Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse stands for Greta The Golden Globe nominations were announced yesterday. As you may have heard, there were some snubs. I know I mentioned this yesterday but When They See Us, Ava DuVernay’s series about the Exonerated Five, nominated for 16 Emmys, watched by 22 million accounts on Netflix, was completely shut out. By Lainey • Dec 10, 2019 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dark and gritty Ghostbusters Another big summer 2020 movie dropped a trailer yesterday, as we get our first look at Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the Ghostbusters movie that will restore this hallowed franchise about ghost-hunting nerds to the true fans, the toxic bros who wouldn’t let anyone enjoy a version about ghost-hunting nerds who happen By Sarah • Dec 10, 2019 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews How long can Ryan Reynolds do this? One Fox movie that Disney didn’t sh-tcan after taking control of the studio earlier this year is Free Guy, a Ryan Reynolds project in which he plays Guy, a non-player character in a video game who gains sentience. The first trailer for Free Guy is here, and it looks By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 02:11 pm
TV Updates Golden Globe Nominations: Snubs and the End of An Era We’re doing more than one post today about the Golden Globe nominations but let’s start with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association because this is their event. This is a group of 90 or so international journalists known for making odd choices – and not always bad. In the television By Lainey • Dec 09, 2019 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman 1984 has friends and Steve Trevor With Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker coming out in a couple weeks, all the big summer 2020 movies are starting to drop trailers which will be attached to Skywalker in theaters. It is also CCXP, the giganti-huge Brazilian comic con, which means this is the perfect time for Wonder By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 09:19 am
TV Updates Intro for December 9, 2019 Dear Gossips, We’ve been saying for weeks that this looks like the most competitive Oscar race in years across all categories and as more and more film associations and critics’ boards announce their winners and nominations lists, so far, while there are certainly stronger contenders than others, there does By Lainey • Dec 09, 2019 08:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne in The Aeronauts The Aeronauts is one-half survival tale and one-half historical drama, based loosely on the story of James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) and Henry Coxwell’s ascent to a then-record height of 37,000, accomplished in a hot air balloon. Except for The Aeronauts, Coxwell has been replaced by the fictional Amelia By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Queen & Slim sits between two forms With Queen & Slim director Melina Matsoukas jumps from music videos to feature films, and her background in visual media shows in the style and rhythm of her long-form work. Queen & Slim is strikingly visual and operates almost like a series of vignettes connected by musical interludes. Matsoukas’s By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Irishman is Scorsese’s least glamourous gangster film Based on either a true story or an entertaining lie, depending on how hot your conspiracy thermometer runs, The Irishman is the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a union worker and alleged mob hitman who claimed at the end of his life to have assassinated Jimmy Hoffa (Al By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Parasite break the Korean Oscar curse? Parasite is one of the best films of the year, and it’s already landing on year-end lists, including earning a special award from the American Film Institute. This has, naturally, led to a discussion about its Oscar prospects, which is an interesting conversation for two reasons. One is that By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 04:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mulan is for me Mulan is the #2 trending topic worldwide right now on Twitter, at least that’s what it says on my feed, right underneath #TrumpIsALaughingStock. Mulan is trending because a new trailer was released… and I love it, I love it so much. I love it so much I cried at By Lainey • Dec 05, 2019 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the Florence Pugh party, Vogue Vogue would like you to know that Florence Pugh is cool, but not like TOO COOL, she’s just the right amount of cool. She’s an It Girl, but she’s not an It Girl because she doesn’t trip or do cheesy late night talk show bits. Vogue By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 12:56 pm
Music Taylor Swift to open Sundance A few weeks ago, prior to her American Music Awards Artist of the Decade performance, when Taylor Swift accused Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun of refusing to allow her to perform music from her first six albums, we also found out that she’d been working on a Netflix documentary By Lainey • Dec 05, 2019 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews James Bond has another bad day Poor James Bond, always having such bad days at work. Wouldn’t it be nice to see Bond just, like, chill out for a while? But no, the man can’t even retire without getting dragged back into the spy game. The first trailer for No Time to Die, the By Sarah • Dec 04, 2019 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow on her own At long last, and more than five years overdue, Black Widow has her own movie. The teaser for Black Widow was released this morning, and it looks…fine. If this was coming out sometime between 2012 and 2015, when fans were most loudly clamoring for a Black Widow standalone movie, By Sarah • Dec 03, 2019 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise at the Fashion Awards Not the face you expected at the Fashion Awards in London, right? It’s not really Tom Cruise’s usual environment. But he was there, presumably, because Giorgio Armani was honoured with the Outstanding Achievement Award. We’ll get to Mr Armani later. Tom has been wearing Mr Armani’s By Lainey • Dec 03, 2019 10:04 am
