Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie’s lateral move Over the 2010s, Margot Robbie became one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. She’s a two-time Oscar nominee with a hot production company, developing interesting, trophy-baiting projects for herself (I, Tonya), and for other people (Promising Young Woman), as well as creating television projects (Dollface). She’s a franchise By Sarah • Jun 29, 2020 10:28 am
Amazingness Queen Bey announces Black is King Last week I wrote about Beyoncé flexing her brilliance on the surprise Juneteenth song, “Black Parade”. Who knew that a such an important piece of her discography would set the stage for ‘something way bigger? After being honoured with the Humanitarian Award at Sunday’s BET Awards, Beyoncé used her By Cody • Jun 29, 2020 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet blinked again With COVID-19 cases on the rise in the US, Tenet has once again delayed its release, moving off its second date of July 31 for a mid-week drop on Wednesday, August 12. When I wrote about the first date change, I said it was “probably the first in what will By Sarah • Jun 26, 2020 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the Blackfeet Boxing Club Earlier this summer, ESPN dominated quarantine viewing with The Last Dance, a docuseries about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. Their next big sports documentary is about an all-women boxing club…on a Native American reservation. Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible tells the story of the Blackfeet Boxing Club, founded by By Sarah • Jun 25, 2020 11:29 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for June 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week, Netflix released the first trailer for a new animated film called Over The Moon. The film is inspired by Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival or Harvest Moon Festival or what I like to call Chinese Thanksgiving. Many of our cultural holidays originate from mythology. The myth closely By Lainey • Jun 25, 2020 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Disclosure: The Documentary the Everyone Needs to Watch We’re nearing the end of Pride Month, and although the cancellation of Pride parades and festivities due to the pandemic has been disappointing, it’s also been a great opportunity to read and reflect about queer history. About Black history. Pride month commemorates the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, By Prem • Jun 23, 2020 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Here for The King’s Man, whenever it comes out Here’s another “we’ll see it when we see it” movie: The King’s Man, the prequel to the Kingsman movies, is supposed to come out this fall. To that end, a new trailer was released yesterday, touting that it will be “Only in theaters September 18”. You know By Sarah • Jun 23, 2020 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Keaton may return as Batman Today in I Didn’t Even Know That Was An Option news, Michael Keaton may return as Batman in The Flash, the movie centered on Ezra Miller’s speedster. The Wrap first reported that Keaton is in talks to reprise the role, but then Deadline jumped in to clarify that By Sarah • Jun 23, 2020 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Justice League’s REAL villain With the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League coming to HBO Max next year, director Zack Snyder is now dropping teasers of his previously unseen footage, beginning with a brief scene of Wonder Woman discovering Darkseid, the REAL villain of Justice League who barely got mentioned in the theatrical version, which By Sarah • Jun 19, 2020 12:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet determined Tenet, now set to come out at the end of July instead of in the middle of July, covers Entertainment Weekly for what should be a typical promotional cover shoot but ends up being about the expectations on Tenet to save the summer movie season. Of course, the typical promotional By Sarah • Jun 19, 2020 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o on Black Lives Matter We’re just over a month away from Emmy nominations which will be announced on July 28th. Lupita Nyong’o is eligible for the outstanding narration category for her work on Discovery’s Serengeti, a wildlife documentary series that she narrates along with John Boyega. Yesterday, Lupita did an interview By Prem • Jun 19, 2020 09:39 am
Dumbass Nia DaCosta gives us a taste of Candyman Candyman was supposed to come out this month, but has been, like every other movie, rescheduled to later in the year (supposedly September 25, but we’ll see). In lieu of seeing the actual movie, director Nia DaCosta dropped a two-minute short “prequel” on Twitter, telling the story of the By Sarah • Jun 18, 2020 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Princess Diana and Kristen Stewart: Social Media Freaks Out Sarah wrote yesterday about the news that Kristen Stewart has been cast to play Princess Diana in an upcoming biopic. Following the announcement by director Pablo Larraín Twitter freaked, as it does. Some people could see it and supported it. Others were like… WTF? Few people imagined it, that’s By Lainey • Jun 18, 2020 10:10 am
Royals Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana? Today in ??? News, Kristen Stewart has been tapped to play Princess Diana in an upcoming biopic titled Spencer. KStew is one of my favorite actresses who has, much like Robert Pattinson, used her post-Twilight years to craft an interesting and varied career. Even still, I’m having a little trouble By Sarah • Jun 17, 2020 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Staycation with Palm Springs Earlier this year, the biggest title at Sundance was Palm Springs, a Groundhog Day-esque rom-com starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti. Not only was Palm Springs one of the best-received films to play at Sundance, but it also closed the biggest deal in Sundance history, selling to Hulu and By Sarah • Jun 17, 2020 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods is an old-man movie the same way The Irishman is Martin Scorsese’s old-man movie, in that this is only a movie Lee could make now, after thirty years of filmmaking, when he has gained the perspective to look back and see cycles repeating By Sarah • Jun 16, 2020 11:58 am
