Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie a go go I described the first look at Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pritt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood—apparently the correct punctuation is Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood, but this is already a bad title and I refuse to make it worse—as having “no dick energy”. We now By Sarah • Aug 07, 2018 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 7, 2018 Dear Gossips, Tonight is the Hollywood premiere of Crazy Rich Asians. I’m getting emotional just anticipating this carpet, what that carpet will look like, seeing the arrival of Asian actor after Asian actor, repping the first all-Asian English-language film by a major Hollywood studio in 25 years. I was By Lainey • Aug 07, 2018 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ewan McGregor in Christopher Robin Obviously chasing the Paddington market, Disney has revived Winnie the Pooh and friends in an incredibly creepy live action for a new story about the importance of paid vacation. The movie is called Christopher Robin and it occurs in an alternate universe where Christopher Robin did not resent Winnie the By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon’s buddy comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me is being marketed as an action-comedy but it isn’t really that. There is action and there is comedy, but describing it as an action-comedy is like calling Planes, Trains and Automobiles a travelogue. The heart of The Spy Who Dumped Me is the friendship By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Constance Wu’s: swearing and obligation Constance Wu covers the new issue of FASHION. I’m sorry if this is getting old for you if you’re a regular visitor of this site but it’s not often that we see an Asian-American actress on the cover of a fashion magazine in North America. It’s By Lainey • Aug 03, 2018 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews See Tom Hardy as Syphilitic Al Capone Earlier this year we got a peek at Tom Hardy getting into character as Al Capone for the upcoming movie Fonzo. Now, we get the first look at Hardy fully made up as Capone and it’s fine. He doesn’t look anything like Capone but the overall impression is By Sarah • Aug 03, 2018 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize & Margot: ‘Ugly’ for Fox News Movie Ask me why I’m so excited. Ask me why the news that Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie have joined Nicole Kidman in the cast of a movie about Fox News and Roger Ailes is making me so excited. I mean, you could stop there. Less than two years ago, By Duana • Aug 02, 2018 01:47 pm
Amazingness Leslie, Brie, and the DVD As mentioned yesterday in the Sebastian Stan post, Avengers: Infinity War is now available on DVD. Which means the 19 people who didn’t see it in theatres can finally catch up on what they missed. One of those people, apparently, hilariously, is Leslie Jones. Somehow Leslie lived her life By Lainey • Aug 02, 2018 12:32 pm
Dumbass The James Gunn Saga This f-ckin’ mess. On July 20, the shocking news broke that James Gunn was fired by Disney, to be immediately removed from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which he was writing/directing. It’s an exhausting story that involves the alt-right and America’s ongoing culture war—here’s By Sarah • Aug 02, 2018 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 2, 2018 Dear Gossips, I’m not trying to be dramatic but yesterday morning, when The Hollywood Reporter posted its new Crazy Rich Asians cover and story, my hands started shaking. Seeing people who look like me or my family, who are more likely to have our shared experience, on the cover By Lainey • Aug 02, 2018 09:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan and Bucky’s romper Posting about Sebastian Stan has become unexpectedly contentious here on this blog. Sarah saw him first and Kathleen saw him later and they end up yelling at each other on Twitter about it and then I have to pull them apart. So I’m doing this one – Sebastian Stan in By Lainey • Aug 01, 2018 04:10 pm
Quiveration Glen Powell shows his work By now you’ve seen Set It Up, right? Back in the day, rom-coms made stars out of actors. That stopped happening but… could it start happening again? Will it happen for Glen Powell? Glen’s been working steadily the last few years. And he’s worked in some high-profile By Lainey • Aug 01, 2018 03:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews WTF is Tom Hardy saying Lainey emailed me about the new Venom trailer with this note about Tom Hardy’s acting choices: “Why does he always have to play characters where you can’t understand what the f*ck he’s saying?” Tom Hardy loves to do silly voices, as he always does one. He By Sarah • Aug 01, 2018 02:26 pm
Style Gemma Chan: meet your new obsession Everyone I know who’s seen Crazy Rich Asians came out of there obsessed with Gemma Chan. It was inevitable. This is why when I wrote about the trailer back in April, I noted that it was low on Astrid, her character, deliberately. Rachel Chu, played by Constance Wu, is By Lainey • Aug 01, 2018 12:08 pm
Gorgessity Jennifer Aniston’s Dolly Parton imitation It’s the season for September issues. Kathleen just posted about Rihanna on the cover of British Vogue. We’re all waiting to see Beyoncé on the cover of American Vogue. And now here’s Jennifer Aniston on the cover of InStyle. Writer Molly McNearney, who is married to Jimmy By Lainey • Aug 01, 2018 10:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Priyanka Chopra: Chris Pratt’s new love interest Priyanka Chopra was confirmed as the female lead in Cowboy Ninja Viking yesterday with Chris Pratt. The movie will be released next summer. Which sort of also explains this tweet from last week: Yes Priyanka Chopra is no more part of @Bharat_TheFilm & and the reason is very very By Lainey • Jul 31, 2018 01:16 pm
