Movie Reviews and Previews Famous People in The Prom Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Prom is a strange artifact from another time. Though it debuted in 2016 and hit Broadway in 2018, it feels like flotsam from the Obama-era, something from a less contentious, less overtly divisive time when “NYC Broadway liberals” versus By Sarah • Dec 11, 2020 02:13 pm
Maple Leaf Rachel McAdams returns to Marvel and Tatiana Maslany is IN I’ve been covering the info dump from yesterday Disney Investor Day, where they bragged about topping 86 million subscribers in 13 months, and announced a bunch of new theatrical and streaming stuff to roll out over the next few years. As you’ve seen already today there’s so By Sarah • Dec 11, 2020 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ms. Marvel is sunny and cute Among the never-ending Marvel news from yesterday is a teaser for Ms. Marvel, the Disney+ series featuring Kamala Khan. We learned a couple months ago that newcomer Iman Vellani will play Kamala, and now we can see snippets of her in action. It isn’t enough to judge the By Sarah • Dec 11, 2020 10:09 am
Business of Hollywood Patty Jenkins gets a Star War Among all the news coming out of the Disney investor day, one big hit is that Patty Jenkins will be directing a Star Wars spin-off titled Rogue Squadron for Lucasfilm, making her the first woman to head up a Star Wars film. She shot an introduction video for it, By Sarah • Dec 11, 2020 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans Swabs Himself Adam McKay’s upcoming Netflix film, Don’t Look Up, already had a crazy high-profile cast. I posted about Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio on set last week, and Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Ariana Grande, Timothee Chalamet, Kid Cudi, and so many more are also joining. One more big By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 02:47 pm
Books Clooney + Affleck v 2.0 George Clooney and Ben Affleck worked together on Argo – they co-produced, along with Grant Heslov, George’s producing partner, and Ben starred and directed, and the film went on to win Best Picture. That was almost ten years ago. And now they’re teaming up again. Deadline reported yesterday By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 10, 2020 Dear Gossips, Sarah texted me about Promising Young Woman on Saturday night with her reaction. She didn’t know at the time but I was just about to text her with mine. Turns out we were screening it at the same time which meant we were processing all the excellence By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 08:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone, and Alfred Molina return to Spider-Man Spider-Man 3 (version 2) is filming now, and the multiverse cast for the movie continues to grow. Joining Jamie Foxx in reprising a villain role is Alfred Molina, who played Doctor Octopus waaaaay back in 2004 in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 (aka still the best live-action By Sarah • Dec 09, 2020 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Small Axe: Red, White and Blue asks a haunting question In Red, White and Blue, the latest installment in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series (Mangrove was the first and Lovers Rock is the second), John Boyega plays Leroy Logan, the son of Caribbean immigrants living in London. His father, Kenneth (Steve Toussaint), is a sort of call-and-response By Sarah • Dec 08, 2020 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried in Mank David Fincher is too technically proficient as a director to make a really bad movie. Even his less interesting efforts will have something worth looking at, and Mank is certainly one such case. A biopic of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Mank is an odd Fincher misfire. It’s based on a By Sarah • Dec 08, 2020 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oscar Isaac takes on the video game curse Oscar Isaac is the latest A-lister to take the video game challenge and try to make a video game adaptation that doesn’t suck. Slowly but surely, Hollywood seems to be figuring video games out—Tomb Raider didn’t completely suck—but they still remain tougher to adapt than By Sarah • Dec 07, 2020 01:44 pm
Maple Leaf Wonder Woman stress Lainey emailed me this morning about being “stressed” about how she is going to watch Wonder Woman 1984 later this month. For Canada, the stress is real. With no HBO Max and not ideal circumstances for going to movie theaters right now, how to see WW84 is a stressful situation. By Sarah • Dec 07, 2020 01:10 pm
Equality Issues Hawkeye brings Echo, a deaf Native superhero, to the MCU As we previously discussed, the real reason to care about the Hawkeye-centric Disney+ series is not because of Jeremy Renner, but because of Kate Bishop. Now we have another reason to mildly anticipate Hawkeye, and it’s still not because of Jeremy Renner, but because of actress Alaqua Cox, By Sarah • Dec 04, 2020 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Warner Brothers Drops a Bombshell Yesterday, Warner Brothers dropped the absolutely gobsmacking news that in 2021 they will release ALL of their movies day-and-date with streaming and theatrical. That’s right, ALL of their 2021 movies will drop on HBO Max the same day they open in theaters, including Judas and the Black By Sarah • Dec 04, 2020 10:10 am
Equality Issues Intro for December 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, For a few years now at the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, the B.L.A.C.K. Ball has been one of the most anticipated events on the schedule. B.L.A.C.K. stands for “Building a By Lainey • Dec 04, 2020 08:52 am
TV Updates Underrated Aubrey Plaza Gets Her Due The Internet has been thirsting for Aubrey Plaza since the release of Happiest Season last week, and for good reason. Her quippy wallflower doctor character Riley is exactly the kind of character that appeals to the social media generation. And yet, Aubrey still does not feel she’s worthy of By Joanna • Dec 03, 2020 02:22 pm
