Movie Reviews and Previews Tracy Flick returns Reese Witherspoon is returning to a beloved role for a long-awaited sequel, and no, it’s not Legally Blonde 3. Witherspoon will reunite with Alexander Payne for Tracy Flick Can’t Win, a sequel to their 1999 cult classic Election, in which Witherspoon plays Type A schemer and general nightmare By Sarah • Dec 09, 2022 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylor Swift: feature filmmaker Taylor Swift is jumping genres again, this time into filmmaking. Swift will make her feature directorial debut from an original script she also wrote, with the film—title, plot, potential cast, all unknown—set to be distributed by Searchlight Pictures. Swift recently appeared in Amsterdam, which was distributed by 20th By Sarah • Dec 09, 2022 11:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman 3 is apparently dead About six weeks ago, filmmaker James Gunn and producer Peter Safran took over the newly named DC Studios at the newly reformed Warner Bros. Discovery under new CEO David Zaslav. Well, everything new is old again, because we are once again talking about the slate of DC superhero movies and By Sarah • Dec 08, 2022 10:57 am
TV Updates Don’t forget Ke Huy Quan (again) One of the big narratives in film this year is Brendan Fraser’s comeback as a leading man in The Whale, and while it is great to see Fraser back on top, let us not forget the other big comeback this year—Ke Huy Quan returning to acting in Everything By Sarah • Dec 07, 2022 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar 2: Important notes The world premiere of Avatar: The Way of the Water was last night in London. I also saw the movie last night, I’ll have a full review next week closer to the actual release, but this seems like a good time to note a couple things that won’t By Sarah • Dec 07, 2022 11:00 am
Style Miss Flo in Party Season Florence Pugh has been on a lot of red carpets lately. More red carpets than when… well… you know. But are we ready to move past that gossip yet? Because it’s party season and Miss Flo is showing up to the parties. She was at the British Independent Film By Lainey • Dec 06, 2022 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kenya Barris’s parting gift Rewind time and recall that Kenya Barris, the creator of Black-ish, signed a mega-deal to produce series and films for Netflix. That was 2018. By January 2021, Barris broke up with Netflix, dissatisfied with the inability to be as “edgy” as he wanted. He said he wants to do “in-your-face By Sarah • Dec 06, 2022 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine has stopped worrying, darling CCXP continued over the weekend, and the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves held a panel, and Chris Pine showed up looking 1000% more engaged than he was during the Venice Film Festival while promoting Don’t Worry Darling. Which is a low bar, I know, but I’m By Sarah • Dec 05, 2022 12:26 pm
Maple Leaf Keanu appears If there is one universal truth in this world, something we can all agree on, it’s that everyone loves Keanu Reeves (except maybe Matthew Perry). Keanu turned up at CCXP in Brazil over the weekend to promote both John Wick Chapter 4 and his comic book series, BRZRKR (which By Sarah • Dec 05, 2022 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews David Harbour in Violent Night I love it when movies don’t explain their lore, but simply let us live in their world and absorb details through visual storytelling. This is one of the elements Violent Night has in common with John Wick. Like that movie, Violent Night doesn’t waste time on exposition. There By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sir, you are immortal The first trailer for Indiana Jones 5 dropped yesterday and it is terrible. I know I am deeply cynical about continuing the Indy saga after Indiana Jones and the Cursed Thing That Never Happened broke my heart in 2008, but all I see in this new trailer are the same By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Every Marvel thing is epic now The Comic Con Experience is happening now in Sao Paolo, Brazil. It’s a massive fan event that throws even San Diego Comic Con in the shade. In 2019, Comic Con attracted 135,000 people, while in the same year, CCXP drew 280,000. So CCXP has become a major By Sarah • Dec 02, 2022 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse Eisenberg is saving the world Jesse Eisenberg is having a moment, what with Fleishman Is in Trouble—I’m already behind, what is time, and how do you manage it?—and his upcoming feature directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World. In 2020, Eisenberg wrote an audio drama of the same name about the By Sarah • Dec 01, 2022 01:50 pm
Amazingness Cocaine Bear on a rampage 2023 still doesn’t sound like a real year, but it’s only one month away. Which means it’s time to talk about the films of 2023 we have to look forward to, beginning and ending with Cocaine Bear. The excellently titled film from Elizabeth Banks got a trailer By Sarah • Dec 01, 2022 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will talks to Trevor Will Smith’s new movie, Emancipation, comes out in theaters this weekend, before debuting on Apple TV+ on December 9. Smith is, in a limited way, doing press for the movie. Earlier this week, he stopped by The Daily Show for a long conversation with Trevor Noah, one of his By Sarah • Nov 30, 2022 12:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 30, 2022 Dear Gossips, Guess what’s opening, or re-opening, in theatres this Friday? Top Gun: Maverick is back for a two-week run. It’s holiday season and Paramount is saying that this film “truly epitomises the magic of the moviegoing experience” and that they’re doing this so that fans can By Lainey • Nov 30, 2022 09:23 am
