Top Reads Tony Leung: A Master in GQ We are 48 hours away from the premiere of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Over the last few weeks, as we approach the release, if you’ve been visiting this site often, you’ve been reading me hyperventilate about the film’s villain, Wenwu, played By Lainey • Sep 01, 2021 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cinderella at the Premiere Cinderella 2021, starring Camila Cabello as Cinderella and Billy Porter as the fairy godperson and so many other stars, including James Corden because I guess you can’t make a musical these days without him, premieres on Prime Video on Friday. The premiere was last night. This is a modern By Lainey • Aug 31, 2021 02:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kirsten Dunst: A Contender? The Venice Film Festival kicks off tomorrow and one of the most highly anticipated titles to world premiere on the Lido this year is Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. As Sarah wrote last week, it looks like Netflix will be putting everything they can behind this film By Lainey • Aug 31, 2021 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Teyonah Parris in Candyman Candyman opened at #1 at the US box office over the weekend, making Nia DaCosta the first Black female director to open a #1 film in North America. That is simultaneously a great accomplishment for her, and sad/embarrassing for the industry at large that it took until 2021 for By Sarah • Aug 30, 2021 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal gets ready for the 2020s I was just thinking the other day how about ten years ago, Jake Gyllenhaal tried to be an action star and audiences were like, Nah, we’re good, and that the flop of The Prince of Persia led to one of the most interesting runs an American actor had in By Sarah • Aug 30, 2021 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart dances as Diana Another fall festival film that dropped a teaser yesterday is Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, the biopic about Princess Diana starring Kristen Stewart. We just saw the gorgeous poster showing an emotionally wrought Diana, and now we have a teaser showing an emotionally wrought Diana. Spencer is a fictionalization of a By Sarah • Aug 27, 2021 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch whistles with menace Jane Campion’s first feature film in twelve years is The Power of the Dog, an adaptation of Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name. Ahead of the film’s premiere at Venice, the teaser has dropped and it features Benedict Cumberbatch whistling menacingly while Kirsten Dunst expresses By Sarah • Aug 27, 2021 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt: Movie Star as Movie Star Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is due for release Christmas 2022, for sure a project with award aspirations, not only because of Damien’s track record and the cast which includes Margot Robbie, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde, Tobey Maguire (his first onscreen role in years), and Brad Pitt, and more, but By Lainey • Aug 27, 2021 10:12 am
Style Ten Rings and Sandra Oh Simu Liu and the cast of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings are in London tonight for the UK premiere. Michelle Yeoh missed the Hollywood premiere ten days ago because she’s working in London, so it’s great to see her here, with Awkwafina and also Sandra By Lainey • Aug 26, 2021 04:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Women of Wakanda return Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is filming now in Cambridge, MA. Set photos have dropped showing Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright in costume as Okoye and Princess Shuri (Queen Shuri?), respectively. We also have our first look at Dominique Thorne, who made her feature film debut in If Beale Street Could By Sarah • Aug 26, 2021 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spencer is coming for the royals Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, about Princess Diana and the meltdown of the Wales marriage over a fateful Christmas at Sandringham, is set to premiere at Venice in a couple weeks. It will then play at TIFF. I’m sure a trailer is coming soon, but first, there is key art, By Sarah • Aug 25, 2021 03:28 pm
Amazingness Warner Brothers tries to win back theater owners CinemaCon, the annual summit between distributors and exhibitors held in Las Vegas, is happening right now. It just occurred to me that this might be the last CinemaCon as we’ve known it for the past 30-ish years. Next year, studios will be able to buy theaters, and then what By Sarah • Aug 25, 2021 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews No Time To Die …In A Month We’re getting closer and closer to the long-awaited release of Bond: No Time To Die, the 25th film in the franchise, pushed back a few times because of the pandemic. The movie opens September 30 in the UK and October 8 in North America, although the Australian release has By Lainey • Aug 24, 2021 02:35 pm
Gorgessity Tony Leung: Start the Campaign Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings opens in ten days. This is a big movie, Marvel’s first theatrical release since the pandemic began and its first blockbuster with an East Asian lead superhero. So, of course, casting Shang-Chi and finding the actor best-suited to carry By Lainey • Aug 24, 2021 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Peter Parker vs. Doctor Strange Over the weekend, a trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home leaked. Now, with CinemaCon, the annual convention for theater owners in Las Vegas, underway, the trailer has been released for real. (Sidebar: Having CinemaCon right now doesn’t feel like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, it feels like trying By Sarah • Aug 24, 2021 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper goes to yoga Bradley Cooper has been quiet the last couple of years. It’s the pandemic, of course, which is still not over, which I feel the need to repeat all the time because there are people out there acting like it is, but it’s also because it was definitely not By Lainey • Aug 23, 2021 03:15 pm
