Movie Reviews and Previews Oh sit down, AMC Universal was early to the emergency digital release game, pushing their previously released films, like The Invisible Man and The Hunt, onto premium on demand within the first days of the COVID-19 lockdown. They also were the first studio to decide to bypass a theatrical release for a big-budget film By Sarah • Apr 29, 2020 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth in Extraction Early in his Hollywood career, Chris Hemsworth tried to be the kind of action-fueled star we had much of in the 1980s and 1990s, but audiences were indifferent. Then he activated his comedy gene, and for the last few years, we’ve known Hemsworth best as an action-comedy guy—even By Sarah • Apr 28, 2020 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daisy Ridley’s next job Daisy Ridley has booked her next job, for whenever productions resume. This is notable, because over the years and various Star Wars press tours, Ridley has often talked about not having jobs lined up outside Star Wars in a way that is sort of joking but also sort of serious: By Sarah • Apr 28, 2020 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, Sunday and yesterday marked the anniversary of the release of both Avengers: Infinity War (April 27) and Avengers: Endgame (April 26). To commemorate the occasion(s), screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and Anthony and Joe Russo, who directed both, were online sharing secrets and stories from the By Lainey • Apr 28, 2020 08:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Whitney Houston Prestige Biopic Is For Real Headline writing is an art, you know? When I saw the bold text at the top of the Deadline piece, ‘Whitney Houston Biopic Crystallizes’, I thought it was strangely appropriate. The biopic has ‘crystallized’, or set; hardened – because I guess we all kind of knew somehow that there would be By Duana • Apr 27, 2020 12:05 pm
TV Updates Hug Me, by Tom Hardy Tom Hardy is very popular with the dude-bros what with all his tough guy roles and the superhero thing, twice: Bane and Venom. He is also very popular with parents in England, especially the moms in England, for his semi-regular appearances on BBC’s CBeebies. He’s doing one tonight By Lainey • Apr 27, 2020 11:16 am
Gossip Nostalgia Endgame, one year later Sunday is the one year anniversary of Avengers: Endgame. People, including Lainey, have been In Their Feelings about the Avengers recently, starting earlier this month with that viral thread of audience reactions to some of Endgame’s biggest moments, and more recently with #IfTonyStarkWereInCharge trending on Twitter. We’re missing By Sarah • Apr 24, 2020 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John David Washington and the “Last Blockbuster Standing” As Sarah’s been discussing in her posts about the film industry and how it’s been affected by the pandemic shutdown, everyone is watching and wondering about how streaming services might be where more movies that were initially intended to be theatrical releases might live. COVID-19 has disrupted the By Lainey • Apr 23, 2020 02:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Best Chris is The Saint Default Best Chris Pine has a new project on the horizon. He will star in a reboot of The Saint for Paramount, taking on the role of Simon Templar previously played by Roger Moore and Val Kilmer. I LOVED the Val Kilmer movie in the 1990s, and in the spirit By Sarah • Apr 22, 2020 10:28 am
Top Reads Team Shang-Chi! If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you know that Marvel business is usually Sarah business, unless of course it’s a post about us crying over missing the Avengers. And she probably would be writing this post if not for the fact that she’s so chill, By Lainey • Apr 21, 2020 02:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews MBJ’s morning run Michael B Jordan went for a run yesterday morning in LA. A few years ago, MBJ bought his parents a house and lived there with them, at least until last year, when he said that he was planning on moving out on his own soon. Not sure if that happened By Lainey • Apr 21, 2020 10:11 am
Relationship Assumption Robert & Suki, Chris & Dakota: Lockdown Love Updates Let’s start with Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse. Since we first found out they were dating, almost two years ago now, Robert and Suki have been pretty good about semi-regularly (but unintentionally) updating us that they’re still together. They were last seen in public at Paris Fashion Week By Lainey • Apr 20, 2020 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ’s would-be dream project is here Dolittle came out THIS YEAR. It feels like I saw it forever and a day ago, but no, it was just January. Just three months ago. Dolittle is recent. It’s also bad, which is why I bring it up. I want you to remember Dolittle, remember that it is By Sarah • Apr 17, 2020 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Remember Tom Hardy?! This was Lainey’s email subject to me after the first trailer for Capone, starring Tom Hardy, dropped yesterday. It’s a been a minute since we’ve seen Hardy, he was last on cinema screens in Venom in 2018, and his only 2019 credit is one episode of Peaky By Sarah • Apr 16, 2020 10:55 am
Business of Hollywood Sam Raimi officially returns to Marvel Marvel director drama has become somewhat commonplace. Marvel does try to satisfy the filmmakers that work with them, but Marvel is also a big corporate machine, and sometimes those interests outweigh the filmmaker’s interests. Most recently, this happened with Scott Derrickson and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. By Sarah • Apr 15, 2020 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee and Zendaya’s “glowing blue eyes” One of 2020’s most highly anticipated films is Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune, starring Timothee Chalamet. Dune is scheduled for release in December, late enough in the year that it hasn’t been affected (yet) by the pandemic. You can imagine the hype for this though, right? The By Lainey • Apr 14, 2020 11:30 am
