Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, Oscar voting this year begins a week tomorrow as Academy members will have five days to make their selections – and as we’ve been saying, in most of the major categories, the races are totally unpredictable. The way I see it, there are only two Oscars that seem By Lainey • Apr 07, 2021 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy’s Two-Tone Joggers A couple of months ago, when all that Armie Hammer f-cksh-t was breaking, there was a collective screech on Twitter over the news that Luca Guadagnino, who directed Armie and Timothee Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name, would once again work with Timmy and Taylor Russell on By Lainey • Apr 06, 2021 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel and YJ win at the SAGs All four major film acting categories were won by people of colour at the SAG Awards last night. As established, Chadwick Boseman is the only slamdunk among the categories, every other race is unpredictable, although Daniel Kaluuya is getting closer. Hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend didn’t hurt either. By Lainey • Apr 05, 2021 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Penelope Cruz goes bootcut There was a big generational debate a few weeks ago over jeans between Millennials and Gen Z. According to Gen Z, it’s middle parts and bootcut jeans over side parts and skinny jeans. Millennials took exception to this. Not my generational fight but I’ve always been middle part By Lainey • Apr 05, 2021 11:16 am
TV Updates The Duke is Done Big Bridgerton news dropped on Friday: Regé-Jean Page, the breakout star of season one, will not return for season two. The duke is done. Many people are heartbroken, even though I previously mentioned that Simon and Daphne are not main players in the second book, which features Anthony as By Sarah • Apr 05, 2021 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Godzilla vs. Kong is the dumb escape Spoilers Two years ago I wrote about Godzilla: King of the Monsters and said that I wasn’t sure there is a way to make Godzilla work as a Hollywood (re)invention. Godzilla is not our cultural myth, and America’s unwillingness to face the moral reckoning of the atomic By Sarah • Apr 01, 2021 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Knives Out is Netflix’s latest blockbuster In 2019 Knives Out was not just one of the best films of the year, but also an original idea that turned into a legitimate blockbuster, earning over $311 million against a $40 million budget. Those kinds of mid-budget success stories almost don’t happen anymore, and sequel talk By Sarah • Apr 01, 2021 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zola: When Twitter Was Fun Last year at Sundance—the last major film festival before COVID shut everything down for one (1) solid year—Zola was the big divisive hit of the fest. Zola is adapted from that wild Twitter thread about how “me and this bitch here fell out”, which is basically the last By Sarah • Mar 31, 2021 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 30, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Canadian Screen Award nominations were announced this morning. The full list can be accessed here. The CSAs celebrate the best in Canadian film and television and on the film side, Tracey Deer’s Beans, which I profiled during TIFF last September, received five nominations. Beans is Tracey’ By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Two Sides of Noah Centineo Did you see everyone talking about Noah Centineo a few days ago? That was the intention all along when he and his trainer posted videos and photos of him in the gym and how he’s transformed his body. Noah has been getting into superhero shape. And, well, he’s By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 02:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Re-meet The Suicide Squad The first trailer for The Suicide Squad the sort-of sequel, mostly reboot of Suicide Squad, is here in all its red-band glory to try this whole villain team-up thing all over again. Some of the characters featured in David Ayer’s dismal movie are back, such as By Sarah • Mar 29, 2021 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More MBJ and Chanté …but the real star is Denzel Michael B Jordan and Chanté Adams continued to shoot Journal for Jordan yesterday in New York– but it doesn’t seem like they were main the attraction. Denzel Washington, two-time Oscar winner and all-round acting legend is directing. So as you can see, the crowds have gathered. Which By Lainey • Mar 26, 2021 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pressure and Prestige in Operation Varsity Blues When I was in high school and applying to college more than twenty years ago (damn, I’m old!), I was guaranteed a spot in any Texas public school of my choice due to the Top Ten Percent rule. When I learned my class rank, I felt as though my By Violeta • Mar 26, 2021 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews An Extremely Scientific Economic Breakdown of the MCU The first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier features one of the best single scenes Marvel has ever put to film as Sam Wilson tries to get a loan to save his family business and home and is denied. Even though he is an Avenger, and famous enough By Sarah • Mar 26, 2021 10:24 am
Books MBJ & Chanté: In Love in the Park Here are Michael B Jordan and Chanté Adams today in Central Park working on the film Journal for Jordan, directed by Denzel Washington based on the memoir by Dana Canedy about her relationship with US Army First Sergeant Charles Monroe King and the journals he left for their son who By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan and Ana: Masked and Shielded Production on The Gray Man continued in LA yesterday as Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas were both seen, separately, on set. Ryan was masked, Ana was walking around with her face shield on and if what she’s wearing is part of her character’s costume, we might be By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 09:52 am
