Movie Reviews and Previews Who cares what men want What Women Want is a Mel Gibson movie that hasn’t aged well, like most Mel Gibson movies. So for the inevitable remake—because anything that was even remotely successful 15+ years ago is getting remade—it has been gender-swapped to star a woman who hears men’s thoughts after By Sarah • Aug 14, 2018 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Mulan Disney released the first photo of Crystal Liu Yifei as Mulan yesterday to mark the beginning of production on the live-action film, directed by Niki Caro, to be released March 2020. The timing works too because, of course, we’ve been talking about Crazy Rich Asians, and Asian representation, which By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 14, 2018 Dear Gossips, Oh did you think I wasn’t going to be mentioning Crazy Rich Asians this week? There was no CRA content yesterday because I’m hitting you up with so much of it today, tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday for its five-day opening weekend. Not only because, as director By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Joe goes public Joe Alwyn will star in several films confirmed for the festival circuit this fall, and many of them could be award contenders. So it’s his first major promotional tour since Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk which came out before we found out that he and Taylor were together. By Lainey • Aug 13, 2018 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Chrises Walk The gears have been grinding slowly but surely on a fourth Star Trek movie, which was to star Top Chrises Pine and Hemsworth as a father-son Captain Kirk duo in, presumably, some kind of timey-wimey scenario that would resurrect Hemsworth as Captain Kirk the Senior. And it would be directed By Sarah • Aug 13, 2018 09:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize’s busy day Charlize Theron had a really busy day yesterday, especially for somebody promoting a movie that came out three months ago. First, she attended a Tully Q&A for SAG-AFTRA with screenwriter Diablo Cody, before presenting at the HFPA Grants Banquet, where she introduced a clip on film restoration. There, By Joanna • Aug 10, 2018 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Which Disney princess is Goth? One of them has to be. Which is it? My money was on Snow White, but a still from Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to Disney Animation’s surprise hit Wreck It Ralph, puts Snow White in a distinctly Rockabilly outfit, with the red bow and off-the-shoulder shirt. The By Sarah • Aug 10, 2018 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amandla Stenberg deserves better The Darkest Minds is a YA adaptation that arrives years after the YA dystopian boom has faded, adapted from a novel by Alexandra Bracken and I am not sure how she is not being sued into oblivion by Marvel for this blatant X-Men knock-off. The Darkest Minds starts with a By Sarah • Aug 10, 2018 11:30 am
Girlcrushes Gemma Chan: your new Girl Crush That sounded really bossy, like I’m ordering you to make Gemma Chan your new girl crush. It’s not an order. It’s a prediction. She will be, once you see Crazy Rich Asians. Everyone I know who has seen it has come out of there with a beast By Lainey • Aug 10, 2018 10:52 am
Quiveration Henry & Liv: a new obsession Oh hi. I’m here to talk at you about Crazy Rich Asians again. Did I mention the Crazy Hot Asian Dudes in the movie? One those hot dudes, the main hot dude, is Henry Golding, who plays the “Prince Charming” in the story, because CRA is a rom-com, which By Lainey • Aug 09, 2018 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bo Burnham’s digital coming of age in Eighth Grade Last week Lainey mentioned in the intro that Eighth Grade is her best film of 2018 so far, and that I was struggling to get to a showing in Chicago, which is one of the top three markets in the US. It’s frustrating in this day and age when By Sarah • Aug 09, 2018 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Statham: The Meg and Bad Movie Bingo The answer is yes, The Meg is exactly the movie you think it is. But it is not the movie you want it to be, because it is rated PG-13 which sucks the blood and guts out of what would otherwise be a grade-A sharksploitation flick. The Meg should have By Sarah • Aug 09, 2018 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Yara is also a star I can’t believe I forgot. I forgot that Yara Shahidi is starring in the big-screen adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s The Sun Is Also a Star, a YA book about teenagers falling in love so you already know how I feel about it. Yara is starring opposite Charles Melton By Kathleen • Aug 08, 2018 03:32 pm
Gorgessity Constance Wu: leading lady Crazy Rich Asians is Constance Wu’s first role in a studio film. First! And she’s the leading lady. She is The Star. This is her character’s story. Which means that at last night’s premiere, she was the Julia Roberts of the event. I’m making a By Lainey • Aug 08, 2018 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 8, 2018 Dear Gossips, It’s August 8, 2018. 8.8.18 8 is the luckiest number in Chinese numerology. So you could say, numerologically, it might be the luckiest day of the year. Last night, August 7, was the Hollywood premiere of Crazy Rich Asians. But given the time difference, when By Lainey • Aug 08, 2018 09:27 am
Quiveration Crazy Rich Hot Asian Guys Crazy Rich Asians in Vanity Fair!!! Have you seen this yet? Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Henry Golding, Chris Pang, and Sonoya Mizuno, all-Asian actors featured in a fashion editorial ahead of the release of the film next Wednesday, August 15 – again, not something you see every day and certainly not By Lainey • Aug 07, 2018 12:05 pm
