Movie Reviews and Previews Zoe Kazan is remaking Elia Kazan Let’s hear it for nepotism, y’all, Zoe Kazan is adapting East of Eden, the John Steinbeck novel her grandfather, Elia Kazan, turned into one of the greatest films of the 1950s. Seriously, though, two things can be true: Zoe Kazan is part of a significant Hollywood legacy, and By Sarah • Jun 22, 2022 10:40 am
BFFs Mimi is a Bro Sarah posted last Friday about the new trailer for Billy Eichner’s upcoming rom-com Bros and as she said, “please just give me this movie right now”. This trailer and the one before it too have been great – and I don’t even mind if it ends up being By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 12:08 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton boys out and about It’s a Bridgerton reunion at Milan fashion week, as the duke and the viscount themselves, Regé-Jean Page and Jonathan Bailey, ended up at the Giorgio Armani show. This is very summer, very yacht-casual, very “attorneys on vacation”. Bailey is a little bit of a scroll down surprise, By Sarah • Jun 21, 2022 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lightyear had a bad weekend Lightyear, Pixar’s unnecessarily confusing prequel/spin-off of Toy Story, opened over the weekend, and if you haven’t heard, it kind of flopped. I say “kind of” because if they had simply spent less money on it, its $51 million opening weekend wouldn’t seem quite so dire, By Sarah • Jun 20, 2022 01:58 pm
Style Tom Cruise, Top Gun, and a LOT of Finger Hearts Top Gun: Maverick is nearing a billion dollars worldwide at the box office. As we’ve seen, people are going again and again, including this weekend for Father’s Day as domestically the movie brought in another $44 million… in its FOURTH week, a drop of only 15% from the By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Old Guard is back (and other thoughts) One of my favorite things this year (so far) is that The Old Guard 2 is happening. It’s filming now in Rome, here is Charlize Theron on set with Kiki Layne and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Check out Andy’s mullet! Part of me hopes they explain this hair choice, and By Sarah • Jun 20, 2022 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Let’s be stupid and romantic with Bros Ah, a Friday refreshment from the new trailer for Bros, Billy Eichner’s gay rom-rom due later this fall, which feels so far away but is really just three months from now. Until then, though, I will watch the instantly classic Fire Island and Notting Hill on a loop By Sarah • Jun 17, 2022 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas is Marilyn For the last few weeks, ever since the Met Gala, any conversation about Marilyn Monroe is accompanied by Kim Kardashian. And you know how social media works in these times – for a lot of people now, in their minds, Marilyn now will always be connected to Kim. At least until By Lainey • Jun 17, 2022 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler, one week out Elvis opens one week from today. As Lainey said yesterday, these are the final moments before Austin Butler’s life blows up once everyone gets a look at him as Elvis Presley. As busy as this week will be for him, it’s the calm before the storm. Because there By Sarah • Jun 17, 2022 10:23 am
Gorgessity Countdown to AustinMania We’re heading into the final week of promotion for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, when we get to see just how ready audiences will be to go back to theatres when it’s not a franchise film, not an action film. This is also the time before Austin-mania… Right By Lainey • Jun 16, 2022 02:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo’s Halftime: Who is it for? I’ve been reading some of the mainstream reviews of Jennifer Lopez’s documentary, Halftime, and one of the questions that keeps coming up is …why does she need to prove to us that she’s JLo when we all know already how successful she is and how hard it By Lainey • Jun 16, 2022 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry Styles: A Busy Year Is any pop star’s fanbase thriving more than Harry Styles’ this year? Maybe the BTS ARMY, because BTS never seems to stop moving or doing, giving their fans plenty of new stuff all the time (even with the announcement this week); or maybe JLo’s fans because of Bennifer By Sarah • Jun 16, 2022 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan as Ken Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, starring Margot Robbie in the title role, isn’t out for another 13 months. A few weeks ago production released a first look at Margot as Barbie and today they’ve shared an image of Ryan Gosling in character as Ken. #BARBIE July 21, 2023 By Lainey • Jun 15, 2022 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Fleabagging of Jane Austen Persuasion is arguably Jane Austen’s most mature work, reflecting not only the honing of her literary voice and sharpness of her dialogue, but also her most mature and sensible heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman in her “second bloom”. Disappointed in love as a debutante, years later—in her late By Sarah • Jun 15, 2022 02:56 pm
Music JLo’s Halftime Hustle Jennifer Lopez’s documentary, Halftime, is now streaming on Netflix, have you watched it yet? I’ve only watched it once so far and I’ll probably be going back for another go tonight, but my first priority the last few days was to see how the Shakira situation would By Lainey • Jun 15, 2022 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews All the Jurassic people in Jurassic World Dominion If you’re going to turn Jurassic Park into a franchise, you have two choices. One is to follow the original film’s point of view that science should be bound by moral limits, and that man oughtn’t meddle in nature. The second Jurassic film, The Lost World: Jurassic By Sarah • Jun 14, 2022 02:08 pm
