Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans scruffy for Santa Here is Chris Evans on the set of Red One, a holiday action flick destined for Amazon Prime. Lucy Liu joined the cast this week, and Kiernan Shipka was added last month. We still don’t really know what this movie is, except an action-adventure film that has something to By Sarah • Oct 14, 2022 09:48 am
TV Updates Intro for October 13, 2022 Dear Gossips, Big announcement yesterday! The Joy Luck Club is getting a sequel! A “Joy Luck Club 2" is happening! The original cast is in talks to return to their roles as mothers and grandmothers. The film will also highlight a new generation of Asian female-identifying actors, from granddaughters By Lainey • Oct 13, 2022 09:31 am
Quiveration Let Jonathan Majors cook your brain We are six weeks away from the release of Devotion, the historical aviation epic starring Glen Powell and Jonathan Majors, which means we’re entering the full-court press phase of promotion. They’ve already been to TIFF—where Powell and Majors charmed Lainey—for the world premiere. Now, Jonathan Majors By Sarah • Oct 12, 2022 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney is the new Barbarella Does Sydney Sweeney’s trajectory give anyone else flashbacks to Scarlett Johansson circa the early 2000s? ScarJo didn’t do time on a prestige drama on her way up, but she was a child actor who transitioned to grown-up stardom via prestige indie films like Ghost World and Lost In By Sarah • Oct 12, 2022 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Triangle of Sadness is a poop cruise for the rich Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund makes his English-language debut with Triangle of Sadness, a black comedy/satire and this year’s Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival. Östlund, who writes and directs Triangle, has a knack for social observation and class satire, as demonstrated in his previous films By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews David Harbour is having fun as Zaddy Claus One thing I love about the prestige TV era, generally, is the phenomenon of That Guy/Gal actors getting starring roles. Like Jeremy Strong and J. Cameron Smith in Succession, or Titus Welliver in Bosch, or Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins in Justified, and the ultimate example, James Gandolfini in By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gael Garcia Bernal in Werewolf By Night The Marvel wing of Disney+ is a mixed bag, but Werewolf By Night represents a step in the right direction for the MCU on TV. Stemming from the horror corner of Marvel Comics, Werewolf By Night doesn’t really fit into the overall MCU, and that is the second-best thing By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 02:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt’s Mario voice New York Comic Con is happening right now, which isn’t quite the bonanza of stuff that San Diego Comic Con is, but it’s close. One of the new things coming out of NYCC is the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, coming in April 2023. It By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 12:56 pm
Gorgessity Michaela Coel covers Vogue Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opens exactly five weeks from today on November 11. Sarah posted the trailer earlier this week, and promotion for the film is now underway with Michaela Coel on the cover of the November issue of Vogue. Michaela is new to the MCU. She plays Aneka, captain By Lainey • Oct 07, 2022 11:58 am
Style Tilda Swinton channels David Bowie Last night, Tilda Swinton’s new film, The Eternal Daughter, premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. La Swinton showed up, doing her best David Bowie. If ever there is a biopic of Bowie, should anyone bother showing up besides Tilda Swinton? I think not. (There has already been an By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 7, 2022 Dear Gossips, Glass Onion is freaking great. There is no question in my mind that, were it getting a typical theatrical release like Knives Out did in 2019, it would also make the kind of money Knives Out did ($311 million worldwide). But Glass Onion is not getting a typical By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 6, 2022 Dear Gossips, Are you ready for your eyeroll of the day? I’m eyerolling so hard over this I’ve given myself a migraine. Jared Leto will play Karl Lagerfeld in a biopic that he’s also coproducing. Karl Lagerfeld’s estate has approved. According to The Hollywood Reporter the By Lainey • Oct 06, 2022 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo and Walmart Timothy Olyphant’s bad wedding The trailer for Shotgun Wedding, Jennifer Lopez’s new rom-com, dropped yesterday. Beyond the casting brouhaha when Josh Duhamel replaced a beleaguered Armie Hammer, I didn’t know anything about this movie. It turns out, the title is literal, as there are actual shotguns present at this wedding. JLo and By Sarah • Oct 05, 2022 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Script fix it: Hocus Pocus 2 So, I’m going to do something different than just review Hocus Pocus 2. Over the years, you’ve probably seen me write some variation of “plot is what is happening, and story is why it’s happening”, and sometimes people will ask for more examples of that, and when By Sarah • Oct 04, 2022 02:28 pm
Style All the Cate Fashion I wrote about The Woman King and Viola Davis in the previous post and their Oscar ambitions. Viola will submit in the Best Actress category and we’ve been talking about how competitive it’s looking this year, even though Ana de Armas’s chances might be receding with all By Lainey • Oct 04, 2022 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Woman King campaigns The Woman King came out of TIFF with good reviews. Then it opened at #1 at the box office. In the weeks since it has pretty much recouped its budget, and with strong word of mouth, it should continue to see steady business; I went on Saturday and my theatre By Lainey • Oct 04, 2022 12:31 pm
