Amazingness Intro for August 16, 2019 Dear Gossips, I’ve been saving this all week, because this is Friday content. What I typically need on Fridays in this space is a story or a celebrity who can deliver joy. Would Hugh Grant ever have imagined that it would be him? But that’s the point. He By Lainey • Aug 16, 2019 09:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews GLOW is one of the best shows you’re not watching In its third season, GLOW finds itself in a rut. The show-within-a-show, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, has relocated to Las Vegas to do a stint as a floor show at the fictional Fan-Tan Casino. Rooted in one place and doing the same show every night becomes By Sarah • Aug 15, 2019 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Last Christmas This Christmas From the moment they announced this movie, I said I would be seeing the sh-t it out of it. And now that the trailer’s out, I can confirm that not only will I see the sh-t out if it, I might want to fly to London to By Lainey • Aug 14, 2019 03:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Little Women Grows Up With Us Wowwwww. Clearly Lainey and I have made a mistake on Show Your Work, because we have yet to talk about the importance of having A Muse, and clearly it is working out for Greta Gerwig. Have you seen this trailer? Little Women has been highly anticipated and highly debated, because By Duana • Aug 14, 2019 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anne Hathaway’s thoughts on anger Anne Hathaway covers the September issue of Allure to promote her upcoming film The Last Thing He Wanted, directed by Dee Rees. Most of the headlines out of this interview relate to her comments about weight and body in Hollywood. And we’ll get to that in a minute but By Lainey • Aug 14, 2019 11:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Awkwafina gets her own franchise Awkwafina continues her amazing summer with the news that she is getting her own franchise. We learned at Comic-Con that she will co-star in Marvel’s Shang-Chi, and now she will star in her own potential franchise vehicle, The Last Adventure of Constance Verity, based on the By Sarah • Aug 13, 2019 04:06 pm
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 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 By Sarah • Aug 02, 2019 12:58 pm
