Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun: Maverick brings Maverick full circle Rarely does a nostalgia-driven sequel make a case for itself as well as Top Gun: Maverick does. Picking up 36 years after Top Gun, we find Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) working as a test pilot on a next-gen jet on the brink of being scrapped in favor By Sarah • May 25, 2022 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans have no chemistry Yesterday, the trailer for The Gray Man came out, giving us our first look at the new Netflix action movie starring Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling and a bunch of other hot people, and directed by the Russo Brothers, and…I don’t know. I just don’t know. It By Sarah • May 25, 2022 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba washes away the scent of Cats George Miller, the mad genius behind the Mad Max films, filled his time between Mad Max: Fury Road and its prequel, Furiosa, with a similarly fantastic, albeit less apocalyptic fantasy film Three Thousand Years of Longing. Starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, the film premiered at Cannes to mostly positive By Sarah • May 24, 2022 03:18 pm
Shoes Jennifer Connelly’s Biggest Tour Sarah wrote in the previous post re: the Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning trailer (and its bonkers punctuation, which spilled over into this sentence!) about why the culture in general has embraced Tom Cruise and not side-eying his freaking Scientology sh-t and she cited a number of reasons By Lainey • May 24, 2022 02:02 pm
Xenu Mission: Impossible – Punctuation Hell and Tom Cruise’s rehabilitation Over the weekend, a trailer for the next Mission: Impossible film leaked, so now the trailer has been released in all its official HD glory, even though this movie doesn’t come out for 13 months. (Presumably, they’re going to tack this onto Top Gun: Maverick this weekend, as By Sarah • May 24, 2022 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jane Foster is stoked to be Thor It’s summer blockbuster season and it almost feels like normal, with a new Tom Cruise movie opening this week and a new trailer for the next Marvel thing, Thor: Love and Thunder, dropping last night. Still sort of heartbroken this movie isn’t called Th4r, but the new trailer By Sarah • May 24, 2022 11:15 am
Gorgessity Kristen’s (Fashion) Crimes in Cannes But the best kind of crime, and the best kind of fashion criminal – Kristen Stewart has been in Cannes the last few days promoting David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future which is contending for the Palme d’Or. As I wrote of the film a couple of weeks ago, By Lainey • May 24, 2022 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams is Nightbitch Today in Well This Is Exciting news, Amy Adams is teaming up with director Marielle Heller for an adaption of Rachel Yoder’s novel, Nightbitch. No, this is not the story of an avenging female superhero with, probably, a great pair of boots. The book is about a stay-at- By Sarah • May 20, 2022 02:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie is one of the Oceans (probably) Margot Robbie is staying busy. Besides the upcoming Barbie movie, she has that Pirates of the Caribbean spin-off that may or may not get made, and now she is signing up to make an Ocean’s 11 prequel with Jay Roach (they previously worked together on Bombshell). The film By Sarah • May 20, 2022 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes go into the desert Academy Award Winner Jessica Chastain™️ has a new film coming out, The Forgiven, that unites her with Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Abbott, and writer/director John Michael McDonagh. I am a big fan of McDonagh—and his brother, Martin McDonagh—he makes the kind of films that pop back into my By Sarah • May 20, 2022 11:32 am
Royals Tom hosts Will and Kate In London last night, the UK premiere of Top Gun: Marverick. And, naturally, because this is a Tom Cruise movie and Tom Cruise is always extra AF, they went full throttle with the presentation. Leicester Square was a spectacle, a huge maze of digital screens was set up outside the By Lainey • May 20, 2022 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Billy Eichner’s Bros Rom-coms are in full blown revival mode, but unlike the rom-com trends of the past, queer people—and/or queer-coded people—are no longer relegated to the sidelines. The gay rom-com is here, from Fire Island, Joel Kim Booster's contemporary queer take on Pride By Sarah • May 19, 2022 01:53 pm
Amazingness Tom Cruise in Cannes: Fist-pumps, standing ovations, and chivalry Sarah posted photos from the Top Gun gala spectacle in Cannes yesterday along with details from his Q&A before the premiere at the palais. I’m here to follow up on a few more details now that the movie has screened for the festival audience – to a five By Lainey • May 19, 2022 11:50 am
Amazingness JLo: “But I’m also saying…does the camera got me?” YES. Or YASSSSSS, for added emphasis. This is what I’ve been waiting for – the trailer for Jennifer Lopez’s documentary, Halftime. The film will open the Tribeca Festival next month before it premieres on Netflix on June 14. At the end of the preview, JLo reads from her family By Lainey • May 19, 2022 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More Netflix drama! The first trailer for Chris Hemsworth’s new Netflix movie, Spiderhead, is here, and it looks like a trip. I’m not sure I’d be 100% on board except that Bad Times at the El Royale is one of my favorite contemporary films, and that has Hemsworth working in By Sarah • May 18, 2022 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Riley Keough made a Native movie and got a fancy explainer about it Riley Keough is making her directorial debut at Cannes, with a film she co-directed with her business partner, Gina Gammell. They’re premiering War Pony in the Un Certain Regard section of the film festival, a film they made about young men growing up on the Pine Ridge reservation By Sarah • May 18, 2022 03:12 pm
