Movie Reviews and Previews Thanks, I Hate It: The new The Crow The Crow began life as a comic book by James O’Barr, then it became a cult classic film from 1994, starring the late Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Bai Ling, and Ernie Hudson, which was directed by Alex Proyas and was successful enough to spawn three sequels and a TV By Sarah • Aug 26, 2024 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Jack Black sign up for slithering Today in Let The Past Die news, Paul Rudd and Jack Black are in talks to star in a remake of the 1997 film Anaconda which was Owen Wilson’s first big Hollywood role, and Jennifer Lopez’s follow up to Selena (look, it can take time for a movie By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice Get Out introduced us to a new sub-genre of horror, the “social thriller” which uses the style and themes of the horror/thriller genre(s) for social critique. Get Out took on racism and how white supremacy is built on the literal exploitation of Black bodies. Nope takes aim at By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Are the publicists okay Today in Has Anyone Checked On The Publicists Lately, Somebody Probably Should news, Lionsgate pulled the latest trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis because they got caught using fabricated quotes attributed to famous film critics in the trailer. Here’s what happened: Yesterday morning, Lionsgate, the US distributor for By Sarah • Aug 22, 2024 01:32 pm
BFFs Everybody at the bar with Zoë There was another Blink Twice screening in New York last night ahead of its premiere on Friday. Reviews are starting to come out now and they’re solid (Sarah’s will be posted tomorrow) – like no one’s calling it a masterpiece but most are saying that Zoë Kravitz’s By Lainey • Aug 22, 2024 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Todd Phillips won’t call his musical murder clown movie a musical We’re two weeks out from Joker: Folie à Deux premiering at the Venice Film Festival. Given the billion-dollar, Oscar-winning success of the first film, the expectations are high for Folie à Deux. There’s really no reason to expect the sequel won’t deliver, I think Folie à Deux By Sarah • Aug 21, 2024 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan outside Behold, it is Sebastian Stan, outside in Los Angeles. The last time we saw him was at Kevin Feige’s Walk of Fame ceremony, which precipitated Marvel’s triumphant return to Hall H at Comic-Con. There, the trailer for Thunderbolts*, which represents his next outing as Bucky Barnes, was very By Sarah • Aug 20, 2024 11:18 am
BFFs Twigs and Fox FKA twigs and Julia Fox, this friendship started at least a year ago and I hope it continues, I hope we get more of it, because of how wildly unconventional these two women are in their expression, in all forms – artistic, personal, professional, style, everything. Twigs is readying a new By Lainey • Aug 20, 2024 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë and CTates in the closet Blink Twice opens at the end of this week, which means Zoë Kravitz and the cast are fully outside, on their press tour. Over the weekend, Zoë was in London along with Channing Tatum, Naomie Ackie, and Blink Twice producers Garret Levitz and Tiffany Persons, who produced the film alongside By Sarah • Aug 19, 2024 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hayden Panettiere’s return In the pantheon of young 2000s actresses who were a very big deal and then sort of went nowhere, Hayden Panettiere stands out, not because we ask why she didn’t become a bigger deal (like Leighton Meester), but because we know exactly what happened. There was a bout of By Sarah • Aug 16, 2024 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, Dan Stevens is having a great year. First, he got to do whatever the hell he wanted in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, then he got to do whatever the hell he wanted in vampire ballerina movie Abigail (is it good? No. Is Dan Stevens’ performance wildly By Sarah • Aug 16, 2024 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The other R-rated Marvel movie In the endless shuffling that resulted from production and release delays last year, Sony’s latest Spider-Man movie that doesn’t feature Spider-Man, Kraven the Hunter, got booted around several times before finally landing on a December 2024 release date. They are apparently locked into that date, because they are By Sarah • Aug 15, 2024 11:52 am
Media Manipulation Controversy at the box office It Ends With Us opened in second after Deadpool & Wolverine at the domestic box office this past weekend with $50 million – a good number next to its budget. According to Deadline, it was outearning D&W at the box office on Monday and Tuesday this week and is By Lainey • Aug 15, 2024 11:03 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Who’s in crisis though? Pretty sure I don’t have to provide a refresher on this It Ends With Us mess but if you missed it, I wrote about the situation yesterday and Sarah’s initial post on it from last week is here. In my (long ass) post yesterday, I started with the By Lainey • Aug 14, 2024 01:57 pm
Douchebags George & Brad: Together Again Wolfs, the film that reunites George Clooney and Brad Pitt, will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in a couple of weeks. It’s going to be a big splashy carpet, preceded by all kinds of excitement when George and Brad arrive on their boats in polos and linens, flashing By Lainey • Aug 14, 2024 11:42 am
Gorgessity Halle Berry’s pre-Birthday Premiere Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg are in a new Netflix movie together called The Union that’s releasing on Friday. His name comes before her in the credits in the trailer. I just made a face writing that line. In addition to Halle and Mark, JK Simmons and Lorraine Bracco By Lainey • Aug 13, 2024 03:15 pm
