Movie Reviews and Previews Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall in Coming 2 America Well poop. This one is disappointing guys. I guess it’s not surprising that a years-later sequel to a wildly beloved comedy doesn’t deliver—they rarely do—but it feels especially egregious with Coming 2 America because Eddie Murphy seems to be having SUCH a good time in it, By Sarah • Mar 08, 2021 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, and no one else(!) in Crisis In the vein of Steven Soderbergh’s narcotics opus Traffic, Nicholas Jarecki’s Crisis follows three different storylines attacking the opioid epidemic from different angles: big pharma, law enforcement, and street user. Someday, someone will make a definitive film about the opioid epidemic in America, but Crisis is not that By Sarah • Mar 05, 2021 03:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Operation Varsity Blues and the “Side Doors” to Higher Education Doesn’t the college admissions scandal seem like it happened ages ago? Just me? Many of us are reflecting on the one-year anniversary of the pandemic and its subsequent shutdowns. In a week, it will be the one-year anniversary of my school closing for Spring Break, never to return in By Violeta • Mar 05, 2021 01:01 pm
Award Season Campaigning Minari’s Oscar Campaign Features the Star of Award Season Oscar nomination voting begins today and runs until March 10. The nominations will be announced March 15. Right now, if there’s a frontrunner, it’s probably Nomadland, off the strength of director Chloe Zhao’s lead in the director race and its universal acclaim. Heading into the Globes, Nomadland’ By Lainey • Mar 05, 2021 11:45 am
Gorgessity Outfit of the Week: Kelly Marie Tran Disney’s Raya and The Last Dragon is now available to stream on Disney+. Read Sarah’s review of the film here – spoiler alert: it’s GOOD. I loved it. I loved the story, I love the actors, I laughed, I cried more than I expected to, and it looks By Lainey • Mar 05, 2021 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina in Raya and the Last Dragon Disney’s latest animated adventure is Raya and the Last Dragon, a magic-laced quest picture in the vein of Frozen and Moana, but this time taking its cues from Southeast Asian culture and folklore. Raya, voiced by Kelly Marie Tran, is the first Southeast Asian heroine of an animated Disney By Sarah • Mar 04, 2021 01:31 pm
Top Reads Kelly Marie Tran showed up for herself On the eve of Raya and the Last Dragon hitting theaters/Disney+, star Kelly Marie Tran covers The Hollywood Reporter, discussing her period away from the spotlight after racist and misogynistic bullying drove her off social media in the wake of The Last Jedi, and her return as Disney’s By Sarah • Mar 04, 2021 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B. Jordan Shows No Remorse Military movies are not my jam. I don’t mean war movies, although the crossover is heavy, I mean the Tom Clancy-style paramilitary movies where the enemies are vaguely Russian or brown, depending on the era, and the tone of the piece is more about unchallenged unilateral violence with no By Sarah • Mar 03, 2021 02:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews You’ve Got Mail? I’VE GOT ANSWERS A couple weeks ago, Dustin Rowles from Pajiba wrote about an alternate ending to You’ve Got Mail, citing the Mandela effect (a collective false memory). Immediately after reading it, I started polling friends because I too remembered the “Shop Around the Corner inside Fox Books” ending that Dustin referred By Maria • Mar 03, 2021 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, Oscar nomination voting begins this Friday, March 5 and runs until March 10. Nominations will then be announced on March 15, preceding the Oscars six weeks later on April 25. In a typical year, potential nominees who win at the Golden Globes would use that momentum for their By Lainey • Mar 03, 2021 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Andra Day in The United States vs. Billie Holiday Andra Day won the Best Drama Actress award at the Golden Globes the other night for her performance in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, directed by Lee Daniels and adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks from Johann Hari’s book, Chasing the Scream. The film depicts Billie Holiday’s years of By Sarah • Mar 02, 2021 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews We could have Michael B. Jordan as Superman On Friday, news broke that Warner Brothers is setting up a new Superman film to be produced by JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot team and written by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The report from Shadow & Act notes that there is no director and a search for a new Superman has By Sarah • Mar 02, 2021 11:54 am
Business of Hollywood You had me at “Clooney-Roberts rom-com” Have you re-watched Ocean’s 11 recently? It TOTALLY holds up. Ocean’s 12 holds up, too. As far as I am concerned, there are only three Ocean’s movies, 8, 11, and 12, and I have re-watched them all (they were on Netflix, now they’re on HBO Max) By Sarah • Mar 02, 2021 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2020 This year’s list is a little late in coming because we decided to honor the extended release schedule of the 2020 Oscars, and not follow a strict calendar year. Also, the Golden Globes are happening on Sunday. 2020 was an overall weird but good year in film, with standout By Sarah • Feb 25, 2021 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paramount tempts Tom Cruise’s wrath This week is the Television Critics’ Association winter press tour, when television networks set up in front of the press and lay out their programming schedules for the upcoming season. Yesterday, ViacomCBS held their press confab and made some announcements regarding their new streaming service, Paramount+. They’re rebranding the By Sarah • Feb 25, 2021 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland’s marketing schtick Spider-Man 3 (version 2) is due in theaters in December of this year, for whatever “theaters”, “December”, and “this year” means anymore. This week, the main cast of Tom Holland, Jacob Batalon, and Zendaya have been teasing the title reveal on their Instas, each proffering a supposed title for the By Sarah • Feb 25, 2021 10:05 am
