Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo and BenDeTo Wes Anderson’s new film, The Phoenician Scheme, opens in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, before expanding next week. The film premiered at Cannes, and there was another premiere last night in New York. I found myself scanning the photos because Scarlett Johansson turned up to the NYC By Sarah • May 29, 2025 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Millennial nostalgia in Lilo & Stitch In 2002, the Hawaiian-set animated adventure Lilo & Stitch proved a surprise hit for Disney. Just past the peak of the Disney Renaissance that drove animated films in the Nineties, including such films as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King, Lilo & Stitch came at By Sarah • May 23, 2025 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning As the potentially final film in Tom Cruise’s long run as super spy Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning has the unenviable task of giving Ethan an appropriate send-off, just in case it IS the last time Cruise plays this character, and wrapping up the story begun in By Sarah • May 22, 2025 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz are on FIRE He’s so omnipresent since breaking out with Elvis in 2022 that it feels like Austin Butler has been in a bunch of stuff, but he’s only been in two movies since, The Bikeriders and Dune: Part Two, and one mini-series no one watched, Masters of the Air. His By Sarah • May 22, 2025 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ironheart needs a cooler suit After meeting Riri Williams in 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, her own Disney+ series, Ironheart, is finally coming out this summer. Riri, played by the insanely charming Dominique Thorne, is a super-genius MIT student, just like Tony Stark once upon a time. In Wakanda Forever, we see her build By Sarah • May 16, 2025 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How do you feel about F1? Summer movie season is in swing, and normally by May I have a pretty good feeling about how the summer will go, but this year? F-ck if I know. There’s so much nerviness about the economy, it’s hard to tell how big the summer audiences will be. Sinners By Sarah • May 13, 2025 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tramell Tillman with bonus Tom Cruise The Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning—this title should have reconsidered the “the”—press tour is underway, with the latest stop in London, where Tom Cruise was honored with the BFI Fellowship. The first award was given to French director Marcel Carné in 1983, and it is given to individuals By Sarah • May 13, 2025 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina: Godmother on her way I mentioned Angelina Jolie yesterday in the final post of the day when I linked to the news that she’ll be heading to Cannes to present the 25th Trophée Chopard. On Friday night she’ll present the award to rising stars Marie Colomb and Finn Bennett. Over the years, By Lainey • May 13, 2025 09:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews He-Man is actually happening I had completely forgotten they’re making a new live-action He-Man movie until these photos of Nicholas Galitzine and Camila Mendes on set surfaced over the weekend. The film is currently shooting in London, and you can see Galitzine sporting himbo hair and Mendes in costume as Teela, He-Man’s By Sarah • May 12, 2025 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas: Chopper Access As just mentioned in the previous post about Tom Cruise, he was busy promoting his movie all last week in Japan and Korea and also this weekend in London. Ana de Armas, however, evidently still has helicopter privileges when he’s not with her because the chopper took her to By Lainey • May 12, 2025 12:32 pm
Amazingness Cruise: Mission: ARMY Tom Cruise is currently in London. He did press junkets for Mission: Impossible all weekend and he’s receiving the BFI Fellowship from the British Film Institute today which is where he was “in conversation” last night. He also screened the movie there – and repeated the thing he keeps saying By Lainey • May 12, 2025 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t argue with Tom Cruise (about stunts) Now that the Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning press tour is underway, we’re starting to get some stories out of Tom Cruise and one of them, amazingly, isn’t just about how he’s here to ENTERTAIN, which is the thing he keeps saying over and over again. Here’ By Lainey • May 09, 2025 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Finally, The Old Guard 2 Back in 2020, The Old Guard broke out as one of Netflix’s actually good movies—they do sometimes make good ones—and in short order, a sequel was greenlit and was in production in 2022. And then…nothing. Years passed, time marched on, we moved inexorably closer to death, By Sarah • May 09, 2025 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Love Triangle of the Summer If this is a trend, I like it: a pop culture love triangle every summer. At the movies. Last year it was Tashi, Art, and Patrick in Challengers, played by Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor. This year it’s Lucy, Harry, and John played by Dakota Johnson, Pedro By Lainey • May 09, 2025 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margaret Qualley and Aubrey Plaza get their flirt on The Coen brothers continue on their solo artist paths, and while Joel is taking his sweet time with a follow-up to his first solo effort, 2021’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, Ethan is now onto his second solo project, a neo-noir called Honey Don’t. It follows Drive Away Dolls By Sarah • May 08, 2025 12:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise takes off He likes being airborne so that’s a flight reference for Tom Cruise who kicked off Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in Tokyo yesterday with a press conference and a splashy premiere that featured all kinds of pyro. Of course there was pyro – Tom Cruise never does anything small. You By Lainey • May 07, 2025 10:55 am
