Movie Reviews and Previews The Kitchen is a mess There is nothing more frustrating than a movie that wastes a good premise AND a good cast: Welcome to The Kitchen, the most frustrating movie of 2019 (so far). Adapted from a comic book by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle, The Kitchen is the directorial debut of screenwriter Andrea Berloff By Sarah • Aug 13, 2019 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt in Mexico Brad Pitt was in Mexico yesterday to promote Once Upon a Time …in Hollywood. He went for the camel monochrome look. At first, with that hat on, I thought in thumbnail that he was Don Johnson. Most of you are probably too young to remember the Miami Vice vibe. Anyway, By Lainey • Aug 13, 2019 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Scary Stories is about the power of stories Boy did those trailers do this movie no justice. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark adapts Alvin Schwartz’s books, famously and horrifically illustrated by Stephen Gammell, into a story about the power of stories, particularly how folklore is often wielded against women. Set in 1968, Scary Stories follows By Sarah • Aug 09, 2019 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Eurovision the Right Movie for 2019 Audiences? I first learned about Eurovision two years ago while working in England for the summer. Not many people are familiar with Eurovision on this side of the Atlantic, and so for those who don’t know, the Eurovision Song Contest is an annual, international music competition where artists from various By Prem • Aug 09, 2019 11:21 am
Music Taylor Swift: Daisy Jones Vogue Maria asked the other day if the “haircut” was still happening. Taylor Swift’s wearing it on the cover of September Vogue… so…yes? We’ll come back to the hair in a minute. Let’s talk about the overall styling of this cover. I love it. I love both By Lainey • Aug 08, 2019 01:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Happy Anniversary, Spoiler Alert Marking movie anniversaries has become A Thing, and I’m not sure entirely what the point is except to make people feel old. Most movies aren’t actually worth lionizing in that way, but sometimes there is a movie milestone worth noticing (for example: it’s been 20 years since By Sarah • Aug 08, 2019 09:43 am
Amazingness Viral Nicolas Cage Nicolas Cage is a great actor with DEEPLY WEIRD TASTE, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that he has gone viral recently for giving a bonkers performance in a direct-to-video gem called Never on Tuesday (for the young’uns, like Prem, who have probably never seen a VHS tape, By Sarah • Aug 07, 2019 03:47 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for August 7, 2019 Dear Gossips, Variety released its Power of Young Hollywood issue this week with three covers: Camila Cabello, Cole Sprouse, and Stephan James. What a year it’s been for Stephan James. Twelve months ago he was getting ready to premiere If Beale Street Could Talk and Homecoming at TIFF, in By Lainey • Aug 07, 2019 09:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu’s many looks Our summer started out strong with all kinds of Keanu Reeves content and domination. He’s still dominating, but he isn’t as accessible or visible as he was in May and June promoting all his movies and video games and proving that he’s more beloved than so many By Lainey • Aug 02, 2019 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hobbs & Shaw is perfectly dumb and so much fun Breaking away from the main body of the Fast/Furious franchise, Hobbs & Shaw unites the two most likable people from the franchise into a gloriously dumb spin-off meant to curtail further infighting with Vin Diesel. Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham blow off the Fast/Furious popsicle stand and set By Sarah • Aug 02, 2019 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Best Chris of the Week This should be an official ranking. The Top Chris leaderboard fluctuates regularly, based on who is doing what on any given day. For instance, this week, Worst Chris is Evans, because I realized he made like 90 Marvel movies and only took his shirt off once, and his near-constant shirtlessness By Sarah • Aug 02, 2019 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Shirtless Chris Evans in Red Sea Diving Resort In case you were wondering, yes, Chris Evans’ notoriously bad picker is still at work, cursing his non-Marvel repertoire with mediocrity (goddess protect Knives Out from the Chris Evans Curse). His latest, The Red Sea Diving Resort, is on Netflix now and it is a study in bland, formulaic filmmaking. By Sarah • Aug 02, 2019 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Queen & Slim, not Bonnie and Clyde A notable absence from this year’s fall festival tour (so far) is Queen & Slim, the feature film debut of “Formation” director Melina Matsoukas. I’m a little surprised Universal, the distributor, isn’t looking to put a little festival polish on this movie. It has as good a By Sarah • Aug 01, 2019 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o kicks ass and sings songs Just when you think The Walking Dead rode the zombie train all the way into the ground, 2019 brings us a slew of zombie comedies to revitalize the genre. First we had the dry, sardonic The Dead Don’t Die, later this year we have Zombieland: Double Tap, and now By Sarah • Aug 01, 2019 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart: “I just want people to like me” Sarah wrote the other day in her post about the first image released of Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg in the upcoming film, Seberg, which is headed to the Venice Film Festival in a few weeks. There may be a chance for awards consideration with this role. She also has By Lainey • Aug 01, 2019 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Scorsese’s Avengers Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating mob opus, The Irishman, is finally coming out later this year, thanks to Netflix. It stars Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran, a mob hitman who claimed on his deathbed to have killed Jimmy Hoffa. Al Pacino stars in The Irishman as Hoffa, and Harvey Keitel By Sarah • Jul 31, 2019 01:34 pm
