Style The Thunderbolts last push T-minus 3 days to Thunderbolts*, and it came up on the Squawk chat that this film has not gotten the wall-to-wall coverage Marvel has been afforded in the past. It’s not a reflection on the film, Thunderbolts* is EASILY the best movie Marvel has done since Guardians of the By Sarah • Apr 29, 2025 11:03 am
Jock Smut Blake and Ryan: Friends, Favours, and the Championship Wrexham FC has been the story for a few weeks now ever since they were able to come down the home stretch in control of their own destiny. We’re talking about English football today, though, because the team is owned by Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds and the run By Lainey • Apr 28, 2025 12:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sinners: A stunning second weekend Ryan Coogler’s Sinners just passed its second weekend at the box office. Opening weekend is a big deal because the economics of Hollywood have been gutted to the point that a film lives or dies by that frame, there is no grace given if a film opens “soft”. Sinners, By Sarah • Apr 28, 2025 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t Sleep on Geraldine Early reaction to Thunderbolts* has been positive from what I’ve seen. The movie comes out next Friday, I screened it yesterday but the embargo doesn’t lift until next week and I’m always scared sh-tless about what you are and are not allowed to say so instead of By Lainey • Apr 25, 2025 04:05 pm
TV Updates Intro for April 25, 2025 Dear Gossips, Matthew Belloni’s latest Puck newsletter is all about movie stars, and ranking the ones “who actually matter”. Over the last decade or so, one of the ongoing conversations about celebrity in general is whether or not movie stars are made anymore. And what it takes to remain By Lainey • Apr 25, 2025 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions about The Accountant 2 What is The Accountant 2? The Accountant 2 is a sequel to the 2016 film The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck as a neurodivergent assassin/accountant. Like the 2016 film, The Accountant 2 is directed by Gavin O’Connor and written by Bill Dubuque. Ben Affleck returns as Math Man the By Sarah • Apr 24, 2025 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 24, 2025 Dear Gossips, Earlier this month, when the Cannes Film Festival announced their lineup, it was surprising that Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, was not on the list. As I mentioned in my post about it a couple of weeks ago most industry insiders By Lainey • Apr 24, 2025 09:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Almost all the Thunderbolts* As Sarah just pointed out in her post about Sebastian Stan earlier today, even though he’s sort of the unofficial leader of the Thunderbolts* with his Marvel seniority, he was not at the UK premiere last night because he’s working on another project. I feel like they’ll By Lainey • Apr 23, 2025 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan: Leading Man While we’ve been watching Sebastian Stan a long time (shoutout Carter Baizen!), in the last few years, he has really levelled up. He was early on the Marvel train, getting in the door during Phase 1 playing Captain America’s childhood pal turned brainwashed super-assassin, and in between franchise By Sarah • Apr 23, 2025 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler: The Regrowth Austin Butler showed up back in December at SFFILM with a shaved head, presumably for an upcoming role, though we don’t yet know what specifically that role is. He spent last fall shooting Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing though and it’s possible that the hairstyle was for that By Lainey • Apr 21, 2025 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B. Jordan in Sinners Growing up in the American South, something I find missing in most Southern-flavored media is the heaviness of the air. It is challenging to communicate in removed mediums like cinema because the viewer can never physically feel the weight of the air pressing down on them, so the burden is By Sarah • Apr 21, 2025 09:48 am
Weddings Intro for April 21, 2025 Dear Gossips, Was it a wedding wrap? A wrap wedding? Kristen Stewart are Dylan Meyer are married! The wedding happened yesterday at their home in LA – TMZ has the photos. Looked like an intimate gathering, an afternoon backyard party on a Sunday, super chill and very much to their vibes. By Lainey • Apr 21, 2025 09:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hijinks and tomfoolery in The Wedding Banquet Ang Lee’s classic romantic dramedy The Wedding Banquet is now 32 years old, and besides being old enough for a mortgage, the film also straddles a significant cultural divide—the legalization of gay marriage. Lee’s 1993 rom-dramedy of manners centers on a queer couple who must hide their By Sarah • Apr 17, 2025 02:38 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Ben Affleck makes a point The Accountant 2 premiere happened last night, the movie opens next Friday and Sarah will be posting her review next week. Ben Affleck, of course, was the big draw on the carpet and he’s making headlines today for who joined him there – no photos, not that I can see, By Lainey • Apr 17, 2025 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Roses at war (again) When a remake of The War of the Roses, Danny DeVito’s pitch black 1989 divorce “comedy”—quotes because the film is emotionally and literally violent—was announced last year, I thought why. I mean, besides the fact that you almost can’t get a script greenlit without it stemming By Sarah • Apr 17, 2025 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy: Big Havoc in Wales In her post about Timothy Olyphant preceding this one, Sarah wrote of Timothy Olyphant that “he works in more things than he shows up for at this point in his career” and we have a good example of this right now as he did show up for #1 Happy Family By Lainey • Apr 17, 2025 11:11 am
