Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Returns to 8H Jake Gyllenhaal is currently promoting Ambulance, Michael Bay’s “small movie” - LOL, by Michael Bay standards, I guess that’s true. Jake was at the premiere the other night and this weekend he is returning to Studio 8H, the home of Saturday Night Live. Over the years, he’s By Lainey • Apr 06, 2022 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Whither Thor Love and Thunder Three months from this Friday, Thor Love and Thunder—which is a great title but I’m still sad this isn’t called Th4r—is slated to open in theaters. Marvel used to run on a six-month publicity clock, which meant we’d have a trailer by now, but I’ By Sarah • Apr 05, 2022 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill Skarsgard is the latest to tackle The Crow Over the last decade, several movies have escaped development hell, for better or worse. Mad Max: Fury Road leaps to mind in the “better” category, The Dark Tower represents team “worse”. But there is also Uncharted, Alita: Battle Angel, The Man Who Killed Quixote, Deadpool. On a long enough timeline, By Sarah • Apr 04, 2022 02:34 pm
Style Sandra and Channing, Finally! I’ve mentioned a couple of times that Channing Tatum’s been missing from some of the more high-profile promotional events for The Lost City, including the Hollywood premiere. He’s been working on Magic Mike’s Last Dance so the schedule hasn’t allowed for it – but now that By Lainey • Apr 01, 2022 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chan and Thandiwe on the Last Dance Filming on the third and final installment of the Magic Mike franchise is now underway in London as Channing Tatum and Thandiwe Newton were seen on set yesterday. Steven Soderbergh is back to direct and the film is called Magic Mike’s Last Dance, not to be confused with The By Lainey • Mar 31, 2022 11:04 am
Top Reads MBJ Directs His Opponent After making his red carpet premiere with Lori Harvey on Oscar night Michael B Jordan was back at work yesterday directing Creed 3. This is his feature directorial debut and it’s an ambitious project considering that, obviously, he’ll be back as Adonis in the third installment of his By Lainey • Mar 30, 2022 12:47 pm
Oscars 2022 Predicting the Chaoscars This awards season has been 1) INTERMINABLE, and 2) CHAOTIC. Dramatic momentum shifts, wild nominations at precursor award shows, races too close to call—these Oscars are so chaotic, they should be called the Chaoscars . Predicting Oscar wins is tougher than usual for a number of reasons, ranging from the By Sarah • Mar 25, 2022 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miles Teller’s Sliding Doors The first trailer for The Offer was all about Matthew Goode as Robert Evans, the larger-than-life figure who ran Paramount for a time in the 1970s. The second trailer tries to refocus on Miles Teller, the actual star of the show portraying Al Ruddy, the producer behind The Godfather. What By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 03:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage is PERFECT as Dracula Nicolas Cage’s greatest role may be playing himself, but let us not forget that he is also playing Dracula in the upcoming Renfield, a retelling of Dracula from henchman Renfield’s perspective. Described as a horror-comedy, Renfield stars Nicolas Hoult as Renfield; Awkwafina as Rebecca, Renfield’s love interest; By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 03:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yes All Men Alex Garland, the filmmaker behind Ex Machina and Annihilation, is back with a new film called Men starring current Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear, and virtually ONLY Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear. The trailer features Buckley as Harper, a grieving woman gone to the country after, it seems, By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal wears TWO shirts in London Ambulance, the Michael Bay heist movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza Gonzalez, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II opens in a couple weeks, so the press tour started this week. Here is the cast and Michael Bay in London yesterday at a “special screening”. For some reason, we’ve stopped calling these “premieres” By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 24, 2022 Dear Gossips, Morbius opens next Friday—and WeCrashed started streaming on Apple TV+ last week—and Jared Leto has been press touring all week and we’ve sort of been ignoring him because so much other stuff is happening—like the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, breaking up with By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 09:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Where the Crawdads Sing is fancy Fancy Delia Owens’ novel Where the Crawdads Sing was one of Reese Witherspoon’s book club picks that then got parlayed into a splashy film adaptation, not unlike the upcoming Daisy Jones and the Six and Gone Girl (produced when Witherspoon’s company was still called Pacific Standard). As is her By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 03:34 pm
Style Oscar Isaac says “gay” Moon Knight starts streaming a week from today. As we saw last week, Oscar Isaac is currently on the press tour, serving up look after look, and he’s been on the junket, doing interviews, and during one of those interviews, with Variety, he was asked about the homophobic assholes By Lainey • Mar 23, 2022 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sandra Bullock: A Two Dress Night Sandra Bullock at the premiere of The Lost City last night. The movie opens on Friday and currently has an 88% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Sarah’s review will be posted later this week but I’m optimistic because she texted me after the screening to say it was By Lainey • Mar 22, 2022 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in Deep Water Filmmaker and erotic thriller auteur Adrian Lyne returns to cinema after a twenty-year absence with Deep Water, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel of the same name (scripted by Zach Helm and Sam Levinson), starring Ben Affleck as Ultimate Wife Guy Vic and Ana de Armas as Sexy Mom By Sarah • Mar 21, 2022 02:18 pm
