Style Red Sparrow London style Jennifer Lawrence’s Red Sparrow is due out next week, Oscar weekend. She’s been in London the last few days promoting the film. I wondered about Red Sparrow and how it would be received. So far, the reviews have been pretty medium. I don’t think we’re looking By Lainey • Feb 20, 2018 03:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “Panther time” At a certain point in his interview with Rolling Stone, Chadwick Boseman tells journalist Josh Eells that he’d rather not respond to a particular question because, as he explains: "I'd love to answer that. But I don't want to give him Panther time." By Lainey • Feb 19, 2018 08:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Audacity of Black Panther When I was three, my big brother Sam smacked me on the head with a mini model car. He was five and frustrated that I kept stealing his toys. The incident left a small but permanent scar in the middle of my forehead. Throughout my childhood and into my early By Kathleen • Feb 19, 2018 08:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 19, 2018 Dear Gossips, I was obsessed all weekend with checking the box office for Black Panther. As noted last week, the projections kept going up every day. And the numbers kept climbing every few hours this weekend and breaking all kinds of records. By Saturday morning they seemed certain the movie By Lainey • Feb 19, 2018 07:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Panther is everything we’ve waited for Among a host of amazing things, maybe the most amazing thing about Black Panther is that it’s a superhero movie. For all the weight and expectation and political pressure and representative issues that come with being the first black superhero movie released by Marvel Studios—and the first black By Sarah • Feb 15, 2018 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Maybe not the Tesla we’re looking for Nikola Tesla is ripe for a biopic. His story has everything: Genius, madness, rags-to-riches-to-rags, world-changing inventions, and a tragic ending. Tesla is one of the smartest people to ever live—if that sounds like exaggeration, x-rays are just some sh*t he discovered on accident and we’re still not By Sarah • Feb 14, 2018 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Women of Black Panther, a roundup Sarah saw Black Panther last night. Her first e-mail to me after her screening was, of course, about Okoye. I’ve BEEN telling y’all about Danai Gurira’s Okoye. People are going to lose their sh-t over Okoye. They are going to be demanding a standalone Okoye film. The By Kathleen • Feb 14, 2018 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa Thomspon is going to be fine If you’re worried about Annihilation, you probably should be. Sarah has written extensively about why Annihilation is most likely going to fail, despite its promising trailers and stacked cast. When I first heard that Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson and Oscar Isaac (and Natalie Portman, sure) would be starring in By Kathleen • Feb 14, 2018 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Domhnall Gleeson, Internet Boyfriend 2018 The Peter Rabbit screening I attended was on a Saturday morning, when I would otherwise be asleep. The movie theater was crawling with children. They handed out paper bunny ears at the door. THERE WAS FACE PAINTING. What I’m saying is, the environment was not conducive to encouraging my By Sarah • Feb 09, 2018 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s range Gugu Mbatha-Raw is an LG favourite. We’ve been writing about how much we love her for years. For years, she’s been putting in the work. After Belle and Beyond The Lights, two excellent films that should have propelled her into superstardom, I’ve been waiting for Gugu to By Kathleen • Feb 09, 2018 12:36 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Joaquin Phoenix: from Strange to Joker? Joaquin Phoenix was making headlines all over the place yesterday because of reports that he could be the Joker in a new standalone movie. Sarah is our resident comic nerd so I asked her if we needed to talk about this. It’s very confusing. Jared Leto is still the By Lainey • Feb 09, 2018 11:51 am
Style Black Panther style porn takes over London Sarah just posted her review of Fifty Shades Freed and the movie should win the box office this weekend with a projected take of $33 million. It’s been a successful franchise, for sure, but it’s also a steadily declining franchise, like the NFL and Justin Timberlake. When the By Lainey • Feb 09, 2018 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Embarrassed Mannequins in Fifty Shades Freed Fifty Shades Freed is the final movie in the Fifty Shades trilogy, and the tone of this movie is “palpable relief”. The whole movie has the energy of the last day of school, teetering between the monotony of just going through the motions and the anxiety of almost, finally, being By Sarah • Feb 09, 2018 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy…has…DEMONS The teaser for Venom, the supervillain movie starring Tom Hardy, has been released and it’s certainly a series of moving images. I’m honestly not sure what to make of this. It’s just Hardy narrating about how everyone has their THING and his THING is DEMONS, and he’ By Sarah • Feb 08, 2018 11:40 am
Music All the Kendrick and SZA 8 Days. We are 8 days away from the wide release of Black Panther. 8 DAYS. Every day, the Black Panther press tour blesses us with new content to obsess over. The other day it was Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman doing karaoke in Korea. Yesterday, it was Danai By Kathleen • Feb 08, 2018 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Not-So-Quiet Place When the first trailer for John Krasinski/Emily Blunt horror movie, A Quiet Place, came out, I pondered whether or not the film would avoid using LOUD NOISES to scare people. In a partial answer, it turns out the ads can’t avoid it—the Super Bowl spot uses a By Sarah • Feb 07, 2018 03:22 pm
