Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow: Marvel is back Black Widow marks Marvel’s return to theaters after a two-year forced hiatus. Directed by Cate Shortland (Berlin Syndrome, Lore) and written by Marvel veteran Eric Pearson (with a story by Ned Benson and WandaVision’s Jac Schaeffer), the film begins with an extended cold open that flashes back to By Sarah • Jul 08, 2021 12:29 pm
Cannes 2021 Matt Damon in Cannes The last time we checked on Matt Damon he was in Australia, shooting Thor: Love and Thunder, and he had his family there with him for a few months while he was working. Love and Thunder wrapped a few weeks ago and now Matt’s in Cannes, seen here at By Lainey • Jul 08, 2021 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt in The Tomorrow War The Tomorrow War, which comes from director Chris McKay and writer Zach Dean, clearly, desperately, wants to be Independence Day for the 21st century, but it so fundamentally misunderstands the assignment that it’s missed the science fair altogether. The film opens with one of those five-second YouTube trailer teasers By Sarah • Jul 07, 2021 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylour Paige and Riley Keough in Zola Back in 2015, Twitter lit up with a thread—the first official “thread”—from user @_zolarmoon. In it, A’Ziah “Zola” King recounted a fateful trip to Florida with a white friend, her sappy boyfriend, and her friend’s pimp. It was a wild, classically Floridian tale, though it began By Sarah • Jul 07, 2021 01:04 pm
Top Reads Simu Liu: Shang-Chi and Good Will Hunting When I saw that Simu Liu was on the cover of Entertainment Weekly this morning, I felt as emotional as I did when Constance Wu and Henry Golding were on the cover for Crazy Rich Asians. As a pop culture junkie, I’ve been reading EW for a long time. By Lainey • Jul 07, 2021 11:49 am
Style Spike, Mati, Maggie, Marion, Adam: Cannes is Back If the theme of yesterday’s postings was celebrity love, today the theme appears to be: back. The Clooneys are back in Lake Como. The stars are back in Paris for Haute Couture week in the front row. And Cannes is happening, a few weeks later than usual, and after By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer, Jessica, Florence and more at Dior As we’ve been seeing, now that many territories have opened up again, celebrities are back to their regular stops on the circuit. In Paris, Haute Couture week kicked off yesterday and … well… I was hoping Celine Dion would make her return to the place where she brings us so By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 10:53 am
Style George and Amal: Back to Lake Como It used to be an annual tradition – if it’s summer, George Clooney would be in Italy, in Lake Como. And when he married Amal, in Italy, this tradition continued. That was paused, of course, last year because of COVID but, as we’ve seen, many celebrities are mostly back By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews F9: This might as well happen In 2001, The Fast and the Furious was about street racing and selling stolen DVD players. It was Point Break with cars. It was simple, and dumb, and kind of fun in the way early 2000s films are, caught between the overblown action of the post-Matrix world and the nascent By Sarah • Jun 25, 2021 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tony Leung is Shang-Chi’s bad dad A new trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is here, this one showing off even more Tony Leung—inject that man’s presence into my veins, please—and Michelle Yeoh, but less Awkwafina. The first trailer was the introduction to the style of Shang-Chi, and this By Sarah • Jun 25, 2021 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba shows up in The Suicide Squad I neither loved nor hated the first trailer for The Suicide Squad, DC’s mulligan on their villain team-up movie, but the second trailer is definitely winning me over. I wasn’t super sold on Idris Elba in that first trailer, but this new trailer focuses on his character, Bloodsport, By Sarah • Jun 23, 2021 01:55 pm
Amazingness Vin Diesel produced The Rock The much-delayed F9 is finally opening in North America this week and the cast has been on promotion ahead of the release. The leader of the Fast and Furious franchise, of course, is Vin Diesel and he covers Men’s Health this month to show off his 53-year-old body and By Lainey • Jun 22, 2021 02:30 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for June 22, 2021 Dear Gossips, Sasha produced me yesterday for an etalk interview with Joe Buffalo. He’s a legend on the skateboarding scene in Canada, and he’s the subject of a documentary short film, JOE BUFFALO, making the festival rounds this year, most recently at the Tribeca Film Festival where it By Lainey • Jun 22, 2021 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde: Back in LA Here’s Olivia Wilde arriving in LA the other day. Doesn’t seem like she has much baggage so it’s not clear if this is her first time back or if she’s been back already and left again and returned but we do know she was living in By Lainey • Jun 21, 2021 01:20 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Kate Hudson’s Family Holiday It feels like celebrities are over the pandemic – they’re back to doing what they did in the summers before COVID: travelling the world, getting papped on beaches in bikinis. And that’s where we find Kate Hudson, Danny Fujikawa, their kids, and her parents, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. By Lainey • Jun 21, 2021 11:14 am
Equality Issues In The Heights: The Conversation Continues As Cody just wrote, In The Heights has been criticized (and rightfully so) for its casting of light-skinned actors to portray the leads in a show about Washington Heights. He mentioned Felice León’s interview with Jon M. Chu and the cast for The Root and it’s worth nothing By Violeta • Jun 17, 2021 02:04 pm
