Movie Reviews and Previews Adrien Brody in The Brutalist Having previously tackled the formative years of a fascist leader (The Childhood of a Leader) and America’s insatiable appetite for celebrity (Vox Lux), filmmaker Brady Corbet turns his attention to the immigrant experience in America in The Brutalist. Directed by Corbet and co-written by him and Mona Fastvold, The By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Another rom-com bites the streaming dust There was a time when Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon starring in a rom-com would be a major release, a film you could pretty well set your watch to, as it were, counting on it to make $100 million on name recognition alone. But these days? No one has a By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone else in Mufasa The Mufasa press tour continues apace, stopping in London yesterday. No Bey or Blue Ivy this time, though, which means we can talk about everyone else involved with this film. Let’s start with Barry Jenkins, the director of the film. It is for his sake that I hope Mufasa By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 12, 2024 Dear Gossips, During the summer, critics heaped praise on JT Mollner’s serial killer horror flick Strange Darling, but that did not translate into box office, as the film made only $3.7 million, slightly less than its reported budget of $4 million. Films fail to find their audience all By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Boots boots boots Today in No Thank You news, the trailer for 28 Years Later, the long-awaited third film in the 28 Days Later franchise, dropped and it’s pants sh-ttingly scary. This trailer is a two-minute master class of jangling nerves and upsetting imagery. The new film is set, appropriately, 28 years By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 02:47 pm
Quiveration This is an excuse for Keanu Sonic the Hedgehog has become an improbable hit franchise, cranking out three films and one streaming series, Knuckles, in the last four years. The franchise stars Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic, James Marsden and Tika Sumpter as his human friends, Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik, and Idris Elba By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 02:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet in A Complete Unknown Walk Hard lampooned music biopics so thoroughly we should probably abandon the whole genre for a while, and yet, Hollywood persists in cranking out music biopics, the cinematic equivalent of a jukebox musical. A Complete Unknown is the latest, directed by James Mangold (who also directed Walk the Line, one By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 11, 2024 Dear Gossips, On the heels of the Critics Choice Awards kinda-sorta accidentally excluding Last Week Tonight from the talk show category, we have another awards show “controversy”, this time involving Dune: Part II and the Golden Globes. The “controversy” is that Dune 2 was not nominated for the Cinematic and By Sarah • Dec 11, 2024 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews JAW the Hutt Continuing casting news, Jeremy Allen White will voice Jabba the Hutt’s son, Rotta the Hutt, in the upcoming Star Wars spin-off, The Mandalorian & Grogu (the news was first reported by Jeff Sneider). The film is the culmination of the story told thus far on the streaming series The By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans MCU part deux Today in Of Course He Is news, Chris Evans is returning to the MCU in Avengers: Doomsday, which will also star Robert Downey, Jr. in his new capacity as Doctor Doom. The film, which is due in 2026, won’t even be Evans’ first return to Marvel since Avengers: Endgame, By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 01:36 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession The Blue Ivy Carter red carpet Blue Ivy Carter is 12 years old. She has a starring role in Disney’s Mufasa, opening on December 20. Blue plays Kiara, the daughter of Simba and Nala. This is Blue’s first feature role in a film and therefore her first red carpet as an actor. Since the By Lainey • Dec 10, 2024 11:31 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Demi’s party week Another Best Actress contender maintaining momentum this week is Demi Moore, who started her week with a belated birthday bash, then got nominated for a Golden Globe, and then stepped out, with her dog, Pilaf, at the SFFILM Awards Night in San Francisco, where she was honored with the Maria By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina in Paris Fresh off her Golden Globes nomination for Best Actress/Drama, Angelina Jolie is back at work in Paris on a new film called Stitches. It’s from French actor and filmmaker Alice Winocour, who is best known for the films Disorder, Proxima, and Revoir Paris. Stitches is about an American By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 09:31 am
TV Updates Jack and Saoirse do the awards Saoirse Ronan did not receive a Golden Globe nomination today, not for her performance in The Outrun and not for her performance in Blitz. That does not mean, however, that she won’t hear her name called when Critics Choice makes their nominations announcement tomorrow. Interestingly enough, Critics Choice announced By Lainey • Dec 09, 2024 01:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pretty people at CCXP I thought that CCXP, the Brazilian answer to Comic-Con, had already happened this year, but CCXP is held every December and it’s only just December now, so I think I’m just remembering December 2022 as, like, two months ago. Time really is a construct, and the pandemic definitely By Sarah • Dec 09, 2024 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globe nominations are coming later today – we’ll post about that later. The Oscar race continued to take shape yesterday with the announcement of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association winners of the year, further boosting the Oscar nomination chances of Anora, Mikey Madison, and Marianne By Lainey • Dec 09, 2024 09:26 am
