Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney joins SPUMC Sydney Sweeney is having a big year, from the breakout success of The White Lotus last summer to the Euphoria domination of early 2022, and reports that she’s one of the possible Madonnas, plus her engagement—lots going on for Sydney. Now, she’s making the leap to superhero By Sarah • Mar 17, 2022 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonathan Majors keeps going Jonathan Majors broke out with 2019’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco (which you can watch on demand on Showtime, or stream with Showtime on Hulu). Then, he went on a crazy run through 2020 and 2021 with Da 5 Bloods, Lovecraft Country, Loki, and The Harder They By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 03:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, Do you feel the need, the need for speed? Cannes does. It was reported this week that Maverick: Legend of the Skies Top Gun: Maverick will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May. The Croisette? More like the CRUISETTE. Cannes is BIG, it is GLAMOR, it is By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone goes on a road trip I adore Lily Gladstone, as captivating a performer as has emerged anywhere in the last decade. Sometimes I re-watch Certain Women just to see if that performance happened, if that impression of stoic heartbreak is real, and yes, it DID, and yes, it IS. I am rooting for her as By Sarah • Mar 15, 2022 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sandy didn’t notice I am not mature enough to not talk about Channing Tatum’s dick now that Sandra Bullock has talked about his dick. Specifically not looking at his dick, but we’ll get there. Sandra Bullock was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night promoting her upcoming rom-com The By Lainey • Mar 15, 2022 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews But what will Deadpool 3 be rated? On Friday, I mentioned that the Netflix-Marvel shows—the most violent/profane stuff affiliated with Marvel during the MCU era—have landed on Disney+ along with more sensitive parental controls, a step toward clearing a path for Deadpool to join the MCU. Then, late Friday afternoon, news broke that Ryan By Sarah • Mar 15, 2022 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A big weekend for awards season It was a big weekend for awards season, with a number of awards shows, including the BAFTAs in London and the Critics’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles (with a London outpost for the BAFTA crowd) on Sunday, and the Directors’ Guild Awards and Annie Awards (for animation) on Saturday. Let By Sarah • Mar 14, 2022 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Phases of Matter: A day in the life of a hospital Turkish filmmaker Deniz Tortum spent three years haunting the halls of the hospital where he was born and where his father works a doctor with a camera, capturing life in Istanbul’s Cerrahpaşa Hospital. It’s a teaching hospital, but it’s also threatened with closure, and so Tortum’s By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Turning Red is a puberty allegory for everyone Domee Shi, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the Pixar short Bao, makes her feature film debut with Turning Red, a bubbly, fun, heart-warming allegory for puberty in which thirteen-year-old Meilin (Rosalie Chiang) finds herself transformed into a giant red panda whenever she loses control of her emotions, and discovers she is By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage’s greatest role April Fool’s Day falls on a Friday this year. I bring this up because the trailer for Nicolas Cage’s new movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, came out this week and it’s set to open in April, but on the twenty-second. If ever there was a By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler is about to be everywhere Austin Butler isn’t a household name. Yet. With Baz Luhrman’s Elvis biopic on the horizon, and a fancy historical war epic looming (Masters of the Air, about WWII-era bomber pilots and co-starring fellow rising stars Barry Keoghan and Callum Turner), it’s only a matter of time before By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 10, 2022 Dear Gossips, Oscar winner Domee Shi’s new film, Turning Red, about a Chinese Canadian girl going through puberty is based in Toronto. So the premiere, fittingly, was in Toronto on Tuesday night. Domee was there along with cast members Sandra Oh, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Rosalie Chiang. Domee won the By Lainey • Mar 10, 2022 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harvey Guillén is also everywhere Lainey and I are both in the tank for Sam Richardson, the actor who is suddenly everywhere, in all your favorite comedies and must watch shows and indie movies and being the only good thing about The Tomorrow War. Well, another name to know is Harvey Guillén, another actor cropping By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Slash/Back pits aliens against Indigenous teens SXSW starts on Friday, and one of the films selling at the film market there is Nyla Innuksuk’s Indigenous alien invasion flick, Slash/Back. The trailer dropped yesterday, and it looks awesome. The film centers on three girls who just want to go to a party with cute boys, By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell get Scrooged Three years ago, before Apple TV+ even launched, we heard about one of their first big deals, to make a new, musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. At the time, I wasn’t into it, largely because A Muppets Christmas Carol already exists and By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Florence Pugh might join Dune 2 Florence Pugh is without question one of the most in-demand actors under thirty. She has numerous projects due out over the next couple years, including Olivia Wilde’s much anticipated Don’t Worry Darling, she’s one of the potential Madonnas (and is rumored to be Madonna’s preferred pick) By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 10:17 am
