Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 3, 2019 Dear Gossips, Avengers: Endgame set a record yesterday for ticket pre-sales, surpassing Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the all-time list. This is probably not a surprise, especially not for a lot of people in Canada because, as you would know from my pouting and moaning, the Avengers demand crashed By Lainey • Apr 03, 2019 08:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews We’re in the Endgame now It’s official, Avengers: Endgame mania has begun. The movie comes out in three weeks, it’s the final go-round for the original team, this is going to be Marvel hype par excellence. The first Avengers tour in 2012 was fun, remember how fun it was? (Prem is probably like, By Sarah • Apr 02, 2019 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma and Dave go shopping Emma Stone and Dave McCary were papped at the grocery store this weekend in LA. Dave is always referred to as Saturday Night Live writer and director whenever he and Emma are seen together but there was a new SNL this week (hosted by Sandra Oh) and he wasn’t By Lainey • Apr 02, 2019 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 2, 2019 Dear Gossips, I can’t get enough of the photos of Jennifer Lopez from the set of Hustlers in New York. Specifically it’s the wardrobe. JLo is playing “Ramona”, based on one of the Scores dancers featured in Jessica Pressler’s piece, “The Hustlers at Scores”, published in The By Lainey • Apr 02, 2019 08:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver saying “Ghouls” Up until this very moment, pop culture has had only one ghoul expert, and that is Charlie Kelly, who knows a ghoul on sight. Now, however, Charlie Kelly is joined by Adam Driver in Jim Jarmusch’s new zombie movie, as he correctly identifies ghouls and, incidentally, creates a new By Sarah • Apr 01, 2019 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dumbo is thinly veiled anti-corporate propaganda The thing about Dumbo is that it is completely mediocre and the latest evidence in the case against Disney’s blatant cash grabs via these live-action remakes of their classic cartoons, but it is also thinly veiled anti-corporate propaganda. It feels like someone in Disney oversight command fell asleep at By Sarah • Apr 01, 2019 01:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel and Armie Hammer in Hotel Mumbai Hotel Mumbai is a docu-drama that recreates the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, with a particular focus on the siege of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. It is technically a very good movie. It is very well made, tightly written by John Collee and Anthony Maras, who also directs. Maras delivers By Sarah • Mar 29, 2019 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews NO THANKS, Scary Stories The Super Bowl teasers for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark movie left a mixed impression. The images in the teasers that are recreated from Stephen Gammel’s f-cking nightmare illustrations are enough to revive my childhood trauma left over from the books. But the suggestion of a By Sarah • Mar 29, 2019 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews This is John Ambrose Production on Netflix’s PS I Still Love You, the sequel to To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, is now underway in Vancouver. And the biggest question about the movie has been…who’s John Ambrose McClaren?! He as revealed yesterday: John Ambrose McClaren will be played by By Lainey • Mar 29, 2019 11:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina joins Marvel I heard a while back that Angelina Jolie was seen touring Marvel’s spot on the Disney campus, but I assumed it was to talk about directing. Though she is starring in Mistress Maleficent— it’s a better title, don’t @ me—it just seems like her focus is more By Sarah • Mar 28, 2019 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’ last cover profile In advance of Avengers: Endgame, Chris Evans is covering The Hollywood Reporter in a profile he jokes is his “last cover interview”. He says it as a joke about his looming post-Marvel career, but this is his last run of magazine interviews as Captain America. No, he’s not retiring, By Sarah • Mar 27, 2019 03:03 pm
Media Manipulation J-Rod’s happy face A couple of days ago, a British Playboy model called Zoe Gregory told The Sun said that she was introduced to Alex Rodriguez by a friend over text around Christmas. According to Zoe, he then started sexting her and also sent her a dick pic. Zoe says she’s sharing By Lainey • Mar 27, 2019 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Return to Downton Abbey Have you missed Downton Abbey? I kind of have. I feel like part of our current nightmare dystopia is that we don’t have a weekly genteel break anymore, in which even the most serious problems are resolved with a whisper-fight in the study. But we will not be without By Sarah • Mar 27, 2019 01:00 pm
Amazingness Beyoncé passes the mic Beyoncé is Beyoncé. And because Beyoncé is Beyoncé, she can hold on to the mic for as long as she wants. There are few people Beyoncé has to take the mic for and pass the mic to. One of those people would be Diana Ross. Diana Ross performing her own By Lainey • Mar 27, 2019 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Noah Centineo and the Thirst Economy I know better than to pine after f-ckboy and thirstmaster Noah Centineo, but also apparently I don’t because I’m currently the human embodiment of the heart eyes emoji after watching the new trailer for Netflix’s Perfect Date which dropped yesterday. Noah plays Brooks Rattigan (what a name) By Prem • Mar 27, 2019 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 26, 2018 Dear Gossips, Next year marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most acclaimed films of all time, a film that appears on virtually every “best film” list compiled: Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood For Love. Last week, Kar-Wai revealed that after a six year break, he’s finally By Lainey • Mar 26, 2019 09:03 am
