Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 27, 2019 Dear Gossips, It was announced earlier this week that George Clooney will direct and star in the film adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s book, Good Morning, Midnight … for Netflix. George will play a scientist stationed in the Arctic trying to make contact with an astronaut who’s trying to get By Lainey • Jun 27, 2019 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep is the star of The Prom: The Musical – The Movie Around the time of Tonys, I learned there is such a thing as The Prom, a musical about prom, and I felt acute relief that I could go through life, not knowing anything about The Prom. But now, I must study up on The Prom, because Ryan Murphy is adapting By Sarah • Jun 26, 2019 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond 25: Everything is fine! Today, Empire released a first-look video of Bond 25 which might as well be titled “Bond 25: Everything is fine!”. After multiple incidents on set, including an injury to Daniel Craig and a slight out-of-control controlled explosion that injured a crew member, Bond 25 is course-correcting by showing us a By Sarah • Jun 25, 2019 02:01 pm
Music Beyoncé… “TBD”? The Lion King soundtrack was announced yesterday. Elton John has written a new song called “Never Too Late” for the movie and… most curious… there’s song #14, currently without a title. They’re listing it right now as “TBA”. You know what that probably means, right? In an interview By Lainey • Jun 25, 2019 09:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Red Sonja rescued Despite a searing expose detailing a litany of allegations against him, it seemed that director Bryan Singer would, ultimately, be just fine. Sure, his participation in Bohemian Rhapsody was a total sh-tshow, but the movie made nine hundred million dollars and won Oscars. And he already had another high-profile directing By Sarah • Jun 24, 2019 01:55 pm
Music Can you hear the Beyoncé? The Lion King comes out on July 19 so less than a month now. Which means they’re moving into the final stages of promotion and releasing the primetime goods, what everyone is most curious about – which, of course, is mostly Beyoncé. Earlier this month we finally heard Beyoncé speak By Lainey • Jun 21, 2019 10:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Toy Story 4 is ABOUT the existential nightmare The Toy Story franchise has always had a latent streak of existential dread, but Toy Story 4 is the first one to fully embrace the nightmare and be ABOUT the existential horror of existence. These are stories predicated on the importance of friendship, and that is still present in Toy By Sarah • Jun 20, 2019 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendallandenhaal Everyone’s favorite young maybe-couple Hollywood, Tom Holland and Zendaya, are out and about, promoting Spider-Man: Far From Home. Jake Gyllenhaal is tagging along, making him the world’s handsomest third wheel. The three of them together are Zendallandenhaal, which sounds like a medieval province in Sweden. They’re doing By Sarah • Jun 20, 2019 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse and Taylour in Florence It’s super refreshing to see Jesse Williams in the news for a baewatch and not leaked details of his messy divorce and custody battle. A few months ago, we learned that he was dating bombshell actress Taylour Paige and he seems happy. Which, contrary to the internet’s opinion, By Melayna • Jun 20, 2019 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu: Marvel movies and the SMA It was reported a couple of weeks ago that Keanu Reeves was supposedly in early talks for a role in Marvel’s The Eternals. Marvel boss Kevin Feige is currently promoting Spider-Man: Far From Home and was asked by Comic Book about working with the most popular Movie Star in By Lainey • Jun 20, 2019 09:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Greta Gerwig’s Little Women looks “hella tight” Forgive the Lady Bird quote, but the comparisons are inevitable. Lady Bird is woven into Vanity Fair’s exclusive first look at Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, which was published this morning. The sneak peek at her follow-up to Lady Bird includes 11 new production and behind-the-scenes stills, and an By Joanna • Jun 19, 2019 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Millennials love the Millennial Batman Back in May, I called Robert Pattinson the first Millennial Batman and that was my interest in him landing the role – seeing how a Batman for millennials would be interpreted, avocado toast and all. Yesterday The Hollywood Reporter released the results of a poll that indicated that, indeed, RPatz, or By Lainey • Jun 19, 2019 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu retreats It’s Wednesday and you know what that means? It means we’ve gone through half a week without any Keanu Reeves content. Didn’t I warn you? I told you to enjoy it because Keanu never wants to be in the spotlight for any longer than he has to. By Lainey • Jun 19, 2019 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel x3 Brie Larson also won an MTV Movie Award, for Best Fight in Captain Marvel. They singled out the “Carol vs. Minn-Erva” fight, which…was that the Nerf gun bit? I assume this is really for the whole third act of Captain Marvel, because Carol and Minn-Erva didn’t really throw By Sarah • Jun 18, 2019 02:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Men in Black: International is the latest summer victim Barring Disney movies, the box office this summer (so far) has been kind of miserable. Audiences are not feeling all the sequels, but they’re not turning out for original movies, like Booksmart, The Longshot, and Late Night, either. This was another dismal weekend, with every new movie under-performing, including By Sarah • Jun 17, 2019 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A bunch of ghouls in The Dead Don’t Die Jim Jarmusch’s latest feature, The Dead Don’t Die, is a curious movie that exists in two realities at once: one in which it is good, and one in which it is bad. It’s like Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the universe in that it is By Sarah • Jun 14, 2019 01:34 pm