Gorgessity Zoë wears the Bat Signal The Batman press tour is underway and the first red carpet was the UK premiere last night in London. Reviews are embargoed but early reaction I’ve seen has been quite positive so far. Well it better be, LOL. The movie is five minutes shy of three hours and if By Lainey • Feb 24, 2022 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the ice skating apocalypse A film left out of Netflix’s sizzle reel for 2022 is the Swedish thriller Black Crab starring Noomi Rapace. The trailer dropped yesterday, and I cannot fathom why they left this one out, it looks AWESOME. A post-apocalyptic action-thriller centered on an ICE SKATING MISSION? Are you kidding me? By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alden Ehrenreich comes back Alden Ehrenreich exploded overnight in 2016, selected by the Coen Brothers to anchor the ensemble in Hail, Caesar!, and then named the new-young Han Solo, to headline a Star Wars spin-off centered on that beloved character. But then that all went to sh-t, and Ehrenreich, who has such amazing screen By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 02:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews DanRad with the accordian The Weird Al Yankovic biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe is underway, and after set photos leaked over the weekend, the production has released the first official image of DanRad done up like Weird Al. He is unsettlingly convincing. “Wearing the Hawaiian shirt is a huge responsibility that I don’t take By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 11:36 am
Hair Andrew Garfield out and about Can I just say that I am very much enjoying Andrew Garfield this awards season? It’s his second time around as a Best Actor nominee (following his 2017 nomination for Hacksaw Ridge), and he seems to understand he’s not a frontrunner, so all the pressure is off and By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Penelope Cruz’s Quiet Campaign The Screen Actors Guild Awards are happening on Sunday. It’ll be the first award show that I’ve watched in a long time. And for the SAG Awards, they’re rarely in this position because, in a typical pre-COVID year, they come after the Golden Globes and the Critics By Lainey • Feb 22, 2022 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom & Zendaya: The Non-Cohabitating Power Couple Remember that story a couple of weeks ago about Tom Holland buying a house in London and that Zendaya would be moving in with him? It originated in the UK Mirror which, at the time, I said wasn’t exactly confidence-inspiring. And while doing press for Uncharted, Tom has clarified By Lainey • Feb 22, 2022 09:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews I’m sorry about Elvis Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic comes out in June, so there is a lot of time ahead to say all the things I want to say about Elvis, I don’t want to blow my load on the trailer. So I’ve decided, now that the first trailer has been By Lainey • Feb 18, 2022 03:36 pm
Equality Issues Yalitza Aparicio, at last It has been four years since Yalitza Aparicio made her acting debut in Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar-winning film, Roma. But despite being a Best Actress nominee in 2019, Aparicio has not appeared in a feature film or television series since. She hasn’t been completely idle, having appeared in a By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in Uncharted Well, it’s happened. After thirty years of trying, video games movies have finally reached the middle. Uncharted, the globe-trotting Indiana Jones-riff adventure game, comes to the big screen at last, starring Tom Holland as a young, just-starting-out adventurer, Nathan Drake, and Mark Wahlberg as his shady mentor, Sully. It By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bat and The Cat cover hotness The Batman comes out in two weeks, so we’re in the full-court press for, er, press. Yesterday, it was Robert Pattinson at Jimmy Kimmel Live, today it’s RBattz and Zoë Kravitz together on the digital cover for Entertainment Weekly. (In a heart-crushing blow to the celebrity/pop culture By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More Trek for Chris Pine Chris Pine! Twice in one week! Feels like a good omen to roll into the weekend with. Here’s Chris Pine at an event for Prada in Los Angeles yesterday. Also present: Zachary Quinto, his co-star in the Star Trek franchise, which just got a kick in the pants this By Sarah • Feb 18, 2022 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson tries to be honest Robert Pattinson was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night ahead of the release of The Batman on March 4. This is a huge movie, the anticipation is extreme, which means this will be the most aggressive press tour Robert’s done in a long time. As we know, though, where By Lainey • Feb 17, 2022 01:20 pm
Top Reads The 2022 Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue Every year around this time, just before the Oscars, Vanity Fair unveils its annual Hollywood Issue and it can often be controversial for who is featured, who isn’t featured, who’s featured on the front and who lands on the folds, and that conversation can say more about Hollywood By Lainey • Feb 17, 2022 10:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan plays a dirtbag again in Fresh One of the breakouts from Sundance this year is Fresh, Mimi Cave’s feature film directorial debut about a young woman and her new beau, who has, er, unique tastes. Everyone who has seen this film recommends learning nothing about it, so as to better experience its twists and turns. By Sarah • Feb 16, 2022 02:04 pm
Top Reads Brad Pitt: Paris and Babylon, but not New Orleans Paramount yesterday made some major announcements about streaming and movie releases yesterday and announced a rebrand. ViacomCBS is now officially Paramount and “starting in 2024, all Paramount movies will stream directly on [Paramount+] after their theatrical run is through”. There was also information about their blockbuster slate over the next By Lainey • Feb 16, 2022 11:24 am
