Movie Reviews and Previews Xolo Maridueña in Blue Beetle Xolo Maridueña is incredibly charming. That is the big takeaway from his superhero debut, Blue Beetle, in which he plays Jaime Reyes, a recent college grad who can’t get a job to help support his family. At home in the neon lighted, Miami-esque Palmera City, Jaime’s family is By Sarah • Aug 18, 2023 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 18, 2023 Dear Gossips, Blue Beetle is the first major film of summer 2023 that didn’t have a press tour banked before the SAG-AFTRA strike kicked off on July 14 (this is implied Meg 2: The Trench shade and I won’t stand for it). Star Xolo Maridueña has been unable By Sarah • Aug 18, 2023 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Inside Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Backlash Bradley Cooper dons a larger, prosthetic nose to play the late composer Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, a biopic he also directs and co-writes, but does this make him problematic? Well, it depends who you ask, and if you dip into Twitter today, his name is still trending, and not just By Joanna • Aug 16, 2023 02:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Flo protests Florence Pugh has had a big summer, what with being in the Oppen-half of Barbenheimer, the biggest event of our cinematic summer. But she was also supposed to be at work this summer, filming Marvel’s Thunderbolts alongside Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Ayo Edibiri, Steven Yeun, Harrison Ford, Olga Kurylenko, By Sarah • Aug 16, 2023 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Red, White & Royal Blue sells itself short Casey McQuiston’s best-selling novel, Red, White, & Royal Blue, has been adapted into a mostly cute rom-com about a pair of star-crossed lovers—the First Son of the United States and England’s “spare” prince. Taylor Zakhar Perez (Minx’s happy himbo centerfold) stars as Alex, son of what By Sarah • Aug 15, 2023 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Maestro has arrived Oppeneheimer, slow your horses. Killers of the Flower Moon, don’t get too excited. Barbie…yeah, you’re fine by the pool. Maestro is here to ensure no one gets too comfortable in the early stages of the 2023 awards season. The teaser trailer for Bradley Cooper’s passion project By Sarah • Aug 15, 2023 01:02 pm
TV Updates The Summer of Ayo Ayo Edibiri is very busy this summer. She stars in the It show of the summer for two years running, The Bear; she voices April O’Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem—which has been VERY well received by critics and audiences, Seth Rogen solved it—she currently By Sarah • Aug 11, 2023 11:02 am
TV Updates Tom and Zawe’s theater date night Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton had a classy thespian date night at the after party for the press night of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect at the National Theatre. The play stars Bones and All’s Taylor Russell and Paapa Essiedu from I May Destroy You. The after party also By Sarah • Aug 10, 2023 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper sets the bar The Venice Film Festival starts at the end of the month, kicking off what is sure to be a strange fall festival season, even after enduring the weird pandemic years. Assuming the WGA and especially SAG-AFTRA strikes will still be going on—which they almost certainly will be —stars will By Sarah • Aug 08, 2023 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbillion In its third week of release, Barbie has powered past $1 billion at the global box office. Greta Gerwig is now the highest-grossing female director, and the only woman to solo direct a billion-dollar film (Captain Marvel director Anna Boden, along with co-director Ryan Fleck, is also a billion-dollar lady By Sarah • Aug 08, 2023 09:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson’s little bike Robert Pattinson was photographed in New York City today riding around on a little bike. The pap agency is calling it a foldable bike and that’s new to me because I didn’t know that was a thing but I guess in a place like NYC where space is By Lainey • Aug 02, 2023 12:07 pm
Douchebags Brad Pitt in (delayed) solidarity For a couple of weeks now, since SAG-AFTRA officially decided to go on strike alongside the WGA, eyebrows have been raised over Brad Pitt’s F1 film, Apex, because they initially claimed that they’d be shutting down production in support of the writers and actors only to show up By Lainey • Jul 31, 2023 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 31, 2023 Dear Gossips, Barbie continued to do big business at the box office this weekend with another $93 million domestically and $122 million from 70 markets outside North America which means it is fast approaching the billion dollar mark and will likely get there in a couple of weeks, if that. By Lainey • Jul 31, 2023 09:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jeremy Allen White: Guns and The Iron Claw I posted photos of Jeremy Allen White looking ripped last Friday, might as well do it again this Friday and go two-for-two. Here he is yesterday out in LA for brunch with friends in a white tank with his guns out. And conveniently on the same day it was announced By Lainey • Jul 28, 2023 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Prepare for the Barbification of movies Barbenheimer smashed the box office—as I thought, the actual opening weekend box office for both Barbie and Oppenheimer was higher than the estimates—which means we are now in for a nightmare of toy movies hoping to catch Barbie’s lightning in a bottle. (Funny how off the back By Sarah • Jul 27, 2023 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbenheimer blew up the box office After weeks of disappointing box office, summer 2023 finally staged a comeback thanks to Barbenheimer, the grassroots movement to make Barbie and Oppenheimer a double feature for the ages, and it worked. Barbie opened with an estimated $155 million domestic (with $182 million internationally), and Oppenheimer scooped up $80 million By Sarah • Jul 24, 2023 11:01 am
