Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth in Furiosa In 2015, Mad Max: Fury Road revitalized the Mad Max franchise, a rare legacy sequel that improves upon its forebears, and a film that is, in its own right, a contemporary classic. Fury Road roars with action, a bastion of practical stunts and the judicious implementation of CGI that arrived By Sarah • May 24, 2024 01:06 pm
Style Lily Gladstone’s next act One year after premiering Killers of the Flower Moon at Cannes, Lily Gladstone is on the jury, and she’s been killing it on the Croisette. Yesterday at the premiere of L’Amour Ouf (Beating Hearts), it was an embroidered black dress, spangled shawl, and stellar pink earrings. I can’ By Sarah • May 24, 2024 11:59 am
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: Coming back to us now If you haven’t yet watched the first trailer for Celine Dion’s upcoming documentary, I Am: Celine Dion, let me just give you a heads up – you’re going to need some time to recover. I’m hosting a luncheon today, I’m about to leave in half an By Lainey • May 23, 2024 12:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Of course The Apprentice has legal issues Sebastian Stan took a break from filming Thunderbolts* to hop over to Cannes for the world premiere of The Apprentice, Ali Abassi’s film about the rise of Donald Trump in the 1970s and 80s. Stan was there with Abbasi and Maria Bakalova, who plays Ivana Trump. Jeremy Strong, who By Sarah • May 22, 2024 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The daddest of all dad movies Kevin Costner’s western epic Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (hate the title!) premiered at Cannes over the weekend. Festival reviews are not to be trusted, but Vulture’s critic, Bilge Ebiri, called it “Dune: Part One for dads” which made me laugh out loud. My dad only watches By Sarah • May 21, 2024 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry’s post-apocalyptic kids There is no worse person to be stuck in an apocalypse with than a child. Show me a kid in an apocalypse movie, and I will show you an adult standing next to that kid who is about to die. An interesting apocalypse movie might be one in which a By Sarah • May 17, 2024 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Cailey Fleming in IF IF review take one… IF, written and directed by John Krasinski, is a sweet film aimed at kids with enough jokes the adults will understand to make it tolerable family viewing. Cailey Fleming stars as Bea, who has already lost one parent and is faced with losing the other, and By Sarah • May 17, 2024 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively’s weepy romance Colleen Hoover is a very popular writer who is obviously doing something right as her books connect with so many people, but I have never successfully completed one of them. Keep that in mind as I tell you about the trailer for It Ends With Us, a new film based By Sarah • May 16, 2024 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell kicks off his big summer Hit Man drops on Netflix on June 7, and while I am deep in my “I am mad about Hit Man selling to Netflix even though it was Glen Powell and Richard Linklater who decided to sell it to Netflix and yet I am not mad at THEM” feelings, I By Sarah • May 16, 2024 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Converting to Wicked Sarah and I just had an exchange over text about Wicked because the new trailer just dropped and we were deciding who would write it. The issue is that movies are usually Sarah’s department and Wicked is a BIG movie – two BIG movies. But… Sarah haaaaaaates musicals. I don’ By Lainey • May 15, 2024 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 15, 2024 Dear Gossips, Summer is almost always blockbuster season and the most highly anticipated films are often big budget, big effects, big star productions. This summer, the film I’m most excited about is Sean Wang’s Didi. Sean Wang is coming off an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short for By Lainey • May 15, 2024 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Megalopolis starring Adam Driver Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed new film, Megalopolis, will premiere at Cannes in two days. A teaser trailer dropped this morning, and despite a lot of rumors that this was a nightmare production followed by a baffled reception by potential distributors—the film does not yet have a distribution By Sarah • May 14, 2024 02:15 pm
BFFs John Krasinski and all his friends John Krasinski’s film, IF, opens this weekend – this one is for the family, about a young girl who discovers that she can see other people’s imaginary friends and sets upon an adventure to reunite them with their respective kids who are now adults. This, to me, is giving By Lainey • May 14, 2024 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bucky Barnes back at it I mentioned that Sebastian Stan’s scumbag era is working for me after the Met Gala, and a LOT of you agreed. So here is Sebastian on the set of Thunderbolts*—the asterisk is part of the official title treatment, learn it, love it, embrace it—sporting a new look By Sarah • May 13, 2024 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine’s sunny attitude (and shorts) Even though school is still in session in much of the US (where primary/secondary students usually aren’t done until June), and the weather is capricious at best, Hollywood would have us believe it’s summer, with summer movie season starting the first weekend in May because Marvel tricked By Sarah • May 13, 2024 01:57 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Chris Pine green pyjamas Chris Pine is promoting his directorial debut film, Poolman, which opens this weekend. Sarah reviewed the film at TIFF 2023 and she wasn’t impressed, which lines up with most of the other reviews. On the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, Chris talked about having to come to terms By Lainey • May 10, 2024 01:20 pm
