Style Hailee’s good buzz Back in June, when the first trailer for Bumblebee was released, Sarah wrote that she didn’t hate it. In fact, she was charmed and surprised by its sweetness because the story is about Hailee Steinfeld and her new friend, Bumblebee, the alien. Not unlike Elliott and E.T. So, By Lainey • Dec 18, 2018 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Guide to Netflix’s Bad Holiday Rom-Coms: Fantasy Jobs In the final installment in our series of Netflix’s terrible holiday rom-coms, we’re featuring those movies that have completely unrealistic expectations of creative jobs. You know the type—she’s a baker who never has to go to work at four AM, or a writer who never has By Sarah • Dec 18, 2018 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a comic book come to life Over the weekend, animated superhero movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse became the number one movie in North America—the thirteenth number one weekend for a Marvel character this year and the biggest December animated opening ever—with $35.3 million, once again proving that audiences are not tired of superheroes, By Sarah • Dec 18, 2018 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Guide to Netflix’s Bad Holiday Rom-Coms: Surprise Royalty Continuing our series of Netflix’s terrible holiday rom-coms, here is a handy viewing guide to the royal themed holiday rom-coms you can stream to your delight and horror. A Christmas Prince The movie that put Netflix’s bad holiday rom-coms on the map. A Christmas Prince is so painfully By Sarah • Dec 17, 2018 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Guide to Netflix’s Bad Holiday Rom-Coms: Small Towns It’s a tradition every December, to watch holiday romantic comedies, some of the most objectively awful movies ever produced, with cheesy stories, painful dialogue, and a formula so well-trod you can guess plot points so easily you might as well make a drinking game out of it. Netflix, in By Sarah • Dec 17, 2018 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Top 10 Movies of 2018 2018 was a good year for film—a REALLY good year. Narrowing down a Top 10 was difficult and came down to which films left the biggest mark, whether it be creating a cultural phenomenon or lingering in my mind for the better part of a year. I looked for By Sarah • Dec 14, 2018 02:37 pm
BFFs A Quiet Place (and Team Blunt) cranks up the volume Chris Pratt hosted a special screening of A Quiet Place in LA on Wednesday with John Krasinski. It’s not like their friendship is a secret; they’re super bro-y on Instagram and support each other’s charity efforts. Plus, Chris was so taken with A Quiet Place that back By Joanna • Dec 14, 2018 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emilia & Henry: this Christmas, next Christmas, Last Christmas This Christmas Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding are shooting Paul Feig’s Last Christmas, a romantic comedy which is scheduled for release next Christmas, possibly with the hopes of becoming the new Love Actually? Emma Thompson co-wrote the screenplay and she also has a part in the movie which is By Lainey • Dec 13, 2018 04:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Momoa in the totally bonkers Aquaman Aquaman is so incredibly dumb I don’t know how to review it other than to just tell you what it is and emphasize how extremely likeable it is in the face of its own sheer stupidity. So there will be some spoilers, but also realize that mere words cannot By Sarah • Dec 13, 2018 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie in Mary Queen of Scots Mary Queen of Scots is a slightly anachronistic and completely ahistorical telling of the feud between Mary, Queen of Scots—the lack of proper punctuation in the title drives me nuts—and Queen Elizabeth I. Take this as even less of a history lesson than The Favourite, as Mary Queen By Sarah • Dec 13, 2018 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 13, 2018 Dear Gossips, As you may have heard, the Screen Actors Guild award nominations kicked off all kinds of talk and frustration about snubs and category fraud yesterday. There are actors and films that have been recognized and awarded for weeks that the guild ignored. There is also a film that By Lainey • Dec 13, 2018 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everybody loves Emily There were some significant snubs today when the SAG nominations were announced. We’ll discuss them here and there in other posts later and what that means for Oscar. It’s a competitive year. That’s the simple, incomplete explanation. It’s also, as always, a popularity contest. And what By Lainey • Dec 12, 2018 04:21 pm
Style JLo’s Second Act Jennifer Lopez is in the middle of the Second Act press tour. As Lainey has reminded you repeatedly, it comes out on December 21st and it’s a rom-com about work so naturally, we stan. Jennifer Lopez in a rom-com is my favourite Jennifer Lopez. JLo on a press tour By Kathleen • Dec 12, 2018 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 12, 2018 Dear Gossips, Sandra Bullock was in Sao Paolo this week promoting her new movie Bird Box which premieres on Netflix on December 21. Basically Netflix’s strategy is to get you to stay home during the holiday season and not leave the couch. Sarah wrote about the first trailer a By Lainey • Dec 12, 2018 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Monsters in the dark The second trailer for Godzilla: King of the Monsters is here to rattle our skulls with Godzilla’s roar—I really love the new roar sound effect created for these new movies—and also strain our eyeballs with darkness. After the Comic-Con trailer, I specifically wished that this new movie By Sarah • Dec 11, 2018 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 11, 2018 Dear Gossips, In 2005, filmmaker Ameesha Joshi was at a World Press Photo Exhibit when she came across pictures of Indian girls boxing on the beach. Ameesha is a first-generation Canadian born to Indian parents and she understood immediately the social pressures the boxers would face, on top of all By Lainey • Dec 11, 2018 09:02 am
