Movie Reviews and Previews Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza in My Old Ass Megan Park’s sophomore film is a considerably lighter effort than her feature directorial debut, The Fallout, which deals with a school shooting. In contrast, My Old Ass, written and directed by Park, is a coming-of-age tale with a stoner comedy soul. Set in Ontario’s cottage country, My Old By Sarah • Oct 01, 2024 02:22 pm
Gorgessity Angelina and Nicole build momentum Angelina Jolie was joined by her three eldest children, Maddox, Zahara, and Pax, at the NYFF premiere of Pablo Larraín’s Maria this weekend. Just as it was in Venice, the film was met with mixed to warm reviews, but critics seem to agree that this is an extraordinary performance By Lainey • Oct 01, 2024 01:23 pm
Gorgessity Selena Gomez is feeling herself It was a big weekend for Selena Gomez in New York. First, she and her friends were at the Sabrina Carpenter show the other night and the group included Edgar Ramirez. Connor Franklin, one of Selena’s BFFs, posted this video of everyone dancing up on each other and the By Lainey • Oct 01, 2024 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aaron Taylor-Johnson has a busy December When the first trailer for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu came out, I said I hoped it would play TIFF, as did two of Eggers’ previous films. Well, it did not, much to my disappointment. But that DOES mean I still have Nosferatu to look forward to, which I am, very much. By Sarah • Oct 01, 2024 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina emotes in Maria There were a lot of new trailers yesterday. Besides Ballerina, there were also trailers for The Last of Us season two (depressing!), Shrinking season two (depressing but funny, too!), and something called Hysteria starring Julie Bowen and Bruce Campbell (Satanic panic!). We also got the official teaser for Maria, starring By Sarah • Sep 27, 2024 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Megalopolis is Cats Once in a while a film is made which is so ambitious it becomes profound, a film that attempts to encapsulate the whole of human experience, a film that is richly complex, beautifully crafted, perfectly acted, which tells a story of humanity and frailty and greed and loss and love, By Sarah • Sep 27, 2024 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas is a dancing assassin In 2014, John Wick became a sleeper hit, ten years later, it’s the foundation of a whole ass franchise. There have been four John Wick movies, one TV show, and now, the first cinematic spin-off, the awkwardly titled From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. We really have to By Sarah • Sep 27, 2024 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Winslet in Lee Cinematographer Ellen Kuras has lensed films for Spike Lee, Rebecca Miller, Mary Harron, Michel Gondry, and Sam Mendes, so it tracks that Lee, her debut as a solo feature film director, is a very handsome film. Even the most gruesome moments are artful, which also tracks, as Lee is a By Sarah • Sep 26, 2024 03:33 pm
Quiveration Sebastian Stan is figuring it out As Sarah wrote last week in her post pegged to his Variety cover, Sebastian Stan has kicked off his Oscar campaign as he has two films he’s promoting right now: A Different Man and The Apprentice. She also pointed out that it’ll probably be The Apprentice for which By Lainey • Sep 26, 2024 01:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler’s next move Austin Butler has been in New York for the last couple of months, working on his upcoming leading-man effort, Caught Stealing, which started production a few weeks ago. It’s why he’s hanging out with Zoe Kravitz—they’re co-stars. In fact, this film has a STACKED cast. Beyond By Sarah • Sep 26, 2024 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Aubrey Plaza’s big week I have seen Megalopolis, and I am REELING. A full review will come in a few days, as soon as I can decipher reality again, but in short: I was reminded of Cats AND Terrence Malick. Make of that what you will. Megalopolis screened at the New York Film Festival By Sarah • Sep 25, 2024 03:04 pm
BFFs Will & Harper rediscover friendship and America Will Ferrell and Harper Steele’s friendship goes back 30 years, to their mutual starts at Saturday Night Live in 1995. Over the next 13 years, Harper would rise to be the Emmy-winning head writer of SNL, while Will would go on to become one of the biggest comedy stars By Sarah • Sep 25, 2024 11:59 am
Music Intro for September 25, 2024 Dear Gossips, Lady Gaga already confirmed in her most recent Vogue cover story that her next album, LG7, will be out next year, with the first single dropping in October. Late yesterday though, another announcement: Harlequin, a companion album to Joker: Folie à Deux, is coming this Friday. The album By Lainey • Sep 25, 2024 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Two Michael B Jordans is not enough The biggest story in movies so far today features Michael B Jordan once again starring in a Ryan Coogler production. Anticipation has been high ever since it was announced that these two would be working together again, especially since plot details and the title of the film were kept under By Lainey • Sep 24, 2024 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thunderbolts* looks promising The teaser trailer for Marvel’s Thunderbolts* officially dropped yesterday—“officially” because it leaked during Comic-Con—and whew, it’s a good one. Arguably the best teaser/trailer Marvel has released in a while. Like, take Marvel off it, and this just looks like a good movie. Thunderbolts* is sort By Sarah • Sep 24, 2024 10:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gladiator II spoils itself As we inch into October and autumn, we’re also approaching the holiday movie season, which means trailers for the big holiday movies, like Gladiator II. I liked the first trailer for this film a lot, especially the glimpses of what looks like a potentially great Denzel Washington performance. This By Sarah • Sep 23, 2024 02:22 pm
