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 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- 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 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise is a Good Eater There are things that squick me about Tom Cruise, and most of them have to do with the Church of Scientology. That said, there are some things I do still enjoy about Tom Cruise. Like as entertainment. One of those things is how extra he is. Everything with Tom Cruise By Lainey • Aug 23, 2021 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë and Channing: Love off Pussy Island? When it was confirmed at the end of 2020 that Zoë Kravitz and Karl Glusman were ending their marriage, there was initial speculation that Zoë and Channing Tatum were a thing. There was never any heat to that rumour but a couple of months ago, back in June, came word By Lainey • Aug 20, 2021 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu on Late Night If you’re headlining a new Marvel movie, kicking off what will hopefully be a new superhero franchise, the “product of all who came before you”, well of course you’re going to be on American late night television. It’s a tradition. Last night Simu Liu made his first By Lainey • Aug 20, 2021 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel in The Green Knight David Lowery is a filmmaker profoundly interested in time. All of his films from the traditionally narrative (The Old Man & the Gun) to the abstractly lyrical (A Ghost Story) to the big-budget studio (Pete’s Dragon) in some way address time, its relentlessness, man’s desire to defeat By Sarah • Aug 19, 2021 01:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Where were the Eternals? The “final trailer” for Eternals, a movie that is theoretically coming out in November, dropped this morning, and it’s nearly three minutes of meet and greet for Marvel’s new super-team. We get to see some of the Eternals in action, like Gemma Chan’s Sersi—who is By Sarah • Aug 19, 2021 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bennifer: A Kiss Before a Meeting Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were photographed kissing outside of his place yesterday. That’s the immediate draw for this set of photos. Not that it was in doubt but, clearly, the heat between these two is still nuclear. And it’s warming the gossip landscape – it’s been a By Lainey • Aug 18, 2021 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 18, 2021 Dear Gossips, Last week, when I posted about Gemma Chan, The First Eternal, I wrote that it was thrilling to me that the MCU’s next two movies, expected to be blockbusters, were led by two East Asian performers. While Marvel’s Eternals, premiering in November, is an ensemble, Kevin By Lainey • Aug 18, 2021 09:50 am
Style Awkwafina’s All-Asian Parties As promised, our coverage of the Shang-Chi world premiere in Hollywood continues – this is Awkwafina on the red carpet last night in a gorgeous red trimmed oversized suit, also belted Asian styles like her co-star Simu Liu. She mentioned on her IG stories that it was her first By Lainey • Aug 17, 2021 10:37 am
Equality Issues Simu Liu’s World Premiere Simu Liu, the star of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, has been making headlines the last few days for his Instagram post in response to Disney chief Bob Chapek’s comments about the movie being an “interesting experiment”. Sarah will cover that story later, By Lainey • Aug 17, 2021 09:50 am
Equality Issues Intro for August 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Toronto International Film Festival 2021 edition kicks off three weeks from this Thursday and the lineup this year looks amazing. Everyone has their own list of which movies they’re most excited about. There are those who are jacked about the opening night film, Dear Evan Hansen. By Lainey • Aug 17, 2021 08:53 am
Business of Hollywood Emma Stone sticks with Disney When news of Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit against Disney broke, there was rapidly a rumor that Emma Stone, whose star-vehicle Cruella was also moved to a Premiere Access title on Disney+, would follow suit and join ScarJo in the suit. Well, no. That is not happening. In fact, the By Sarah • Aug 16, 2021 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Free Guy: The Best of Ryan Reynolds In Free Guy, Ryan Reynolds stars as Guy, a non-player character in an open-world shooter game called “Free City”. Within the world of the game, Guy and all the other NPCs are unaware of their artificial reality, they just think it’s normal for the bank to be By Sarah • Aug 13, 2021 12:56 pm
