Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong in The Apprentice Whether or not you are capable of finding any sympathy for Donald Trump is between you and Ali Abbasi’s new film, The Apprentice. Starring Sebastian Stan as a young Donald just making a name for himself in the world of 1970s New York real estate, The Apprentice is a By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 10:56 am
Style Dream casting the Britney movie We know that the film adaptation of Britney Spears’ memoir, The Woman in Me, is going to be made by Jon M. Chu and will be released by Universal. At some point in time, there will be a Britney movie. Which means someone needs to play Britney. Sydney Sweeney seems By Sarah • Oct 11, 2024 10:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Saturday Night Not-Live There is a moment in Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, a love letter to Lorne Michaels and his long-running late-night sketch series, where it seems like Reitman saw Aaron Sorkin’s own (short-lived) Saturday Night Live-inspired series and said, “I can do that, but better.” There is an inherent Sorkin-esque By Sarah • Oct 10, 2024 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield’s Heart Keeps Cracking Andrew Garfield is currently promoting We Live in Time which opens in limited release this week and wide next week. The film’s world premiere happened last month here in Toronto at TIFF (you can read Sarah’s review here), it’s about a couple, played by Andrew and Florence By Lainey • Oct 10, 2024 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Questioning A Complete Unknown When the teaser for the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, dropped, I said it would be my dad’s favorite movie of the year, because he loves folk music, and Pete Seeger is his favorite folk guy, and Joan Baez is one of his favorite folk gals, and the By Sarah • Oct 09, 2024 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine: Dog, Princess, and the Gossip Genie Anne Hathaway confirmed a few days ago that The Princess Diaries 3 is happening. I’m not as obsessed with The Princess Diaries as others but I think it might be generational and that there’s a whole generation just behind me that’s extremely devoted to Mia Thermopolis of By Lainey • Oct 09, 2024 01:41 pm
Quiveration Sebastian the week of The Apprentice, Ali Abassi’s film about a younger Donald Trump and his mentor, Roy Cohn, opens this Friday. I put my election ballot in the mail yesterday, and then last night, I watched The Apprentice because I like to live inside a full political nightmare. My review will run By Sarah • Oct 09, 2024 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul and Gracie There are certain corners of the internet and social media that lose their f-cking minds whenever Paul Mescal does something. So I’m very curious to see what the next few weeks will be like as we near the release of Gladiator II. Promotion for the film should be in By Lainey • Oct 08, 2024 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone’s premiere wig Emma Stone was at the New York Film Festival last night with husband and business partner Dave McCary for the premiere of A Real Pain. This is Jesse Eisenberg’s film – he wrote, directed, and stars alongside Kieran Culkin so Emma has a long history here with the creatives involved. By Lainey • Oct 07, 2024 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joker’s pratfall The writing was on the wall as the box office tracking went into freefall a couple weeks before the film even opened, but Joker: Folie à Deux tanked over the weekend, opening with just $40 million. For comparison, The Marvels, last year’s widely derided superhero bomb, opened with $46 By Sarah • Oct 07, 2024 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun Addiction narratives can be bleak, and the waters of the North Atlantic can be bleak, but somehow, together, The Outrun finds great beauty in bleak circumstances. Director Nora Fingscheidt adapts Amy Liptrot’s memoir, The Outrun, with Liptrot co-writing the screenplay. The film stars Saoirse Ronan as Liptrot’s avatar, By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie à Deux Joker: Folie à Deux is the sequel to Todd Phillips's billion-dollar and Oscar winning 2019 hit, Joker. Much of the first film’s creative team has returned, with Phillips once again directing and co-writing with Scott Silver, and cinematographer Lawrence Sher, editor Jeff Growth, and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir By Sarah • Oct 04, 2024 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews FYI: Timmy and Kylie are “very serious” Sarah posted yesterday about Timothée in New York, filming Josh Safdie’s new movie Marty Supreme, in which he becomes Timmy Ping-Pong, as the movie is based on “Ping-Pong Hustler” Marty Reisman who I’d never heard of until this project was announced which led me to that fascinating article By Lainey • Oct 03, 2024 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jacob in the sun Jacob Elordi is on holiday with Olivia Jade Giannulli and her family (her mother is Lori Loughlin) in Sardinia right now. He’s spent most of the year shooting Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, which just wrapped, so a little downtime before he begins his next project which is…? Well By Lainey • Oct 02, 2024 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lewis Pullman in 'Salem’s Lot 'Salem’s Lot is one of Stephen King’s most popular and influential novels, which is the first problem for the new film adaptation, also called 'Salem’s Lot. Written and directed by Gary Dauberman, who previously adapted It as a two-film franchise, as well as writing and By Sarah • Oct 02, 2024 02:04 pm
Style Timmy Ping Pong (with bonus Kylie) Everyone is already forecasting Timothée Chalamet as a Best Actor contender in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, but before we even get to see Timmy-Bob in action, Chalamet is already bombarding us with his new look for his upcoming film, Marty Supreme, a movie about a ping pong By Sarah • Oct 02, 2024 11:47 am
