Royals Tom hosts Will and Kate In London last night, the UK premiere of Top Gun: Marverick. And, naturally, because this is a Tom Cruise movie and Tom Cruise is always extra AF, they went full throttle with the presentation. Leicester Square was a spectacle, a huge maze of digital screens was set up outside the By Lainey • May 20, 2022 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Billy Eichner’s Bros Rom-coms are in full blown revival mode, but unlike the rom-com trends of the past, queer people—and/or queer-coded people—are no longer relegated to the sidelines. The gay rom-com is here, from Fire Island, Joel Kim Booster's contemporary queer take on Pride & Prejudice, starring Booster By Sarah • May 19, 2022 01:53 pm
Amazingness Tom Cruise in Cannes: Fist-pumps, standing ovations, and chivalry Sarah posted photos from the Top Gun gala spectacle in Cannes yesterday along with details from his Q&A before the premiere at the palais. I’m here to follow up on a few more details now that the movie has screened for the festival audience – to a five By Lainey • May 19, 2022 11:50 am
Amazingness JLo: “But I’m also saying…does the camera got me?” YES. Or YASSSSSS, for added emphasis. This is what I’ve been waiting for – the trailer for Jennifer Lopez’s documentary, Halftime. The film will open the Tribeca Festival next month before it premieres on Netflix on June 14. At the end of the preview, JLo reads from her family By Lainey • May 19, 2022 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More Netflix drama! The first trailer for Chris Hemsworth’s new Netflix movie, Spiderhead, is here, and it looks like a trip. I’m not sure I’d be 100% on board except that Bad Times at the El Royale is one of my favorite contemporary films, and that has Hemsworth working in By Sarah • May 18, 2022 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Riley Keough made a Native movie and got a fancy explainer about it Riley Keough is making her directorial debut at Cannes, with a film she co-directed with her business partner, Gina Gammell. They’re premiering War Pony in the Un Certain Regard section of the film festival, a film they made about young men growing up on the Pine Ridge reservation in By Sarah • May 18, 2022 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gunapalooza It is here, it is now, it is nigh—the Top Gun: Maverick premiere is happening at Cannes. And, I am shocked and upset to report, as of this writing, there is no Lady Gaga. I repeat, there is NO Lady Gaga. And I was SO looking forward to her By Sarah • May 18, 2022 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews She-Hulk is here to step on our necks The television upfronts continue, and yesterday was Disney’s turn, which means some new wares to show off to everyone. Most notably, they released the first teaser for She-Hulk starring Tatiana Maslany. It looks cute. She’s a lawyer, she has thirty-something lady problems, and her cousin is Bruce Banner, By Sarah • May 18, 2022 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia and Ethan: All these years later Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke were papped yesterday on the set of their new Netflix film, Leave the World Behind. Julia is once again working with Sam Esmail who is directing and adapting the project based on Rumaan Alam’s acclaimed novel by the same name. Mahershala Ali also stars By Lainey • May 18, 2022 10:06 am
Maple Leaf Simu Liu: acting, singing, hosting, dancing, writing I’m travelling this week so I wasn’t able to watch Simu Liu host the Juno Awards from Toronto on Sunday. I have however watched online clips of his opening monologue and one part where he sings. Let’s start with the monologue which starts with a sketch before By Lainey • May 17, 2022 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rebecca Hall: Shameless self-promotion Rebecca Hall is one of the jurors at Cannes this year. (French star Vincent Lindon of Titane and Both Sides of the Blade fame is the jury president.) Here is Hall arriving in Nice ahead of the festival, with a great tousled pixie that is once again reminding me that By Sarah • May 17, 2022 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Netflix invests in Chris Evans (and his stache) Netflix is going through a rough patch, telling employees to “spend our members’ money wisely”, so I guess it’s safe to assume that they consider The Gray Man, the upcoming action film from the Russo Brothers starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans’ Mustache, a wise way to spend money By Sarah • May 16, 2022 03:37 pm
Douchebags John Lasseter’s comeback movie The trailer for Luck, a new animated film from David Ellison’s Skydance Animation and Apple TV+, was released on Friday. It looks like a cute movie about a talking black cat and the “department of luck” and how a human ruins everything. You know I would normally be into By Sarah • May 16, 2022 01:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Momoa is dating Eiza Gonzalez Jason Momoa is not getting back together with Lisa Bonet. Jason Momoa hung out with Kate Beckinsale after the Oscars but their flirting apparently began and ended that night. He’s currently working on Fast X and almost every day for the last week he’s been photographed on set. By Lainey • May 16, 2022 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spinal Tap II!!!! On the heels of the news that A Simple Favor is getting a sequel—do you think they’ll call it A Simple Favor 2: An Even Simpler Favor?—comes the EVEN BIGGER NEWS that iconic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap is also getting a sequel. The whole band is By Sarah • May 13, 2022 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gemma and the Spinoff Gemma Chan was at the Louis Vuitton cruise show in San Diego yesterday and sat next to Anna Wintour at one point. If you’re curious about why San Diego (I was too), WWD has an article about why Nicolas Ghesquière wanted to have the presentation there and specifically at By Lainey • May 13, 2022 01:10 pm
