Movie Reviews and Previews Turning Red is a puberty allegory for everyone Domee Shi, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the Pixar short Bao, makes her feature film debut with Turning Red, a bubbly, fun, heart-warming allegory for puberty in which thirteen-year-old Meilin (Rosalie Chiang) finds herself transformed into a giant red panda whenever she loses control of her emotions, By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage’s greatest role April Fool’s Day falls on a Friday this year. I bring this up because the trailer for Nicolas Cage’s new movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, came out this week and it’s set to open in April, but on the twenty-second. If ever there was By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler is about to be everywhere Austin Butler isn’t a household name. Yet. With Baz Luhrman’s Elvis biopic on the horizon, and a fancy historical war epic looming (Masters of the Air, about WWII-era bomber pilots and co-starring fellow rising stars Barry Keoghan and Callum Turner), it’s only a matter of By Sarah • Mar 11, 2022 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 10, 2022 Dear Gossips, Oscar winner Domee Shi’s new film, Turning Red, about a Chinese Canadian girl going through puberty is based in Toronto. So the premiere, fittingly, was in Toronto on Tuesday night. Domee was there along with cast members Sandra Oh, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Rosalie Chiang. Domee won the By Lainey • Mar 10, 2022 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harvey Guillén is also everywhere Lainey and I are both in the tank for Sam Richardson, the actor who is suddenly everywhere, in all your favorite comedies and must watch shows and indie movies and being the only good thing about The Tomorrow War. Well, another name to know is Harvey Guillén, another actor cropping By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Slash/Back pits aliens against Indigenous teens SXSW starts on Friday, and one of the films selling at the film market there is Nyla Innuksuk’s Indigenous alien invasion flick, Slash/Back. The trailer dropped yesterday, and it looks awesome. The film centers on three girls who just want to go to a party with cute boys, By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell get Scrooged Three years ago, before Apple TV+ even launched, we heard about one of their first big deals, to make a new, musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. At the time, I wasn’t into it, largely because A Muppets Christmas Carol already exists and By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Florence Pugh might join Dune 2 Florence Pugh is without question one of the most in-demand actors under thirty. She has numerous projects due out over the next couple years, including Olivia Wilde’s much anticipated Don’t Worry Darling, she’s one of the potential Madonnas (and is rumored to be Madonna’s preferred By Sarah • Mar 09, 2022 10:17 am
Relationship Assumption Young Love and Oscar Love This is a couples roundup post… Let’s start with Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield who, like Ariana DeBose and Kristen Stewart, seems to be having a great time on the campaign circuit this season. Andrew is well-liked among Academy voters so while Will Smith is in the Best Actor By Lainey • Mar 08, 2022 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews If no one promotes it, does Deep Water even exist? On Valentine’s Day, approximately four hundred years ago now, Hulu dropped a teaser for Adrian Lyne’s new erotic thriller, Deep Water. This is, of course, the project that birthed BenAna, as stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas became a real-life couple after working together. When the By Sarah • Mar 08, 2022 10:31 am
Music King Richard at the Luncheon…without Beyoncé As Sarah wrote in her post yesterday about this past weekend’s schedule of pre-Oscar events and awards ceremonies, King Richard is the industry editors’ choice for Best Picture this year which was a surprise because it was up against a film like Dune which, you would think, is By Lainey • Mar 08, 2022 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews KStew’s big weekend It was a big weekend for Best Actress nominee Kristen Stewart. First, she accepted the American Riviera Award, given for “outstanding achievement in film” at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, one of those fetes that is a highlight of awards season. She wore a sheer Chanel dress that reminds me By Sarah • Mar 07, 2022 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Madonna with Rocco – and Alexa Madonna was in London this weekend and was photographed after having dinner with her son Rocco who dresses like his father. Rocco is now 21 years old and at last check was studying fine art at Central Saint Martins. Madonna’s been in the headlines lately because of all the By Lainey • Mar 07, 2022 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth rides regular Chris Hemsworth was photographed snowboarding in St Moritz earlier this week and since I watched so much snowboarding last month during the Olympics, my first thought was that it looks like he rides regular. Generally, at least in my experience, more people ride regular than goofy because more people are By Lainey • Mar 04, 2022 02:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith in After Yang Kogonada follows his feature film debut, Columbus, with the sci-fi drama After Yang, a quiet, reflective work about family, humanity, and loss. Set in a future where technology has become so seamless it’s virtually invisible, people can buy “technosapiens”, a class of semi-organic robots engineered to perform By Sarah • Mar 04, 2022 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine’s semi-weekly appearance Chris Pine! Once again! So soon! I feel like we don’t see or hear from Pine for long stretches, and then suddenly he’s unavoidable. For instance, showing off his salt-and-pepper wolfman look just a couple weeks ago, and just this week, news that he and Annabelle By Sarah • Mar 04, 2022 11:14 am
