Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange is in trouble Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness debuted a new trailer during the Super Bowl, and it shows off more of Stephen Strange futzing about the multiverse that, apparently, he broke open despite his best efforts to shut it down in Spider-Man: No Way Home. It looks like Strange is By Sarah • Feb 14, 2022 12:59 pm
Amazingness BenAna Nostalgia: A Valentine for Exes Remember BenAna? Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas got us through the first year of the pandemic. News of their romance broke right when COVID did in North America. They were in lockdown together and those shots of them getting coffee and walking the dogs sustained the celebrity industrial complex By Lainey • Feb 14, 2022 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews DC leans on The Rock Instead of releasing a trailer for one of their upcoming movies, DC Films went with a preview for several of their 2022 films, including The Batman, The Flash, Black Adam, and Aquaman and the Last Kingdom. There is nothing new from The Batman here, but we get to see a By Sarah • Feb 14, 2022 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kenneth Branagh and Gal Gadot in Death on the Nile Fresh off his Oscar nomination for Best Director, Kenneth Branagh is back in mystery mode, starring as Hercule Poirot and directing his second adaption of Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile. I mostly liked his first effort as Poirot and directing Christie, Murder on the Orient Express, but found the By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dr. Ellie Sadler and Alan Grant return We continue our Super Bowl trailer run with Jurassic World Dominion, supposedly the conclusion of the—what are we calling this? Jurassic Saga? Anyway, it’s supposedly the last Jurassic movie, and the one that unites the original Park cast with the World cast for an all-out dinos v humans By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson in Marry Me It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, and in the spirit of love, I am here to be the Daphne to Lainey’s Apollo and crush all her hopes and dreams about Marry Me, the rom-com starring Jennifer Lopez as herself a popstar on the rebound and Owen Wilson as A By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This is a 13 Going on 30 reunion It’s the Friday before the Super Bowl, which means new movie trailers are dropping. First up, it’s The Adam Project, the Netflix family-ish adventure film that reunites the Free Guy team of producer-star Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy, but EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, it reunites 13 Going on By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine, Poolman and Director Chris Pine was photographed yesterday in LA with a full beard and his hair much longer than when we saw him last. Looks like this is for a role. It was announced this week that Chris will be making his directorial debut and starring in a film he co-wrote called By Lainey • Feb 11, 2022 09:33 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 11, 2022 Dear Gossips, Have you heard? Supposedly, Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 will be Tom Cruise’s last outings as super-spy Ethan Hunt. In a report about how COVID has caused the budgets of these films, filming consecutively, to balloon out of control, it is also mentioned that M:I 7-8 By Sarah • Feb 11, 2022 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Three Spider-Men in the News Spider-Man: No Way Home was not nominated for an Oscar in the Best Picture category, but it’s popularity is still helping its stars, including Tom Holland, as mentioned the other day. Tom continues to promote his new movie, Uncharted, in Europe in a variety of excellent outfits, like this By Lainey • Feb 10, 2022 01:44 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Jennifer Aniston’s birthday return Jennifer Aniston has been in Hawaii for about a month or so working on Murder Mystery 2 with Adam Sandler. She was photographed boarding a private jet so it looks like they’ve wrapped on that location but I have read that the film will involve other locations (like Paris) By Lainey • Feb 10, 2022 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 10, 2022 Dear Gossips, On Tuesday Will Smith received his third and fourth Oscar nominations for his performance in King Richard and for being one of the producers. On Wednesday he was promoting the new Fresh Prince reboot series BEL-AIR. Will, Jada, and Jaden were at the premiere last night. It’s By Lainey • Feb 10, 2022 09:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lightyear conspiracy goes all the way to the top! In the content arms race brought about by the streaming revolution, Disney has been treating Pixar like cannon fodder. Unquestionably, Pixar is their most top-shelf marquee brand, not only a consistent producer of hits, but a winner of awards, too (to the extent that I call the Best Animated Feature By Sarah • Feb 09, 2022 01:49 pm
Top Reads Bennifer’s First 2022 Red Carpet I’d been wondering about it for weeks – would Ben Affleck show up on the Marry Me red carpet with Jennifer Lopez the way she showed up for him on The Last Duel and The Tender Bar red carpets? The answer is yes. He didn’t just show up, they By Lainey • Feb 09, 2022 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland: No Oscar, but Uncharted One of the sidebar conversations ahead of the Oscar nominations today was whether or not Spider-Man: No Way Home would make the cut, particularly in the Best Picture category. The movie did receive one nomination for special effects, but they put a significant budget into getting a nomination in the By Lainey • Feb 08, 2022 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper, Nominee As Sarah just wrote in the previous post about today’s Oscar nominations, Bradley Cooper did not make the cut in the Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor categories for his performances in Nightmare Alley and Licorice Pizza. It was his part in Licorice Pizza that was the highest possibly By Lainey • Feb 08, 2022 12:27 pm