Movie Reviews and Previews Totally Under Control will ENRAGE you Alex Gibney is a very good documentarian who made his name with Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Gibney’s bread and butter is making documentaries about political or political-adjacent figures doing dirty deeds in the back room (see also: Casino Jack and the United States of Money), but By Sarah • Oct 26, 2020 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kelly Marie Tran is Disney’s latest heroine It is a truth universally acknowledged that Kelly Marie Tran deserves way better than she got from her Star Wars experience. But what is done is done, and it’s onward and upward for Tran, who is the latest Disney heroine in Raya and the Last Dragon. The teaser dropped By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 12:23 pm
Dumbass 2020 reaches new low, Jared Leto to return as the Joker Today in Oh What Now news, it has been reported that Jared Leto will reprise his role as the Joker for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Yes, you read that right, Jared Leto, once the third best Joker and now the fourth best Joker, is getting a do-over while Joaquin By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Armie Hammer and Lily James in Rebecca Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is equal parts lavish and hollow, like a visit to a luxury department store—many fine goods are on display, but it’s just a bunch of f-cking handbags, Charlotte. Rebecca, already made to perfection by Alfred Hitchcock, tells the By Sarah • Oct 21, 2020 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hide out this holiday season with Happiest Season Here’s a bit of holiday cheer: Happiest Season, the LGBTQ rom-com starring Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, and Dan Levy will premiere on Hulu November 25, one day before US Thanksgiving. So if you’re looking for something to watch while hiding from your family—no matter how the election By Sarah • Oct 21, 2020 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Legally Blonde: A Reunion and a New Chapter There’s a reunion around every corner! That’s how we’re trying to get through the pandemic, I guess. With nostalgia – and all kinds of cast reunions. The latest: Legally Blonde, which turns 20 next year which means this year is the 20th anniversary of when the movie was By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 10:40 am
Maple Leaf Shawn Mendes’s Thirsty Trailer Every time we see Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello together, I debate whether they’re in madly in love, the way they tell us they are, or if it’s a showmance. I’m still undecided, but the trailer for Shawn’s new Netflix doc In Wonder is giving me By Cody • Oct 21, 2020 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad In just four years, Barry Jenkins has established his place among the very best of American filmmakers working today, so naturally he is hitting the next phase of his career, chiefly the blockbuster phase. He’s got a Disney project on the horizon, but first Jenkins will conquer television, directing By Sarah • Oct 20, 2020 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was always going to be an award season contender, being a lavish adaptation of an August Wilson play produced by Denzel Washington and starring Viola Davis, but as it is now, sadly, Chadwick Boseman’s final performance, the film carries extra weight and expectations. The By Sarah • Oct 20, 2020 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and The Notebook George Clooney’s next film, which he directed, called The Midnight Sky, will be available on Netflix in December. He did a virtual talk this weekend at the BFI London Film Festival about his career and his thoughts on the upcoming US election and about shooting the movie. Originally the By Lainey • Oct 19, 2020 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Radha Blank in The 40-Year-Old Version Radha Blank’s autobiographical film The 40-Year-Old Version is her feature film debut as a writer, director, and producer, and she also stars in the film as a fictionalized version of herself. Blank, a playwright, pulls from her New York theater roots for Version, a film about a woman on By Sarah • Oct 16, 2020 03:00 pm
Faux Gossip Sadly, Tatiana Maslany is NOT She-Hulk Last month, we heard that Tatiana Maslany would be headlining Marvel’s She-Hulk series on Disney+. But now, in an interview with The Sudbury Star, Maslany is setting the record straight. When asked by the interviewer, Ashley Martin, about everything she has going on including She-Hulk, Maslany replied, “That actually By Sarah • Oct 16, 2020 12:50 pm
BFFs Timothée Chalamet in the Woods Timothée Chalamet covers the November issue of GQ and presumably this was set when Dune was still supposed to be coming out at Christmas. The film has now been moved to October 2021 which means a year from now we’ll be doing it all over again and while this By Lainey • Oct 16, 2020 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meek Mill in Charm City Kings Like Concrete Cowboy, Charmed City Kings is a fairly standard coming-of-age tale given new life thanks to a unique setting. Inspired by Lofty Nathan’s 2013 documentary, 12 O’Clock Boys, Charmed City Kings is set within the world of Baltimore dirt bike riders, renowned for their stunt riding and By Sarah • Oct 16, 2020 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Sandler in Hubie Halloween Last year, while being interviewed by Howard Stern, Adam Sandler said if he didn’t get a Best Actor nomination for Uncut Gems, he would “come back and do one again that is so bad on purpose just to make you all pay”. Hubie Halloween is Sandler’s first film By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 04:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams and Glenn Close deserve Oscars, but NOT LIKE THIS I can count on one hand how many books I’ve abandoned mid-go, but Hillbilly Elegy is one of them. J.D. Vance’s self-selecting memoir about the “economic anxiety” of his Ohio hometown and Appalachian roots is a collection of personal anecdotes that repackage the myth of the welfare By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 12:47 pm
