Movie Reviews and Previews Asgardians of the Galaxy on set Thor: Love and Thunder—still low key mad this movie isn’t called Th4r—started filming in Australia last week. Taika Waititi kicked off the proceedings with a Welcome to Country ceremony with Gamay dancers from the Gadigal and Bidiagal Nation and Maori dancers from Te Aranganui. Waititi also did By Sarah • Feb 01, 2021 11:48 am
Douchebags Armie Hammer: Another Bad Week January 2021 has not been Armie Hammer’s best month. Pretty sure you don’t need a refresher on why but just in case, you can revisit Maria’s posts about it here, here, and here. Basically it’s been alleged through leaked messages he supposedly exchanged with former lovers By Lainey • Jan 29, 2021 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Crisis an Armie Hammer biopic? In the wake of his sexts and cannibal DMs, Armie Hammer has been largely silent. The one statement he issued was a rebuke that also covered his withdrawal from an upcoming project with Jennifer Lopez (Josh Duhamel is in talks to replace him). But some movies are already made starring By Sarah • Jan 28, 2021 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Riz and Steven: On Metal, Minari, Acting, and Codeswitching We’re less than a week away from the Golden Globe Awards now and I’m slowly making my way through most of the contenders. The one film that’s gaining momentum that I’ve yet to see – and I’m hoping to get a screener soon – is Lee Isaac By Lainey • Jan 28, 2021 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Preview 2021: 10 to Watch The Sundance Film Festival kicks off today. Last year, it was one of the few major gatherings—and the only big film festival—that managed to occur before everything shut down in March due to COVID. This year, the festival has gone remote. Beyond the inherent strangeness of a remote By Sarah • Jan 28, 2021 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch with no accent in a Dad Movie Well, no accent other than his own English accent, and whew, what a relief after the trailer for The Mauritanian. The trailer for The Courier dropped yesterday, a spy thriller in which Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Greville Wynne, a British engineer and businessman who was arrested for espionage by the By Sarah • Jan 28, 2021 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cardi and Channing in The Bodyguard? There’s a rumour going around that Cardi B and Channing Tatum will star in a remake of The Bodyguard. DeuxMoi posted it (via Dlisted) and according to their source, it’s “based on a real story of Cardi having to change security while on tour, due to gun laws By Lainey • Jan 27, 2021 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Raya and the Last Dragon’s fellowship of butt-kickery Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is one of the few big movies coming out in the next few months—it’s pretty much this and Godzilla vs Kong, kind of a “one for me, one for you” deal with parents and kids—and there is a new trailer By Sarah • Jan 27, 2021 01:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart as Diana It was announced back in June that Kristen Stewart had been cast to play Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s upcoming biopic Spencer. Pablo directed Natalie Portman in Jackie and if you’ve seen that film, you should know that this will likely be an unconventional story about a woman By Lainey • Jan 27, 2021 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Let Godzilla and Kong fight Amidst all the spring blockbusters moving back to the fall, we are guaranteed one big movie to watch (at home): Godzilla vs Kong, which will premiere in whatever theaters are open and on HBO Max on March 26. Sure, everyone hates Warner Brothers now, a bunch of their creative partners By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 12:07 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, If not for the pandemic, Oscar nominations would be announced around now. Everything has been pushed back, as we know, but the races are starting to shape up. The big question is how different voting will be now that award season campaigning isn’t happening the way we’ By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 09:06 am
Equality Issues Let’s Boogie Many people the last few days have been talking about the trauma they’ve been carrying for the last four years and recognising it in the relief of Joe Biden’s inauguration. That relief may be temporary, because of course there is so much work to be done, so many By Lainey • Jan 22, 2021 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews No blockbusters any time soon Last week came the rumor that No Time to Die, the Bond film that started the chain reaction of shifting release dates last year, would move once again from its April 2021 release date. Well, it’s happened, and No Time to Die has moved to October 8, 2021, which By Sarah • Jan 22, 2021 09:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Makes Things Go Boom? When I hear the name “Jake” these days, I think of Jake Tapper, and not Jake Gyllenhaal because, for months, CNN has been the most-watched network in my home. My husband, Jacek, calls Jake Tapper his “news hero”. Mostly because he loves Jake’s varied expressions of disgust whenever By Lainey • Jan 21, 2021 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jodie Turner-Smith’s “Goddess-Level Sh-t” Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson have been seen in New York a couple of times this week with their baby and her mother. He’s there shooting Dr Death, taking over the lead role in the series after Jamie Dornan dropped out over scheduling issues. And I think with By Lainey • Jan 19, 2021 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendalland reunited On set, anyway. Tom Holland and Zendaya are working on Spider-Man 3 (version 2) and were photographed on set together. MJ appears to be working in a donut shop now, and there is fake snow falling. Are we in for another random Hallmark Christmas movie ending for a December By Sarah • Jan 19, 2021 12:02 pm
