Movie Reviews and Previews Guardians of the Galaxy comes with a WARNING Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 opens tomorrow. The Super Mario Bros. Movie has reigned supreme over the box office for the last month, topping $1 billion and becoming the highest-grossing animated film from Universal—yes, beating even the Minions—and the highest-grossing video game adaption to date. By Sarah • May 04, 2023 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The less boring Dune The first trailer for Dune: Part Two (sadly, not titled Dune: Part Deunx) dropped today, showing off the return of Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya as desert would-be lovers Paul Atreides and Chani, as well as new cast additions Florence Pugh, as imperial Princess Irulan, and Austin Butler as the By Sarah • May 03, 2023 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Hampshire in The End of Sex Movies about monogamous hetero couples closing in on middle age and having an intimacy crisis about it are nothing new. Stanley Kubrick trod this ground in Eyes Wide Shut to great effect, and The End of Sex follows a familiar path, albeit in a suburban Canadian setting, which means that By Sarah • Apr 28, 2023 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Next Goal Wins looks charming* CinemaCon rolls on, and one of the (few) trailers released is for Next Goal Wins, Michael Fassbender’s return to acting since taking a break (technically a “retirement”, but come on, no one really believed he was never going to act again) following 2019’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix. It’ By Sarah • Apr 27, 2023 03:08 pm
Douchebags The Flash hype train is now boarding CinemaCon is ongoing in Las Vegas, and The Flash was the centerpiece of the Warner Bros. Discovery presentation yesterday, dropping a new trailer—which was released online—and screening the whole film for an audience of press and theater owners. The Flash hype train is officially leaving the station, and By Sarah • Apr 26, 2023 12:21 pm
Gorgessity Dune 2: More Zendaya please Dune was a major success when it was released in October 2021 grossing more than $400 million at the box office and winning six Oscars. Dune 2 comes out in November and is also expected to be a big earner and an Academy Awards contender. I get why so many By Lainey • Apr 26, 2023 11:03 am
Style Barbie and Ken go to Vegas What’s the most anticipated summer blockbuster of the year? The answer to this question is usually a superhero movie, or a movie with explosions. This year, however, at least in my feed, the one we’re most looking forward to is Barbie, right? It’s a movie that will By Lainey • Apr 26, 2023 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Guardians have to pass the test Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 comes out in just two weeks. Chris Pratt is still riding high from the bonanza success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which is only a week or so away from hitting one billion dollars. But he’s already onto the next blockbuster, promoting By Sarah • Apr 25, 2023 11:12 am
Photo Assumption Glen and Sydney: Leaning In Cody yesterday covered the rumours about Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney hooking up while filming their rom-com in Australia, and in the process maybe cheating on their respective partners – at least that’s what the internet thinks based on photos from set and social media posts. The speculation isn’ By Lainey • Apr 25, 2023 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans and Ana de Armas in Ghosted Ghosted is like a green smoothie that promises you that THIS smoothie will taste good, and not at all like licking grass. Like that smoothie, Ghosted is full of many ingredients meant to sweeten the flavor, but also like that smoothie, it still ends up tasting like licking grass. That By Sarah • Apr 21, 2023 12:50 pm
Music JLo: Back in Promo Mode Jennifer Lopez is still trying to get people to care about her low-calorie line of alcoholic drinks – she’s been posting to Instagram stories, sharing videos and photos of regular people showing how they drink in “La Bella Vita”. Basically the promise is that if you tag the Delola By Lainey • Apr 21, 2023 11:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina + Halle! Deadline had the exclusive yesterday - Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie have signed on to do a movie together…and it’s an ACTION movie. Multiple studios apparently wanted in on this and Warner Bros came out with the rights after a bidding war and that tracks, because these are two By Lainey • Apr 19, 2023 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage in Renfield Renfield, from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and director Chris McKay, the man behind the phenomenal The LEGO Batman Movie and the horrible Tomorrow War, imagines Dracula in the modern day, dealing with modern problems such as: his assistant, Renfield, has discovered self-help. Nicolas Cage stars as Dracula— By Sarah • Apr 14, 2023 02:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michelle Williams in Showing Up Michelle Williams and filmmaker Kelly Reichardt reunite for their fourth collaborative effort, Showing Up, a slow-moving almost-comedy about art and life and the artist life. Reichardt is known for her style of “slow cinema”, that is, the cinema of regular people living regular lives in regular society, or By Sarah • Apr 13, 2023 01:52 pm
Maple Leaf Make Emily Hampshire a rom-com queen With movies finally and consistently rebounding in theaters, we’ve recently been wondering if R-rated comedies can return to cinemas, too. The genre has been relegated to streaming over the last few years, but once upon a time, comedies, even R-rated ones, could consistently deliver solid box office By Sarah • Apr 12, 2023 02:22 pm
Style Katie Holmes: WHYYYYY the shoes?! Katie Holmes is currently promoting Rare Objects, which she wrote and directed and in which she has a supporting role. She also just wrapped up working on an off-Broadway play, The Wanderers. She talked about the experience with Variety a couple of weeks ago and I really liked what By Lainey • Apr 12, 2023 10:55 am
