Top Reads JLo: Pleated Jeans and Busy Weeks Ahead Jennifer Lopez was namechecked during Netflix’s presentation at CinemaCon the other day. Her documentary, Halftime, will open the Tribeca Festival on June 8 before its streaming premiere on Netflix on June 14, which is the day I will be watching it even though it’s a Tuesday. But when By Lainey • Apr 28, 2022 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, CinemaCon continues, and we will DEFINITELY talk about the newest Envelopegate, but right now, let’s talk Barbie. Specifically, Margot Robbie as Barbie in the movie she is producing and starring in, with Greta Gerwig directing. The cast is stacked, besides Robbie there is Ryan Gosling as Ken, By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 08:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 2 Bat 2 Man CinemaCon, the annual gathering at which studios show their wares to movie theater owners, is happening this week in Las Vegas. It’s the first “full” conference since 2019, after 2020 was cancelled and 2021 was a COVID-stunted gathering, and the studios aren’t wasting time announcing a slew By Sarah • Apr 27, 2022 01:23 pm
Style Much better Doctor Strange (and Wanda) The Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness press tour has moved onto London, where Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen did another photocall and this is MUCH better than their showing in Berlin. That shade of yellow is really working for Cumbybuns, and his suit! Is actually! Pressed! Maybe it’ By Sarah • Apr 27, 2022 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fast #Family divorce drama In a bombshell afternoon news drop, yesterday it was announced that director Justin Lin has left the latest Fast/Furious movie, officially titled Fast X, after starting principal photography last week. It’s the second divorce to hit the #Family, following the Diesel-Rock breakdown. If I have taught you By Sarah • Apr 27, 2022 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 27, 2022 Dear Gossips, In Sarah’s post about Netflix’s very bad week last week, she noted that one of the things that’s coming to issue with Netflix is that it’s really not a tech company, “it’s a movie studio” and also a television network. On the television By Lainey • Apr 27, 2022 08:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal in Massive Talent The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a high-wire act few films could pull off. Directed by Tom Gormican and written by Gormican and Kevin Etten, the film is a buddy comedy built on rom-com lines, a meta comedy about the current state of the film industry, and By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Christina Ricci’s Monstrous trailer The Christina Ricci Resurgence continues as Ricci adds to her hot streak, following Yellowjackets and news of her reunion with Tim Burton and the Addams family with a new horror movie called Monstrous. The trailer dropped yesterday, and while I dig the retro aesthetic, man does this trailer give away By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard in The Northman Robert Eggers’ third film, The Northman, continues his cinematic tradition of creating fanatically detailed, historically grounded worlds so tangible you can practically smell the body odor and see the lice crawling on his characters. The Northman, co-written by Eggers and Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón, is basically a Heilung By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oppenheimer dudes Christopher Nolan’s next film, Oppenheimer, is currently filming in Los Angeles. Cillian Murphy and his near-translucent stare rings the bell for some of y’all, so here he is on set yesterday, along with Matt Damon and Dane DeHaan in period World War II-era garb. To refresh, By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicolas Cage returns to late night The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent opens tomorrow, and Nicolas Cage has been doing a full press tour to support it, including returning to late night television after a 14-year absence. He stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night and boy, do I miss movie stars like this on By Sarah • Apr 21, 2022 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pants PROBLEMS for Doctor Strange The press tour for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness officially kicked off in Berlin today, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen doing a photocall to which they both dressed as if they are living in different universes, indeed. Cumberbuns is rocking a “philosophy prof after spring break” look, By Sarah • Apr 21, 2022 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s shoe movie Coming off The Last Duel, which reunited Ben Affleck and Matt Damon not only as co-stars but also as co-writers (along with Nicole Holofcener), Affleck and Damon are working together once again, this time on a movie about Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro, the man who built the indelible By Sarah • Apr 20, 2022 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Bell’s moment Zoë Bell is a New Zealand actor and stunt performer best known for her collaborations with Quentin Tarantino. She got her start doing stunts on Xena: Warrior Princess, but then doubled for Uma Thurman on Kill Bill, and from there on, she collaborated regularly with Tarantino, culminating in Once Upon By Sarah • Apr 19, 2022 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard’s victory lap The Northman, the Icelandic saga-inspired Viking epic starring Alexander Skarsgard, opens this week, and the premiere was last night in Los Angeles. Skarsgard was on hand along with his castmates Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Nicole Kidman, and writer/director Robert Eggers. Keith Urban joined Kidman on the black By Sarah • Apr 19, 2022 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thor’s spiritual spring break The first teaser for Thor Love and Thunder is finally here, featuring “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses and one wonders if clearing this song is what held up the trailer release. It was a pain in the ass to clear the Led Zeppelin song for the trailer By Sarah • Apr 18, 2022 01:56 pm
