Movie Reviews and Previews First look at Indiana Jones “5” Empire magazine is touting the first look at a movie they are calling Indiana Jones 5, which is strange, because there are only three Indiana Jones movies. Everyone knows that. There are only three Indy movies, no other Indy movies have ever been made, just Raiders of the Lost Ark, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2022 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes in The Menu Director Mark Mylod’s last feature film credit is, incredibly, the rather sexist and misogynistic Chris Evans/Anna Faris “rom-com” What’s Your Number in 2011. Since then, though, he has been directing for TV shows like Game of Thrones, Shameless, and Succession, and now he’s roaring back into By Sarah • Nov 18, 2022 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan in She Said Given the subject matter, it pains me to report that She Said is not very good. Adapted from the book of the same name by journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said recounts the months of investigation and work that went into Kantor and Twohey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bombshell By Sarah • Nov 18, 2022 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spielberg and BCoop’s Fast & Furious Today in But Is It About Family News, Bradley Cooper will reportedly star in a Bullitt reboot(ish) to be directed by Steven Spielberg. Bullitt is the classic 1968 Steve McQueen film that features one of the greatest car chases in cinema history. In the film, McQueen stars as a By Sarah • Nov 18, 2022 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brendan Fraser is not a hypocrite Brendan Fraser covers the December issue of GQ, four years after it was GQ that put him back in the spotlight via Zach Baron’s massively viral profile that asked, What ever happened to Brendan Fraser? Back in 2018, Fraser was talking about where he’d gone, how years of By Sarah • Nov 17, 2022 09:24 am
Quiveration MBJ supports Jonathan Majors Back in September at TIFF, I wrote about my new favourite bromance: Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell. Their film, Devotion, opens next week and the LA premiere was last night. But someone else showed up to support and this might be an even better bromance. Michael B Jordan was also By Lainey • Nov 16, 2022 02:24 pm
Quiveration Very Important Dev Patel Updates Now that we’re all here, it’s time for some very important Dev Patel updates. One, as you can see from these photos from just yesterday, Dev Patel is still tall and handsome. This is not the most important thing, but let the record reflect that it is still By Sarah • Nov 16, 2022 10:17 am
Quiveration Step Up to Magic Mike Magic Mike XXL is The Empire Strikes Back of the Magic Mike Universe. Yes, I am connecting Magic Mike to Star Wars, LOL, because what I’m trying to say is that the sequel is better than the original. The reason why so many of us feel that way about By Lainey • Nov 15, 2022 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Kravitz: “Curator of Vibe” Zoë Kravitz is one of three cover stars for GQ’s year-end issue, named as the magazine’s Superhero of the Year. As Zoë herself concedes, playing Selina Kyle, Catwoman, in The Batman earlier this year confirmed her status on Hollywood’s A-List. “Batman was the first time that I By Lainey • Nov 15, 2022 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie at arm’s length Margot Robbie is the cover star of Vanity Fair’s December issue, in support of Babylon, Damien Chazelle’s ode to silent-era Hollywood (on the cusp of the talkie era). How magnanimous of Robbie to give Vanity Fair another shot after that super gross 2016 profile that managed to insult By Sarah • Nov 15, 2022 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick 4, FINALLY The last of the completed films that were delayed because of the pandemic were released this past summer. But we still have to deal with films that were meant to be in production in 2020 that were delayed and are just now staggering their way into theaters in fits and By Sarah • Nov 14, 2022 02:23 pm
Gorgessity Timothée Chalamet: Movie Star Rock Star Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell, opens this Friday. All three were in Milan this weekend for the premiere, coordinated in triple black on the red carpet. Last week I posted about Taylor’s emergence this year as a new style star and here By Lainey • Nov 14, 2022 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Wakanda Forever power trio talk about grief, but not vaccines Spoilers for Wakanda Forever Last week, Ryan Coogler, Angela Bassett, and Letitia Wright covered the digital edition of Variety, but I put off writing about it until more people got to see Black Panther: Wakanda Forever over the weekend. The Variety profile focuses heavily on the loss of Chadwick Boseman, By Sarah • Nov 14, 2022 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Grief takes center stage in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Usually, the star of a film gets the headline for the review, but in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, grief IS the lead character. Dealt the incredible loss of his friend and collaborator Chadwick Boseman, director Ryan Coogler finds a way to marshal on in the world of Wakanda, though the By Sarah • Nov 10, 2022 01:19 pm
TV Updates Taylor Sheridan’s Americana Taylor Sheridan emerged in the 2010s as one of the leading voices in the neo-Western revival in American cinema, writing screenplays for Sicario and its sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, and Hell or High Water, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. In 2017 he wrote and directed By Sarah • Nov 09, 2022 10:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chevalier won’t say his name There is a movie that did not fit into my TIFF schedule, Chevalier, which I regret. The trailer dropped yesterday, and it looks pretty great. Kelvin Harrison Jr., lately seen as B.B. King in Elvis, stars as Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the first recorded Black classical music composer. By Sarah • Nov 08, 2022 03:09 pm
