Douchebags Bennifer: Carpet Kissing and a Trump F-U Let’s get the garbage out of the way first. Near the end of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s film, Air, Matt’s character, Sonny Vaccaro, delivers a monologue for Michael Jordan and his parents as he tries to persuade the Jordans to sign with Nike. It’s a By Lainey • Jun 13, 2023 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain and The Flash Over the last couple of months, Sarah and I have been mulling over how to cover The Flash. We don’t talk about it all the time, but when it comes up it’s one of those conversations that exasperates both of us – because it’s part of our job By Lainey • Jun 13, 2023 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Celine Song’s remarkable Past Lives Playwright Celine Song makes her feature directorial debut with Past Lives, a work of remarkable delicacy and humor about fate, connections, and the narratives we event for our lives. Drawing on Song’s own background as a Korean-Canadian immigrant who ends up a writer in New York, Past Lives By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone is a colorful, cinematic weirdo One month after we saw the teaser for Poor Things, the film reuniting director Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, we now have a full trailer showing off Stone in full cinematic weirdo mode, Willem Dafoe as some kind of Dr. Frankenstein/Dr. Moreau hybrid, and Ramy Youssef and Mark Ruffalo By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 12:25 pm
TV Updates Taika + Rita down under The last time we saw Taika Waititi and Rita Ora was at the Met Gala, but they are now back in Sydney, Australia, which is more or less their home base lately (Rita is a coach on The Voice Australia). Taika and Rita are not exactly a low-key couple— By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 8, 2023 Dear Gossips, Yesterday in the open, I wrote about Bottoms the upcoming high school comedy starring Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott. The dumb jock role in Bottoms is played by Nicholas Galitzine who you might know from last summer’s Purple Hearts, a terrible movie that was a big hit By Lainey • Jun 08, 2023 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney needs the patches Sydney Sweeney was seen in LA yesterday wearing eye masks and using a face roller as she was getting picked up to presumably head out on another trip. It’s been a busy schedule for her the last few weeks, and it’s obviously still ongoing. Sydney was in New By Lainey • Jun 07, 2023 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 7, 2023 Dear Gossips, When I was growing up, the raunchy comedy was the domain of boys. It was the boys who were horny and stupid and messy and funny. This summer the raunchy comedy belongs to women with at least three theatrical releases that center women’s stories. Jennifer Lawrence stars By Lainey • Jun 07, 2023 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise vs. Christopher Nolan Ever since the trailers for Barbie and Oppenheimer started dropping, people have been trying to make a narrative of Barbie vs. the nuclear bomb since both movies have the same release date of July 21, but it turns out the REAL fight is between Tom Cruise and Christopher Nolan. According By Sarah • Jun 05, 2023 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney in Reality Playwright Tina Satter found a redacted transcript online of the FBI interrogation of Reality Winner, a twenty-five-year-old Air Force member contracted to translate for the NSA, who leaked classified documents regarding Russian interference in the 2016 US election to a US website, The Intercept. Satter turned the By Sarah • Jun 02, 2023 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Swing Across the Spider-Verse Picking up about a year and a half from the events of the Oscar-winning film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse takes us back to the animated world of teenaged Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore), who is Spider-Man in his universe By Sarah • Jun 02, 2023 12:11 pm
Style Tom Holland’s Birthday Premiere As mentioned earlier this week, Tom Holland’s birthday was yesterday. He spent part of it in New York at the premiere of his new Apple TV+ series The Crowded Room alongside castmates that include Amanda Seyfried and Emmy Rossum. He looks GREAT in this green velvet suit with the By Lainey • Jun 02, 2023 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 2, 2023 Dear Gossips, It’s time for a #Family news update, as Dwayne Johnson announced yesterday on social media that he is officially returning to the Fast/Furious franchise. We knew this from his appearance in a credit tag in Fast X, but now Johnson is confirming that he will actually By Sarah • Jun 02, 2023 09:09 am
TV Updates A Brie Larson Autumn I wanted to title this post “A Brie Larson Fall”, as in the time of year, but I didn’t want to imply that Brie Larson would be falling because the whole point here is that everything is coming up Brie this autumn as it was just announced this morning By Lainey • May 31, 2023 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews All the Spider-Men Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the sequel to the 2018 Oscar-winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, opens this Friday. I’ll have a full review then, but…yeah. This is it, y’all. I said it after Into the Spider-Verse, and I’ll say By Sarah • May 31, 2023 11:33 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Ryan Gosling is So Unserious Ryan Gosling covers GQ’s new Summer Issue ahead of the release of what could very well be the movie of the summer. That’s Barbie, of course. And he’s Ken or, rather, a Ken, so the pink coat on the cover is a nice touch. Before last year’ By Lainey • May 31, 2023 09:52 am
