Movie Reviews and Previews Director with a Manbun Sorry, about to be a sh-t disturber here but I can’t help myself… Bradley Cooper is currently directing Will Arnett in Is This Thing On? Bradley will also have a role in the film, co-written by Will, about a man, presumably a podcaster, who’s figuring out his life By Lainey • Apr 09, 2025 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 9, 2025 Dear Gossips, A major casting rumour made the rounds yesterday, and it didn’t originate on TikTok. The source is legit – Deadline at first and then seconded by The Hollywood Reporter that Robert Pattinson will join the cast of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Messiah as the big bad, Scytale. I By Lainey • Apr 09, 2025 10:08 am
BFFs Kristen and Michael: 17 years later Kristen Stewart and Michael Angarano posed for photos yesterday at the premiere of Sacramento. I posted about this a few weeks ago – Michael wrote and directed the film, in which he stars alongside Kristen, Michael Cera, and his wife, Maya Erskine. As previously noted, one of the points of interest By Lainey • Apr 08, 2025 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart: Cannes in a new way? The Cannes Film Festival will announce its upcoming lineup on Thursday and there’s been speculation for weeks over which films might be featured. Cannes is always a spectacle, it’s never low on hype, but given what happened last year on the Croisette, the anticipation for 2025 is even By Lainey • Apr 07, 2025 04:06 pm
Music JLo’s Office Wardrobe Jennifer Lopez has been in New York the last few weeks working on a new movie – Office Romance, co-starring Brett Goldstein who also cowrote the script. During her downtime, she’s been seeing as many shows as she can on Broadway. Most recently she and Emme went to Buena Vista By Lainey • Apr 07, 2025 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tron: Ares almost looks good One of the pieces of Disney’s CinemaCon presentation was for Tron: Ares, which I did not mention because Tron: Ares stars Jared Leto and life is short, and I try to make wholesome, self-loving decisions like not talking about Jared Leto. But now there is a trailer for Tron: By Sarah • Apr 07, 2025 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pedro Pascal in Freaky Tales Filmmaking duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck return to cinemas with their first feature film since 2019’s Captain Marvel with the anthology film, Freaky Tales. A loosely connected set of four stories depicting convergent events on May 10, 1987, in Oakland, California. Freaky Tales is a love letter to By Sarah • Apr 04, 2025 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rachel’s big week Following their CinemaCon presentation earlier this week, DC Studios dropped their Superman featurette. It’s heavy on Krypto, showing the scene where he takes Superman “home” to the Fortress of Solitude. There is also a promising bit of kissing between Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Superman doesn’t work without By Sarah • Apr 04, 2025 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, CinemaCon concluded yesterday—at least, the studio presentation bit did—by bringing out the big guns. Literally Tom Cruise, who might as well be christened Mr. CinemaCon at this point, turned up for Paramount’s presentation, as did Edgar Wright and the stars of his new adaptation of By Sarah • Apr 04, 2025 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Late Night with Coogler and MBJ Michael B Jordan appeared via video last night during the Amazon MGM presentation to advance-hype his next directorial effort, The Thomas Crown Affair, co-starring Taylor Russell, which he’ll be shooting in London this summer. He couldn’t be there in person, however, because he’s currently on the Sinners By Lainey • Apr 03, 2025 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling: Space and a Selfie Amazon MGM closed out CinemaCon in Las Vegas last night with a late presentation featuring a big group of stars, underscoring their commitment to theatrical release – or at least that’s how they intend to be perceived. Among the many projects for which they were driving anticipation: Phil Lord and By Lainey • Apr 03, 2025 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman at CinemaCon It was a busy day at CinemaCon yesterday, and one of the highlight presentations was from Warner Bros. Discovery, which is giving extreme The Studio vibes as studio co-chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy are reportedly under pressure from company CEO David Zaslav to focus on big IP and By Sarah • Apr 02, 2025 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fincher + Pitt do Tarantino Some interesting news broke yesterday that David Fincher and Brad Pitt are teaming up for a sequel to Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, which is written by Quentin Tarantino. Basically, Tarantino wrote a sequel to Hollywood, but he doesn’t want to direct it himself—probably because he doesn’ By Sarah • Apr 02, 2025 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews I’ll be there for Teyana The first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was released last week and Sarah wrote in that post I just linked to that Leo is “one of our great actors” with “a range big enough that everyone has their favorite Leo”. I don’ By Lainey • Apr 02, 2025 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 2, 2025 Dear Gossips, It was reported just this past weekend that Michael Mann had completed and turned in his highly anticipated and long-awaited script for Heat 2 to Warner Bros. Whether or not it’ll actually get made is another story. But of course there are several reasons this is newsworthy. By Lainey • Apr 02, 2025 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rami Malek’s Amateur Tour Rami Malek is currently promoting The Amateur with Laurence Fishbourne and Caitriona Balfe. Last night was the premiere and today he was making the rounds on radio in a leather jacket. The movie opens April 11, I’ve been seeing trailers for it every time I’m at the cineplex By Lainey • Apr 01, 2025 04:03 pm
