Top Reads Simu Liu’s Big Day There was a lot of Simu Liu in the headlines yesterday. Here’s how it started – with a Facebook post, ahead of the release of season five of Kim’s Convenience on Netflix, which of course as we all know now is the show’s final season, and not because By Lainey • Jun 03, 2021 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris and Taika Wrap on Love and Thunder Taika Waititi and Chris Hemsworth have been working on Thor: Love and Thunder for months now in Australia. There’s been gossip during filming but none of it is coming from set – it’s Taika’s offset activity that people have been talking about. Like the fact that he’s By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leo’s Dog Year It’s been a while since we’ve seen new photos of Leonardo DiCaprio – not since he was photographed on the set of Don’t Look Up with Jennifer Lawrence, right? Directed by Adam McKay and with an all-star, multiple Oscar-winning and nominated cast, it’s one of the most By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 10:42 am
Succession Nicholas Braun: Cousin Greg gets a magazine cover! How impatient are you for the next season of Succession? F-ck! I want it so bad! They’re still filming though, and HBO hasn’t even announced an air date so it won’t be summer, although hopefully they can get enough done for a post-Emmys start. Which would be By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 02:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Blunt in A Quiet Place Part II Emily Blunt reunites with her husband, John Krasinski, for a sequel to their 2018 genre hit A Quiet Place. Picking up where the first film left off, A Quiet Place Part II finds post-apocalyptic mother Evelyn Abbott (Blunt) traipsing through a silenced world to avoid alien attack. Now, though, she By Sarah • May 28, 2021 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone and Emma Thompson in Cruella Cruella opens with a precociously malicious child named Estella (Tipper Seifert-Cleveland), born with distinctive two-tone hair and a mean streak a mile wide, repeatedly getting in trouble at school. Her mother, Catherine (Emily Beecham), pleads with Estella to be nice, to get along, to not be “Cruella”, the nickname bestowed By Sarah • May 27, 2021 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Worst Chris in the dumbest movie A month ago, we saw a teaser for Chris Pratt’s new movie, The Tomorrow War, and Lainey got hung up on whether or not the music sounds like “O Canada”. (She also threw in a barb that Americans wouldn’t recognize it because we don’t know “O Canada” By Sarah • May 27, 2021 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 27, 2021 Dear Gossips, I squealed this morning when I checked The Hollywood Reporter and saw that their top story, and their new cover story, is a feature on Anthony Ramos. Who, of course, I love because of Hamilton but who I now am OBSESSED with because of In The Heights. I By Lainey • May 27, 2021 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Edgar Wright does horror Edgar Wright’s latest film, Last Night in Soho, is yet another pandemic delay that will finally be released later this year (in October, to be exact). The first trailer dropped yesterday, and yes, I am very into it. Soho is Wright’s take on the horror genre—people are By Sarah • May 26, 2021 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Eternals are here A few weeks after a Phase 4 teaser gave us our first glimpse of Chloe Zhao’s Eternals, a teaser trailer has arrived showing us the Eternals in action throughout human history. The sweeping opening shot of a pre-historic cliff is lovely, the crashing waves contrasted with the simplicity of By Sarah • May 25, 2021 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews High School Musical Sweethearts Lifetime has given us an early holiday gift by announcing a movie starring Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman. If you aren’t familiar with the pair, they were the actors who played probably one of the most influential couples of my generation: Chad and Taylor from the High School Musical By Anastasia • May 21, 2021 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Hudson ALSO has her Knives Out The Knives Out 2 casting director is like Oprah handing out cars—you get a Knives Out! And you get a Knives Out! And YOU get a Knives Out!!! The cast is already stuffed with incredible people, and the latest inclusions include Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kate Hudson, who co-starred By Sarah • May 21, 2021 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone: Movie Star at a Movie Premiere! Movie Stars at movie premieres were a regular daily occurrence, often a multiple daily occurrence, up until 15 months ago. Which is when Movie Stars stopped going to movie premieres because everything stopped. Over the last year, there have been occasional movie premieres, but in Hollywood, those premieres did not By Lainey • May 19, 2021 10:32 am
Quiveration Henry Golding is a hot ninja Also Sunday night during the MTV Movie and TV Awards, Paramount dropped a trailer for Snake Eyes, a GI Joe spin-off starring Henry Golding as a ninja assassin. I have zero nostalgia for or attachment to GI Joe, so I do not know or care if this looks true to By Sarah • May 18, 2021 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Boyega Attack the Block sequel One of the great cult sci-fi flicks of the 2010s is Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, in which aliens invade a South London council estate and a group of local kids must defend their home. If you have not seen it, fix your life and get right with the By Sarah • May 18, 2021 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie in Those Who Wish Me Dead Angelina Jolie returns to her action roots—where is that Salt sequel?!—in Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead, which is spare, 90s-style thriller with a wildfire hook. Adapted from Michael Koryta’s book of the same name by Sheridan, Koryta, and Charles Leavitt, Jolie stars as Hannah, By Sarah • May 17, 2021 03:31 pm
