Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Grant in Heretic Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of A Quiet Place, are back with a new vision of horror—missionaries. Together they write and direct Heretic, a horror film about the ghastliness of guests, or the misery of being forced to talk to people, depending on how you look at it. By Sarah • Nov 07, 2024 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle stressed on set Crime writer Don Winslow is about to have a moment. Sony is building a franchise around Austin Butler with his series City on Fire, and there is already an adaptation of his novella Crime 101 in production in Los Angeles. Halle Berry was seen filming on Venice Beach yesterday, sporting By Sarah • Nov 07, 2024 02:43 pm
Gorgessity Annie gasps, adorably Anne Hathaway stepped out for a walk yesterday in all white and I’m glad we have new photos of her because I don’t think we’ve talked in a dedicated post about her Vogue France cover for November 2024 and the “Life in Looks” feature that she did By Lainey • Nov 07, 2024 11:03 am
Style Professor Evans is back The Red One press tour is happening now, in advance of the film’s November 15 release date. (I’m seeing it next week. hoo raaaaay) The cast turned up in London for a photocall yesterday, including Lucy Liu in a great red pantsuit—jumpsuit? Either way, she looks great. By Sarah • Nov 07, 2024 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 7, 2024 Dear Gossips, As we learned last month, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi will star in a new adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emerald Fennell. A new report from Variety states the film prompted a bidding war, with Netflix offering $150 million for it, but Robbie, who is producing the film By Sarah • Nov 07, 2024 09:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Billy Zane is a cool dude Today in Well That’s Unexpected news, Billy Zane is starring in a biopic of Marlon Brando, and he is NAILING IT. The trailer for Waltzing with Brando dropped yesterday, and Zane done up as Brando is UNCANNY, like it’s almost TOO perfect. The film is set in the By Sarah • Nov 06, 2024 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse Ronan in Blitz Steve McQueen is a filmmaker of exacting detail, grand emotional scope, and precise visual acuity, which makes him ideal for making films with historical settings. 12 Years a Slave, Hunger, and Small Axe are all period dramas crafted by McQueen, and now he is turning his eye inevitably toward Britain By Sarah • Nov 06, 2024 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Demi is outside, too All week, Oscar contenders have been outside, promoting their movies, and now it’s Demi Moore’s turn. She’s in France promoting The Substance alongside filmmaker Coralie Fargeat. Though The Substance premiered at Cannes earlier this year, it is only just now opening in Fargeat’s home country. The By Sarah • Nov 06, 2024 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Sedgwick family movie A celebrity couple it turns out we all love is Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. They’ve been together forever (legit going on forty years! That is infinity in celebrity time!), they’re lowkey, unproblematic, they have a farm full of cute animals they regularly feature on Instagram. They also By Sarah • Nov 05, 2024 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Saldaña, Gomez, and Gascón in Emilia Pérez My dislike of musicals is well documented and sometimes people will ask why I dislike musicals, and I now have a succinct answer to that question: Emilia Pérez is why I dislike musicals. Jacques Audiard’s award-winning cinematic musical embodies everything that I don’t like about the form. Musicals By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 03:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pamela Anderson is campaigning My biggest question mark for awards season this year is how seriously will the Oscar establishment take Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl? They SHOULD take her very seriously, because her performance is terrific. It’s so good that were it anyone else in the role, I have no doubt By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 01:41 pm
Style Wickediator kicks off Ever since Paramount and Universal doubled down on releasing Gladiator II and Wicked congruently on November 22, the studios have been trying to make a Barbenheimer-style double bill event happen, but it hasn’t really gained any traction. Partly because you can’t force a Barbenheimer situation, but also because By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 4, 2024 Dear Gossips, Lainey is traveling for work this week, which means I am in charge all week long, which is great for me because I need hella distractions! Lainey tried to text me about Kamala appearing on SNL over the weekend and I was like, I’m sorry I just By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 09:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in Here Thirty years after Forrest Gump, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, screenwriter Eric Roth, and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite for Here, a bland, mawkish film that takes the “drawing room” part of “drawing room play” incredibly seriously. Roth and Zemeckis collaborate on a script adapting Richard McGuire’s experimental graphic By Sarah • Nov 01, 2024 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RPattz on set (without Zendaya) A few months ago we learned that Robert Pattinson and Zendaya will star in a new film from Kristoffer Borgli, the filmmaker behind Dream Scenario. That film, titled The Drama, is now filming in Boston. RPattz was on set yesterday, looking like a normal guy. He’s one of those By Sarah • Nov 01, 2024 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mikey Madison in Anora Sean Baker’s latest film, Anora, is drawing a lot of comparisons to Pretty Woman, and it’s easy to see why. That film is about a sex worker and a rich man falling (somewhat improbably) in love, a Cinderella story dressed up with contemporary wit. Anora is also about By Sarah • Oct 30, 2024 02:21 pm
