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 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, 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, 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- 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 By Violeta • Jun 17, 2021 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In The Heights Colourism and Rita Moreno’s Foot-in-Mouth Defence (Lainey: please note, this is the first of two back-to-back posts about In The Heights and the colourism conversation that’s been happening about representation in the film. Cody will start and Violeta’s perspective will follow.) The highly anticipated film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway By Cody • Jun 17, 2021 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Goes to Pussy Island with Channing Tatum The Cannes Film Festival is happening soon, so there’s been a lot of deal-making that’s either happening or about to happen, and many projects positioning themselves to land deals during the festival. One of those projects is called Pussy Island – at least that’s what it’s By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew and Alexandra flirt for Boom The first trailer for tick, tick…Boom! came out last week – read Duana’s post about it here – and despite the fact that the film is scheduled for release later this year (how is half the year over already?!), it looks like Lin-Manuel Miranda (who is directing) and the By Lainey • Jun 16, 2021 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel finds Park Seo Jun Over the last couple of years, I’ve been posting more and more about Hollywood and the western media’s expansion into South Korea. Netflix, in particular, has a robust Korean content library, with new drama series debuting almost weekly on their platform, as they continue to invest in co- By Lainey • Jun 15, 2021 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Screaming nonsense in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard In 2017, I called The Hitman’s Bodyguard “super, super dumb”, “charmingly sh*tty”, and “brainless, dumb-fun escapism at its best”. Through commitment to a dumb premise and solid chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, The Hitman’s Bodyguard propelled itself to blockbuster status, an increasingly rare By Sarah • Jun 15, 2021 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Madonna: A Return to New York Madonna has spent a few years living in Portugal. She called herself a “soccer mom”, relocating so that son David Banda could play soccer. Here she is bike riding in New York this weekend with her boyfriend, Ahlamalik Williams. And it seems like it’s not going to be a By Lainey • Jun 14, 2021 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey on the beach Cast your minds back a couple of years and recall that Halle Bailey, of Chloe x Halle, was cast to play Ariel in the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. The film was delayed by the pandemic, having just begun rehearsals in London in early 2020 when everyone got By Sarah • Jun 14, 2021 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tick, Tick… Boom! There’s timing, and then there’s timing. There’s striking while the iron is hot, and there’s throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. Opportunity vs. cashing in (creatively), and where tick, tick… Boom! is concerned, I’m not sure which is which. At least not By Duana • Jun 11, 2021 02:08 pm
