Style Barbenheimer London: Flo joins the Bomb Squad We’ve been talking for weeks about the Barbie-Oppenheimer aka Barbenheimer double feature next Friday. We’ve been talking all day about the possible actors’ strike that could start at midnight. And now, just hours ahead of whatever might happen, the casts of both films are in London – what could By Lainey • Jul 12, 2023 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oppenheimer in Paris As we’ve mentioned a few times now in today’s posts, the deadline for the producers and the actors to reach a new deal is tonight. And if that doesn’t happen, the actors have already decided to join the writers on strike. Sarah just wrote in the previous By Lainey • Jul 12, 2023 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool-Wolverine do-over Despite the ongoing WGA strike and Ryan Reynolds being a member of the WGA who is, technically, on strike, Deadpool 3 production continues in London. Here are Ryan Reynolds* and Hugh Jackman shooting a fight scene yesterday as Deadpool and Wolverine, reuniting the characters following the disastrous 2009 film X-Men By Sarah • Jul 12, 2023 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Napoleon, but make it Josephine Last week, when assessing Bradley Cooper’s potential Oscar competition this year, I namechecked Ridley Scott and his upcoming historical biopic Napoleon, and said Scott would “have to sh-t the bed” to miss being part of the Oscar conversation. The first trailer for Napoleon dropped yesterday, and would it surprise By Sarah • Jul 11, 2023 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Impossible Mission I was in New York last Thursday and Friday for the Oppenheimer junket. More on that in the coming days because I can’t actually remember if there’s an embargo; I can tell you, however, that Cillian Murphy will probably be nominated for an Oscar for his performance, he’ By Lainey • Jul 11, 2023 12:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool 3 is the latest ruined surprise Spoilers for Deadpool 3 Generally, I don’t get bent out of shape about spoilers—we all know how Romeo and Juliet ends, yet it remains one of the most enduring stories in the English language—but this trend of entertainment industry trades spoiling cameos in upcoming films has GOT By Sarah • Jul 11, 2023 09:52 am
Gorgessity Gal Gadot: The Almost Barbie It wasn’t just those who are involved with Barbie at the Hollywood premiere last night – in Gal Gadot’s case it was also someone who was almost Barbie. According to Margot Robbie, she and Greta Gerwig had Gal in mind as their first choice. As she told Vogue: “Gal By Lainey • Jul 10, 2023 12:14 pm
Style Kenadians and More Barbies in the Spotlight Of course it wasn’t just Margot Robbie holding it down for Barbie at the Hollywood premiere last night. Margot and director Greta Gerwig were joined by other Barbies and some Kens and as you would expect, there was a lot of pink. America Ferrera went for a lighter pink By Lainey • Jul 10, 2023 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola, and Sabrina Wu in Joy Ride Adele Lim, writer of films like Crazy Rich Asians and Raya and the Last Dragon, makes the leap to director with Joy Ride, a gleefully raunchy comedy about a group of friends on a fateful trip to China. Ashley Park stars as Audrey, the Chinese-born daughter of white adoptive parents By Sarah • Jul 07, 2023 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Red, White & Royal Blah A month ago, Lainey was asking for a trailer for Red, White & Royal Blue, the adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s book about two dudes who fall in love…but happen to be America’s First Son and a British prince. Well, the wait is over, because a trailer for By Sarah • Jul 07, 2023 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Checking in with B Coop It’s been a minute since we’ve checked in with Bradley Cooper, by which I mean, it’s been two months since Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 came out and Coop was at the Met Gala. But B Coop is in Los Angeles, and he got photographed at By Sarah • Jul 07, 2023 10:45 am
Style Margot Robbie: Another Week of Barbie Perfection Because of the holiday in Canada and the United States this week, we’ve missed a few of Margot Robbie’s Barbie looks as she continues to promote the movie, getting ever closer to what’s expected to be the big ass premiere in Hollywood this coming Sunday. Last week By Lainey • Jul 07, 2023 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A true American story The first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon was solid, introducing the concept of the “two wolves” and Lily Gladstone as the film’s star. The new trailer more adroitly lays out the plot—the Osage have “the worst land possible” but it turns out, that By Sarah • Jul 06, 2023 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Indy flopped, too Two weeks after The Flash flopped, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny opened for the extended Independence Day weekend in the US (which also included Canada Day this year for our neighbors to the north), earning a weak $60 million over the standard, Friday-Sunday three-day weekend, and an okay-ish By Sarah • Jul 05, 2023 10:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny There was a moment in the 9th century when a bunch of Italians dug up a dead pope and put him on trial. That’s what Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny feels like, a cadaver being propped up and shouted at for two and a half hours. After By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dune has worms and desert love There’s not an official rule about it, but the Motion Picture Association of America suggests film trailers run no longer than two and a half minutes, and that is where most full-length trailers clock in. However, studios usually reserve a few exceptions each year and do a three-minute trailer By Sarah • Jun 30, 2023 01:08 pm
