Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics Cast Their Votes The Critics’ Choice Awards came and went last night with more of a whimper than a bang—it was a boring show and I say this as someone who gets to vote for those awards—but it is also the last big moment before Oscar nominations close on Tuesday. So, By Sarah • Jan 16, 2023 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Are You There, God? Because We Are HERE Raise your hand if you thought this day might never come. Just me? No, I didn’t think so. It’s been at least a couple of years since we heard there would be an adaptation of Judy Blume’s seminal Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, and By Duana • Jan 12, 2023 02:09 pm
Quiveration Jonathan Majors and his dogs Sarah posted about Jonathan Majors on the cover of Men’s Health back in October. At the time, the internet was reacting to the feature with extreme thirst. Because… well… I mean I get it, of course I do. For me, though, the hottest shots of Jonathan weren’t the By Lainey • Jan 12, 2023 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The SAG Awards look like an Oscar preview We are in the thick of awards season, coming off the mid-week Golden Globes and diving right into the SAG Awards nominations, which were announced yesterday morning, and voting for Oscar nominations starts tomorrow. The importance of the SAG Awards during awards season is debatable—some people will insist they’ By Sarah • Jan 12, 2023 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Francis Ford Coppola is in trouble (again) A few weeks ago, I wrote about set photos from Francis Ford Coppola’s new film, Megalopolis, shooting now in Atlanta. In that post, I mentioned that Megalopolis is a passion project that Coppola is financing himself after everyone else passed…which is maybe a sign that things aren’t By Sarah • Jan 10, 2023 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t make Ant-Man do Big Lore After the uneven highs and lows of Phase 4, Marvel is moving into Phase 5—do you ever picture Marvel’s multi-phase plan looking like a totally out of control tweet thread? Like, Phase 5/347—with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania coming in February. Last night, they dropped a By Sarah • Jan 10, 2023 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2022 If the year 2022 in film can be defined by one word, it would be “most”. This was the year of the most in film, when blockbusters came roaring back, and a lot of filmmakers threw everything they had at the screen in a cinematic excess that reminds us the By Sarah • Jan 09, 2023 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews M3GAN is the only movie you need At one point in M3GAN, the “Model 3 Generative Android” prototype is dubbed “the only toy you’ll ever need”. The same can be said for the movie about “M3GAN”, the fun-sized yassified Real Doll at the center of all the drama. Despite its horror movie roots, coming from producers By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Goth Rock Dracula and his sad-sack silly boy I am sure that 2023 will bring us a group of thoughtful, emotional, provoking films to make us think and feel and cry, but you know? All I care about, right now, is the silly sh-t. Fill my veins with M3gan and Barbie and Renfield, I don’t need anything By Sarah • Jan 06, 2023 11:53 am
Music A Quiet Bennifer Holiday As of the timing of this writing, we’ve yet to see Bennifer in 2023, but that’s only a matter of time. Their holiday seemed relatively quiet, although she did step out for work on December 29, seen arriving at a photo shoot. The work for Jennifer Lopez never By Lainey • Jan 04, 2023 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Christian Bale in The Pale Blue Eye Filmmaker Scott Cooper and Christian Bale have a fruitful collaboration going on, with the very good crime drama Out of the Furnace and the better than you expect it to be Hostiles, but their third cinematic effort together is…interesting, to say the least. The Pale Blue Eye is an By Sarah • Dec 22, 2022 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Let’s talk about Avatar’s “magical Natives” Avatar: The Way of Water is poised to dominate the long holiday weekend in the US. Christmas is traditionally one of the biggest movie-going periods of the year, though we have yet to see what it really looks like on the other side of the pandemic, and before anyone writes By Sarah • Dec 21, 2022 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Flo makes the list For their February 2023 issue, just in time for the BAFTAs which are happening on February 19, and just three weeks before the Oscars, Empire Magazine has released its list of the 50 Greatest Actors of All Time based on readers’ votes. Two years ago, the New York Times put By Lainey • Dec 21, 2022 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt in Babylon Damien Chazelle continues his cinematic study of obsession and achievement with Babylon, a three hour and ten-minute odyssey through the end of the silent era of film that drags the audience through piles of cocaine, piss, vomit, and ten gallons of elephant sh-t. It’s the most glamorous film about By Sarah • Dec 21, 2022 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu is in LOVE Simu Liu and Allison Hsu publicly confirmed their relationship not even a month ago at the premiere of Violent Night when they wore matching holiday sweaters on the carpet. Prior to that, Simu revealed back in September that he’d broken up with Jade Bender. But now it sounds like By Lainey • Dec 21, 2022 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews MBJ takes the Tom Cruise route Kind of. He’s not flinging himself out of an airplane while filming a thank you video, but Michael B. Jordan is taking a page from the Tom Cruise Playbook for Creed III. A behind-the-scenes featurette dropped yesterday, and in it MBJ emphasizes two things: big cinema and big emotional By Sarah • Dec 20, 2022 01:27 pm
