Movie Reviews and Previews The Addams Family doesn’t understand Wednesday The latest cinematic outing for the first family of weird is the animated The Addams Family, an attempt to rebrand the Addamses for the new millennium, or possibly just an exercise in brand management, as the whole thing feels like it exists solely to renew an IP license. The Addams By Sarah • Oct 16, 2019 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jungle Cruise is just The Mummy (the good one) The first trailer for Jungle Cruise, starring Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson, has arrived and I do not have time for this half-dressed bullsh-t, do not try to fool me, I know The Mummy (the good one) when I see it. This is just The Mummy (the good one) dressed By Sarah • Oct 15, 2019 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dolittle’s majestic racist dog Despite being one of the world’s biggest movie stars, outside of Marvel, Robert Downey. Jr. hasn’t had a lot of luck. His cold streak does not look set to end any time soon as his first post-Endgame role is playing Dr. Dolittle in a movie called, simply, Dolittle. By Sarah • Oct 15, 2019 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bombshell is coming for Oscar…and is MBJ coming for Charlize? Last week at LaineyGossip, we played “Leave Room For” in the Oscar race. Sarah wrote that award season has to leave room for 1917 and in my post about leaving room for Queen & Slim, I mentioned that we also have to leave room for Bombshell. Bombshell comes out December By Lainey • Oct 15, 2019 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Day drink with Charlie’s Angels When the first trailer for Elizabeth Banks’s reboot (of a reboot) of Charlie’s Angels was released, I said, “I hope the next one gives us more of the Angels interacting.” Well guess what? It does! A new trailer has arrived and it focuses more on the trio of By Sarah • Oct 11, 2019 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Succession is our Best Boy Succession is our best boy, but it’s also a revolting little worm, a Tomlette (made by breaking a few Greggs), and French baguette upside the head. There is no doubt that Succession is our collective Game of Thrones rebound – just as that show was falling apart, Succession was there By Maria • Oct 11, 2019 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarjo, Adam, and Laura Dern: primed for award season Scarlett Johansson got stuck in traffic on her way to the New York Film Festival press conference for Marriage Story the other day but her seven minute absence only bolstered the crowd's enthusiastic appreciation for the film, and her performance. Her sweet hug with co-star Alan Alda right By Joanna • Oct 09, 2019 03:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Spendy Christmas Carol Apple TV+ has not yet launched, but they are the winners of a bidding war over a musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol, starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. The exact number is not known, but when have we ever heard a reasonable number for a streaming deal? They probably By Sarah • Oct 09, 2019 08:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper: back to back Last year at this time, Bradley Cooper was enjoying the success of A Star is Born. The film picked up heat out of award season and went on to several Oscar nominations. Which meant months of campaigning and, well, that can wear on a person. There didn’t seem to By Lainey • Oct 08, 2019 03:46 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina’s two dates Angelina Jolie was joined by two of her six children, Zahara and Shiloh, in Rome for the European premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil last night. Earlier in the day she wore the Outfit of the Week and for the red carpet she went back to bombshell black, Versace, not By Lainey • Oct 08, 2019 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Breaking Bad Reunion El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie premieres on Netflix this coming Friday, just in time for Canadian Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is all about gathering with family and/or friends and last night in Hollywood, Team Breaking Bad reunited at the premiere in support of the film. People got really into their By Lainey • Oct 08, 2019 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker is an inevitable hit It’s official, Joker is a hit, setting a new October opening weekend record with a $96 million opening weekend. This is more than Justice League ($93.8 million). Joker is a hit, Justice League is a flop, and the difference lies mostly in their budgets and a little bit By Sarah • Oct 07, 2019 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leave room for 1917 1917 is a World War I movie directed by Sam Mendes. I keep getting this confused with Peter Jackson’s colorized documentary about World War I, They Shall Not Grow Old. I don’t know why, they don’t really look anything alike beyond the surface similarities of setting, but By Sarah • Oct 04, 2019 04:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika Waititi and Ryan Reynolds have never met New York Comic-Con has begun, starting the hype train for projects that weren’t ready in time for San Diego Comic-Con. This includes Free Guy, the mostly-under-the-radar action comedy Ryan Reynolds shot over the summer with Night at the Museum and Stranger Things director Shawn Levy. (Free Guy is written By Sarah • Oct 04, 2019 02:26 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie, free and wild, covers Madame Figaro Angelina Jolie has reunited with her eldest child, Maddox, in Tokyo at the premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. You’ll recall, she dropped him off in South Korea a few week ago at university. The other day, at the Hollywood premiere, she told reporters that he’d be flying By Lainey • Oct 04, 2019 09:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Clint Eastwood’s annual late entry It’s practically a rite of passage in Oscar season at this point: Clint Eastwood showing up late with a movie no one realized he had finished already. (He works fast because he gets everything in one take, even if that one take is sh-t, it’s the take, move By Sarah • Oct 03, 2019 03:29 pm
