Movie Reviews and Previews Creed II: The soundtrack “Eye of The Tiger” is one of the most iconic movie songs of all time. It’s one of the reasons Rocky III is my favourite Rocky movie. I feel like the heavyweight champion of the world just listening to it. Find me in the gym (lol) listening to this By Kathleen • Nov 27, 2018 05:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx in Robin Hood (Lainey: The headlines about Robin Hood aren’t great. Forbes calls it the “most predictable box office bomb” of the year. The Telegraph says it’s the “biggest box office bomb since Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur”. According to Business Insider, it’s the “biggest box office bomb of the By Sarah • Nov 27, 2018 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Indie king Ethan Hawke’s hustle is showing Ethan Hawke got the wildest applause of the night at the Gotham Awards last night after his Best Actor win for his work in First Reformed. It’s his first win for that performance, and with the National Board of Review and New York Film Critics Circle both announcing their By Joanna • Nov 27, 2018 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B Jordan is a Movie Star Creed II was a big hit this weekend at the box office with a total Wednesday to Sunday gross of $55 million, making it the best American Thanksgiving opening ever for a live action film. That’s a record. And it’s Michael B Jordan’s second record-breaking movie this By Lainey • Nov 26, 2018 04:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B Jordan in Creed II It’s going to be impossible for me to put aside my bias to write this review. My dog’s name is Apollo Creed. My big brother and I would watch Rocky marathons all day until our parents forced us to go do our homework or something more productive than By Kathleen • Nov 23, 2018 04:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colman, Weisz, and Stone in The Favourite Yorgos Lanthimos is not interested in teaching a history lesson, so The Favourite is an historical drama heavier on drama than historicity. Telling the story of Queen Anne, Sarah Marlborough, and Abigail Hill, The Favourite takes a series of events and bends and twists them into a tale of power, By Sarah • Nov 23, 2018 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian, Amy, Bradley: an American Hustle Oscars American Hustle came out five years ago, directed by David O Russell, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jeremy Renner. The film was nominated for several Oscars. Now three of its stars are in this year’s Oscar race, two of them going up against each By Lainey • Nov 23, 2018 01:27 pm
Media Manipulation “With BEYONCÉ KNOWLES-CARTER” As Sarah wrote in the previous post about the new The Lion King teaser, Beyoncé is credited as: It kinda became a thing on Twitter. Sarah said she has Questions about the double-barrel name. Since B doesn’t answer questions anymore, we have to speculate. As Sarah posited, this may By Lainey • Nov 23, 2018 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lion King is coming for our money Disney already gets most of our money, what with Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and their revolving door of animated classics being turned into live action films. This year alone they’ve taken $4 billion off us with just Marvel and Pixar. But that’s not enough. It will never be By Sarah • Nov 23, 2018 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Viggo slipping? Viggo Mortensen was considered a strong contender for a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance in Green Book. Last week, however, at a Q&A following a screening, Viggo said the n-word. He apologized afterwards. Now Variety is asking if it will “doom his Oscar chances”. But Green By Lainey • Nov 22, 2018 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie and Harley Quinn’s “fantabulous” title Superhero and antihero movies are usually Sarah’s beat. But I’ve been trying to leave her alone because it’s American Thanksgiving which is why you’re getting me for this story, a comic book story. Should be fun and enraging. Fun for me, probably enraging for Sarah when By Lainey • Nov 21, 2018 02:42 pm
BFFs Ava DuVernay: Team Chalamet? Full disclosure: I’m just here to please in this post, total obsequiousness. Because I know how you feel about Timothee Chalamet. And you know what? Ava DuVernay feels the same way. Ava and Timmy were both at the Academy’s Governors Awards on Sunday and here’s what she By Lainey • Nov 20, 2018 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Hugh Jackman Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s rivalry is fast approaching Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon status. It’s slightly less mainstream, but these two have been “sparring” online for years, conveniently timed around the promotion of their respective projects. And after Hugh cozily posed with Emily Blunt at Variety’s Actors on By Joanna • Nov 20, 2018 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa and Michael as Bianca and Adonis When our site manager Emily emailed over the new Entertainment Weekly cover featuring Michael Bae Jordan and Tessa Thompson, she wrote, “K, you’re not okay, I can feel it.” She was right. I am NOT OKAY. Look at these two perfect alien angel models. I was not okay from By Kathleen • Nov 20, 2018 11:37 am
Music Dolly leads Team Dumplin’! She told us. Dolly Parton told us she wants an Oscar nomination and she told us she would be “politickin’” for one and here she is, on the cover of the Thanksgiving issue of PEOPLE Magazine talking about her marriage, about growing up poor, about not having children, and about By Lainey • Nov 20, 2018 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews MBJ at the Governors Awards The Black Panther cast was mostly present and accounted for at the Governors Awards reminding me how much I love them all but I’m going to focus on my man Michael Bae Jordan. He wore an impeccably tailored white suit jacket that he can wear to our wedding if By Kathleen • Nov 19, 2018 03:54 pm
