Movie Reviews and Previews Theo James in The Monkey Osgood Perkins has been making high-quality horror since 2015’s The Blackcoat’s Daughter—he comes by it honestly, he’s the son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins—and broke out in the mainstream with last year’s serial killer sleeper hit, Longlegs. Now, he’s back with The Monkey, By Sarah • Feb 21, 2025 01:15 pm
Style Wicked in Japan Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jon M Chu were in Japan yesterday to promote Wicked. The movie opens there on March 7 and this was the last possible week that they could have travelled there because of course it’s been non-stop and now they pretty much have to stay By Lainey • Feb 21, 2025 10:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen and Alia: Wrong and Bong Last time I posted about Kristen Stewart it was a month ago, she was out and about in LA with Dylan Meyer and I was wondering about her blonde hair, whether or not it was blonde vampire hair, since she’s co-starring with Oscar Isaac in a film set in By Lainey • Feb 20, 2025 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for February 20, 2025 Dear Gossips, The biggest movie in the world right now is one most people in the west have never heard of unless you work in the industry and even then it would depend on where you’re consuming your news. This movie, however, is now the highest-grossing non-English film ever; By Lainey • Feb 20, 2025 09:52 am
TV Updates Mindy has a star Mindy Kaling was honoured with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. Her dad, Avu Chokalingam was with her, and there’s a lump in my throat right now thinking about how proud he must have been to see this moment. Mindy was born when he and By Lainey • Feb 19, 2025 01:06 pm
Style Robert Pattinson: For the Boys and Berlin I first clocked this back in 2017 and again in 2018 - something happens to Robert Pattinson in Berlin. Berlin, for whatever reason, supercharges his fashion gene, his inner Sprockets. He was in Berlin the other day for Mickey 17 and this was the look: Not just the clothes though, By Lainey • Feb 18, 2025 02:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy in The Gorge In the grand tradition of Road House, The Gorge is a film that is smart about the way in which it is dumb. Directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Zach Dean, the premise is very silly: two snipers are recruited to man watchtowers on either side of a gorge By Sarah • Feb 14, 2025 01:37 pm
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
