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 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 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 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 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 By Sarah • Oct 02, 2024 11:47 am
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, 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 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
