Movie Reviews and Previews Bikie Austin Australians call bikers “bikies” which I will never not find funny. Bikies! It’s like talking to your dog about going on a ride, Do you want to go on bikies? I bring this up because Austin Butler is in Australia promoting The Bikeriders, which legit makes sense because Oz By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cailee Spaeny’s busy year Following the trailer for Venom: The Last Dance, which is technically a movie about an alien that latches onto humans to survive, Disney/20th Century Studios (Fox, you are missed) released a new trailer for Alien: Romulus. This is the latest film in the Alien franchise, it comes from filmmaker By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 03:24 pm
Style Dakota and Chris again Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans continue work on Celine Song’s Materialists in New York, and I am highlighting these set photos mainly because it’s funny to me that every time Dakota pops up on set, someone asks Maria to source her wardrobe, including in today's As By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Venom is the little franchise that could We have talked plenty about Sony’s attempts to launch an MCU-adjacent, live-action “Spider-Man Universe of Marvel Character” (SPUMC, lol), with films such as Morbius and Madame Web, and how it never goes well for them…except in the case of Venom. In 2018, Tom Hardy’s By Sarah • Jun 04, 2024 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Another batch of Marvel reshoots Captain America: Brave New World, the fourth Cap film in which Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson takes over as Captain America, wrapped principal photography last spring. But then post-production got dinged by the dual labor strikes last summer—presumably chiefly affecting their ability to do reshoots—so the Marvel By Sarah • Jun 04, 2024 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews No one wants the Trump movie Ali Abassi’s film about a younger Donald Trump and his business daddy, Roy Cohn, The Apprentice, debuted at Cannes to generally good reviews. The film stars Jeremy Strong in his first post-Succession screen role, Sebastian Stan, and Maria Bakalova, plus Abassi is a generally admired filmmaker whose last By Sarah • Jun 03, 2024 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Expanding the Knives Out 3 fantasy cast Knives Out 3, officially titled Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, continues casting apace. On top of recent additions Andrew Scott, Josh O’Connor, and Cailee Spaeny, Glenn Close has joined the cast—will she play a patrician matriarch or a kook?—as have Jeremy Renner and Mila By Sarah • May 31, 2024 01:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Now it’s Chris’s turn Filming of Celine Song’s Materialists continues in New York, and I thought I was the only one salivating over maybe-single Dakota Johnson’s character’s wardrobe, but apparently, a bunch of you asked Maria to source her fits, so I am not alone in wanting all of these By Sarah • May 31, 2024 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin and Jodie hit the road The Bikeriders comes out in a month, and as I said yesterday, Focus Features is hoping this will be a summer sleeper, a bit of adult-oriented counterprogramming to the summer tentpoles. We’ll see! For now, Austin Butler and Jodie Comer have started their press tour, alongside director Jeff By Sarah • May 31, 2024 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicole, Zac, Joey: A Threesome That is a clickbaity headline, I admit it, so let me first say that the new Netflix movie, A Family Affair, starring Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, and Joey King is not a sexual threesome, please don’t accuse me of depravity. But it IS a rom-com with three stars: By Lainey • May 30, 2024 03:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Shyamalan nepo summer Dakota Fanning is currently in the UK doing press for her new film, The Watchers, which appears to be called The Watched in the UK. It’s a horror movie and the feature film debut of writer/director Ishana Night Shyamalan, M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter. It certainly looks like By Sarah • May 30, 2024 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Clooney and Pitt redux Someone complained about the number of trailer writeups on this site, and I’m SORRY, but today is NOT helping. It’s not my fault! I mean, I have editorial control today, so it IS, but also, a million trailers dropped at once and I am FIGHTING for my LIFE. By Sarah • May 30, 2024 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively at work If that name means nothing to you, watch A Simple Favor and fix your life. Blake Lively is in Rome, filming A Simple Favor 2. Last month, she was in Capri with Anna Kendrick and new co-star Michele Morrone. Lainey wondered if A Simple Favor qualifies as a cult By Sarah • May 30, 2024 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Knives Out fantasy casting Benoit Blanc is back, baby! The third entry into the Knives Out franchise of fun little murder mysteries has been announced, it’s called Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery which is a terrible title, but I shall not let that get me down! I love Benoit Blanc By Sarah • May 29, 2024 02:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy-Bob on set Timothée Chalamet is currently at work on James Mangold’s latest music biopic, A Complete Unknown. The film is adapted from Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric! and depicts the moment in Bob Dylan’s career when the young folk singer switched from acoustic to electric guitars. Mangold has By Sarah • May 29, 2024 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The dismal holiday box office It was Memorial Day weekend in the US, a three-day weekend that often signals the start of summer. For film fans, though, Memorial Day is usually a big movie weekend, dominated by a blockbuster release. Well, not this year. 2024 is the worst Memorial Day box office in almost By Sarah • May 28, 2024 10:47 am
