Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gunapalooza It is here, it is now, it is nigh—the Top Gun: Maverick premiere is happening at Cannes. And, I am shocked and upset to report, as of this writing, there is no Lady Gaga. I repeat, there is NO Lady Gaga. And I was SO looking forward to her By Sarah • May 18, 2022 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews She-Hulk is here to step on our necks The television upfronts continue, and yesterday was Disney’s turn, which means some new wares to show off to everyone. Most notably, they released the first teaser for She-Hulk starring Tatiana Maslany. It looks cute. She’s a lawyer, she has thirty-something lady problems, and her cousin is By Sarah • May 18, 2022 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia and Ethan: All these years later Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke were papped yesterday on the set of their new Netflix film, Leave the World Behind. Julia is once again working with Sam Esmail who is directing and adapting the project based on Rumaan Alam’s acclaimed novel by the same name. Mahershala Ali also stars By Lainey • May 18, 2022 10:06 am
Maple Leaf Simu Liu: acting, singing, hosting, dancing, writing I’m travelling this week so I wasn’t able to watch Simu Liu host the Juno Awards from Toronto on Sunday. I have however watched online clips of his opening monologue and one part where he sings. Let’s start with the monologue which starts with a sketch before By Lainey • May 17, 2022 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rebecca Hall: Shameless self-promotion Rebecca Hall is one of the jurors at Cannes this year. (French star Vincent Lindon of Titane and Both Sides of the Blade fame is the jury president.) Here is Hall arriving in Nice ahead of the festival, with a great tousled pixie that is once again reminding me that By Sarah • May 17, 2022 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Netflix invests in Chris Evans (and his stache) Netflix is going through a rough patch, telling employees to “spend our members’ money wisely”, so I guess it’s safe to assume that they consider The Gray Man, the upcoming action film from the Russo Brothers starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans’ Mustache, a wise way to spend money By Sarah • May 16, 2022 03:37 pm
Douchebags John Lasseter’s comeback movie The trailer for Luck, a new animated film from David Ellison’s Skydance Animation and Apple TV+, was released on Friday. It looks like a cute movie about a talking black cat and the “department of luck” and how a human ruins everything. You know I would normally be into By Sarah • May 16, 2022 01:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Momoa is dating Eiza Gonzalez Jason Momoa is not getting back together with Lisa Bonet. Jason Momoa hung out with Kate Beckinsale after the Oscars but their flirting apparently began and ended that night. He’s currently working on Fast X and almost every day for the last week he’s been photographed on set. By Lainey • May 16, 2022 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spinal Tap II!!!! On the heels of the news that A Simple Favor is getting a sequel—do you think they’ll call it A Simple Favor 2: An Even Simpler Favor?—comes the EVEN BIGGER NEWS that iconic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap is also getting a sequel. The whole band is By Sarah • May 13, 2022 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gemma and the Spinoff Gemma Chan was at the Louis Vuitton cruise show in San Diego yesterday and sat next to Anna Wintour at one point. If you’re curious about why San Diego (I was too), WWD has an article about why Nicolas Ghesquière wanted to have the presentation there and specifically at By Lainey • May 13, 2022 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson: Shameless self-promotion II I SWEAR I didn’t plan this, but it happens to be the opening night of the Chicago Critics Film Festival tonight, for which I am a programmer, and our opening film, Cha Cha Real Smooth, just got a new trailer. But since it HAPPENED, I am here to say By Sarah • May 13, 2022 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 13, 2022 Dear Gossips, Cannes starts next week, the first full-fledged festival they’ve held since 2019. There will be business deals, there will be fashion, and celebrities being at it again, but mostly, there will be Top Gun. As previously announced, Top Gun: Maverick will have a premiere on the By Sarah • May 13, 2022 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Strong Start Here are some shots of Tom Cruise a few days ago promoting Top Gun: Maverick in Mexico as part of the worldwide press tour. It’ll be a frenzy next week in Cannes when the movie screens at the festival and then it’s on to London for the Royal By Lainey • May 12, 2022 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Viola Davis’s “magnum opus” Viola Davis has given no shortage of great performances—and at least one baffling one, with whatever she’s doing in The First Lady—but her new film already has people spun up about the epicness of her role. Back during CinemaCon, Davis won the “Trailblazer of the Year” award, By Sarah • May 12, 2022 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Simple Favor is back! I love A Simple Favor so much. I loved it when it came out, I named it one of the best movies of the 2010s, and I talk about it constantly. It’s so funny and dark and smart and sexy and a little bit bleak, and every time I By Sarah • May 12, 2022 10:25 am
Music Gaga in, 21 Pilots out We’re now a week away from the kickoff of this year’s Cannes Film Festival and one of the big screenings will be the highly anticipated world premiere of Top Gun: Maverick. Tom Cruise, obviously, will lead the cast and he is a big deal all by himself but By Lainey • May 11, 2022 03:25 pm
