Movie Reviews and Previews Say his name Candyman legitimately terrified me when I was kid, to the extent that I white-knuckled a second viewing in a college folklore class ten years later, still as freaked out by it as the day I first saw it. I once threw a bottle of shampoo at a cabinmate at summer By Sarah • Feb 28, 2020 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’ villain streak continues Ever since leaving Captain America behind, Chris Evans seems determined to shed the mantle of superhero by playing villains. His first role post-Cap was in Knives Out; sometime this year he has an Apple TV show about a dad whose son maybe killed a classmate, which isn’t exactly a By Sarah • Feb 25, 2020 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu and Alexandra in San Francisco Keanu Reeves has been in San Francisco the last few weeks working on Matrix 4. Not much is known about the next movie in the franchise, only that Neo and Trinity are back, and Neo looks more like John Wick, but we don’t know the timeline. Some are speculating By Lainey • Feb 25, 2020 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harrison Ford in The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild is another movie Disney inherited when they bought Fox, but this one they threw some effort into releasing. A family-friendly revision of Jack London’s novel fits The Call of the Wild into Disney’s wheelhouse, so they did not treat this movie like a By Sarah • Feb 24, 2020 03:54 pm
BFFs First Wives reunite The First Wives Club is superior cinema. On this, we can all agree. I know we can all agree because this morning I was emailing with Lainey and Emily, our site manager, and we’re all different ages, and yet, we all love The First Wives Club. It transcends generations, By Sarah • Feb 21, 2020 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews THE Suicide Squad suited up James Gunn’s not-a-reboot-but-not-really-a-sequel-either Suicide Squad movie is filming in Panama, which means set photos are emerging that show characters old and new suited up for their do-over. There are blurry shots of Margot Robbie sporting a new look as Harley Quinn, and she is joined by David Dastmalchian as By Sarah • Feb 20, 2020 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Downhill Poor Downhill. If ever there was an example of the dangers of remaking a nearly perfect foreign-language film into English, it is the case of Downhill. Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure is a pitch-black comedy that is almost pure drama, about a family that crumbles when faced with a staggering By Sarah • Feb 19, 2020 02:55 pm
Amazingness Matt Damon’s mullet As noted in the previous post, Ben Affleck is currently promoting The Way Back. When that’s done, he’ll likely return to production on The Last Duel, alongside Matt Damon. It’s scheduled to be released at Christmas which is ambitious. Because Christmas movies are either for the box By Lainey • Feb 19, 2020 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck comes back with a comeback movie Ben Affleck’s new film, The Way Back, comes out in a month. He plays a former high school basketball player who’s lost everything to addiction and is finding his “way back” by coaching the team from his alma mater. Obviously he knows something about his character, Jack Cunningham. By Lainey • Feb 19, 2020 10:09 am
TV Updates Parasite’s good vibes continue No matter how 2020 turns out, this year did something right when Parasite won Best Picture, among other awards, at the Oscars. Parasite’s Oscar wins are the good vibes we need, and the good vibes keep going as Parasite is extending its hit theatrical run in the wake of By Sarah • Feb 18, 2020 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika never stops Taika Waititi, fresh off an Oscar win and with two (2) film projects on the go at the same time, has every excuse to slow down. And yet, he does not. Taika never stops. With Next Goal Wins due out later this year, and Thor: Love and Thunder set for By Sarah • Feb 18, 2020 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Did you love PS I Still Love You? What qualifies as a good rom-com? Well, for starters, you need to care about your central character – that’s a basic, right? (This, by the way, was my central problem with Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl. I was never invested in Serena like I was in Blair. Because, By Lainey • Feb 18, 2020 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What did James Marsden do to deserve Sonic? I emerge from the theater with but one question: What did James Marsden do to deserve starring in Sonic the Hedgehog? I have no other questions about Sonic the Hedgehog, it’s a movie made for children and their unformed brains. It is, at least, acceptable entertainment for children and By Sarah • Feb 14, 2020 01:19 pm
Twilight Thank you, Twilight, for RBattz’s jawline Matt Reeves’ The Batman started filming last month, and now Reeves has dropped a tease on the internet for the world to gawk at: the first look of Robert Pattinson in the new Batsuit. Pattinson has never been my preferred flavor of tea, but, um, he looks HOT in this By Sarah • Feb 14, 2020 09:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 14, 2020 Dear Gossips, Kathleen came over last night and we finally watched PS I Still Love You. It’s a good thing it’s on Netflix and not in theatres because the amount of squealing that was happening, mostly on her part, would have been a nuisance for people, even in By Lainey • Feb 14, 2020 09:22 am
Quiveration Dev Patel can get it in every era Dev Patel can get it. It is known. What we have just learned, however, is that Dev Patel can get it in every era. This knowledge comes to us from the trailer for The Green Knight, a medieval fantasy epic by David Lowery, the director of A Ghost Story and By Sarah • Feb 13, 2020 03:09 pm
