States. BTS will be meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House this afternoon. And at the Cannes Film Festival this past weekend, Song Kang-ho was named Best Actor for By Lainey • May 31, 2022 09:07 am
Quiveration Austin Butler: Before the Madness Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis premiered at Cannes earlier this week to a big reaction. So far, the 12-minute standing ovation that the film received is the longest of the festival this year and as I mentioned in my coverage of the premiere yesterday, there’s already talk that Austin Butler’ By Lainey • May 27, 2022 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun: Maverick brings Maverick full circle Rarely does a nostalgia-driven sequel make a case for itself as well as Top Gun: Maverick does. Picking up 36 years after Top Gun, we find Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) working as a test pilot on a next-gen jet on the brink of being scrapped in favor of unmanned By Sarah • May 25, 2022 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans have no chemistry Yesterday, the trailer for The Gray Man came out, giving us our first look at the new Netflix action movie starring Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling and a bunch of other hot people, and directed by the Russo Brothers, and…I don’t know. I just don’t know. It By Sarah • May 25, 2022 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba washes away the scent of Cats George Miller, the mad genius behind the Mad Max films, filled his time between Mad Max: Fury Road and its prequel, Furiosa, with a similarly fantastic, albeit less apocalyptic fantasy film Three Thousand Years of Longing. Starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, the film premiered at Cannes to mostly positive By Sarah • May 24, 2022 03:18 pm
Shoes Jennifer Connelly’s Biggest Tour Sarah wrote in the previous post re: the Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning trailer (and its bonkers punctuation, which spilled over into this sentence!) about why the culture in general has embraced Tom Cruise and not side-eying his freaking Scientology sh-t and she cited a number of reasons ranging from By Lainey • May 24, 2022 02:02 pm
Xenu Mission: Impossible – Punctuation Hell and Tom Cruise’s rehabilitation Over the weekend, a trailer for the next Mission: Impossible film leaked, so now the trailer has been released in all its official HD glory, even though this movie doesn’t come out for 13 months. (Presumably, they’re going to tack this onto Top Gun: Maverick this weekend, as By Sarah • May 24, 2022 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jane Foster is stoked to be Thor It’s summer blockbuster season and it almost feels like normal, with a new Tom Cruise movie opening this week and a new trailer for the next Marvel thing, Thor: Love and Thunder, dropping last night. Still sort of heartbroken this movie isn’t called Th4r, but the new trailer By Sarah • May 24, 2022 11:15 am
