Relationship Assumption Young Love and Oscar Love This is a couples roundup post… Let’s start with Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield who, like Ariana DeBose and Kristen Stewart, seems to be having a great time on the campaign circuit this season. Andrew is well-liked among Academy voters so while Will Smith is in the Best Actor lead By Lainey • Mar 08, 2022 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews If no one promotes it, does Deep Water even exist? On Valentine’s Day, approximately four hundred years ago now, Hulu dropped a teaser for Adrian Lyne’s new erotic thriller, Deep Water. This is, of course, the project that birthed BenAna, as stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas became a real-life couple after working together. When the teaser By Sarah • Mar 08, 2022 10:31 am
Music King Richard at the Luncheon…without Beyoncé As Sarah wrote in her post yesterday about this past weekend’s schedule of pre-Oscar events and awards ceremonies, King Richard is the industry editors’ choice for Best Picture this year which was a surprise because it was up against a film like Dune which, you would think, is the By Lainey • Mar 08, 2022 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews KStew’s big weekend It was a big weekend for Best Actress nominee Kristen Stewart. First, she accepted the American Riviera Award, given for “outstanding achievement in film” at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, one of those fetes that is a highlight of awards season. She wore a sheer Chanel dress that reminds me By Sarah • Mar 07, 2022 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Madonna with Rocco – and Alexa Madonna was in London this weekend and was photographed after having dinner with her son Rocco who dresses like his father. Rocco is now 21 years old and at last check was studying fine art at Central Saint Martins. Madonna’s been in the headlines lately because of all the By Lainey • Mar 07, 2022 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth rides regular Chris Hemsworth was photographed snowboarding in St Moritz earlier this week and since I watched so much snowboarding last month during the Olympics, my first thought was that it looks like he rides regular. Generally, at least in my experience, more people ride regular than goofy because more people are By Lainey • Mar 04, 2022 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith in After Yang Kogonada follows his feature film debut, Columbus, with the sci-fi drama After Yang, a quiet, reflective work about family, humanity, and loss. Set in a future where technology has become so seamless it’s virtually invisible, people can buy “technosapiens”, a class of semi-organic robots engineered to perform specific tasks. By Sarah • Mar 04, 2022 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine’s semi-weekly appearance Chris Pine! Once again! So soon! I feel like we don’t see or hear from Pine for long stretches, and then suddenly he’s unavoidable. For instance, showing off his salt-and-pepper wolfman look just a couple weeks ago, and just this week, news that he and Annabelle Wallis have By Sarah • Mar 04, 2022 11:14 am
Top Reads Chris and Ana Back Together Chris Evans and Ana de Armas were photographed the other day on the Atlanta set of Ghosted, which is described as a Romancing the Stone-style action adventure romance. I love it when I see Romancing the Stone used as a reference to describe a project – there aren’t enough of By Lainey • Mar 04, 2022 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Evan Rachel Wood as the unauthorized Madonna In keeping with today’s Madonna theme, here is a first look at Evan Rachel Wood in character as Madonna in the Weird Al biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe. She looks GREAT. I wonder if Wood has also auditioned for Madonna? Or is she disqualified by virtue of playing an unauthorized By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Madonna is choosing her Madonna Today in Hot Casting Rumors, THE role to get for white actresses under thirty is Madonna, in the biopic of Madonna being written and directed by Madonna. First reported by Jeff Sneider in The Ankler newsletter, Madonna is currently auditioning potential Madonnas that include Florence Pugh, Julia Garner, the newly By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Two tickets for Bullet Train, please Last week, we saw a faux-mercial themed teaser for Brad Pitt’s summer action movie, Bullet Train. Now, we have a full trailer, and yes, I will take two tickets, please. Bullet Train comes from director David Leitch, who is touted here as the director of Deadpool 2, but is By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 3, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Batman opens tomorrow, and it’s sure to be another money-maker for recovering movie theaters. But AMC, not content to merely make money but to rake in money, is further increasing their take by hiking ticket prices for the movie. At one point during the depths of By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore looks like a mess A second trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was released this week, and I just have to heave a big ole sigh. There’s the wasted potential, and then there is how GOOD the Dumbledore half of this movie looks and how annoying it is we can’t By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Beetlejuice 2 actually happen this time? Buckle up, because we’ve got a battle of the trades underway. Earlier this week, Jeff Sneider in The Ankler newsletter reported that Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, took over producing duties on the long-gestating sequel, Beetlejuice 2. Sneider specifically mentions there’s no greenlight, but also that By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 01:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sandra Oh stays busy Sandra Oh is SUPER busy. Coming off her SAG nomination for The Chair, she’s in the midst of the final season of Killing Eve, she has a Pixar movie, Turning Red, coming out this month, and also this month, she stars in the horror movie Umma. From writer/director By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 11:31 am