Movie Reviews and Previews She’s Priscilla, he’s just Elvis When the first trailer for Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla dropped, Lainey wondered if Sofia would “interrogate” the age difference between Elvis Presley, a 24-year-old man serving a stint in the US Army, and Priscilla Beaulieu, the 14-year-old girl he, er, romanced in Germany and beyond. Based on the trailer that By Sarah • Oct 04, 2023 10:06 am
Gorgessity Annie throws down I didn’t love Anne Hathaway’s Versace dress at the Clooney Foundation gala last week. But in general I do really enjoy her collaboration with stylist Erin Walsh so that look was an exception. The standard that Annie and Erin have established over the last year or so is By Lainey • Oct 03, 2023 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper sort of showed up The New York Film Festival kicked off over the weekend, and one of the marquee films featured at the fest is Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, the biopic of Leonard Bernstein which he directs, stars in, and co-wrote (with Josh Singer). Though the directors and now writers have new deals with By Sarah • Oct 03, 2023 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews I am here for the cat Matthew Vaughn made his name directing action films like Layer Cake, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and the Kingsman movies (as well as being Mr. Claudia Schiffer and the #1 suspect in the case of January Jones’s anonymous baby daddy). His latest film is Argylle, which has a “life imitates By Sarah • Sep 29, 2023 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Fest Review: A Guide to Becoming an Elm Tree Folk horror describes a sub-genre of horror cinema rooted in folklore and fairytale. At one end of the spectrum stands the graphic horrors of Midsommar, on the other the environmental haunting of Robert Eggers’ The Witch. Closer to The Witch end of the spectrum, in fact, even subtler and more By Sarah • Sep 28, 2023 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Flower Moon is coming The New York premiere for Killers of the Flower Moon was last night. Martin Scorsese turned up accompanied by journalist David Grann, who wrote the book, and prominent members of Osage Nation, including Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear and his wife, Julie Standing Bear; artist Addie Roanhorse, who worked behind the By Sarah • Sep 28, 2023 10:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Fest Review: Jackdaw Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jenna Coleman currently star in the Prime Video series Wilderness together, and they’re reteamed in Jackdaw, a blistering thriller set in the bleak, industrial landscape of northern England. It’s like someone said, “Make the motorcycle scene in Under The Skin an entire movie,” and then By Sarah • Sep 27, 2023 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brace yourself for more age gap discourse Age gap discourse is having a moment. First, Chris Evans stans infantilized Alba Baptista when they got married—he is 42, she is 26—and then everyone let out a collective yikes when Dane Cook married “longtime” girlfriend Kelsi Taylor this past weekend—he is 51, she is 24, and By Sarah • Sep 27, 2023 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fantastic Fest Review: There’s Something in the Barn Fantastic Fest is a film festival focused on genre films, hosted annually at Austin’s famed Alamo Drafthouse theater (and was founded by the same people behind the Drafthouse). While everyone else is focused on prestige and awards come autumn, Fantastic Fest brings audiences horror, mystery, cult and the occult, By Sarah • Sep 26, 2023 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Priest and Connell in a time warp Fall festival season is not quite over, with two more marquee fests coming in October, the New York Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival. Both take place over the first couple weeks of October, and both will feature Andrew Haigh’s new film, All of Us Strangers. The By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 22, 2023 Dear Gossips, Sometimes important things happen in the world, and sometimes you find out there’s an insurance company called Chubb. This is the latter instance. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was one of the better movies of the summer, but it struggled at the box office, barely eking By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine on a boat Chris Pine’s directorial debut, Poolman, premiered at TIFF, and, um, it didn’t go well. The movie isn’t great, and people walked out “in droves” at the premiere (the press screening the next morning was sparsely attended, as most people wrote the movie off after word about the By Sarah • Sep 21, 2023 10:37 am
Music So much *NSYNC Another day, another *NSYNC headline. Yesterday everyone jumped on the story about them recreating a photo from back in the early days. PEOPLE covered it, EW covered it, it was in Rolling Stone, you get the point. Today, it’s Hot Ones. The Hot Ones episode featuring all five members By Lainey • Sep 21, 2023 10:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, As Sarah has been saying for several months now, and as we approach the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, we are at the start of Lily Gladstone season. To be clear, Lily Gladstone won’t just be around for a season, of course, because she is By Lainey • Sep 20, 2023 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Limbo First Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen has carved out a niche making neo-noir crime dramas about lonely men in lonely places, investigating lonely crimes. His latest, Limbo, is true to his thematic motif, centered on a lone detective sent to a remote Outback town, the titular Limbo, to investigate the cold-case By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Dumb Money Director Craig Gillespie has a thing for unlikely underdogs. Whether it’s Tonya Harding in I, Tonya or Pamela Anderson in Pam & Tommy, or even Cruella De Vil in Cruella, he makes movies about protagonists we might not otherwise think of as being an underdog. But in Dumb Money, By Sarah • Sep 15, 2023 11:26 am
