BFFs The Best Actors showed up The Palm Springs Film Festival opened last night, and it brought all the Oscar contenders out of the post-holiday woodwork. As proof that he does care about these things, Leonardo DiCaprio ditched Cabo earlier in the day, his p-ssy posse mates Tobey Maguire and Lucas Haas and current By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 09:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, One of the (only) intriguing movies on Marvel’s slate right now is the villain team-up flick Thunderbolts. It is intriguing in the way Barbie was—an unexpected creative team working in a space you wouldn’t expect to see them, which makes you wonder what the By Sarah • Jan 05, 2024 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire Zack Snyder is a very talented cinematographer who is also probably one of Hollywood’s best pitch men, and has built a career out of slow-motion action scenes, grimdark style, and prominent needle drops. Now in a partnership with Netflix, he has finally made a story he initially pitched By Sarah • Jan 04, 2024 03:27 pm
Quiveration Charles Melton’s Birthday Award Today is Charles Melton’s birthday. He’s 33 years old. He celebrated last night at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards where he accepted the award (announced a few weeks ago) for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in May December. Think about the magnitude of this achievement. By Lainey • Jan 04, 2024 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling: Kemortality You’re sick of me saying this but that doesn’t make it any less true: it’s award season, and some people might be shrugging off the slog of the new year but for the celebrities who are in contention, there’s no time to slack, not when the By Lainey • Jan 03, 2024 01:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most popular rom-coms about two people who can’t stand each other being tricked into seeing one another with new eyes so that they fall in love, thus relieving their friends and families of their constant bickering. Anyone But You By Sarah • Jan 03, 2024 12:48 pm
Quiveration Barry Keoghan: Murder and Candles I mentioned, briefly, a few weeks before the holidays last year that the way some of you feel about Paul Mescal is how I feel about Barry Keoghan. He is currently my biggest western celebrity crush. In team meetings at work, whenever he comes out, I can’t speak. I By Lainey • Jan 03, 2024 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya 2024 Who will dominate the pop culture landscape in Q1 of 2024? Here’s what we can count on and look forward to: there will be so much Zendaya content for at least the first four months of the year. Because she has two major projects coming out to kick it By Lainey • Jan 02, 2024 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Momoa in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is a follow-up to the improbable 2018 hit, Aquaman, and much like that film, Lost Kingdom is not as bad as expected. Now, to be clear, the bar was on the floor. But Lost Kingdom swims easily on a current of good times and By Sarah • Dec 22, 2023 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney has gone full Dad Movie When you think of the 1936 Berlin Olympics and an underdog sports story from America about an unlikely competitor winning against the odds on Hitler’s home turf and showing up the Nazis, who do you think of? If you said Jesse Owens “the white boys from Washington state”, you’ By Sarah • Dec 22, 2023 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver in Ferrari Director Michael Mann returns after an eight-year hiatus with Ferrari, a biopic of legendary automotive engineer and designer Enzo Ferrari. Adapted from Brock Yates’ biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine by Troy Kennedy Martin, Ferrari is a sometimes frustrating snapshot of a man who By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews KStew’s other Sundance film Kristen Stewart has a long history with the Sundance Film Festival, which they’re recognizing by giving her the Visionary Award on opening night in January. She has two films in the fest, Love Me with Steven Yeun, and Love Lies Bleeding, which will premiere in the Midnight Madness lineup. By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lulu Wang is back Lulu Wang’s follow-up to The Farewell is (finally) here, and it’s a flashy limited series with Nicole Kidman called Expats. Based on Janice Y.K. Lee’s novel The Expatriates, the series follows three American women living in Hong Kong as their lives intersect around a personal By Sarah • Dec 20, 2023 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron in The Iron Claw In the 1970s and 1980s, Saturday nights at the Dallas Sportatorium was the home to a regional wrestling outfit run by Jack Adkisson and dominated by his sons, known as the Von Erichs. Jack himself wrestled as Fritz Von Erich, he had middling success and never won a world heavyweight By Sarah • Dec 19, 2023 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bikeriders’ new strategy One of the films I was most looking forward to this year is Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, an adaptation of Danny Lyon’s seminal photo essay charting the rise of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club (rebranded for the film as the “Vandals”). The first trailer dropped three months ago, on By Sarah • Dec 19, 2023 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Contenders and a Covey Sisters Reunion The Unforgettable Gala, honouring Asian and Pacific Islander performances, was once again hosted by Simu Liu this year. Simu is enjoying award season as a member of the Barbie cast and I really like what he said at the event about being part of Barbenheimer: “I am responsible for 100% By Lainey • Dec 18, 2023 03:05 pm
