Movie Reviews and Previews Anne Hathaway’s latest big swing Anne Hathaway is responsible for my first entertainment mirage of 2019, something that seems too good to be real and news that made me do a few double-takes. Variety reports she’s joined the cast of Todd Haynes’s upcoming legal drama about the DuPont chemical scandal, opposite Mark Ruffalo. By Joanna • Jan 10, 2019 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in The Vanishing When I first learned that there is a barely-advertised Gerard Butler movie about lighthouse keepers opening on demand this month, I thought for sure this would be a fun watch like Geostorm or Hunter Killer. Boy was I wrong. Turns out, this movie, The Vanishing, is about the Flannan Isles By Sarah • Jan 09, 2019 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ethan Hawke moonwalks Ethan Hawke was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards last night to collect his award for Best Actor for his performance in First Reformed. He was also on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the revival of Sam Shepard’s True West opening soon on Broadway By Lainey • Jan 08, 2019 01:08 pm
TV Updates Lana’s GG weekend Syfy’s Deadly Class, of which Lana Condor is one of the stars, premieres next week. Lana’s been doing some press to promote the series and she was a presence at several events during Golden Globe weekend, now that she’s the star of one of the most watched By Lainey • Jan 08, 2019 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel chills It is insane to me when I go back and read my early posts on Captain Marvel and Brie Larson, because now that I can see her in action, I’m like, WHY DID I EVER DOUBT? When has Marvel ever been wrong? Besides Ed Norton and Terrence Howard, when By Sarah • Jan 08, 2019 09:46 am
Style “It just feels good being Regina King” Last year Regina King did an interview with Variety and she was asked what it means to her, in this stage of her career, her 30 year career, to be getting the parts she’s getting, the nominations, the awards, the hype, and the SHINE. I loved her response: “It’ By Lainey • Jan 04, 2019 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Time for Spike? Spike Lee received the Career Achievement Award in Palm Springs last night, presented to him by “the Stallworth Brothers”, John David Washington and Adam Driver. We’ll be seeing a lot of these three in the next couple of weeks. But…will we see them at the Oscars? BlackkKlansman is By Lainey • Jan 04, 2019 11:05 am
BFFs Rami’s dress rehearsal? Forgive me, but don’t stop Bohemian Rhapsody now. The movie’s made over $714 million worldwide as of this writing, and Rami Malek is the face of not just the film, but the campaign. And when he accepted the Breakthrough Performance Award last night in Palm Springs, his speech By Joanna • Jan 04, 2019 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Come for Noomi, stay for Noomi While Netflix has had a lot of success on the TV side, their movie arm is only just gaining real credibility, with films like Roma, Bird Box, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. To date, Netflix movies have largely been seen as By Sarah • Jan 03, 2019 12:19 pm
Quiveration MBJ for Coach pre-Globes Coach announced in September that Michael B Jordan would be their first men’s global ambassador. Yesterday they released his first campaign images. Per Coach’s press release, “the campaign was shot by Craig McDean and features Jordan dressed in the house’s reimagined iconic American silhouettes alongside the season’ By Lainey • Jan 03, 2019 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The nightmares was Us all along With Get Out, Jordan Peele revealed himself to be a filmmaker fully formed, with clear vision and scope, and really no improvement needed. So his sophomore effort, titled Us, is both highly anticipated and scrutinized, as we want the next dose of his particular brand of horror, but also to By Sarah • Dec 27, 2018 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa Thompson swaggers all over MiB Does anyone have more visible fun on camera than Tessa Thompson? She has that strut, and that smirk, and that presence, and when the movie is fun, she makes it FUN. The latest film to have Tessa Thompson swaggering all over the place is Men in Black: International, the sequel/ By Sarah • Dec 20, 2018 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick and two very good boys And Halle Berry. New images from John Wick: Chapter 3 are out—oh, is that trailer coming soon, then?—and they show two sides of John Wick: Rainy John Wick and Dry John Wick. He’s looking a little worse for wear, sporting long hair and a struggle beard, and By Sarah • Dec 20, 2018 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is this movie a mess? The first trailer for Where’d You Go, Bernadette, adapted from a novel by Maria Semple, was released yesterday, and it looks like a standard “quirky family dramedy”. It stars Cate Blanchett as Wacky Mom, Billy Crudup as her seemingly perfect but, I’m guessing, having-an-affair husband, Emma Nelson as By Sarah • Dec 19, 2018 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #HotJafar Entertainment Weekly has a first look at the live-action Aladdin coming from Guy Ritchie in 2019 and it looks fine. It looks like a big budget movie with elaborate sets and costumes, and human people who will talk and sing. As this is a Guy Ritchie movie, I expect the By Sarah • Dec 19, 2018 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise and another moustache Remember all the drama over Henry Cavill’s moustache in Mission: Impossible – Fallout? Two studios were fighting over that moustache which resulted in his moustache looking super weird in Justice League. Sarah’s theory, hilariously, about the moustache and why it even needed to happen at all in Mission: Impossible By Lainey • Dec 18, 2018 04:12 pm
