Movie Reviews and Previews Dune: Grey is for Drama Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel, Dune, has long been considered unfilmable, but director Denis Villeneuve, adapting with John Spaihts and Eric Roth, almost makes it work. Villeneuve’s Dune is good in a lot of ways and bad in a couple critically important ways. It’s a mixed bag By Sarah • Oct 28, 2021 03:06 pm
Gorgessity Julia at 54 Today is Julia Roberts’s 54th birthday. She is spending it in Sydney, Australia where she’ll be filming Ticket to Paradise with George Clooney. Here she is in her pyjamas with friends and crew a couple of days ago, the day after her arrival. They’re all in quarantine By Lainey • Oct 28, 2021 09:49 am
Hair Intro for October 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, It was announced a couple of weeks ago that Will Poulter has been cast as Adam Warlock in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. Who is Adam Warlock? Again, since I don’t speak comic book, Sarah had to tell us here that Adam Warlock is considered one By Lainey • Oct 28, 2021 09:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser is DINING OUT Brendan Fraser was a big deal in the 1990s and a slightly less big deal in the 2000s and then he sort of disappeared and then we found out that was GOING THROUGH IT! And now, Brendan Fraser is BACK, baby! He is DINING OUT on role after role these By Sarah • Oct 27, 2021 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sandra Bullock’s second Netflix holiday In 2018, Sandra Bullock starred in one of Netflix’s big breakout movies, Bird Box. That film was a holiday season stand-out, and now she’s back on Netflix just in time for the holidays with The Unforgivable, an awkward title for this remake of the 2009 British mini-series, Unforgiven. By Sarah • Oct 27, 2021 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart: Diana in Hollywood Here’s Kristen Stewart last night at the LA premiere of Spencer. The film opens next Friday and a solid box office would be great but at this point, given that the film has already screened at several film festivals and other industry events, even if it doesn’t perform By Lainey • Oct 27, 2021 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill Murray isn’t here for your Marvel secrets If ever there was an actor who is not going to keep your franchise secrets, it’s Bill Murray. And indeed, he’s spilled the beans on an appearance in an upcoming Marvel movie, likely Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Speaking recently to the German paper FAZ, Murray said, “I By Sarah • Oct 27, 2021 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Appreciating Keanu’s Appreciation John Wick 4 is due out May 2022. For months now Keanu Reeves has been filming in Berlin. (He also spent a long time in Berlin working on The Matrix Resurrections which is coming out at Christmas.) It is by now an uncontested, hopefully eternal incontrovertible truth that Keanu Reeves By Lainey • Oct 27, 2021 11:20 am
Top Reads Angelina Jolie: A Dodge and Cover Angelina Jolie is currently in London and was seen shopping at H&M with Vivienne. The UK premiere of Marvel’s Eternals is happening tonight and with the time difference there’s a chance that we might be able to get some of those photos up before we wrap By Lainey • Oct 27, 2021 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina: Girls Trip to Rome Angelina Jolie was one of the Eternals cast members dispatched to Italy to promote the movie this weekend. If you recall, following the Hollywood premiere last week, and reports that the cast had been exposed to COVID, several events were switched over from in-person to virtual. Given that Angelina and By Lainey • Oct 25, 2021 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling is Barbie’s Ken The temptation to dunk on the live-action Barbie movie is high, because it’s a live-action Barbie movie. But Greta Gerwig is directing. Gerwig and Noah Baumbach wrote the screenplay. And Margot Robbie is not only starring as Barbie, she’s producing the movie through her Lucky Chap banner, which By Sarah • Oct 25, 2021 02:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert & Lily Co-Host the GO Gala While Catwoman Zoë Kravitz was in New York this weekend, The Batman Robert Pattinson co-hosted the virtual GO Gala in LA. He’s been an ambassador for GO Campaign since 2015 and shows up at this event almost every year. This year he co-hosted with Lily Collins in an amazing By Lainey • Oct 25, 2021 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë and Channing: A New Season It’s been a week since we got our first look at Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, Selina Kyle. As Sarah wrote in her post last week about the new trailer for The Batman at DC Fandome, from the preview it looks like Selina, as the “most significant woman in Bruce’ By Lainey • Oct 25, 2021 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Beyoncé is coming for the Oscar I posted earlier about Adele and how she manages to work Beyoncé into all of her interviews. Even for Adele, as it is for the rest of us, Beyoncé is always top of mind. On November 19, the day that her album drops, Adele might actually be listening to something By Lainey • Oct 22, 2021 02:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland goes on baby’s first adventure The popular video game series Uncharted has been stuck in development hell since 2008, when a film adaptation was first announced. After years of false starts—including David O. Russell being attached to direct for a while in the early 2010s—Uncharted finally got off the ground, only to get By Sarah • Oct 22, 2021 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sam Richardson is everywhere Sam Richardson, Veep’s erstwhile Richard Splett, is everywhere lately. From mainstream blockbusters like The Tomorrow War to indie horror-comedies like Werewolves Within, from Ted Lasso to—most importantly—I Think You Should Leave, Sam Richardson is everyone’s favorite funny scene stealer. The latest scenes he will steal will By Sarah • Oct 22, 2021 11:52 am