Movie Reviews and Previews Happytime Murders is aggressively mediocre You may have heard that The Happytime Murders, the R-rated puppet noir starring Melissa McCarthy, is getting hammered with bad reviews. It’s currently standing at 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s the worst movie of the year or it’s the worst movie ever, depending on who you ask. By Sarah • Aug 24, 2018 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Down the #TATBILB rabbit hole Lainey and I haven’t sent a text to each other this week that wasn’t about To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before. We have major Peter Kavinsky problems. I’ve watched the movie so many times I’ve decided that Netflix should have an instant replay button. By Kathleen • Aug 24, 2018 10:49 am
BFFs #AsianAugust Crazy Rich Asians won the box office last weekend. Lara Jean Covey is waiting for you on Netflix every day when you get home. (I won’t out you, but I know who you are, because you’ve written to me telling me how many times you’ve watched To By Lainey • Aug 23, 2018 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “Post-Hunk” Chris Hemsworth The Greater Hemsworth covers GQ this month, getting ahead of Bad Times at the El Royale, a movie that probably won’t justify this level of marketing. The interview is pretty good because the writer, Lauren Larson, examines Hemsworth in context of a shifting ideal of Hollywood masculinity, and how By Sarah • Aug 23, 2018 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Hamm … and we found Lawrence Top Gun casting news: Jay Ellis, who played Lawrence on Insecure, has been cast in Top Gun: Maverick. Which is fine. Because nobody misses Lawrence. Why would we miss Lawrence when we get to snack on Daniel? Ed Harris has also been confirmed and my immediate thought about that was By Lainey • Aug 23, 2018 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Prehistoric dog bonding in Alpha Albert Hughes’ boy-and-his-dog fable Alpha is equal parts Planet Earth and The Black Stallion. It’s a beautifully shot nature-oriented story about a prehistoric boy and his prehistoric dog, a wolf he dubs “Alpha”, as they mutually recuperate in a cave. Though there are sequences of no dialogue, there is By Sarah • Aug 22, 2018 02:05 pm
Style The Best Chris in a caftan Quirky Chris is back. Chris Pine and Annabelle Wallis were in Capri, Italy on Sunday. There are shirtless pictures that add to the running list of reasons why he’s The Best Chris but I want to focus on Chris living his best life in Capri in a caftan like By Kathleen • Aug 22, 2018 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond Chaos Back in the spring it came out that Danny Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge were working on a script for Bond 25 and that Boyle was maybe-probably going to direct it. Everyone leapt on it like it was a done deal but it sounded wishy-washy to me, and I specifically By Sarah • Aug 22, 2018 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine with an accent Kathleen’s Best Chris, Chris Pine, has had a quiet summer, publicity-wise. He’s been shooting the Wonder Woman sequel, sure. But since A Wrinkle in Time, he hasn’t done all that much press. Which is about to change soon because his new film, Netflix’s Outlaw King, directed By Lainey • Aug 20, 2018 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlie & Rami, finally Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek attended a screening for their film Papillon this weekend. It opens on Friday and it’s been a while. Papillon premiered at TIFF last year and now it’s getting a late August release with, frankly, not that much buzz. Also, though I’m sure By Lainey • Aug 20, 2018 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Winona and Keanu are married This is a click-baity headline. I’m sorry about that. But also I’m not lying. Let’s back up a bit first though. Because you know what we’re living through right now? We are in a full-blown rom-com resurgence, you guys! Kumail Nanjiani’s The Big Sick made By Lainey • Aug 20, 2018 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before When you think of summer at the movies, you might think of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson throwing his fist through a skyscraper or Jason Statham punching a shark or whatever that movie is about. You might think of Tom Cruise sprinting through traffic with abandon, proving he’s got unbeatable By Kathleen • Aug 20, 2018 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Crazy Rich Asians beat Mark Wahlberg The summer of the rom-com continues as Crazy Rich Asians debuted with a $34 million five-day total ($25 million of which came from the typical Friday-Sunday frame). This is a GREAT result for anything that isn’t a franchise entry, and it’s especially great for a romantic comedy, long By Sarah • Aug 20, 2018 09:18 am
TV Updates Intro for August 20, 2018 Dear Gossips, I had two plans this weekend: Crazy Rich Asians and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. It’s all I’ve thought about and talked about since Friday. And, if the box office and social media are any indication, same same for you too? This is By Lainey • Aug 20, 2018 08:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman This has been a hell of a year for black American cinema, from the cultural phenomenon of Black Panther, to Blindspotting’s spoken-word musing on race and class, to Boots Riley’s masterpiece Sorry to Bother You, and we still haven’t gotten to new films from Steve McQueen and By Sarah • Aug 17, 2018 03:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ike Barinholtz gets his shot I’ve been low-key calling out Ike Barinholtz for a while as a consistent scene-stealer. Last year, in my review of Snatched, I wrote, “Ike Barinholtz steals every scene he’s in [… ]he’s so good, he’s entering Jason Mantzoukas territory as a secondary player who really needs his By Sarah • Aug 17, 2018 02:18 pm
