Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise is actually making pilots Tom Cruise returns as Pete Mitchell, call sign “Maverick”, in the Top Gun sequel this summer. Or, at least, it’s supposed to be this summer. All these years later, Maverick is a flight instructor – he’s training new pilots, he’s sending his own bad asses up in the By Lainey • Mar 13, 2020 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew and Lin are still working We’ve heard a lot about delayed released and suspended productions over the last few days. Riverdale production has halted temporarily because of coronavirus and so has shooting on The Morning Show season two. As I mentioned yesterday, daytime and late night talk shows are no longer taping in front By Lainey • Mar 13, 2020 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Vin Diesel in Bloodshot Based on a character from Valiant Comics, Bloodshot is Vin Diesel’s latest attempt to bag a fantasy/sci-fi franchise where he gets to be the star and not just a talking tree. Diesel sincerely loves the fantasy genre, but he has not evolved past an eighth-grader’s appreciation for By Sarah • Mar 13, 2020 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Even more coronavirus cancellations At the beginning of the week, I was hopeful that the spreading coronavirus situation would not lead to social meltdown, that the cancellation of SXSW would be the worst side-effect we saw. I was so young then, so naïve. Social meltdown is here, and the parade of coronavirus-related cancellations continues. By Sarah • Mar 13, 2020 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Every movie release date should just be “?” As I am writing this, two more major studio releases have changed their release dates amid coronavirus fears. A Quiet Place II and The Lovebirds, which already lost out on its SXSW premiere, are both postponed indefinitely. They’ll come out eventually, but not for several months now, though if By Sarah • Mar 12, 2020 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 11, 2020 Dear Gossips, As you’ve heard, Bond: No Time To Die was supposed to come out next month on April 10. The junket had been scheduled for a couple of weeks from now in London. But because of coronavirus, it was announced last week that the film would be pushed By Lainey • Mar 11, 2020 12:57 pm
Style Gugu and Keira’s Misbehaviour Misbehaviour is a film based on the true story of the Miss World 1970 beauty pageant that took place in London. At the time, the event was the highest rated television programme in the UK and that year’s competition was extra dramatic because of the Women’s Liberation protest By Lainey • Mar 10, 2020 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jungle Cruise: The African Queen for kids? The first trailer for Jungle Cruise left me merely whelmed. It came across as a knock-off of The Mummy (the good one), and I was not sold on the chemistry of Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson, or the lack of jokes in the trailer. This morning, however, we have a By Sarah • Mar 10, 2020 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 10, 2020 Dear Gossips, I was in LA this past weekend covering the Mulan junket for etalk. Not sure if I can properly explain what that meant to me, to be on that particular assignment for this film in particular. We celebrated my ma’s 70th birthday the night before I left. By Lainey • Mar 10, 2020 09:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow is still on track With the coronavirus wreaking havoc around the film industry, one of the biggest lingering questions is what happens to the film release calendar this year. (Again, acknowledging that this is not the most important part of this global story, just the part most relevant to what we cover on this By Sarah • Mar 09, 2020 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the film industry Look, I know this is not the most important part of the coronavirus story. Let’s just acknowledge that now and then talk about the myriad ways the coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the film industry, because it is having an unprecedented effect on the business right now. It wasn’ By Sarah • Mar 09, 2020 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben and Ana extend their holiday I posted about Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in Cuba on Friday. Some Show Your Work details on this: I led with the article that morning because no English entertainment outlets were on it yet that day and, afterwards, as PEOPLE and E! and others started picking it up, By Lainey • Mar 09, 2020 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck in The Way Back In 2016, Ben Affleck and director Gavin O’Connor made a dumb-fun action movie called The Accountant. Now, they have reunited for a new film. Is it a sequel to The Accountant? No. Do I wish it was a sequel to The Accountant? Yes. (Will there ever be a sequel By Sarah • Mar 06, 2020 12:12 pm
Hook Ups Ben Affleck & Ana de Armas? Ana de Armas just covered Vanity Fair and after the success of Knives Out, with several projects in the pipeline, she’s breaking big. Her most recent project is the lead role opposite Ben Affleck in Deep Water, based on the Patricia Highsmith novel about a couple in an open By Lainey • Mar 06, 2020 10:09 am
TV Updates Demi Lovato is OK Demi Lovato wasn’t OK for a while, as we know. And we know because she’s been candid about relapse and recovery, about her mental health issues. For many people, speaking openly about their personal struggles helps to address shame and stigma; Demi continues to take this approach now By Lainey • Mar 05, 2020 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Elisabeth Moss in The Invisible Man Horror movies have a long history of exploiting feminine fear, but some horror movies take it a step further and are about feminine fear. Leigh Whannell’s update to The Invisible Man, repurposing what was supposed to be a Johnny Depp blockbuster as a low-budget genre piece, is one such By Sarah • Mar 04, 2020 03:04 pm
