Movie Reviews and Previews The First Purge stumbles into a point I have, generally, liked the Purge movies. They’re enjoyably schlocky B-movie nonsense prone to heavy-handed political observation but, like Sicario: Day of the Soldado, what was observational during the relatively calm of the Obama era has become commentary, intended or not, in the Trump era. Soldado probably didn’t By Sarah • Jul 04, 2018 03:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Take a break with Ant-Man and the Wasp Look, no one is going to argue that Ant-Man and/or the Wasp are Marvel’s most beloved, most important, or most well-known characters. No one is going to defend the Ant-Man franchise as one of the jewels of Marvel’s crown. I’m not even going to defend Ant-Man By Sarah • Jul 04, 2018 01:22 pm
Dumbass Scarlett Johansson doubles down Deadline reported yesterday that Scarlett Johansson and Rupert Sanders are working together again on a film called Rub & Tug, based on the real life story of Dante “Tex” Gill. As The Verge pointed out, “all of the major trades, however, managed to misgender Gill, despite the fact that he By Lainey • Jul 04, 2018 12:05 pm
Quiveration Glen Powell > Miles Teller Yesterday, Sarah wrote about Top Gun: Maverick and the disappointing news that Miles “kind of a dick” Teller beat out Nicholas Hoult and Glen Powell for the role of Goose Jr. How do you choose MILES TELLER over Glen Powell AND Nicholas Hoult? HOW? Sarah's exact words were By Kathleen • Jul 04, 2018 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Goose’s Disappointment Last week Lainey wrote about the short list to play Goose’s son in Top Gun 2, which included Nicholas Hoult, Glen Powell, and Miles Teller. Proving that we live in the darkest timeline, Variety is reporting that Miles Teller has been cast as Goose Jr. Lainey preferred Teller for By Sarah • Jul 03, 2018 04:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benicio Del Toro in Sicario: Day of the Soldado As I write this review, there has been another mass shooting in America. More people are dead. More people are injured. More suffering, more anger, more inaction, more misery. We can’t go a f*cking day without some fresh hell bursting forth and poisoning the well. At this point, By Sarah • Jun 29, 2018 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska: “the tiny horse you need right now” A man arrives in town, leather-clad and spurs clanging, a guitar and a rifle slung across his back, Mysterious Stranger comes to town on Unknown Business. He bellies up to the bar and proceeds to…awkwardly twist out of his gear and order a drink in a reedy, vaguely creepy By Sarah • Jun 28, 2018 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Somebody stop Jared Leto Unsatisfied with being the Third Best Joker, actor and human costume shop Jared Leto will now star as Morbius the Living Vampire in a Spider-Man spin-off at Sony. This movie will exist in the same universe as Tom Hardy’s Venom, both of which have not been admitted into the By Sarah • Jun 28, 2018 01:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun and Goose’s son As Sarah posted a couple of weeks ago, Tom Cruise confirmed that production is now underway on the Top Gun sequel and now THR is reporting that they’ve narrowed it down to Nicholas Hoult, Glen Powell, and Miles Teller to play Goose’s son. You’ll recall, Goose’s By Lainey • Jun 28, 2018 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Prepare your tissues Timothee Chalamet defied the Oscar gods to become the rare young dude actor recognized for a romantic performance. Young dudes almost never get nominated when playing romantic roles. It says something about us, culturally, and it’s not good, that we so rarely lionize romantic performances from men. But Timothee By Sarah • Jun 27, 2018 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews No Dick Energy Lainey opened the site today by talking about the Big Dick Energy that is taking over social media and prompting all of us to wonder who in our friend group has BDE. (I’m going to posit that among the LG crew, Duana has the most BDE.) What I want By Sarah • Jun 27, 2018 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Your Monday cry The first trailer for The Hate U Give dropped during the BET Awards last night. If you’ve been reading this site, you know how I feel about Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give. You know how Lainey feels about it. We’ve haven’t been subtle about By Kathleen • Jun 25, 2018 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette: an extraordinary plea for empathy Jokes, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby tells us, are a two-part structure: set-up and punchline. And the problem with jokes, she goes on, is that they have no resolution. In her new comedy special, Nanette, Gadsby tells us how she “sealed off” her coming-out story at its “trauma point” by turning By Sarah • Jun 25, 2018 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is bigger, dumber, louder, better The bar that Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has to clear is just “be less of a sexist mess than Jurassic World”. That’s it. The bar could not be lower. Jurassic Park has never and will never spawn a good sequel because it’s a one-trick pony, story-wise, and every By Sarah • Jun 22, 2018 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 22, 2018 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been visiting this blog regularly over the last 15 years, maybe you’re tired of me evangelising about YA books. I’m not sorry about this. My favourite book, period, of 2017 was Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give. One of my favourite books By Lainey • Jun 22, 2018 09:33 am
Twilight Robert Pattinson on marriage and babies Well isn’t that a clickbaity headline. But I can back it up, I promise. Robert Pattinson is currently promoting Damsel with Mia Wasikowska which is getting solid reviews – it’s one of Sarah’s favourite movies of the year and her review will be posted soon. As she’s By Lainey • Jun 21, 2018 10:10 am
