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 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, 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 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 By Lainey • Nov 12, 2019 11:49 am
Girlcrushes Good Morning, Angels Charlie’s Angels opens this weekend and director Elizabeth Banks and stars Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska were in Hollywood last night for the premiere. At post time reviews for the film have not yet been released which, normally, is not a good sign. At the same time, By Lainey • Nov 12, 2019 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Noah Centineo: The People’s Comedy Movie Star LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. Remember what I just said in the previous post about the People’s Choice Awards? That they mean nothing. Well… Here’s a good example. Noah Centineo was the People’s Choice for Best Comedy Movie Star. Not any of the stars of Booksmart, one of the funniest movies By Lainey • Nov 12, 2019 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 12, 2019 Dear Gossips, IndieWire reported late on Friday that Universal told the New York Film Critics that Cats wouldn’t be ready for review until mid-December. The NY Film Critics vote on their best films of the year on December 4 which means that, if this is indeed true, Cats By Lainey • Nov 12, 2019 08:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson in Doctor Sleep Doctor Sleep has an impossible task. It has to be a sequel to The Shining, the Stephen King story, and it has to be a sequel to The Shining, the Stanley Kubrick film, widely regarded as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It is totally possible to adapt By Sarah • Nov 08, 2019 02:25 pm
Dumbass Leave James Dean Alone, You Ghouls This week in Utterly Ghoulish News, we learned that a pair of directors have “cast” “James Dean” in an upcoming Vietnam War movie called Finding Jack. The directors, Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh, are making their feature film directorial debut, and they have found the perfect way to guarantee their By Sarah • Nov 08, 2019 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Elisabeth Moss takes over the Johnny Depp-less Invisible Man Tom Cruise’s The Mummy tanked, and Universal’s would-be Dark Universe collapsed. That meant no Russell Crowe Dr. Jekyll movie, no Javier Bardem Frankenstein, and no Johnny Depp Invisible Man. Earlier this year, Universal pivoted with their classic monster franchise and handed it to Jason Blum and his By Sarah • Nov 08, 2019 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Charlize Pull Off A Double? We are about a month away from the Golden Globe nominations. The Globes don’t often align with the Oscars but they can set the tone for Oscar nominations a month later as the Globes happen during the Oscar nomination voting period. As we’ve been reporting, races look pretty By Lainey • Nov 06, 2019 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell: More Bat-Villains The main cast for Matt Reeves’ The Batman is rounding out, with Colin Farrell added to the list of names on the villain call sheet. He is in talks to play the Penguin, joining Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Paul Dano as the Riddler. (Andy Serkis is also in talks By Sarah • Nov 06, 2019 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Apple TV+ enters award season Yesterday the first trailer for The Banker dropped. The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie as a pair of would-be bankers who, because of racial prejudice, train a white guy (Nicholas Hoult) to stand in for them as the owner of their bank, so it’s BlacKkKlansman By Sarah • Nov 05, 2019 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet in The King What is the point of Shakespeare without Shakespeare? This question is central to David Michôd’s The King, which tells the story of Henry V of England, a story canonized in English literature by Shakespeare’s Henry Cycle of plays. There are other great warrior-kings of England that Shakespeare By Sarah • Nov 04, 2019 02:43 pm
