Movie Reviews and Previews Netflix dunks on everybody Yesterday Netflix released a video promoting their 2021 films and it’s the video equivalent of screaming, “I am a golden god!” and diving into a pool from the roof of a three-story house. Netflix is taking a victory lap before anyone else even lined up for the race. Lainey By Sarah • Jan 13, 2021 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews All the blockbusters are delaying again 2020 will be remembered as the year without blockbusters, but the way things are looking, 2021 is going to be more of the same. Earlier this week, Morbius delayed its release date, again, from March 19 to October 8 (honestly, October is a much friendlier month for a vampire-themed superhero By Sarah • Jan 13, 2021 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland’s Cherry Since the Oscars expanded eligibility for Our Plague Year: 2020, we are now getting a rash of new year movies to meet the extended February deadline. Malcolm & Marie is one of these movies, and now we have a teaser for Cherry, starring Tom Holland. It’s a Zendalland reunion! By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lucy-Desi casting curse Back in 2015, which was both five years ago and a hundred years ago, we learned that Aaron Sorkin was writing a biopic of Lucille Ball which would star Cate Blanchett. Now Sorkin is finally realizing the project, though it will no longer star Blanchett. Titled Being the Ricardos, the By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool brings its R rating to the MCU When Disney swallowed Fox whole almost two years ago, there were many questions about what it would mean for the industry, for the library of Fox films, and other business things. What nerds cared about, though, was what would happen to the X-Men, especially Deadpool, since he is 1) the By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 10:37 am
Award Season Campaigning Zendaya Has Entered The Race One paragraph stood out to me in Nate Jones’s always informative and most recent Oscar Futures column for Vulture. This is the feature where Nate gauges momentum for Oscar contenders and, right now, with Pieces of a Woman streaming on Netflix, Vanessa Kirby, after being named Best Actress at By Lainey • Jan 11, 2021 03:29 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Kit Harington’s Grey Run Do you know anyone who has binged Game of Thrones during the pandemic? I’m not asking to be a dick about the series, I’m asking because as we’ve heard over the last year, there are certain shows that experienced a resurgence in popularity or were rediscovered as By Lainey • Jan 08, 2021 11:43 am
Top Reads Happy New Year, Keanu Reeves As we’ve said so many times in the past, where the big name movie stars are concerned, the ones who’ve been familiar to us for so long, it’s Keanu Reeves who we can be most confident will not be trending on Twitter for being problematic. I mean, By Lainey • Jan 06, 2021 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is there Batman drama? I mean, MORE Batman drama, since we know DC Films intends to have many Batmen running around, which provides its own, unique flavor of drama. But THIS Batman drama pertains to Robert Pattinson and Matt Reeves’ The Batman, which is, maybe, not going so hot. Consider the source with a By Sarah • Jan 04, 2021 12:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Study in Bridgerton Blue If you missed previous Bridgerton installments, a review of the series is here and a ranking of the Bridgerton boys is here. Bridgerton is a very pretty show to look at, the overall art design rooted in history but with a touch of whimsy that brings out the romantic fantasy By Sarah • Dec 29, 2020 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, I hit play on a new film last night just before dinner and ended up watching it twice, back-to-back. I mean, I’m always down for a romance but what is it about this time of year that makes romance extra appealing? And this year in particular? We’ By Lainey • Dec 29, 2020 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman Nineteen Eighty-Ugh Well, this is disappointing. After a terrific opening sequence in Themyscira, once again featuring Lilly Aspell as the young Diana, Wonder Woman 1984 just disintegrates. The problems all stem from the script, written by Patty Jenkins, who also directed, Geoff Johns, and Dave Callaham, though I’m not here to By Sarah • Dec 28, 2020 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Soul is a love letter to teachers that will probably bore your kids Soul is Pixar’s latest existential film about the meaning of life, this time told from the almost-afterlife. Co-written and co-directed by Pixar impresario Pete Docter and Kemp Powers (who also adapted his own play for the screen in One Night in Miami), with a script assist from Mike Jones, By Sarah • Dec 23, 2020 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Eddie and Arsenio (and Eddie and Arsenio) are back One of the casualties of the 2020 movie season was Coming 2 America, which Paramount took off their release calendar, then sold to Amazon. Now, however, Coming 2 America is finally coming to the world as an Amazon release in March 2021. The first trailer has dropped and it’s By Sarah • Dec 23, 2020 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews News of the World is the dad movie of 2020 In News of the World, Tom Hanks stars as the extravagantly named Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a world-weary Civil War veteran who is atoning for his Confederate past by attempting to bring frontier communities together through the power of stories. In 1870, Kidd crisscrosses Texas to read the news to By Sarah • Dec 23, 2020 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Felicity Jones in The Midnight Sky George Clooney’s latest feature film is The Midnight Sky, an adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel Good Morning, Midnight. Clooney stars as Augustine Lofthouse, a scientist at an Arctic outpost when some cataclysmic event occurs which forces everyone to evacuate the facility. It is hinted at being nuclear in By Sarah • Dec 22, 2020 01:50 pm
