Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 26, 2019 Dear Gossips, We are three weeks away now from the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The final publicity push is now underway. Do you have your tickets yet? I do. Please, I was so parched I got mine as soon as they came out – and I feel By Lainey • Nov 26, 2019 08:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Apple pulls The Banker Earlier this month, we got a trailer for The Banker, Apple’s first foray into award season. The movie stars Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson as black bankers who hire a white guy to represent them in real estate deals. The story sounded interesting, the movie looked decent, and By Sarah • Nov 22, 2019 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brenda Song and Crazy Rich Asians Brenda Song is currently promoting the Hulu series Dollface and gave an interview to Teen Vogue about her career – she’s 31 years old and has been in the business almost her entire life. Most people know her, of course, as London Tipton on The Suite Life of Zack & By Lainey • Nov 21, 2019 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Angels keep rolling As you probably heard, Charlie’s Angels bombed last weekend. Like seriously tanked. Franchise-killer flopped. Even with a sub-$100 million budget, an $8 million opening weekend is bad news. But, the movie is still rolling out overseas, including a premiere in London yesterday. I am always curious about press By Sarah • Nov 21, 2019 12:30 pm
Music Taylor Swift: Grammys, Globes, Cats Grammy nominations yesterday and Lizzo, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, and Lil Nas X, emerged as the Recording Academy’s new pop superstars cohort. For Taylor Swift, however, who received three nominations, including for Song of the Year (“Lover"), most of the headlines after the announcement were that she’d By Lainey • Nov 21, 2019 11:13 am
Weddings Jennifer Lawrence or Maroney? Jennifer Lawrence was photographed for the first time yesterday since marrying Cooke Maroney last month. They were seen at MOMA in New York exactly a month after their wedding. Everyone’s been trying to eyeball her wedding band. I’m still curious about her wedding dress which we’ve yet By Lainey • Nov 20, 2019 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews One month until Star Wars Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker opens in exactly one month. To mark the final countdown, Entertainment Weekly has a special Star Wars edition with three covers featuring the casts of the three movie trilogies. I am not here for the revisionism that the prequel trilogy was good—it wasn’ By Sarah • Nov 20, 2019 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Seriously, though, Cats???? Since July, I have been conducting a thorough scientific inquiry into What Is Cats? So far, I have only questions, no answers, as I try to determine What Is Cats, a question seemingly designed to boggle even the sharpest minds. My first hypothesis is that Cats is a coke-induced mania, By Sarah • Nov 19, 2019 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #ReleaseTheSnyderCut will never end In case you think Martin Scorsese vs. Marvel is the worst, most pointless ongoing argument on Film Twitter, allow me to introduce you to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut. It has been going strong for two years and counting, ever since Justice League was released with significant material added by Joss Whedon following Zack By Sarah • Nov 18, 2019 01:28 pm
Style Get your Knives Out Knives Out premiered last night, and that extremely good cast showed up, looking extremely good. I am missing Lakeith Stanfield, an underrated hottie, but check out Chris Evans in that winter white suit with the striped knit tie. I stared at this suit in close zoom for a long time, By Sarah • Nov 15, 2019 12:54 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Jodie & Joshua’s first red carpet Queen & Slim premiered last night in Hollywood. The film is Melina Matsoukas’s feature film directorial debut, from a script written by Lena Waithe, starring Oscar nominee Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith in her first lead role – and there’s been Oscar buzz about it for months, building on By Lainey • Nov 15, 2019 09:45 am
Girlcrushes Kristen Stewart IS SO MUCH FUN in Charlie’s Angels Elizabeth Banks resurrects Charlie’s Angels for a new generation, not so much rebooting the franchise as expanding it, making room for new Angels to have new adventures. Charlie’s Angels is slick and fun and glamorous, and has a similar fizzy appeal as Ocean’s 8. Banks, who writes By Sarah • Nov 14, 2019 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Renee Z through the years Over the last couple of weeks, it’s been Charlize Theron in the spotlight, campaigning for Best Actress Oscar for her work in Bombshell as Megyn Kelly. There is another frontrunner, however, who is also an Oscar winner – that would be Renee Zellweger and I’m curious as to how By Lainey • Nov 13, 2019 03:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Prince Eric At Last Over the summer, pieces for the live-action Little Mermaid steadily came together, with Halle Bailey signing on to play Ariel, and Melissa McCarthy joining as Ursula, followed by Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay and Awkwafina as Flounder and Scuttle, respectively, and Javier Bardem as King Triton (brilliant choice, hiring By Sarah • Nov 13, 2019 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sonic no longer has human teeth Last spring we saw a trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog, a live-action movie based on the classic video game. In that trailer, Sonic was revealed to be a nightmare-inducing hell beast with HUMAN TEETH. The internet screamed as one: Thanks, we hate it! And Sonic the Hedgehog was delayed three By Sarah • Nov 13, 2019 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Last Christmas in London In the previous post about Charlie’s Angels, I posted about the movies that aren’t for critics but people love them anyway. Here’s another example – Independence Day, the original, from 1996 starring Will Smith. Critics weren’t into it. I regularly watch the sh-t out of that movie By Lainey • Nov 12, 2019 11:49 am
