Style Tilda Swinton channels David Bowie Last night, Tilda Swinton’s new film, The Eternal Daughter, premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. La Swinton showed up, doing her best David Bowie. If ever there is a biopic of Bowie, should anyone bother showing up besides Tilda Swinton? I think not. (There has already been an By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, Glass Onion is freaking great. There is no question in my mind that, were it getting a typical theatrical release like Knives Out did in 2019, it would also make the kind of money Knives Out did ($311 million worldwide). But Glass Onion is not getting a typical By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 6, 2022 Dear Gossips, Are you ready for your eyeroll of the day? I’m eyerolling so hard over this I’ve given myself a migraine. Jared Leto will play Karl Lagerfeld in a biopic that he’s also coproducing. Karl Lagerfeld’s estate has approved. According to The Hollywood Reporter the By Lainey • Oct 06, 2022 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo and Walmart Timothy Olyphant’s bad wedding The trailer for Shotgun Wedding, Jennifer Lopez’s new rom-com, dropped yesterday. Beyond the casting brouhaha when Josh Duhamel replaced a beleaguered Armie Hammer, I didn’t know anything about this movie. It turns out, the title is literal, as there are actual shotguns present at this wedding. JLo By Sarah • Oct 05, 2022 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Script fix it: Hocus Pocus 2 So, I’m going to do something different than just review Hocus Pocus 2. Over the years, you’ve probably seen me write some variation of “plot is what is happening, and story is why it’s happening”, and sometimes people will ask for more examples of that, and when By Sarah • Oct 04, 2022 02:28 pm
Style All the Cate Fashion I wrote about The Woman King and Viola Davis in the previous post and their Oscar ambitions. Viola will submit in the Best Actress category and we’ve been talking about how competitive it’s looking this year, even though Ana de Armas’s chances might be receding with all By Lainey • Oct 04, 2022 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Woman King campaigns The Woman King came out of TIFF with good reviews. Then it opened at #1 at the box office. In the weeks since it has pretty much recouped its budget, and with strong word of mouth, it should continue to see steady business; I went on Saturday and my theatre By Lainey • Oct 04, 2022 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wakanda Forever in all white The full trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is here, and just like the Comic-Con trailer, it is tugging heart strings while setting up the next chapter in Wakanda’s story, one that will not include T’Challa. Chadwick Boseman’s death hangs over this movie, but it does By Sarah • Oct 04, 2022 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sorry, Bros Bros, the rom-com written by and starring Billy Eichner, opened over the weekend. It’s the first mainstream studio rom-com centered on a same-sex relationship, grown-ups division. (Love, Simon is the first mainstream studio rom-com centered on a same-sex relationship, teen division, and these By Sarah • Oct 03, 2022 03:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet devours everything One of the films riding waves of critical acclaim out of the fall festivals is Bones and All, an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’s novel of the same name. The film reunites Luca Guadagnino and Timothee Chalamet (as well as Michael Stuhlbarg in a supporting role), and brings in new By Sarah • Oct 03, 2022 11:22 am
Maple Leaf Marie Clements’ Bones of Crows After world premiering at TIFF earlier this month, Marie Clements’ Bones of Crows was the opening film at the Vancouver International Film Festival last night. Director Marie Clements and star @_gracedove are here to celebrate the #VIFF2022 opening of BONES OF CROWS. ✨ 🎥 pic.twitter.com/ncumxeNlt4 — Vancouver International Film Festival By Lainey • Sep 30, 2022 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cate Blanchett’s third Oscar? At the Venice Film Festival, Cate Blanchett won the Volpi Cup for best actress, for her starring role in Tár, Todd Field’s long-awaited third feature film. In it, Blanchett plays a composer-conductor, Lydia Tár, who lands in some kind of trouble. The logline describes her as a By Sarah • Sep 29, 2022 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney: The Movie Star Wife Guy Today’s open was about Wife Guys and Scaachi Koul’s piece for Buzzfeed about the recent fall of Wife Guys. One of the most famous celebrity Wife Guys used to be Hollywood’s most high-profile bachelor-playboy, a man who’d declared he’d never get married and By Lainey • Sep 29, 2022 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hocus Pocus 2 with your wine aunts and fun uncle Alright, let’s take a break from how bleak and upsetting Blonde is to gawk at these photos from the premiere of Hocus Pocus 2. I love everything about these photos, except how big Sarah Jessica Parker’s daughters are, because nothing makes me feel older than grown celebrity children. By Sarah • Sep 28, 2022 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas in Blonde Andrew Dominik adapts Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, Blonde, for the big screen, telling a fictionalized version of Marilyn Monroe’s life, from her troubled childhood as Norma Jeane Mortensen, a fatherless girl at the mercy of a mentally ill mother, to Marilyn’s entrance into Hollywood via the casting couch, By Sarah • Sep 28, 2022 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool and decorating One of the surprises back during Disney’s D23 fan convention was that Deadpool 3 was not announced. Of course, there was no promise this—or any other announcement—would happen, no matter how many “scoopers” assert otherwise, but there had been some rumblings just below the official level that By Sarah • Sep 28, 2022 10:02 am
