Style Mickey 17 and #1 Toni Mickey 17 is Bong Joon-ho’s first film since he won the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for Parasite. He is among the few directors and certainly even fewer non-western directors to be an audience draw, no matter who the stars are. Which is why it’s been By Lainey • Feb 14, 2025 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World After a decade playing a sidekick in the MCU, Anthony Mackie and his character, Sam Wilson, have stepped into the central role of Captain America, picking up the mantle after Chris Evans exited the franchise, taking Steve Rogers with him. Following his stint on TV in The Falcon and the By Sarah • Feb 14, 2025 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, Happy Valentine’s Day to all who celebrate, or, as I like to call it, “Congratulations on not murdering your partner for another year!”. But we’re not here to talk about made-up holidays, we’re here to talk about The Accountant and its upcoming sequel, The Accountant By Sarah • Feb 14, 2025 09:27 am
Style Jeremy Strong cares about everything Jeremy Strong is now an Oscar nominee. He earned the first Oscar nomination of his career for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Apprentice. Kieran Culkin is the favourite in that category and this has been one of the internet’s favourite Oscar storylines – the Brothers Roy going By Lainey • Feb 13, 2025 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck: The Accountant returns Both Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have been pretty quiet lately. And by lately I mean like no pap shots in almost two weeks. This doesn’t signify anything and I should probably stop mentioning her when I mention him, and vice versa, but this habit has been and will By Lainey • Feb 13, 2025 11:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson have Friendship I am so mad at myself for missing Friendship at TIFF last fall, but it didn’t fit into my schedule. I have never quite forgiven myself for that, though, not least because the film went on to be named second runner-up for TIFF’s Midnight Madness People’s Choice By Sarah • Feb 12, 2025 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Questlove and the price of Black excellence Once again, musician and Oscar-winning filmmaker Questlove is reflecting on a struggle that exists in the undercurrent of the lives of Black people, but is rarely articulated. It’s not the well-known concept behind the idea of the “Black tax”, and it’s not the impact white privilege has had By Stephanie • Feb 12, 2025 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews My next prediction is that Danny Ramirez will be A Big Deal Captain America: Brave New World opens on Friday. I’ll have a full review after I think on it a little more, but in short: Danny Ramirez is the only reason to watch it, and he’s not in it nearly enough to justify it. Ramirez was at the premiere, By Sarah • Feb 12, 2025 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley’s Uniform Bradley Cooper is back in New York after the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday where he introduced his team, the Philadelphia Eagles. The parade is on Friday, wonder if he’ll be in Philly for it. For now, though, BCoop is at home, but still in his Eagles By Lainey • Feb 11, 2025 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Guilds are speaking Because of the Los Angeles wildfires, the awards season calendar is all screwed up. Hardly the most important thing, but a reality nonetheless. That means award shows are piling up on top of each other, and that the next three weeks are a sprint to the end of the trophy By Sarah • Feb 10, 2025 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Super Bowl trailers: the other ones The blockbusters have had their say, now let’s look at the other movie trailers Hollywood elected to show off on game day. It’s mostly family-friendly stuff, plus trailers for a couple of movies I’m surprised studios are willing to spend this big on (in-game ads ran about By Sarah • Feb 10, 2025 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Super Bowl brought blockbuster trailers In advance of the Super Bowl, studios released two of the biggest and most anticipated trailers, those for The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Jurassic World Rebirth. But game day still held plenty of new trailers, but before the game even started, two of Hollywood’s biggest stars anchored pre-game By Sarah • Feb 10, 2025 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ke Huy Quan in Love Hurts Former child star, forever Goonie, and Academy Award-winner Ke Huy Quan logs his first leading role in Love Hurts, an action…comedy?...set during Valentine’s Day. Quan plays the perfectly named Marvin Gable, a Milwaukee realtor selling McMansions to McBoring people. But Marvin relishes the mundanity of his life, By Sarah • Feb 07, 2025 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everything Keke Keke Palmer is in New York today. She showed up to Brandon Maxwell’s fashion show in lilac and also lit up the Empire State Building wearing the sh-t out of a red dress, WOW. Everything is coming up Keke right now. Her new movie, One of Them Days, is By Lainey • Feb 06, 2025 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Wicked is having all the fun I’m being petty here and I’m not sorry. Because remember when some of you were sick of the Wicked press tour and Wicked in general? Well. With all the chaos and the ugliness of this Oscar race, aren’t you f-cking glad we have Wicked now?!? Today is By Lainey • Feb 06, 2025 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily and Bryan on set Fresh off Sundance, where The Wedding Banquet got a very warm reception, Lily Gladstone is working, this time in Albuquerque alongside Bryan Cranston in a new film called Lone Wolf. For a lot of people, Bryan Cranston in Albuquerque brings back the Breaking Bad feels, but for me it’s By Sarah • Feb 06, 2025 10:01 am
