Movie Reviews and Previews Paramount shoves off (again) In yet another ill omen for the remainder of 2021, Paramount has moved their remaining movies, including Mission: Impossible 7 and Top Gun: Maverick, to 2022. We’ve been here before, and has always been the case with Paramount, they simply will not risk Tom Cruise’s ire by attempting By Sarah • Sep 02, 2021 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, It’s only the second day of the Venice Film Festival and it looks like a contender has emerged as more and more people are reacting to first screenings of Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. Jane was joined by her lead actors Benedict Cumberbatch and By Lainey • Sep 02, 2021 09:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kiki in Venice: Outfit #2 When I posted about Kirsten Dunst in Venice yesterday for the world premiere of The Power of the Dog, and possibly kicking off an award season campaign, I forgot to mention that while her husband, Jesse Plemons, also co-stars in the film, I’m not sure if he’s By Lainey • Sep 01, 2021 01:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond, for real this time Way back when this interminable nightmare began, No Time To Die was the film industry bellwether, being the first major movie to push back its release date due to coronavirus. Now, though Team Bond is sticking with their current release plan, dropping a final trailer ahead of the film’s By Sarah • Sep 01, 2021 12:14 pm
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, 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 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 By Sarah • Aug 25, 2021 12:29 pm
