Movie Reviews and Previews Demi Lovato is for the kids Demi Lovato is reflecting on some of the struggles she faced trying to make sense of her life as a young celebrity. Despite being vocal in the past about her experiences as a child star and the legacy of those issues, which undoubtedly played a role in her near-fatal overdose By Stephanie • Sep 19, 2024 11:14 am
Gorgessity Lily Gladstone in a great suit Post Emmys, Lily Gladstone is back at work, promoting Fancy Dance, alongside co-star Isabel Deroy-Olson and director Erica Tremblay. The film is now streaming on Apple TV+ and it is very good. They attended a SAG screening in Los Angeles on Monday, as the gears of awards season are starting By Sarah • Sep 18, 2024 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney will do the interview Big show for Jimmy Kimmel last night. As mentioned in today’s site open, Oprah popped in and he also had George Clooney there. George is doing promo for Wolfs (we’ll get to that in a minute) but since he was following Oprah’s moment on the show, and By Lainey • Sep 18, 2024 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo’s new deal I’ll credit Duana, yet again, who first described Jennifer Lopez as “Teflon” on an episode of our Show Your Work podcast years ago – because it’s not like JLo doesn’t experience dips; dips are normal in life and in show business. And JLo’s had her share of By Lainey • Sep 18, 2024 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Twice the RPattz Bong-Joon Ho’s Parasite follow-up, Mickey 17, has been a source of much interest, as Bong is allegedly engaged in a power struggle with executives at Warner Bros. Discovery for final cut of the film. I wonder if that situation is now resolved, because the first trailer for Mickey 17 By Sarah • Sep 18, 2024 10:28 am
Gorgessity Demi Moore up close Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid, opens this weekend. The film first premiered in Cannes back in May, which is when the Oscar buzz for Demi first started. That was early and now that fall festival season has started and other contenders have By Lainey • Sep 17, 2024 01:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Hyun Bin in Harbin South Korean filmmaker Woo Min-ho has a knack for thrillers, having previously made the spy thriller The Man Standing Next, Inside Men, and The Spies, though that film takes a more comedic approach to the genre. His latest film is another spy thriller, Harbin, which fictionalizes the 1909 assassination of By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Andrea Arnold’s Bird Andrea Arnold’s work is often concerned with animals, whether it’s the horse of Fish Tank, the turtle of American Honey, or the titular cow in Cow. In Bird, there are, yes, birds. But there are also horses, dogs, foxes, fish, and a patch of green thriving on the By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Stephen King saved Salem’s Lot Spooky season, pumpkin spice season, sweater weather time, autumn, fall, whatever your preferred terminology, we’re almost there, and that means it’s time to start looking at trailers for all the scary movies coming in October. Salem’s Lot would be notable at any time, as it is one By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Elizabeth Olsen’s strategic lunch While hanging out during TIFF, Lainey and I were talking about paparazzi photos, and I said that ever since taking over editing the site on Fridays, I’ve really come to appreciate the celebrities who get their picture taken when they have trailers and new movies, etc, dropping. It’s By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl The Coppola filmmaking dynasty is full of notable directors, writers, and actors, and with The Last Showgirl, director Gia Coppola announces herself as the latest Francis-spawn (he’s her grandfather) that must be taken seriously. Nine years after her feature directorial debut, Palo Alto, Coppola delivers a film that feels By Sarah • Sep 12, 2024 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan made his name directing horror films and television series like Oculus, Hush, Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, and The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Besides being one of the best genre directors working today, he’s the preeminent cinematic By Sarah • Sep 11, 2024 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Beat writers are notoriously difficult to adapt into cinema, probably something to do with the intense interiority of their narratives (some might even say, solipsistic). Luca Guadagnino, though, manages to turn William S. Burroughs’ early, semi-autobiographical novel Queer into an interesting piece of cinema unto itself, though this is a By Sarah • Sep 11, 2024 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Apprentice commits to the bit Well, here it is, the first trailer for The Apprentice, Ali Abassi’s film about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn and their f-cked up history, and the early years in which Cohn mentored Trump into the, er, man we know today. You know what? It doesn’t look bad. Looks By Sarah • Sep 11, 2024 09:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Angelina Jolie’s Without Blood Angelina Jolie is something of a frustrating filmmaker. She has no lack of technical skill, her eye is good, and she has a deft touch with actors, but her films never seem to add up to much. That is especially prevalent in her latest film, Without Blood, an adaptation of By Sarah • Sep 10, 2024 02:32 pm
Media Manipulation Blake Lively’s Feelings It Ends With Us opened in theatres a month ago yesterday and has gone on to become Blake Lively’s highest grossing movie. That’s typically an achievement to be celebrated but there really hasn’t been all that much celebration, at least not publicly. Because of the scandal that By Lainey • Sep 10, 2024 01:59 pm
