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
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson: Shameless self-promotion II I SWEAR I didn’t plan this, but it happens to be the opening night of the Chicago Critics Film Festival tonight, for which I am a programmer, and our opening film, Cha Cha Real Smooth, just got a new trailer. But since it HAPPENED, I am here to say By Sarah • May 13, 2022 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 13, 2022 Dear Gossips, Cannes starts next week, the first full-fledged festival they’ve held since 2019. There will be business deals, there will be fashion, and celebrities being at it again, but mostly, there will be Top Gun. As previously announced, Top Gun: Maverick will have a premiere on the Croisette. By Sarah • May 13, 2022 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Strong Start Here are some shots of Tom Cruise a few days ago promoting Top Gun: Maverick in Mexico as part of the worldwide press tour. It’ll be a frenzy next week in Cannes when the movie screens at the festival and then it’s on to London for the Royal By Lainey • May 12, 2022 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Viola Davis’s “magnum opus” Viola Davis has given no shortage of great performances—and at least one baffling one, with whatever she’s doing in The First Lady—but her new film already has people spun up about the epicness of her role. Back during CinemaCon, Davis won the “Trailblazer of the Year” award, By Sarah • May 12, 2022 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Simple Favor is back! I love A Simple Favor so much. I loved it when it came out, I named it one of the best movies of the 2010s, and I talk about it constantly. It’s so funny and dark and smart and sexy and a little bit bleak, and every time I By Sarah • May 12, 2022 10:25 am
Music Gaga in, 21 Pilots out We’re now a week away from the kickoff of this year’s Cannes Film Festival and one of the big screenings will be the highly anticipated world premiere of Top Gun: Maverick. Tom Cruise, obviously, will lead the cast and he is a big deal all by himself but By Lainey • May 11, 2022 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar Again Finally, after over a solid decade of false starts and delays of various natures, the sequel to Avatar, officially titled Avatar: The Way of Water, is due out this December. And to prove that it is really, 100%, no take-backs happening, a teaser trailer was released yesterday. It’s…fine. By Sarah • May 10, 2022 11:29 am
Style Kristen Stewart’s “Crimes” in Cannes A trailer for David Cronenberg’s upcoming Crimes of the Future was released a few days ago ahead of the film’s world premiere in Cannes in a couple of weeks. I watched it once, when it first dropped, and while I’ve embedded it below, it f-cked me up By Lainey • May 09, 2022 02:55 pm
Business of Hollywood Doctor Strange gets summer 2022 off to a healthy start In continuing positive signs for the post-pandemic box office, at least among the blockbuster class, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness opened with $185 million in North America this weekend, while netting $265 million everywhere else for a huge $450 million bow. And this is just the estimate on By Sarah • May 09, 2022 09:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Somewhere in the middle of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a sense that this is all a little less wonderful than it should be. A sorcerer and an interdimensional super-being hopping through the multiverse trying to avoid a witch is a pretty awesome concept, but as is By Sarah • May 06, 2022 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson: Shameless self-promotion Here is Dakota Johnson out yesterday in New York City. Why am I drawing attention to Dakota Johnson walking out of a hotel? Shameless self-promotion, of course. Johnson stars in Cha Cha Real Smooth, a new film from annoyingly young filmmaker Cooper Raiff, and one week from tonight, Cha Cha By Sarah • May 06, 2022 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris & Ana kissing Chris Evans and Ana de Armas are in Washington, DC working on the action romance movie Ghosted. The Lost City starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum just did well a couple of months ago so… are we reviving this movie trend from the 80s? Can we get more action rom-coms? By Lainey • May 05, 2022 03:09 pm
