Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry gets a deal As expected when she was photographed in LA a few weeks ago, Halle Berry was the Variety cover story last week ahead of TIFF and the premiere of her directorial debut Bruised. The piece is a profile of Halle’s ambition as a director and her passion for the film, By Lainey • Sep 14, 2020 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nomadland wins Venice… TIFF next? Chloe Zhao’s third feature film, Nomadland, is a contemplative, quietly assertive film about a little-seen segment of the American population: a transient working class of American laborers who are largely older, casualties of the Great Recession and the true economic anxiety of spending a lifetime at work only to By Sarah • Sep 14, 2020 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: One Night in Miami Adapted by Kemp Powers from his own play and directed by Regina King, One Night in Miami is a fictionalization of a night in February 1964 when Cassius Clay (Eli Goree, Riverdale and Ballers) becomes the heavyweight champion of the world after a surprise victory over Sonny Liston. After the By Sarah • Sep 11, 2020 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rom-com Alert! Geraldine Viswanathan in The Broken Hearts Gallery Geraldine Viswanathan, the breakout star of Blockers and Miracle Workers, fulfills her destiny as a romantic heroine in The Broken Hearts Gallery. A classic rom-com with judicious, 21st century updates, The Broken Hearts Gallery is about the irrepressibly cute Lucy (Viswanathan), a kleptomaniac who hoards trinkets from past relationships (and, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2020 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dune looks expensive and boring Dune is a series of sci-fi novels many people care deeply about, I am not one of those people. The trailer for a new adaptation of Dune—a book that has thus far completely resisted any all attempts to successfully adapt it—arrived yesterday and it looks like a massive, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2020 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rebecca returned Everyone loves a remake of an already perfect film, so get ready to welcome Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca with open arms when it premieres in October. No matter how much Wheatley or anyone else insists this is not a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Best Picture-winning psychological thriller, it will, By Sarah • Sep 09, 2020 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Get sad with Nomadland One of the early Oscar tips for 2020 is Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland starring Frances McDormand. The film is about a transient worker in America, driving from job site to job site in a van in which she also lives. I would describe Zhao’s two previous feature films, Songs By Sarah • Sep 09, 2020 10:59 am
Music BLACKPINK in your… Algorithm BLACKPINK x Selena Gomez’s “Ice Cream” landed on the Billboard Hot 100 at #13, the highest position BLACKPINK has achieved to date. And remember, they’ve yet to release a proper full-length album. The Album drops on October 2 and we already know that two of the songs on By Lainey • Sep 09, 2020 10:30 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Bradley & Irina’s handoff hug Bradley Cooper’s been seen in LA recently working on Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film. He was photographed this week in New York though and with Irina Shayk. As you can see, their daughter, Lea, is with them and they exchanged a warm hug before heading off in separate By Lainey • Sep 08, 2020 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RBattz tests positive? In March, production on The Batman shut down along with every other ongoing production as part of a worldwide coronavirus lockdown. They got back to work at the beginning of September, only to shut down again just days later after someone on set tested positive for COVID-19. Warner Brothers’ initial By Sarah • Sep 08, 2020 12:06 pm
Weddings Jennifer Lawrence’s Extra-Long Lockdown Jennifer Lawrence and husband Cooke Maroney stepped out in New York the other day for lunch. They’re about a month away from celebrating their first wedding anniversary after a short engagement. The two have been rarely, if ever, seen since the pandemic started earlier this year… but that’s By Lainey • Sep 08, 2020 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mulan: A Bright, Heroic Epic For a New Generation The Disney live-action remakes have been a mixed bag so far. Some of the movies turn out good on their own merits, like Cinderella, and some are money grabs, like The Lion King, and some are just f-cking weird, like Beauty and the Beast (he was SH-TTING in that guy’ By Sarah • Sep 03, 2020 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana, Ben, and Bond Missing something? We are approaching the second weekend in a row without a Ben Affleck-Ana de Armas sighting! The last we saw them they were moving Ana’s things out of her place in Venice and into his home. Since then no pap photos, no dog walks, no coffee, no By Lainey • Sep 03, 2020 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Boys in the Band trailer Ryan Murphy is one of the most prolific producers in Hollywood. This year alone he has three films—assuming The Prom makes its December release date—and five television shows coming out. He has directed one of the movies, The Prom, and episodes for two of the television shows, Hollywood By Sarah • Sep 03, 2020 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews I’m Thinking of Ending Things is Charlie Kaufman’s Twilight Zone Charlie Kaufman’s latest film, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, is an existential pretzel, as all of Kaufman’s films are. The terrible existence of other people preoccupies Kaufman, and in Ending Things he presumes the worst of his protagonist in a most insidious way. Adapted by Kaufman from By Sarah • Sep 03, 2020 11:43 am
Maple Leaf Intro for September 2, 2020 Dear Gossips, Today in celebrity birthdays… someone super uncontroversial: Keanu Reeves. Today Keanu Reeves is 56 years old. Which makes him the same age as Brad Pitt for the next three months. They actually started acting around-ish the same time. Point Break and Thelma & Louise came out the same By Lainey • Sep 02, 2020 10:14 am
