Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina is showing up The teaser trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Maria promised Angelina Jolie emoting, and the official trailer is now doing a really good job selling Angelina’s performance as Maria Callas in a true career-defining role. The trailer is all about Angelina as Maria, she looks impossibly gorgeous and fragile By Sarah • Oct 25, 2024 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ke Huy Quan: Action Star Ke Huy Quan’s acting career comeback is one of the most heartwarming and wholesome entertainment stories of the 2020s, and his acting career continues to thrive as he is now starring in his first leading action role. Of course, we saw him do some action in Everything Everywhere All By Sarah • Oct 24, 2024 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions About Venom: The Last Dance What is Venom: The Last Dance? Venom: The Last Dance is the third and probably final entry into the Sony’s only successful Spider-Man spin-off franchise, centered on Spider-Man’s rival, Venom. The film stars Tom Hardy in the dual role of Eddie Brock and Venom, who By Sarah • Oct 24, 2024 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 24, 2024 Dear Gossips, It was confirmed earlier this week that Jennifer Lawrence and her husband, Cooke Maroney, are expecting again. Last night she stepped out in LA for her first official appearance since the news at the AFI premiere of the documentary Zurawski v Texas, which she co-produced alongside Hillary By Lainey • Oct 24, 2024 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leigh Whannell’s scraggly Wolf Man In the late 2010s, Universal tried to reverse engineer a cinematic universe with the “Dark Universe”, which was meant to start with Tom Cruise’s version of The Mummy, but after that movie ate sh-t at the box office, the whole thing was cancelled, taking down a series of By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Christohper Nolan is bullying David Zaslav Speaking of Warner Bros. Discovery and their spiky relationships with filmmakers, over the last year, I’ve been keeping an eye on Christopher Nolan’s next film, chiefly because even after Universal met every one of his demands to release Oppenheimer—including releasing the film in his favored late July By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews You Will Be Entertained A box office battle is happening exactly a month from now, on November 22, 2024: Gladiator II vs Wicked Part 1. These two movies are coming out on the same day… and I feel like there’s not much conversation about it. Which is weird, I guess, because it’s By Lainey • Oct 22, 2024 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adrien Brody’s Oscar comeback begins The reason I am leading the site today is that Lainey and I switched from my regular Friday nonsense, since I thought I would be seeing The Brutalist on Thursday night, and that movie is three and a half hours long, so I expected it to f-ck up my By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy does the least This week bring us Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy’s capstone project in the world’s least likely superhero trilogy—yes, even less likely than Deadpool, because Deadpool is considered a good movie and Venom is not. Yet fans love Hardy in the dual role of down on his By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 10:30 am
Style Emilia Perez again The press tour for Emilia Pérez has entered its hundredth year as the film celebrated its Los Angeles premiere last night. It feels like this film has been on a never-ending publicity tour since Cannes, giving Wicked a run for its money as the most over-advertised film of By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 09:15 am
Douchebags Intro for October 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Sometimes my folks ask me about movies to decide if they want to bother finding and watching them, such as asking if I’ve heard of “Concave”, aka papal thriller Conclave. So when they asked me about a new Clint Eastwood movie, for which they had seen a By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 08:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cate Blanchett in Rumours Celebrated Canadian surrealist Guy Maddin and his equally surreal collaborators Galen and Evan Johnson are back on their oddball bullsh-t with Rumours, a political satire cum apocalypse film, with an emphasis on cum because there is a lot of it in this film. The three filmmakers collaborate as co- By Sarah • Oct 18, 2024 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Electric State and the cinematic state Since Avengers: Endgame, the Russo Brothers haven’t been able to replicate their Marvel success anywhere else. As directors, their Tom Holland-led TV series Cherry failed to get mainstream notice—to be fair, a common problem for Apple TV+ series—and their Netflix film, The Gray Man is synonymous By Sarah • Oct 18, 2024 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy and Zendaya: Longshots A few months ago, when it was announced that Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch would premiere at TIFF, the list of Best Actress Oscar hopefuls expanded to include the film’s star, Amy Adams. Amy’s been nominated multiple times already, some consider her “overdue”, and she’s always reliably solid By Lainey • Oct 17, 2024 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cynthia Erivo's reclamation Cynthia Erivo took to social media to slam a fan-edited poster for her upcoming film, Wicked. Earlier this month, Warner Brothers released a poster for the film in which nearly the whole face of her character, Elphaba, is visible. But the recent fan edit making the rounds on social By Stephanie • Oct 17, 2024 11:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jude Law and unsilly Nicholas Hoult I really wanted to catch Justin Kurzel’s new film, The Order, at TIFF and it just did not fit into my schedule. But it’s coming in December, so just in time for the holidays, let’s have a film about neo-Nazis and white supremacists. I love how By Sarah • Oct 17, 2024 10:33 am
