Music Taylor Swift: The Sundance Poster Star The Sundance Film Festival kicks off on Thursday. Sundance is always a clusterf-ck, at least in the years I used to cover it, as celebrities, their entourages, publicists, marketers, party planners, sponsors, filmmakers, and the attendant media jam themselves into Park City for a few days – and this year, since By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith and Martin Lawrence: Bad Boys is revived Seventeen years after Bad Boys II, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for Bad Boys for Life, which is equal parts sequel and soft reboot. If you’re thinking that a “seventeen years later” Bad Boys movie will be full of dad jokes and aging references, you will be right. By Sarah • Jan 21, 2020 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie’s test Margot Robbie is having a busy winter. She’s in the middle of award season as an Oscar nominee, and she has Birds of Prey opening on February 7, which is Oscar weekend. Over the next few weeks she’ll be splitting her time between nominee appearances and Birds of By Sarah • Jan 20, 2020 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 1917 vs. Parasite Over the weekend, the two biggest industry guilds, the Producers’ Guild of America and the Screen Actors’ Guild, held their awards. On the film side, the PGA went for 1917 as their best picture, and SAG gave Parasite the Best Ensemble Cast award, their equivalent of best picture. Parasite is By Sarah • Jan 20, 2020 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Downey, Jr. in Dolittle Cats broke me. I can no longer tell what is “good” and what is “bad”. There is only “Cats” and “not Cats”. In that sense, Robert Downey, Jr.’s new movie, Dolittle, is not Cats. I don’t know if that makes it good by default, or just not Cats. By Sarah • Jan 17, 2020 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Unofficial Uncut Gems Spin-Off In the end, the Academy was not cool enough to nominate Uncut Gems for any Oscars. But don’t worry, Adam Sandler got a gold man of his own, sort of. Yesterday the Safdie Brothers, the directors of Uncut Gems, released a short film online titled Goldman vs. Silverman. It By Sarah • Jan 17, 2020 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Issa Rae + Kumail Nanjiani = Couple of the Year Here’s something I didn’t know I wanted that I am now obsessed with: the trailer for The Lovebirds, a comedy starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani. I have watched this four times already, and will undoubtedly watch it four more times before the day is over. The Lovebirds By Sarah • Jan 16, 2020 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Bond must move on No Time to Die, the 25th Bond movie and Daniel Craig’s last outing as 007, comes out in April. In advance of that, Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson gave an interview to Variety that comes across as half reckoning with the end of Craig’s tenure By Sarah • Jan 16, 2020 10:00 am
Break Ups Vanessa’s single wedding dress Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler have been – or had been – together nine years. Us Weekly reported yesterday that it’s over. And she happened to have a premiere last night, so she showed up in basically a wedding dress, the ultimate just-single girl declaration: I’m marrying myself! I can By Lainey • Jan 15, 2020 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart’s slump continues with Underwater Kristen Stewart is having a rough time at the box office. Her latest effort in her return to the mainstream, Underwater, tanked over the weekend (no pun intended). It’s not like anyone expected box office fireworks in January, but Stewart, even spending the better part of the 2010s out By Sarah • Jan 14, 2020 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jared Leto, post-Joker In 2018, Sony fell backwards into a hit with Venom, a messy movie with an even messier production, but one that, almost in spite of itself, ended up making over $800 million. Now, Sony is expanding their Spider-Man universe of spin-offs with Morbius, starring Jared Leto in his post-Joker comic By Sarah • Jan 14, 2020 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Double-nominee Black Widow Last night during the college football championship game, Marvel dropped a “special look” at Black Widow. The “special look” is mostly stuff from the teaser trailer, but we learn that part of Natasha’s challenge in her solo movie is squaring off with a “new generation” of Black Widows, and By Sarah • Jan 14, 2020 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 13, 2020 Dear Gossips, Big day today. And normally the biggest headline here at this site would be that it’s Oscar nomination day as we brace for whatever controversy comes out of the snubs and exclusions. To give you some idea of what we might expect, The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 08:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie is now the good Harley Quinn The first trailer for Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) was very promising. The second trailer has now arrived, and Birds of Prey still looks awesome. This trailer is doing everything right, from the excellent song choice to roller derby Harley to showing Harley blowing By Sarah • Jan 10, 2020 09:45 am
Quiveration Timmy’s new look Timothee Chalamet was at the National Board of Review gala last night in a relatively tame-ish outfit, by his standards, which makes sense because he was a presenter and not an award recipient. It’s not about Timmy right now, although every day for me is about Timmy. Have you By Lainey • Jan 09, 2020 05:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kit and Rose at the Golden Globes We didn’t have time to get to Kit Harington and Rose Leslie during our Monday Golden Globes coverage yesterday but it was nice to see them back on the red carpet together, and so happy. Not just happy but… I don’t know if this is exactly the right By Lainey • Jan 07, 2020 04:47 pm
