Movie Reviews and Previews Cate and Tilda arrive in Venice The Venice Film Festival opens tomorrow and here are Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton arriving ahead of the opening night gala. It feels so weird to be posting photos from a festival arrival – even though, around this time of year, this is what we do here. We see shots of By Lainey • Sep 01, 2020 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Donta Storey and queer Black filmmaking In a sea full of lemons, be the lime is the message behind Donta Storey’s directorial debut, simply titled LiME. The short film follows a young Black teen who struggles to find their voice amidst oppressive surroundings — borrowing from Donta’s own origin story. I had a wildly different By Cody • Sep 01, 2020 02:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lingua Franca: An Intimate Portrait of a Trans Immigrant Experience Filipina filmmaker Isabel Sandoval’s third feature film is an intimate look into the private life of a trans Filipina immigrant. Written, directed, starring, and produced by Sandoval, herself a trans Filipina immigrant, Lingua Franca should not be mistaken as autobiography. The film is steeped in her experience, but Sandoval’ By Sarah • Sep 01, 2020 02:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lana and Noah: Always and Forever… not yet Lana Condor and Noah Centineo were spotted heading to dinner together in Vancouver yesterday. They are apparently doing reshoots for To All The Boys: Always and Forever, Lara Jean, the third and final installment in the series. Principle photography wrapped a year ago and the second movie came out in By Lainey • Sep 01, 2020 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill & Ted party on Almost thirty years since they last graced screens, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan return to cap off an unexpectedly wonderful trilogy about a couple of time-travelling doofuses who have to save the world. If you are not already a Bill & Ted fan, Bill & Ted Face By Sarah • Aug 31, 2020 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick Boseman leaves an unassailable legacy It is hard to think about the passing of Chadwick Boseman and not think about all that he never had time to do. At Howard University he earned a BFA in directing, and as a young playwright he received a Jeff Award nomination for New Work in 2006 for his By Sarah • Aug 31, 2020 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kelly Marie Tran: Historic Princess Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is due for release on March 12, 2021. It has already made history – because Kelly Marie Tran is now the “first actress of Southeast Asian descent to lead a Disney animated movie” and the movie is also the first Disney film to be By Lainey • Aug 27, 2020 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews About that Tenet review Over the next couple of weeks, new films will start rolling out in theaters in North America for the first time in five months (yes, I am wantonly disregarding the garbage exploitation film Unhinged, starring Russell Crowe, in this timeline). This means I should be going back to work as By Sarah • Aug 27, 2020 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Soleil Moon Frye’s KID90 Because I spend an inordinate amount of time online ‘researching’, I’m pretty good at sleuthing stuff that might have been a fever dream – it’s become a party trick for our friends on our group chat, and I’m not gonna lie, it’s a skill I enjoy – but By Duana • Aug 26, 2020 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ammonite: yearning, lust, healing Two trailers were released today that are getting some attention on social media: Sarah just posted about Enola Holmes and now there’s also Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. I never knew that an ammonite is called an ammonite until today. I mean I know what it’s By Lainey • Aug 25, 2020 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Enola Holmes: A spunky teenaged detective! The first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming movie Enola Holmes has dropped, and while Henry Cavill is trending because people are thirsty, I am here for Millie Bobby Brown as a spunky teenaged detective. Based on Nancy Springer’s YA mystery series, Enola Holmes is about Sherlock Holmes’s younger By Sarah • Aug 25, 2020 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews THE Suicide Squad lines up for roll call The DC Fandome event gave us plenty of new trailers and teasers to goggle at, from wishful Wonder Woman to samesies Justice League to weirdo Goth Batman, but one of the more promising teasers comes from The Suicide Squad, James Gunn’s soft reboot of the 2016 Suicide Squad. Though By Sarah • Aug 25, 2020 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome back to the Justice League On Saturday, Warner Brothers hosted an online event called “DC Fandome” which is the 2020 virtual event stand-in for Comic-Con. It was okay! Watching Zoom calls is Not Fun, but it was a well-produced, 24 hour roll out of constant new footage/concept art/headlines for Warner Brothers. They have By Sarah • Aug 24, 2020 02:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Batman gets Goth and weird Matt Reeves’ The Batman was only filming for a couple months at the beginning of this year before it was shut down (and Robert Pattinson devoted his quarantine to nightmare-inducing Italian bakes), but that did not stop Reeves from debuting a trailer during DC’s Fandome event. The first look By Sarah • Aug 24, 2020 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman’s wishful thinking Here is the DC movie I am most excited to see, Wonder Woman 1984 dropped a new trailer during the DC Fandome event this weekend. It’s such a good time! Diana lassoing lightning? Awesome! Cheetah’s punk style? Cool! Steve Trevor doing a 1980s fashion montage? Fun! Wonder Woman By Sarah • Aug 24, 2020 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, It’s film festival season soon, most of them happening virtually. Venice begins on September 2 followed by Telluride a couple of days later. Then it’s TIFF on September 10 and the New York Film Festival kicks off September 23. After that the London Film Festival is By Lainey • Aug 24, 2020 08:50 am
