Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in Maestro Bradley Cooper is a multi-hyphenate filmmaker with talent to back up his ambition, which makes him a good candidate to bring the life of legendary American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein—a biography chased by Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Jake Gyllenhaal—to the big screen. But Bradley Cooper, By Sarah • Nov 23, 2023 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicholas Hoult is the new new new Lex Luthor With the strikes over, casting for James Gunn’s DC universe reboot Superman: Legacy has resumed. Earlier this year, David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan were tapped to play Superman and Lois, with a rumor going around that Nicholas Hoult was going to play Lex Luthor. Now, Deadline is reporting Hoult By Sarah • Nov 22, 2023 02:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby in Napoleon Two popular images of Napoleon Bonaparte survive 200 years after his death: 1) Napoleon the bold military strategist who nonetheless ran into the insurmountable wall of a Russian winter, and 2) Napoleon the weird little guy who was led around by his dick by his older, promiscuous wife. Smash these By Sarah • Nov 22, 2023 01:59 pm
Style Timmy in Tokyo Sarah keeps forgetting that Wonka is an actual movie that is actually coming out very soon. As she has written a number of times lately, for whatever reason, her brain refuses to retain this information and now it’s become kind of like a kink for me – I’m her By Lainey • Nov 22, 2023 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Twilight, 15 years later Fifteen years ago, Twilight hit theaters, marking one of the 2000s’ seminal pop cultural phenomena. We’ve been talking—celebrating?—Twilight’s anniversary over on The Squawk all month (shameless plug to subscribe if you haven’t), but one main question lingers, and that is…how is the movie? Twilight By Sarah • Nov 21, 2023 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Here comes The Color Purple The Color Purple doesn’t open until Christmas Day, over a month away, but the fact that the studio is allowing for reactions this early on social media means that they’re confident. And the way people are coming out of the advance screenings right now supports that theory. This By Lainey • Nov 21, 2023 01:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman is serious business We are now one month away from Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the sequel to the surprise 2018 superhero hit, Aquaman. The first trailer was okay, the second trailer is also okay. I do think they’re doing a really good job laying out the basic premise and stakes: Black By Sarah • Nov 21, 2023 12:37 pm
TV Updates Clowning on Anyone But You Well, this is probably not how anyone involved with Anyone But You wants things to go, but as the film is ramping up press, Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone took a shot at the new trailer to promote their own project, The Curse. Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone present The By Sarah • Nov 20, 2023 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Colman Domingo in Rustin Bayard Rustin is a name you might not know, but you certainly know the results of his work—most notably, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of 1963, which culminated with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. Bayard Rustin is the man who put By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anyone But You is not sparking The teaser for Anyone But You, the sexy rom-com starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, was underwhelming. But now the full trailer is here, and it’s…also underwhelming. I WANT to like this movie so much, I like both Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, I like rom-coms, By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 02:51 pm
Gorgessity Fake and real Bonapartes Napoleon comes out next week, so it is cramming in as much press tour as possible between the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike and the day before US Thanksgiving. Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, and Ridley Scott were in London last night for the UK premiere. Joaquin showed up in By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 02:05 pm
Quiveration May December and Charles Melton’s Moment May December opens in select theatres today and will stream on Netflix starting December 1. There is Oscar buzz around this film – Todd Haynes is the director, it was a hit in Cannes, and as Sarah wrote a few weeks ago, it will likely spark a Conversation. The “age gap By Lainey • Nov 17, 2023 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenna Ortega back at it Back in July, Jenna Ortega was incongruously dressed for fall, filming scenes for Beetlejuice 2 before the SAG-AFTRA strike went into effect. Now that the strike is over, she is back on set—which has relocated from Vermont to Massachusetts—and this time, thanks (“thanks”) to the nearly four- By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, The strikes this year were important, both for the people trying to have viable careers in the film industry, and as part of a larger labor movement in the US, but one of the sort-of bummers was that Lily Gladstone didn’t get her big moment when By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 08:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pedro Pascal might be (Mr.) Fantastic On the heels of The Marvels’ disastrous opening weekend—the lowest ever for Marvel at $46 million—Marvel Studios is forging ahead, making moves and deals to set up the next few years of storytelling in the MCU. The latest headline news is that Pedro Pascal is in talks to By Sarah • Nov 16, 2023 02:53 pm
Gorgessity Anne Hathaway is sexier than ever It has been ten years since Anne Hathaway won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Les Miserables…which also marks the ten year anniversary of Hathahate. People were annoyed at her – because she wanted it too much, because she tried too hard, because she was too By Lainey • Nov 16, 2023 11:38 am
