Movie Reviews and Previews Honk for the Jesus Four Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. opens in theatres and premieres on Peacock next week. The story behind it is amazing. The movie started out as a short film, director Adamma Ebo’s thesis project at UCLA, which then attracted attention from Issa Rae, who promoted it on her channels. By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 02:24 pm
Music Understanding Chloe x Halle Halle and Chloe Bailey are on the front cover of the September/October issue of Essence. They dished about Halle’s upcoming starring role (yes, a Black Ariel) in The Little Mermaid, her relationship with YouTube star DDG, and they also discussed what it’s been like coming into their By Stephanie • Aug 23, 2022 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt’s search for good luck Brad Pitt is really popular in Japan – they call him “Burapi” there – so interesting to see him promoting Bullet Train there right now, on multiple levels. The film was adapted from Japanese author Kōtarō Isaka’s novel Maria Beetle. There have been accusations of whitewashing with the movie or, as By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, Top Gun: Maverick has now surpassed Avengers: Infinity War to become the sixth highest grossing domestic film in US history. It’s an impressive achievement considering the lead-up to Infinity War, with all those superheroes coming together over the course of the preceding decade or more to By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The time of their lives: Dirty Dancing at 35 Want to experience the crushing passage of time? Dirty Dancing was released thirty-five years ago, on August 21, 1987. It remains one of the most enduringly popular films of the 1980s, a foundational text in the contemporary romantic drama canon. But it’s also an artifact of 1980s nostalgia, By Sarah • Aug 19, 2022 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry and Olivia’s New York premiere Harry Styles played two shows in Toronto earlier this week, and it was kind of a spectacle – and I’m not talking about the concerts (although, of course his performances were amazing), but about the city’s reaction to him being in town. Downtown was buzzing and they were doing By Lainey • Aug 19, 2022 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 17, 2022 Dear Gossips, Zoë Kravitz covers the fall women’s fashion issue of WSJ. Magazine. Most of the piece focuses on her feature directorial debut from a script she co-wrote. Pussy Island will star Channing Tatum (who is also producing) and Naomi Ackie and started filming in June. Zoë and By Lainey • Aug 17, 2022 09:44 am
TV Updates A Charlie Hunnam sighting Maria just mentioned recently in Celebrity Social Media what a low profile Charlie Hunnam has maintained over this ongoing pandemic. Even when restrictions started easing, he was pretty undercover. So this is a rare sighting indeed of Charlie, with his longtime partner Morgana McNelis, out for groceries the other day By Lainey • Aug 15, 2022 09:46 am
Royals Intro for August 15, 2022 Dear Gossips, I watched the first half hour of The Princess, HBO’s new documentary about Princess Diana, on the treadmill this morning. It made the time go by real fast and it made me want to stay on the treadmill, which almost never happens. I was mad when I By Lainey • Aug 15, 2022 08:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Michelle Yeoh save the Russos from gray glop? It’s a tale of two movies: indie blockbuster darling Everything Everywhere All At Once, a critical and commercial hit that gives Michelle Yeoh a role truly worthy of her talent, and The Gray Man, the kind of cash-in mediocrity that has come to define Netflix’s attempts at By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lena Dunham’s other movie Lena Dunham is on a hot streak, releasing two feature films this year, after not directing one since 2010’s Tiny Furniture. First, it was Sharp Stick, which had a muted rollout a couple weeks ago and has not made a dent anywhere except the corner of Tumblr devoted to By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 12:07 pm
BFFs Margot Robbie: A Big Year Ahead It’s yacht season, celebrities are on holiday, and many of them have been seen in Italy and or the South of France. This is not where we find Cara Delevingne, her sister Poppy, Sienna Miller, and Margot Robbie. They’re still on the water but they’ve chosen Formentera, By Lainey • Aug 12, 2022 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ezra Miller emerges as The Flash’s future is questioned One of the major pop culture narratives of summer 2022 is “where in the world is Ezra Miller”, as headlines out of Hawaii in the spring painted an image of an increasingly troubled star going through…something…in the public eye. But then Miller disappeared, while stories about their behavior By Sarah • Aug 12, 2022 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy is in (on?) The Menu With The Bear becoming the breakout hit series of the summer, it’s the perfect time for a darkly comic horror movie about a chef torturing the guests at an elaborate dinner. It’s an ideal pairing, a series using the restaurant world to tell a family drama, and a By Sarah • Aug 11, 2022 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amber Midthunder in Prey When The Predator was released in 2018, I said that Predator (1987) was a “one-off idea that should never have been franchised”. Well, I take it back because Prey is a perfect movie. It’s a simple premise executed SPECTACULARLY well—and it’s not burdened with setting up By Sarah • Aug 09, 2022 01:54 pm
Amazingness Tom Cruise, the Musical Remember back in the spring of 2020, when we were all shellshocked from lockdown? I don’t want to remember it either but this is about context, and at the time, with movies being pulled from theatres and everyone in Hollywood trying to figure out what the f-ck to By Lainey • Aug 09, 2022 12:56 pm
