Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 20, 2026 Dear Gossips, It was a weekend for the pop culture gods. The World Cup, of course, is the Olympus of sport – and since the final was set in the United States, the event brought together global superstars from almost every entertainment stream, from football to music to movies and television By Lainey • Jul 20, 2026 09:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Uprising trailer Just as we’re getting through The Odyssey, let’s look to another historical epic: Paul Greengrass’s The Uprising. The trailer dropped yesterday, showing off Andrew Garfield as 14th century rebel Wat Tyler, in a film that promises to be viscerally violent. Paul Greengrass doesn’t do it any By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 03:07 pm
Keanu Reeves Friday Keanu Ah, now it is time to bless the feed with some Keanu. A perfect little Friday treat before the weekend, Keanu Reeves popped up in Milan, where he is on tour with his band, Dogstar. It’s been a minute since I’ve seen Keanu, though I heard him (briefly) By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 12:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Living wives in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey No one in modern cinema loves a dead wife more than Christopher Nolan, whose oeuvre is littered with dead women, haunting their men, sometimes literally, from the beyond. These spectral spouses—in the case of Oppenheimer, it is a dead mistress—drive Nolan’s protagonists through his timey-wimey narratives By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dine out on my Batman conspiracy theory I really, really liked Matt Reeves’ The Batman when it came out in 2022, since then, it has only risen in my estimation. I think it’s one of the best superhero movies ever made, and arguably the best Batman movie ever made. The film, released into the only-just- By Sarah • Jul 16, 2026 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pedro Pascal’s Oscar movie It’s mid-summer, which means the countdown to back to school has begun because time is our enemy, but it is most violently the enemy of youth, but it also means we’re counting down to the fall festival season. After the Hollywood studios sat out Cannes, I have By Sarah • Jul 15, 2026 02:35 pm
Tom Holland The gentlemen of The Odyssey We’ve seen the women of The Odyssey show up and show out for their final premiere, now let’s turn our attention to the gentlemen, who certainly…showed up. Let’s start with Tom Holland, because he is always a ray of sunshine. He wore an all-black suit By Sarah • Jul 15, 2026 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise stunts for Digger When the teaser for Digger dropped, I wondered if Tom Cruise might re-engage with Academy politics and campaign for an acting Oscar (he just got an honorary one back in November). The full trailer for Digger debuted online yesterday, and I don’t think Cruise is even going to By Sarah • Jul 14, 2026 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 13, 2026 Dear Gossips, This weekend marked the 25th anniversary of the release of one of the most iconic films in Hong Kong cinematic history and a comedy that’s well-known around the world. Probably most people who play soccer know this movie: Shaolin Soccer, directed by and starring Stephen Chow. By Lainey • Jul 13, 2026 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart’s wife movie Kristen Stewart married Dylan Meyer in 2025, but now they’re REALLY committed, because they made a whole movie together and they DIDN’T break up. The “couples who make a movie together and then break up” pipeline is real. (Sh-t, I hope I didn’t just curse them. By Sarah • Jul 10, 2026 02:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Robert Pattinson trying to make us forget Twilight We continue toward the “Dunesday” apocalypse absolutely no one asked for, with Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday opening on the same day in December. I feel intense dread about this. You know me, I want to check the f-ck out in December, not deal with two of the By Sarah • Jul 09, 2026 10:01 am
Anne Hathaway Mother Ithaca and The Odyssey As promised, more on The Odyssey and the premiere in London last night… I screened the film in New York last week in IMAX and if you’ve been a longtime regular reader of this site, you may know that unlike most cinephiles, I’m not a Christopher Nolan sycophant By Lainey • Jul 07, 2026 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Eggers and the cinema of stink In 2024, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu became a surprise holiday hit (this after Eggers steadily built a devoted audience, beginning with 2015’s The VVitch). His next film is Werwulf, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Lily-Rose Depp, and as Lainey mentioned, given the Christmastime success of Nosferatu, Werwulf is slated By Sarah • Jun 30, 2026 10:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Milly Alcock in Supergirl After swooping in to pick up her dog at the end of Superman, Supergirl follows Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock), Clark Kent’s wayward cousin, into her adventures in outer space. Though Clark (David Corenswet, as much a scene-stealer here as Alcock was in his film) wants his cousin By Sarah • Jun 26, 2026 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A new Sense and Sensibility, too It’s a year of Jane Austen, as Dolly Alderton’s series adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is due on Netflix later this year, and now we have a trailer for a new feature film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, too. The new Sens and Sens—is that anything?—comes By Sarah • Jun 26, 2026 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 2 Magic 2 Practical One of my most anticipated movies of the year is Practical Magic 2, the long-awaited sequel to one of my favorite films of all time, Practical Magic. Following the teaser we got a couple months ago, there is now a full trailer, and dare I hope? Practical Magic 2 By Sarah • Jun 25, 2026 11:55 am
