Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey’s other musical The Little Mermaid comes out at the end of the week, but before we talk about that, let’s take a second to talk about Halle Bailey’s OTHER musical this year, a new adaptation of The Color Purple. It’s the latest in the long adaptation chain of Alice By Sarah • May 23, 2023 01:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone and some other guys Killers of the Flower Moon premiered at Cannes on Saturday, and immediately everyone is raving about Lily Gladstone, AS THEY SHOULD. Variety ponders her Oscar odds—long way to go, but fingers crossed!—and calls the film “the birth of a star”. I mean, sure, NOW, if you’re LATE By Sarah • May 23, 2023 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Platt’s comeback Ben Platt has been my nemesis since I sat through Dear Evan Hansen, but I am almost ready to forgive him for that wild piece of emotional manipulation because his new film, Theater Camp, is a fun, quirky comedy about drama dorks and musical nerds. (Full disclosure, Theater Camp was By Sarah • May 19, 2023 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Happy Fast X Day to Jason Momoa only I am not, historically, a fan of the Fast/Furious movies, especially the last few since Paul Walker’s untimely death. They have become too serious and small, overly invested in Dominic Toretto’s boring life outside of racing cars. Vin Diesel is not a compelling leading man, especially without By Sarah • May 19, 2023 12:18 pm
Style Schrödinger’s applause Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premiered at Cannes yesterday, and we have our first breathless applause reporting of the 2023 festival season. The standing ovation was rousing! Or it was lukewarm! It was five, maybe even SIX minutes long! Umm…that’s not that long. Gala premieres at By Sarah • May 19, 2023 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s #Family We saw the first trailer for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (I’m pretty sure that’s the right punctuation, I hate these titles) one year ago, and now that the film is actually due on July 12, the second trailer is here to show off even more of By Sarah • May 18, 2023 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Find the wolves Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated adaptation of David Grann’s book of the same name, premieres at Cannes on Saturday. It’s one of the most high-profile films at the festival, reuniting Scorsese with both Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio, and also featuring a stacked By Sarah • May 18, 2023 10:33 am
Quiveration LaKeith Stanfield is stupid hot for Disney I didn’t hate the first trailer for The Haunted Mansion, Disney’s do-over on a movie based on the popular theme park ride, and now there is a second, “official” trailer, and I hate it even less. Or rather, I like it even more. It might just be how By Sarah • May 17, 2023 02:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney’s Reality The last time we talked about Sydney Sweeney it was related to all the speculation over whether or not she and Glen Powell hooked up in real life while working on their upcoming rom-com Anyone But You. Glen and Gigi Paris broke up but, at the time, it seemed like By Lainey • May 17, 2023 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Superman: Legacy casting roulette James Gunn’s relaunch of the DC cinematic universe (mark eleventy hundred or whatever) is his Superman film, Superman: Legacy. It is tipped to start filming in January, multiple strike statuses pending, of course. But casting is happening right now, and The Hollywood Reporter has the rundown on the potential By Sarah • May 16, 2023 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake in the Coho Universe Have you read any of Colleen Hoover’s books? I was big into Colleen Hoover several years ago, first mentioned her on this site in 2015. At the time I’d read her novels Maybe Someday and Ugly Love and I stopped at Confess. Back then I was heavy into By Lainey • May 16, 2023 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #Family Feud Redux Spoilers for Fast X We have now entered the era of spoiler culture in which presumably above-board industry trade outlets are straight up posting film spoilers as if they are exclusives. This happened Friday, when The Wrap posted a major spoiler for Fast X—a movie general audiences will not By Sarah • May 15, 2023 11:30 am
Photo Assumption Mother’s Day with Bennifer Here’s how Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez celebrated Mother’s Day professionally: both of their films premiered on streaming platforms this weekend. JLo’s The Mother was the #1 movie on Netflix. Ben’s Air was the #1 movie on Amazon Prime but Hypnotic was a box office flop, By Lainey • May 15, 2023 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton in BlackBerry Of the “brand-as-IP” films of 2023, Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry is easily the best of the lot. With humor and the crystal-clear insight of hindsight, writer-director-star Johnson depicts the rise and fall of Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry, the world’s first smartphone, and the men who By Sarah • May 12, 2023 03:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews My Big Fat Greek YIKES Oh no, it’s the curse of the rom-com revival—bringing back a once-beloved rom-com for a threequel nobody asked for. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is one of the most successful independent films of all time, earning over $368 million against a mere $5 million budget. But the second By Sarah • May 12, 2023 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney’s Reality Every time Sydney Sweeney pops up—which has been a lot recently—Lainey and I have some variation of the same conversation, debating her merits as an actor. Lainey maintains Sydney doesn’t make much of an impact, she’s in good stuff, like Euphoria and White Lotus (and The By Sarah • May 12, 2023 01:34 pm
