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 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 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. 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
Movie Reviews and Previews The Little Mermaid highlights poor Caribbean representation The Little Mermaid is making quite the splash following the world premiere in Hollywood, which Sarah wrote about here. For the most part, Black people across the globe have been ecstatic to finally have a Black Ariel. But the excitement came to a bit of a halt, replaced instead with By Stephanie • May 12, 2023 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone is a Poor Thing Yorgos Lanthimos is back, baby! He’s reteaming with Emma Stone for Poor Things, a Frankensteinian tale adapted from Scottish writer Alasdair Gray’s award-winning novel of the same name. Stone plays Bella, a woman brought back to life by a mad scientist, played, naturally, by Willem Dafoe. The By Sarah • May 11, 2023 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Beetlejuice…Beetlejuice… For many years now, I have refused to believe in the possibility of Beetlejuice 2, but now, it seems, it is finally happening, it’s real this time. According to Warner Bros. Discovery, Beetlejuice 2 starts filming in London TODAY, with Tim Burton directing, Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder returning, By Sarah • May 10, 2023 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hamill + Hiddleston + King Cannes is coming, which means not only the film festival kicking off next week, but also the film market, in which upcoming productions will be sold for financing. One such project is The Life of Chuck, an adaptation of Stephen King’s novella about Charles Krantz, a 39-year-old By Sarah • May 09, 2023 01:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Wheatley’s Meg 2 Starring Jason Statham The Meg is a super stupid shark movie that shot itself in the foot by going for a watered down PG-13 rating instead of going hard R and giving us the great cinematic spectacle of a giant water monster eating a lot of dumb people. It’s mostly just By Sarah • May 09, 2023 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Book Club ladies reunite Book Club was a surprisingly charming movie, and I was hoping the sequel, Book Club: The Next Chapter would be a kind of Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again surprise in which the sequel is at least as fun and entertaining as the original film, but alas, it is not. By Sarah • May 09, 2023 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Under the sea with MONSTERS The world premiere of The Little Mermaid (live action redux) was last night in Los Angeles. Everyone turned up: Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay—grown up!—Daveed Diggs, who voices Sebastian in the film, and Viscountess Bridgerton herself, Simone Ashley, who plays one of Ariel’s By Sarah • May 09, 2023 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This Barbie is Oppenheimer Barbie and Oppenheimer continue to be joined at the collective consciousness’s hip because they are both being released on July 21. People are trying to make this into a thing, but they’re different movies aimed at different audiences. Given its broader, more family-friendly appeal, Barbie has a By Sarah • May 08, 2023 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Guardians’ final foray in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 The Guardians of the Galaxy go out with a big ole bang in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the final film in Marvel’s weirdest franchise about a bunch of space misfits. Written and directed by James Gunn—to date, the only person to usher a full trilogy through By Sarah • May 05, 2023 11:43 am
