Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, Joan Chen is forever burnt into my mind as the beautiful and doomed Josie Packard of Twin Peaks, but time is relentless and Joan Chen is busy, so she is now coming around with a new spate of films. Leading the pack is Dìdi, Sean Wang’s Millennial By Sarah • Aug 02, 2024 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Matt Damon’s co-pro Matt Damon has been on promotion the last couple of weeks for his new movie, The Instigators. It’s a star-studded cast: Hong Chau, Ving Rhames, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alfred Molina, Jack Harlow, Ron Perlman, Paul Walter Hauser, and Casey Affleck and his fiancée Caylee Cowan. So once again we By Lainey • Aug 01, 2024 01:38 pm
Quiveration It’s called the Hartnettaissance Last night was the UK premiere of Trap, with director M Night Shyamalan in attendance with his daughter, Saleka, one of the stars of the film, and Josh Hartnett who arrived with partner Tamsin Egerton. Josh has been making headlines recently while promoting the film. There’s a Taylor Swift By Lainey • Jul 30, 2024 02:16 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Nicole Kidman: Olympic Family Holiday Like so many celebrities, including her ex-husband Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman is in Paris. She, Keith Urban, and their two daughters, Sunday and Faith, were seen at the skate event the other day and today they’re at beach volleyball. Nicole is sun protected! Respect, although I don’t By Lainey • Jul 30, 2024 01:32 pm
Sports Olympic Celebrities It used to be, before social media, that summer was quiet in celebrity news. That’s changed over the last decade, there is no break, because celebrities are celebrity-ing every day of the year and we’re seeing them in Italy and Greece on their yachts and whatever. This By Lainey • Jul 29, 2024 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel’s much-needed big weekend Ha! I am right once again! After correctly predicting Twisters would beat its box office expectations, I said Deadpool & Wolverine would beat expectations, too, defying the $160 million opening weekend projection to come in around $200 million. Indeed, Deadpool & Wolverine opened with a monster $205 million (domestically), which By Sarah • Jul 29, 2024 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Coon, Olsen, and Lyonne Here’s another film I’m mad is being spat out by the Netflix content firehose: His Three Daughters. Starring Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne, it’s about three sisters caring for their father at the end of his life. It looks intense yet touching and is basically By Sarah • Jul 26, 2024 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine By the time you reach the third film in a franchise, it either works for you, or it doesn’t. Like if seeing Deadpool straight murder a bunch of people with a corpse while dancing to N*SYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” doesn’t sound like your jam, then Deadpool By Sarah • Jul 26, 2024 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James McAvoy is back James McAvoy was trending on Twitter—I will NEVER call it X—yesterday because he took his shirt off in the trailer for Speak No Evil and everyone was like, Oh yeah, James McAvoy is super hot. I feel like we have this conversation every few years, because McAvoy has By Sarah • Jul 25, 2024 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dork Storm 2024: Infinity Dork It’s that time of year again, when dorks unite in San Diego to celebrate everything geek culture. That’s right, it’s Comic Con. Though it feels different now than it used to, in large part because the sheer dominance of Hall H, where movie studios and TV networks By Sarah • Jul 25, 2024 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hartnettaissance has officially begun M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap is just a couple weeks away, and I honestly can’t remember the last time I was genuinely excited for a new Shyamalan movie. I’m always down to try his latest movie—when he misses, he MISSES, but when he hits, he HITS—but By Sarah • Jul 25, 2024 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy’s running Here’s a nice hump day surprise: the teaser for A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet has arrived…which makes me wonder if it’s going to be ready in time for the fall festivals. This film was just shooting two months ago, and though I By Sarah • Jul 24, 2024 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Queens of Venice The Venice Film Festival revealed its lineup yesterday and, just as it was with TIFF the day before, after last year’s strikes muted the brilliance of the stars, they’re coming back with the dial cranked to max with huge names expected on the Lido at the end of By Lainey • Jul 24, 2024 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Joker all a dream? The Venice Film Festival starts in just about a month, and one of the biggest premieres it will host is for Joker: Folie à Deux. A new trailer has been released, and I like this one less than I did the first one. It definitely looks like Folie àDeux IS By Sarah • Jul 24, 2024 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 24, 2024 Dear Gossips, Today is Jennifer Lopez’s 55th birthday. So far on social media she’s been reposting birthday tributes from fans in her IG stories but, at the time of this writing, she hasn’t yet shared anything new. And of course everyone continues to wonder about him, and By Lainey • Jul 24, 2024 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool’s final push Deadpool & Wolverine opens at the end of the week, and since I just nailed a box office prediction with Twisters, I’ll try again with this one. Deadpool is tracking for a $160 million opening weekend, but once again I think that’s low, and it will go upwards By Sarah • Jul 23, 2024 10:34 am
