Movie Reviews and Previews The Best Actress Oscar Race post GGs As we’ve been seeing over the last few months, this is a wide-open award season. The Golden Globes may have been awarded last night but I don’t think the results there really established any clear frontrunners. In the Best Picture category, we always knew The Power of By Lainey • Jan 10, 2022 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooney Mara is Audrey Hepburn On Friday, news broke (via Matthew Belloni’s Puck newsletter) that Rooney Mara has been cast as Audrey Hepburn in an upcoming biopic to be directed by Luca Guadagnino. People were IN their FEELINGS about this, mainly because Mara is sort of famously glum and Audrey Hepburn did not have By Sarah • Jan 10, 2022 10:46 am
Dumbass Intro for January 10, 2022 Dear Gossips, My entertainment priority last night was Euphoria, so I totally forgot that the Golden Globes were happening – and by happening, they were not televised or streamed, but the winners were announced via live tweets, which turned out to be a mess. “Chaotic mess” is 100% on brand with By Lainey • Jan 10, 2022 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anderson + Cumberbatch + Dahl Wes Anderson is on a roll. With The French Dispatch out in 2021, and his next project, an ensemble film called Asteroid City, already in post-production and expected later this year, Anderson is already prepping his next-next project, a Roald Dahl adaptation for Netflix, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 02:36 pm
Business of Hollywood State of the Awards Season Union Hello, it is I, Chicken Little, to tell you a little more about how the sky is falling! We’ve already covered the fata morgana that is Spider-Man: No Way Home’s success and the box office, and now we need to talk about AWARDS SEASON. Oh, did you By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews There won’t be another Denzel Denzel Washington is on the cover of this week’s Variety, promoting his two-fer as both the star of The Tragedy of Macbeth and director of A Journal for Jordan. For Macbeth, he’s a heavy favorite for an Oscar nomination; if it happens, it would be his ninth By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, As the pandemic rages into its third year—THIRD! YEAR!—Hollywood continues to fret about the box office and movie theaters. The billion-dollar success of Spider-Man: No Way Home has some cheering that theaters are back, baby, but others take a more measured view. In The By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pam & Tommy won’t do that The full trailer for Hulu’s Pam & Tommy series is here, and besides leaning on a Meatloaf song for a winky meta-joke about the era, this looks like Craig Gillespie working very much in the vein of I, Tonya, reframing an infamous moment in a famous woman’s By Sarah • Jan 06, 2022 09:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Chris Evans dance like Gene Kelly? Chris Evans has been trying to will himself into a musical for a while, and with his Little Shop of Horrors remake stalled (for now), he has put together another project that will let him do a little singing and dancing at last: he’ll star as Gene Kelly. One- By Sarah • Jan 05, 2022 09:29 am
Relationship Assumption Brie Larson: NYE Courtside I did a lot of Marvel-ing during the holidays. It was like a soother for me, since the COVID situation where I live is f-cked, and now schools are closed and restrictions are in place, and it’s cold and bleak, Marvel content was the escape. I watched By Lainey • Jan 04, 2022 02:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine: Year End Viral Before we get to the new year though, just a bit of Chris Pine catchup – and some other celebrities too. He was seen before Christmas, on December 10, at the Sunset Tower alongside some other big stars to celebrate Amanda Anka’s birthday. Amanda is married to Jason Bateman who, By Lainey • Jan 04, 2022 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland’s Test With Spider-Man: No Way Home riding high at the box office—it’s the only billion-dollar film of 2020 AND 2021—Tom Holland now faces the hurdle that has been difficult for other Marvel actors to clear: proving his box office mettle outside the MCU. Uncharted opens in By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top Ten Films of 2021 After last year, 2021 feels like a more normal year in film. Just a reminder that for 2020, we adjusted to the extended Oscar eligibility calendar, so there are some films from early in the year that are on the 2020 list, like Barb and Star. So, if you’re By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bat and The Cat A new trailer for The Batman dropped yesterday, this time heavily featuring Zoe Kravitz as Selina Kyle/Catwoman. While fully acknowledging that Michelle Pfeiffer’s performance as Catwoman in Batman Returns is immortal, I like the vibe of Kravitz’s Catwoman. I especially like her and Batman pushing each other’ By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Matrix Resurrections: a radical reclamation of mythology Twenty-two years after its debut, The Matrix is a landmark technical achievement in cinema memorable for its mind-bending use of philosophy, but it’s also remembered for its less than acclaimed sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, and for how its “red pill” terminology has been By Sarah • Dec 23, 2021 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange and Doctor Strange meet in the multiverse The post-credit scene on Spider-Man: No Way Home is a teaser for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which has now been released online. It’s fine. It doesn’t feel especially like a Sam Raimi movie, but it does feel like a teaser for a movie By Sarah • Dec 23, 2021 12:02 pm
