Movie Reviews and Previews Oh yeah, Gran Turismo As studios consider delaying films—particularly the kind of high-profile films that rely on star-studded press tours to drum up audience interest—one movie that is for sure coming out is Gran Turismo, due next month. The film stars Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, and Orlando Bloom, and is both based By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Marvels’ not-Comic Con trailer Undoubtedly taking advantage of Barbenheimer weekend—and hinting at what a Marvel Comic Con appearance could have been—Marvel dropped a new trailer for The Marvels just in time to stick it in front of at least one of the two big new movies this weekend. Building on the good By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cillian Murphy and half of Hollywood in Oppenheimer Films about Great Men are usually acts of hagiography, and in many ways, Oppenheimer is no different. Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb”, is invested in Oppenheimer as a once-in-a-generation genius, a Great Man who literally moved the earth, but Nolan is By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Barbie Every possible question you could have about Barbieland is answerable with an enthusiastic “yes!”. Barbieland is a feminine utopia where women occupy all jobs from construction worker to president, everyone is aggressively positive and supportive, and everything is violently pink. Barbie—all Barbie, every Barbie, everyone is Barbie, you are By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbie is my Lego Movie I still remember being so confused when The Lego Movie was announced. How could they possibly make a movie about interlocking blocks? But by the time the movie was released, my Lego-obsessed husband and I had a 4-year-old son who loved putting together sets with his dad…and he had By Violeta • Jul 20, 2023 12:20 pm
Music The BTS Barbie Crossover I just gloated about this during our morning meeting at The Social – the BTS fanbase, aka ARMY, is so desirable to marketers that even the Barbie press tour is trying to engage them. And that’s why Ryan Gosling is trying to talk to Jimin. Ryan gosling send a message By Lainey • Jul 20, 2023 11:34 am
TV Updates Dork Storm Strikes (Back) San Diego Comic-Con starts tomorrow and it’s gonna be a weird one. With actors and writers on strike—and most of the studios already skipping this year even before the double strike started—there is not a whole lot going on, at least in Hall H, where most of By Sarah • Jul 19, 2023 12:15 pm
Style Margot Robbie: The Barbie Leftovers Hollywood is now on strike, which means no promotion, no appearances. For the Barbie movie, which opens on Friday, they managed to get in most of their major events but had there not been a work stoppage, they’d still be out there doing interviews and getting in as much By Lainey • Jul 19, 2023 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dead Reckoning’s plan backfired It has been a bad box office summer so far (lots of pressure on Barbie and Oppenheimer to turn things around!). Sure, a couple big movies are doing well—Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is sitting at $842 million, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is at $663 million—but By Sarah • Jul 17, 2023 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Cera’s Allanergy Ever since we got our first look at Ryan Gosling as Ken in Barbie, we’ve been talking about his “Kenergy”, and even though barely anyone has seen the movie yet, consensus is already that Gosling was perfectly cast. We have not, however, given equal attention to Michael Cera as By Sarah • Jul 14, 2023 12:10 pm
Shoes Margot Robbie: One Last Barbie? As we know, SAG-AFTRA finally confirmed yesterday afternoon that the actors would indeed be going on strike alongside the writers. As the announcement was made midday west coast time, the time technicality worked for those who were trying to get in some last minute promotion before packing it up. That By Lainey • Jul 14, 2023 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenna’s last day Fresh off her first Emmy nomination, Jenna Ortega was filming a scene for Beetlejuice 2 this week in Vermont (in the same town where the original film was made in 1987). She’s playing Lydia Deetz’s daughter, and she’s been working all summer along with Tim Burton, Winona By Sarah • Jul 14, 2023 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 14, 2023 Dear Gossips, Oppenheimer’s UK premiere was yesterday in London, and as Lainey mentioned, they moved the start time up in order to officially begin before the SAG strike was called. That’s a shady as hell move, but the New York premiere is now cancelled, so this was Universal By Sarah • Jul 14, 2023 09:39 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Barbie’s Last Carpet The European premiere of Barbie happened last night in London followed by a photo call at the London Eye – and this just may be one of the last promotional events we’ll be seeing in a while, because SAG-AFTRA is about to vote on a strike and that’s looking By Lainey • Jul 13, 2023 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One The Mission: Impossible movies have never been about much beyond impossible missions and Tom Cruise’s devotion to increasingly life-threatening stunts, but ever since filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie took over directing duties—he also co-writes the films—with 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, there has been a halfhearted effort to By Sarah • Jul 12, 2023 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonkune Ever since the world realized that Barbie and Oppenheimer open on the same day, the internet has been obsessed with “Barbenheimer”, a proposed double bill of the two movies. Tom Cruise has his Barbenheimer plan in place. AMC has seen a spike in double-billed tickets. There are tee shirts. But By Sarah • Jul 12, 2023 12:04 pm
