Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 11, 2017 Dear Gossips, Thirty years ago next week, a little movie with no expectations became one of the biggest movies of the year and went on to become one of the most famous movies of all time. It was Dirty Dancing. If you were around then, and you saw Dirty Dancing By Lainey • Aug 11, 2017 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars says hello and goodbye Star Wars: The Last Jedi covers this week’s Entertainment Weekly, to remind us that not every Star Wars film is a behind-the-scenes clusterf*ck. The Last Jedi, in fact, is the smoothest operation LucasFilm has run in this new Disney era. It’s kind of nice to have this By Sarah • Aug 10, 2017 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amazing Amy Kill Bill Lindsay Shookus must be back in New York because she and Ben Affleck weren’t papped together all weekend and he stepped out on his own the other day. Jennifer Garner, meanwhile, hasn’t been seen this week. Coincidence or conspiracy? While it’s been quiet then for both Ben By Lainey • Aug 10, 2017 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson in The Glass Castle The Glass Castle is an adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ memoir of the same name about her unmoored childhood with her alcoholic father and enabler mother. I think it’s supposed to be a heart-warming, family-above-all-else, I Survived tale in which we celebrate Jeannette overcoming the hardship of her youth to By Sarah • Aug 10, 2017 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry in Kidnap The Trashy Movie Paradox is that to be a good trashy movie, a movie must be REALLY trashy—we’re talking Meet the Feebles puppet-f*cking trashy. At some point you have to realize that your movie is bad and fling yourself whole-heartedly into the badness to land somewhere on By Sarah • Aug 09, 2017 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What is mother! Here is a rare case where a full trailer does little to illuminate a teaser. Last week we saw the teaser for mother!, the Darren Aronofsky-directed film starring Jennifer Lawrence, which set it up as a horror movie that is maybe about a weird cult invading a woman’s home. By Sarah • Aug 08, 2017 03:08 pm
BFFs Anthony Mackie picking on Tom Holland Last month at Disney’s D23 fan convention, Anthony Mackie, along with Sebastian Stan, picked on Tom Holland. Last year, when promoting Captain America: Civil War, Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan picked on Tom Holland. Well Anthony Mackie was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, and guess By Sarah • Aug 04, 2017 02:47 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Robert Pattinson on curtains and dog release Robert Pattinson was also at the HFPA event that I just wrote about in the previous post. His new film, Good Time, comes out next week. It played really well at Cannes a couple of months ago and everyone is saying that this is the performance of his career. They By Lainey • Aug 04, 2017 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Award season in August Some of us care about award season year-round. There’s a small group at work and we exchange emails almost every day about possible contenders, speculating about how the field will narrow as we get deeper into the fall. While the work itself should always be paramount, needless to say, By Lainey • Aug 04, 2017 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit Set during the 1967 Detroit riots, Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s latest docu-drama focuses on the Algiers Motel murders in which three young black men were killed during a police brutality incident. Bigelow and Boal have had success exploring real-world events like the Iraq war (The Hurt Locker, for By Sarah • Aug 03, 2017 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zazie Beetz on a bike I love saying Zazie Beetz’s name. What a great name. I only know Zazie Beetz from Atlanta and I should say I’m obsessed with her on Atlanta. She plays Van, Donald Glover’s on-off girlfriend and mother of their child. I mean, the entire cast is terrific. But By Lainey • Aug 03, 2017 03:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry with a topknot Have you ever seen Halle Berry wearing her hair in a topknot? Like a true topknot, all hair scraped back, no fringe, no nothing. Have you? I can’t remember ever seeing her in a topknot. It’s so rare that, in thumbnail form, at first I thought these shots By Lainey • Aug 03, 2017 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey in The Dark Tower Based on Stephen King’s sprawling Gunslinger series, The Dark Tower takes thousands of pages of mythology that spans centuries and dimensions and pares it down to a spare ninety-five minute movie that encompasses a thimble’s worth of all that original King storytelling. Fans of the books will have By Sarah • Aug 03, 2017 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Why did Valerian flop? In its second week in theaters, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets dropped 60%. Tent pole films tend to be front-loaded, but that’s a bad drop, especially since the opening weekend was also sour. Valerian is not launching a new space-fantasy franchise—unless China can save it— By Sarah • Aug 02, 2017 01:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Williams in The Incredible Jessica James There is only one romantic comedy on Netflix (Canada) that I have yet to watch. It’s called Christian Mingle. I’ve been relegated to my couch with a busted-up Achilles and a bad mood lately so binge-watching is at an all-time high. I’ve found myself in the bowels By Kathleen • Aug 02, 2017 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 2, 2017 Dear Gossips, While obsessively hitting refresh this morning to read GQ Style’s new cover feature on Aziz Ansari (at 7am ET it had yet to be uploaded), I ended up reading the magazine’s feature on Steven Soderbergh and how he’s “back to destroy Hollywood”. There’s a By Lainey • Aug 02, 2017 09:08 am
