Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry in Bruised Halle Berry makes her directorial debut with Bruised, a film that is half comeback-story sports drama, half family drama, and all cliché. Berry also stars in Bruised, as disgraced MMA fighter Jackie Justice, whose career is ended after she climbs out of the octagonal cage during a bout she is By Sarah • Nov 25, 2021 01:07 pm
BFFs Thanksgiving with Elliot and Awkwafina As I’ve often said, celebrity friendships are often more interesting than celebrity romances. And here’s a new celebrity friendship that we’re just find out about – Elliot Page and Awkwafina were photographed hanging out yesterday in New York. Awkwafina is from New York so it looks like she’ By Lainey • Nov 25, 2021 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lady Gaga and Adam Driver in House of Gucci Ridley Scott has already hit one out of the park this year with The Last Duel, now he returns with House of Gucci, an overlong film that is unequally a family drama and a half-hearted true crime docu-drama. Lady Gaga stars as Patrizia Reggiani, daughter of a middle-class Italian family. By Sarah • Nov 24, 2021 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield makes us cry Andrew Garfield is promoting tick, tick…BOOM!, now streaming on Netflix. Sarah’s review of the film was posted yesterday just in time for Thanksgiving television time. As Sarah wrote, Andrew gives an exuberant performance carrying the movie, and it’s why he’s contending for a Best Actor Oscar By Lainey • Nov 24, 2021 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield in tick, tick...BOOM! Based on a musical by Jonathan Larson, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Rent, tick, tick...BOOM! is an autobiography self-aware of its subject’s death. The stage version of BOOM was also written by Larson and was first performed as a workshop Off-Off Broadway in 1990, and then By Sarah • Nov 23, 2021 01:58 pm
Top Reads Jennifer Lawrence’s Pay Gap Ahead of the release of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up next month, Jennifer Lawrence covers the new issue of Vanity Fair, her first magazine profile in a long time. Over the last couple of years, almost every time I’ve posted about JLaw, I’ve written about her By Lainey • Nov 23, 2021 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves: “Just trying to have a career” LOL at that quote, from Keanu Reeves’s new profile in Esquire, as part of the promotional push for the highly anticipated The Matrix Resurrections. This happens during the part of the article where it’s mentioned how much he works, how he went from shooting The Matrix to John By Lainey • Nov 23, 2021 10:50 am
Style Sandra Bullock and the Purple Trend Sandra Bullock was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night promoting her new Netflix movie, The Unforgivable, which opens in limited theatrical release this week before streaming on Netflix December 10. It’s been a while since we’ve had Sandra in the spotlight. She keeps her sh-t tight, she does By Lainey • Nov 23, 2021 09:53 am
Style Chris Pine: RBG tank and green sweats There’s not much to say here because Chris Pine has been pretty quiet – but he is popular, and I know for many of you he is your Chris. So here are some fresh shots of Chris taken this morning in LA on his coffee run. Chris’s last big By Lainey • Nov 22, 2021 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in King Richard In King Richard, Will Smith stars as Richard Williams, a man so determined to produce champions he mapped out his daughters’ paths to victory before they were even born. He takes his young daughters, Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton), to practice every day at a run-down tennis court By Sarah • Nov 22, 2021 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Revisit the past in Ghostbusters: Afterlife Ghostbusters: Afterlife is the third Ghostbusters movie that comes after the other third Ghostbusters movie which everyone involved with Ghostbusters would now like to disavow. Somewhat ironically, Afterlife is no better than Ghostbusters (2016)—now retitled Ghostbusters: Answer The Call—a highly divisive movie that, in a way, should have By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nightmare Alley continues teasing us Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley opens in a month, and so far, it’s the least thirsty of the major awards contenders. I’m sure that will change as we get closer to the press tour and unleashing Bradley Cooper in a year with the toughest dude competition in By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The other SJP revival Filming on Hocus Pocus 2 has begun, and THIS is the only Sarah Jessica Parker revival I care about. The Sanderson Sisters are back, baby, and looking very Sandersony. You have to admire a cursed witch’s commitment to her aesthetic by way of not changing her clothes for centuries By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo’s “just a girl…standing in front of a boy” A famous person falling in love with a non-famous person is a pretty well-known rom-com trope. And if you think this is a post that sh-ts on that trope, I’m here to disappoint. As far as I’m concerned, romantic comedies are an essential part of the movie business By Lainey • Nov 18, 2021 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland Is Very Tired GQ’s annual Men of the Year issue is here, and Tom Holland is on one of the covers as the “Superhero of the Year”. It’s a genial interview, because Holland is a genial guy, though there is a recurring thread about Holland’s disturbed sleep and how his By Sarah • Nov 18, 2021 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina goes to a party Holiday season is party season and it’s definitely party season in Hollywood. Seems like there’s a premiere or a screening or a launch every other night this time of year. Angelina Jolie isn’t usually on that circuit but she did step out last night to attend a By Lainey • Nov 18, 2021 10:09 am
