Movie Reviews and Previews Please don’t make me: Joker 2 is a musical Given its billion-dollar and Oscar-winning success, a sequel to Joker, Todd Phillips’ 2019 Scorsese fanfic, was always inevitable. No one leaves that kind of money lying on the table. And indeed, last week Phillips teased the sequel on Instagram, revealing the title, Joker: Folieà Deux, and Joaquin Phoenix By Sarah • Jun 14, 2022 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 14, 2022 Dear Gossips, Have you seen Fire Island yet? It’s my current favourite rom-com, the one I’ve been watching on repeat for days. And it’s exactly the kind of story that proves the point that what’s specific is universal. Romantic tropes will work no matter if By Lainey • Jun 14, 2022 09:17 am
BFFs Taylor Swift’s Simple Favour Taylor Swift was one of the highlights this weekend at the Tribeca Festival for a Q&A with filmmaker Mike Mills about her short film All Too Well, based of course on the extended version of her hit “All Too Well” that was released last November on her recorded By Lainey • Jun 13, 2022 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rob Zombie’s Munsters It’s a big year for spooky kooky people everywhere. Not only are we getting a Tim Burton-directed Addams Family spin-off with Wednesday, we’re also getting a modern take on the The Munsters from writer/director Rob Zombie. I confess to never liking The Munsters as much By Sarah • Jun 10, 2022 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Old Guard 2 news! Here’s some good news, not only is The Old Guard 2 going to film this summer, but Uma Thurman and Henry Golding are joining the cast of the sequel. No word on who they’re playing, so until I hear otherwise, I will just be imagining that Golding is By Sarah • Jun 10, 2022 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aw, Nope, WHY We are now just under two months out from Jordan Peele’s new film, Nope, and the hype train is rolling with a final trailer that gives a whole lot away. What the hell, Universal?! WHY? The joy of a Jordan Peele movie is the surprise! It's not By Sarah • Jun 10, 2022 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Some good Angelina news The recent news about Angelina Jolie has been troubling—at best—as it involves her never-ending split from Brad Pitt and their winery-estate, Miraval, and her share of the wine business that she sold, legitimately and above board, to a liquor company. Well! Enough of that! How about By Sarah • Jun 10, 2022 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Adam hides #HotJafar We continue inching ever closer to the day that Dwayne Johnson is officially a superhero, as a full trailer for Black Adam, his DC anti-hero project, dropped yesterday. It looks…fine. It kind of feels like this trailer is cutting around something - unfinished effects, maybe, or a plot point By Sarah • Jun 09, 2022 12:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington are Good & Evil Another of the Netflix “Geek Week” trailers is The School for Good & Evil, starring Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington and directed by Paul Feig. It’s based on Soman Chainani’s YA series about the school that trains the heroes and villains of fairy tales, with Washington playing the By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matt, Ben, and JLo It was announced earlier this year that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are reuniting onscreen for a film about how Nike signed Michael Jordan, a partnership that would result in sneaker culture as we know it now. Sneaker culture is also fashion culture, as you cannot separate the influence of By Lainey • Jun 08, 2022 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Neve Campbell knows her worth Earlier this year, Scream, the fifth movie in the Scream franchise and sadly not titled 5cream, was a hit, earning $140 million against a $25 million budget. Even by non-pandemic standards, that is a solid success story. A successful reboot means the franchise has new life and Scream 6 By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley and Matt’s on-set kiss Bradley Cooper is currently directing himself as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro which is expected on Netflix some time next year. Will be interesting to see when, exactly, next year. Will Maestro follow the same award season path as A Star is Born with a world premiere in Venice before an By Lainey • Jun 07, 2022 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks is in his silly voice era We are in for TWO Pinocchio movies this year, which is two too many, between the Netflix stop-motion version of the story from Guillermo Del Toro starring Ewan McGregor, and Disney’s live-action version starring Tom Hanks. A teaser for the Disney update has dropped, and between this By Sarah • Jun 02, 2022 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews On Top Gun: Maverick’s big weekend and big propaganda After two years of COVID delays, it turns out that the long game paid off and Top Gun: Maverick will likely go down as the movie that “saved” summer blockbusters. It has banked $126 million for the three-day weekend and pulled in $156 million over the four-day Memorial By Sarah • May 31, 2022 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 31, 2022 Dear Gossips, Today marks the end of Asian Heritage Month in Canada and AAPI Heritage Month in the United States. BTS will be meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House this afternoon. And at the Cannes Film Festival this past weekend, Song Kang-ho was named Best Actor By Lainey • May 31, 2022 09:07 am
Quiveration Austin Butler: Before the Madness Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis premiered at Cannes earlier this week to a big reaction. So far, the 12-minute standing ovation that the film received is the longest of the festival this year and as I mentioned in my coverage of the premiere yesterday, there’s already talk that Austin By Lainey • May 27, 2022 11:50 am
