Movie Reviews and Previews “Introduce me as Joker” The Venice Film Festival kicks off next week, and with it comes the world premiere of Joker, followed by a North American premiere at TIFF. Ahead of both of those things, we have a new trailer to absorb. The first trailer was promising, though I still have plenty of reservations By Sarah • Aug 28, 2019 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika Waititi stays busy Taika Waititi is a busy man. Jojo Rabbit is about to hit the fall festival circuit, he’s got acting and directing duties for The Mandalorian bearing fruit this fall, he’s returning to Marvel for more Thor, but before that, he’ll direct a movie about the American Samoan By Sarah • Aug 28, 2019 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt and the macho myth Brad Pitt is now in Venice in support of Ad Astra which will have its world premiere at the festival this week. Brad’s had a good summer so far. Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood was a success. He was, to me, the best part of the film. And By Lainey • Aug 28, 2019 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leslie Jones moves on After five seasons of SNL not really knowing what to do with her, Leslie Jones is moving on and won’t be returning for season 45 next month. During her time on the show, she was nominated for two Emmys and was consistently the best part of Weekend Update, but By Sarah • Aug 28, 2019 10:12 am
TV Updates Intro for August 28, 2019 Dear Gossips, I predicted back in July that Lizzo would be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live’s season premiere. I was wrong. It’s going to be Billie Eilish and the host is Woody Harrelson to promote Zombieland: Double Tap which opens in October. When SNL announced their By Lainey • Aug 28, 2019 08:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow’s new duds The Black Widow movie continues teasing us, making a stop at D23 the other day where some footage was screened—sounds like the same kitchen fight scene between Natasha Romanov and Yelena Belova—though the cast, still filming, was not present for this one. We do have, however, some new By Sarah • Aug 27, 2019 03:13 pm
Quiveration Timothee Chalamet: the bowl cut has an accent We interrupt MTV VMAs coverage because… Timothee Chalamet has an accent. I wrote about Timothee Chalamet’s bowl cut when the poster for The King was released last week and just the sight of him, with his jawline, and the frustration on his face, was enough to distract me for By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland loves us 3,000 Following his faux-oblivious Instagram appearance with RDJ, Tom Holland popped down to Anaheim to appear at D23 to shill Onward, a Pixar film he’s co-starring in with Chris Pratt. The very big elephant in the very big room is the dissolution of the Sony-Marvel production deal that allowed Holland By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 02:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina’s Marvel-ous, Maleficent weekend Angelina Jolie dropped Maddox off at university in South Korea last week. (I’m still not over the fact that Maddox is now off to college. Why are we so old?). She couldn’t linger though because she had to go back to work. Angelina showed up at D23 to By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kit Harington and Gemma Chan are Eternals, too On Friday afternoon, Deadline ran a hilariously skimpy report that Kit Harington would be joining the MCU, offering no details or even vague options of what he could be doing. During D23 his involvement was confirmed when it was announced he would be joining The Eternals as Dane Whitman, aka By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rey’s new lightsaber Disney biennial fan convention, D23, happened over the weekend, and now the question is when Disney is just going to make this an annual event. This year felt like Comic-Con Part II, with an unending cycle of weekend news, including movies and TV shows that won’t be coming out By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 11:29 am
Style Emma Cruella Disney’s D23 expo happened this weekend and… it was a LOT. Sarah’s going to get into most of it throughout the day but it seemed like every hour, something Disney or Marvel was trending on social media because … they have a LOT. They have everything. They have so By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 10:56 am
TV Updates Re-building Jesse Pinkman Let’s not get into this before we watch the Netflix teaser for the upcoming Breaking Bad movie, El Camino, which was filming under the code name Greenbrier. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Netflix US (@netflix) on Aug 24, 2019 at 4:33pm PDT The focus By Maria • Aug 26, 2019 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in Angel Has Fallen Gerard Butler—who is basically Jason Statham without the charm, or Chuck Norris with a Scottish accent—makes a certain kind movie. His movies are dependably bad, his performances are reliably wooden, he never has chemistry with anyone on screen. His movies always feature some combination of the following: Gerard By Sarah • Aug 23, 2019 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A cure for your Spider-Man blues The news that Sony and Marvel are dissolving their deal to co-produce Spider-Man hit fans hard. Spider-Man is popular unto himself, the MCU version of the character is particularly popular, not least because he is the protégé of Tony Stark, one of the MCU’s most beloved characters. People are By Sarah • Aug 22, 2019 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet’s royal bowl cut Like I said the other day, movies are coming at us from everywhere right now as we get closer to fall movie season, prestige movie season. Last week Timothee Chalamet was part of that conversation when the first trailer for Little Women was released and people got into their feelings By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 02:30 pm
