Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, When was the last time you watched The Pelican Brief? For all you babies out there too young to know what I’m talking about, The Pelican Brief is a political thriller adapted from John Grisham’s book starring Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts. I don’t remember By Lainey • Jul 21, 2020 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews HBO’s Showbiz Kids is Chillingly Subtle Here’s the thing about supposedly ‘niche’ interests or fascinations – they never seem all that niche, which is probably just a trickle-down effect of the internet and everyone knowing about everything. But my reaction to hearing about HBO’s documentary Showbiz Kids was to immediately message all my friends, who By Duana • Jul 20, 2020 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron: Power Producer Two weeks after its debut, Netflix is hailing The Old Guard as one of its biggest successes ever. All Netflix viewer data comes with a grain of salt, though, because there is no independent verification of Netflix’s viewership, and their own “watch” metric is measured in mere minutes, so By Sarah • Jul 20, 2020 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jodie, Josh, Quavo, Saweetie, Leo, and Camila: Weekend Couples Update Time to catch up on the photo sets that were released this weekend. Let’s start with one of our favourites, Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson. They went out for a walk the other day with the baby and the dog. It was announced a few weeks ago that Without By Lainey • Jul 20, 2020 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Beyoncé’s Black Is King: The Full Trailer On Sunday, Disney celebrated the one year anniversary of The Lion King remake and Beyoncé’s The Lion King: The Gift companion album by releasing the “official” trailer for Black Is King, Bey’s film hitting Disney+ July 31st. The new clip isn’t much longer than the first teaser By Cody • Jul 20, 2020 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Old Guard challenges superhero movies to do better Remember when Avengers: Endgame came out (just one year ago!) and co-director Joe Russo was talking up the movie’s big gay moment (BGM) in which he cameos as a grieving widower who reveals, in Steve Rogers’s group therapy, that he went on a date with another man. The By Sarah • Jul 17, 2020 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Project Power, a slip’n’slide for your mind! Coming off the success of The Old Guard, Netflix has decided that the natural follow-up to a smart superhero movie is a dumb superhero movie. The trailer for Project Power, Netflix’s next superhero movie, has dropped and boy, does it look stupid, like a cross between that Bradley Cooper By Sarah • Jul 15, 2020 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine’s Steff vibes Back in March, at the start of the pandemic in North America, Wonder Woman 1984 was pushed back from its original release date of June 5 to August 14, which would be a month from today. Then in June they delayed it even more – it's now scheduled to By Lainey • Jul 14, 2020 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Palm Springs is a wacky existential rom-com for our times SPOILERS Stanley Kubrick once said, “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” Palm Springs is a film concerned with that supply of light, and how we find meaning when life seems meaningless and every day the same. Directed by Max Barbakow, making his feature film debut, and By Sarah • Jul 13, 2020 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sexy Tesla Look, I am here for any and all Tesla content. I will watch, read, listen to, consume anything relating even tangentially to Nikola Tesla. He is one of the greatest minds the world has ever known, and we are only just beginning to scratch the surface of thinking about maybe By Sarah • Jul 10, 2020 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews An Unexpected Pickle Earlier this year, Sony sold Seth Rogen’s new movie, An American Pickle, to HBO Max, offloading it from their theatrical release schedule when coronavirus shut down the world. I said at the time that “This sounds like exactly the kind of dumb premise Rogen and his producing partners Evan By Sarah • Jul 06, 2020 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Show Your Work: Hamilton: How They Told The Story Ahead of the release of the Hamilton film on Disney+ tomorrow (this is pretty much why I’m subscribing), this week’s episode is about Hamilton, not only why it’s a modern masterpiece but the work that went into it behind the scenes to make it as iconic and By Lainey • Jul 02, 2020 02:25 pm
Quiveration Do you want more Massimo? For about two weeks now, the #1 movie on Netflix has been 365 Days, the movie some are calling the Polish Fifty Shades of Grey. As Forbes notes, it debuted at #1, then dropped back, then returned to #1, dropped again, and then went to #1 for a third time. By Lainey • Jun 30, 2020 03:11 pm
Amazingness Intro for June 30, 2020 Dear Gossips, This is a holiday week in Canada and the United States which means some of you who’ve been putting off watching Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga will be streaming it over the next few days. If you’ve been online lately you’ve probably By Lainey • Jun 30, 2020 08:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews #Hamilfilm Teaser Delivers On The Promise If you don’t know by now that Hamilton will drop on Disney+ on Friday, July 3rd, I assume it’s because you don’t need that information – which is fine, I get it. For those who do know, who have known, though… The anticipation for the #Hamilfilm is intense, By Duana • Jun 29, 2020 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Eurovision Song Contest is the dumb summer fun we need Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga—a title that never gets easier to deal with—is the dopamine hit we need this summer. If you’re missing the Eurovision Song Contest this year, Fire Saga has you covered with a series of Eurovision All-Star cameos and original songs By Sarah • Jun 29, 2020 12:23 pm
