Movie Reviews and Previews Bridget and All Her Boys We’re just two weeks away from the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the return of Renée Zellweger as Bridget, now a widow and single mother, having to manage the school run and the dating apps at the same time. She and Helen Fielding were at By Lainey • Jan 28, 2025 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, When Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet was released in 1993, about a queer Taiwanese American man who marries a Chinese woman to get her a green card and hiding the truth from his family as they plan the wedding, it’s not like there were a lot By Lainey • Jan 28, 2025 09:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Starry Sundance It was a star-studded opening weekend for the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, maybe the most star-studded since the pandemic. A slew of weekend premieres and parties brought out the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Lily Gladstone, Carey Mulligan, Chloe Sevigny, and Joel Edgerton (who is already getting trophy By Sarah • Jan 27, 2025 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooting for all the Mickeys Promotion for Bong Joon-ho’s latest film, Mickey 17, has kicked off with Robert Pattinson in tow, ahead of its premiere in South Korea next week. Then it plays the Berlin Film Festival in February, before opening everywhere else in March and April (it opens in North American on March By Sarah • Jan 24, 2025 01:18 pm
BFFs Benny C in Variety It feels like it’s been forever since we’ve talked about Benedict Cumberbatch, a 2010s staple. Maybe because it’s been a few years since his last big film (2022’s Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, since then, it’s been shorts and indie stuff), but maybe By Sarah • Jan 24, 2025 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mikey Madison, an Oscar mystery Mikey Madison was making the press rounds in New York yesterday just after it was announced that she was nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars for her performance in Anora. This, too, is part of campaign strategy – make sure to get the candidate right out there, front and centre, By Lainey • Jan 24, 2025 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia Stiles alert! Because I am always lowkey checking for Julia Stiles, Kat Stratford of my heart, I was excited to see her out and about yesterday, heading into The View dressed in winter chic. Julia is making the rounds, promoting her feature directorial debut, Wish You Were Here, a romantic drama she By Sarah • Jan 24, 2025 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 24, 2025 Dear Gossips, Sundance has officially begun, and though it is a lower-key affair than it used to be in the 2000s and early 2010s, it still brings out plenty of people. Opening day premieres, for instance, brought out the likes of Dylan O’Brien—who is already getting rave reviews By Sarah • Jan 24, 2025 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Oscar nominations are finally here (someone stop Emilia Pérez) After a couple of weeks of delays and fire-related chaos, the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards are here, and I am in a VERY “I told you so” mood because Monica Barbaro snagged that Best Supporting Actress nomination that I’ve been saying she could get since last fall. By Sarah • Jan 23, 2025 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling at Lightspeed This is a post about an upcoming Star Wars movie and, ordinarily, that checks two of Sarah’s boxes: movies, in general, and Star Wars specifically. Sarah, however, is busy, so I get to do the Star Wars business but it’s not really Star Wars business here, it’s By Lainey • Jan 22, 2025 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ayo’s Opus In between The Bear, Ayo Edebiri stays busy, including a trip to Sundance next week for the premiere of Opus, a new comedy(??) horror(???) film from filmmaker Mark Anthony Green and indie tastemaker, A24. The trailer dropped yesterday, and you know me, I love a good horror movie, so I By Sarah • Jan 22, 2025 12:27 pm
TV Updates Kristen Stewart: Blonde Vampire? Kristen Stewart was papped for the first time this year the other day with fiancée (maybe wife now? She’s so low-key that if they got married, quietly, no one would know) Dylan Meyer. She and Dylan aren’t just partnered in their personal life, they’re also business partners. By Lainey • Jan 21, 2025 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland: What “the lead” means Tom Holland was trending on socials yesterday after some accounts picked up a story about him being “the lead” in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, The Odyssey. The assumption was that he would be playing Odysseus, and from there the ensuing reaction ranged from complaining to confusion. Let’s back By Lainey • Jan 21, 2025 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Unproblematic fave Paul Rudd Today in the USA is a horror show, it’s not that I don’t care, it’s not that I don’t want to or will not bear witness to the sh-tstorm coming our way, it’s just that I need a five minute f-cking break. And today, that By Sarah • Jan 20, 2025 11:18 am
Amazingness Robert Pattinson does aegyo I promised warmth and joy – and there’s nothing that represents warmth and joy like finger and hand hearts, especially when they come from the most unlikely person to give finger and hand hearts! Robert Pattinson is in South Korea with Director Bong Joon-ho to kick off promotional activities for By Lainey • Jan 20, 2025 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Two Angels and a Timmy in New York, London, and Rome The two angels are Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz and I think that’s self-explanatory. The third angel in this equation of course would be Drew Barrymore. And at some point, since both Lucy and Cam are promoting films right now, and Drew has her own talk show… Someone somewhere By Lainey • Jan 17, 2025 01:56 pm
