Movie Reviews and Previews Queer Americana in National Anthem Luke Gilford’s feature film debut, National Anthem, is a coming-of-age tale of the tenderest sort, set in rural America as a young man discovers the place where he truly belongs. Inspired by Gilford’s own monograph National Anthem: America’s Queer Rodeo, National Anthem centers on Dylan By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews New world, new Cap With Deadpool & Wolverine and Comic Con just around the corner—Deadpool opens on Comic Con weekend—Marvel is ramping up for their latest round of major marketing, which means we’re getting a first look at Captain America: Brave New World, aka the one without Chris Evans. Anthony Mackie By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 01:16 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Hot Brisket in LA Speaking of Twisters , that film’s Los Angeles premiere was yesterday. Glen Powell showed up in a truck and more importantly, with BRISKET. Glen Powell is running the Chris Evans Adorable Dog playbook, and it is WORKING. I LOVE BRISKET. Look at him! Look at his little face! Brisket is By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 12:23 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Deadpool inches closer The last two major blockbusters of summer 2024 are coming up over the next couple weeks, with Twisters opening next week, and then Deadpool & Wolverine on July 26. Deadpool is expected to be one of the biggest films of the year, and is tracking for a $160-165 million By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 10:20 am
Gorgessity Winona Winona… and Winona A name you can say three times. A name you want to say more than three times. A name you want to say forever. A name we’ve been saying for almost 40 years because that’s how long Winona Ryder has been famous – almost 40 years. If you’re By Lainey • Jul 11, 2024 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kevin Costner’s box office bomb This is the year of rich A-listers spending their own dime on passion projects—some might say “vanity projects”—and in Kevin Costner’s case, it isn’t working out as hoped. His awkwardly titled Western epic Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 is bombing at the box office, By Sarah • Jul 11, 2024 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The FloField movie is here At last year’s Oscars Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield set the internet ablaze with their palpable chemistry when they presented Sarah Polley with the Best Adapted Screenplay award. They were immediately dubbed “FloField” by Lainey, and just as quickly we learned they were making a movie together. Well, that By Sarah • Jul 11, 2024 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jodie Comer’s next thing Well, The Bikeriders did not become the summer sleeper Focus Features was hoping. While it was never expected to be a $100 million blockbuster, it managed just $29 million, which isn’t a total disaster but given the film’s $30 million price tag, it isn’t great, either. The By Sarah • Jul 10, 2024 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, There’s been a lot of talk about a possible film sequel to The Devil Wears Prada as Entertainment Weekly is confirming that the cast is in talks – and that means all four of the majors: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci. Also the original By Lainey • Jul 10, 2024 09:32 am
Style Zoë Kravitz and the Pussy Problem Zoë Kravitz’s feature directorial debut, Blink Twice, opens in August. She co-wrote the script and while she had previously been adamant about not changing the name of the film, originally called Pussy Island, we learned earlier this year when the trailer was released that the title has indeed By Lainey • Jul 09, 2024 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell: Wingmen and Thirst Traps The cast of Twisters is in London to make the final push ahead of the release of the movie on July 19. Here are Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Anthony Ramos last night at the premiere and also today at the photo call. A quick note on Daisy – this By Lainey • Jul 09, 2024 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will you be entertained? As Paramount and Skydance finally agree to a merger, here comes the first trailer for what will be the last big film of the Paramount Pictures era, and it’s a doozy. Gladiator is a nearly perfect film, one of Ridley Scott’s true opuses, which splits the difference between By Sarah • Jul 09, 2024 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers reassembled in Lakota Over the weekend, Marvel dropped a video online showing only some of the 15-month process to create a Lakota-language dub of The Avengers, reuniting the original cast to re-record their roles in the Lakota language. This is a HUGE step for Indigenous language preservation. As Ray Taken By Sarah • Jul 08, 2024 02:08 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie: Venice… soon? After spending much of the year in New York working on The Outsiders, Angelina Jolie had been in LA the last couple of weeks, which is where she spent the Fourth of July weekend, seen on Sunday with son Knox at the pet store. This is our latest installment of: By Lainey • Jul 08, 2024 12:13 pm
Sports Brad Pitt goes vroom Over the weekend we got our first look at Brad Pitt’s Formula 1 movie, now officially titled F1. It’s directed by Joseph Kosinski, and stars Pitt as a veteran racecar driver who comes out of retirement to show a younger driver, played by Damson Idris, the ways of By Sarah • Jul 08, 2024 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Julianne Nicholson in Janet Planet Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker makes her feature directorial debut with Janet Planet, a film in which “nothing happens” except, probably, the most consequential summer of a young girl’s life. Set in 1991 in rural Massachusetts, the film follows eleven-year-old Lacy (newcomer Zoe Ziegler) and her By Sarah • Jul 04, 2024 03:54 pm
