Movie Reviews and Previews Clayface is the sad-eyed villain of our nightmares Matt Reeves’ The Batman might be my favorite superhero movie of all time. I know, I know, so controversial and brave of me to say out loud. It just understands the mythological nature of superheroes so well, and Reeves’ Batman is such a Gothic weirdo virgin loser, I love him. By Sarah • Apr 23, 2026 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Devil in London It was New York on Monday and now, just over a week before the movie opens on May 1, the cast of The Devil Wears Prada 2 is in London today for the premiere which, I think, is the last stop on the global tour. Unless they added another city By Lainey • Apr 22, 2026 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Coyote vs. Acme, at long last After surviving an attempted deletion by David Zaslav and Warner Bros. Discovery, like a toon escaping Judge Doom’s dip, Coyote vs. Acme has a release date (August 28) and, finally, a trailer. And guess what? It looks good as hell! Having grown up on Looney Tunes, I am all By Sarah • Apr 22, 2026 11:45 am
Top Reads The Owens sisters are back at last With all these legacy sequels coming out over the next year, I am on tenterhooks, living in Schrödinger’s box of managing expectations. As long as the movies are not yet out, they might still be good, which is very much where I am living with Practical Magic 2. Practical By Sarah • Apr 21, 2026 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Devil comes home New York City is unquestionably the home of The Devil Wears Prada. Runway, like Vogue, is based in New York. Runway is the office space, the setting, the spiritual nucleus – and both the sequel and the original are movies about work. They work in fashion, but beyond the clothes and By Lainey • Apr 21, 2026 10:44 am
Kevin Costner Kevin and Jake: Down Under Fockers? I missed this news a few weeks ago when it was being reported – Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal are now in Brisbane filming a dramedy, Honeymoon With Harry. Jake plays a man engaged to Sarah Pidgeon, but her dad, Kevin, might not approve of him and they end up on By Lainey • Apr 17, 2026 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jack Reynor in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Mummies are one of cinema’s most enduring monsters, from Karl Freund’s 1932 classic starring Boris Karloff, to the 1999 bisexual masterpiece starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, to, er, Tom Cruise’s failed blockbuster experiment in 2017. Now, though, mummies are coming back not through Universal and their By Sarah • Apr 16, 2026 02:58 pm
Ryan Gosling The Movie Stars are still at it (CinemaCon) We’ve already covered the drama at CinemaCon, now let’s get back to our regularly scheduled Movie Stars. As Lainey said, CinemaCon is a celebration of movie stars and star power, and to that end, Ryan Gosling appeared to celebrate the success of Project Hail Mary and literally give By Sarah • Apr 16, 2026 10:08 am
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise: Digger is coming Like I said in today’s site open, CinemaCon is all about Movie Stars, and that’s definitely what Warner Bros was banking on to generate excitement for its upcoming schedule yesterday at their presentation. Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, and the biggest of them all (that’s By Lainey • Apr 15, 2026 02:04 pm
Zendaya Coleman Zendaya: so much CinemaCon Zendaya was at CinemaCon last night with the Warner Bros presentation and Dune 3 but she was already at CinemaCon in a way the night before when it was Sony’s turn because one of the biggest titles for Sony this year, if not THE biggest title, is Spider-Man: By Lainey • Apr 15, 2026 12:47 pm
Sandra Bullock Intro for April 15, 2026 Dear Gossips, CinemaCon is happening this week in Las Vegas, the annual gathering of theatre owners where Hollywood studios present their upcoming projects, typically in the blockbuster category. This is an event for MOVIE STARS, which is why after all these years, and perhaps increasingly so, I love covering it. By Lainey • Apr 15, 2026 09:52 am
Anne Hathaway The Cult of Mother Mary? After taking The Devil Wears Prada 2 press tour through East Asia last week, Anne Hathaway was back in New York last night, redirecting her attention to Mother Mary. She plays a popstar kinda like Lady Gaga, with performance footage in the film that is said to have been inspired By Lainey • Apr 14, 2026 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for April 13, 2026 Dear Gossips, It was a strong weekend at the North American box office this weekend with impressive holds from the top three movies: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Project Hail Mary, and The Drama. Project Hail Mary has now passed the $500 million mark, an encouraging achievement for Amazon Studios, By Lainey • Apr 13, 2026 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John C. Reilly in Heads or Tails? Italian cinema has a long love affair with the American west, most notably producing the mid-20th century genre of “Spaghetti western”, Italian-made tales of the American west dominated by Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood, which imagine the American west as a place of violence, revenge, possibility, and manifest By Sarah • Apr 10, 2026 03:03 pm
Cameron Diaz Cameron Diaz and Stephen Merchant’s rom-com delight Good news, rom-com heads! Not only is You, Me & Tuscany in theaters this weekend, but Cameron Diaz is currently filming an upcoming rom-com in New York. The film, which is currently untitled, stars Diaz and Stephen Merchant, who is also directing, and is co-produced by Seth By Sarah • Apr 10, 2026 11:55 am
Lorne Michaels Everyone turned up for Lorne except Paul McCartney The other day Lainey and I were texting about SNL and how incredible it is that, at 81, Lorne Michaels is still running that show and it remains a landmark piece of television. We were discussing the current season of SNL which features a number of new cast members. I By Sarah • Apr 10, 2026 10:44 am
