Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy is in (on?) The Menu With The Bear becoming the breakout hit series of the summer, it’s the perfect time for a darkly comic horror movie about a chef torturing the guests at an elaborate dinner. It’s an ideal pairing, a series using the restaurant world to tell a family drama, and a By Sarah • Aug 11, 2022 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Awkwafina will fight vampires After crashing and burning spectacularly with the so-called “Dark Universe” cinematic universe of classic movie monsters, Universal is trying again with a filmmaker-driven approach to reimagining their classic monsters in the modern era. The first movie of their second effort to reboot the classic monsters was Leigh Whannell’s very By Sarah • Dec 02, 2021 01:15 pm
TV Updates Nicholas Hoult and Elle Fanning are cheerfully antagonistic The Great season two drops on Hulu this Friday, and in advance of that, Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult cover the digital edition of Entertainment Weekly. I love this format for a show like The Great, because the motion images allows both Hoult and Fanning to really pose in character, By Sarah • Nov 18, 2021 12:34 pm
TV Updates Oh my gosh, The Great! I really enjoyed the first season of The Great, but somewhere in the pandemic fog that has become my brain over the last eighteen months, I totally lost track of its return for season two. But it’s coming back! THIS WEEK! The second season begins on Friday. Here are By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 01:58 pm
TV Updates The Great: The Power of Gossip, the Power of Sex – and Teen Princess! Tony McNamara, Oscar-nominated co-writer of The Favourite, is back with another anachronistic tale of a woman in power. This time he focuses on Russia’s Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning), in a Hulu series titled The Great. It’s not as dark as The Favourite, and overall has a tone By Sarah • May 21, 2020 02:37 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Mad Max: Fury Road turns 5 Mad Max: Fury Road was released on May 5, 2015 – 5.15.15. To mark its fifth anniversary on Friday, The New York Times has published an oral history of Mad Max: Fury Road featuring commentary from several of the key players, including director George Miller, lead stars Charlize Theron By Lainey • May 13, 2020 11:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The X-Men limp to the finish line With Disney taking over Fox, and the X-Men returning to Marvel Studios’ control, the X-Men franchise is now a lame duck. Dark Phoenix, which should have been the next stop in the two-decade-long franchise, is now the culmination of the franchise that began with 2000’s X-Men. (New Mutants, which By Sarah • Jun 06, 2019 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert & Nicholas: the acting duel We had a lot of fun here a couple of weeks ago and then again last week over the casting drama for The Batman. In the end, as we know, Robert Pattinson was confirmed to be the next Bruce Wayne. But there was a curious back and forth between him By Lainey • Jun 05, 2019 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RBatz is not a lock A couple weeks ago we learned that Robert Pattinson is up to be the new Batman, taking over the role from Ben Affleck. Lainey dubbed him the “Millennial Batman”, I think we should call him “RBatz” if he gets the gig. And it is an IF, as a report yesterday By Sarah • May 31, 2019 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence’s man management This is a thing in Hollywood, something you can count on reliably to generate gossip. In Hollywood, where everyone knows everyone and social circles are small, and friends dates each other’s exes, and there’s a premiere or a party or an award show every weekend, the logistical management By Lainey • Oct 01, 2018 12:04 pm
Joe Alwyn Nick & Joe in Venice Nicholas Hoult and Joe Alwyn are supporting actors in The Favourite, starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz, world premiering at the Venice Film Festival. Here they are at the photo call today, looking very tall and very handsome. As you know Joe is dating Taylor Swift. Nick used By Lainey • Aug 30, 2018 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun and Goose’s son As Sarah posted a couple of weeks ago, Tom Cruise confirmed that production is now underway on the Top Gun sequel and now THR is reporting that they’ve narrowed it down to Nicholas Hoult, Glen Powell, and Miles Teller to play Goose’s son. You’ll recall, Goose’s By Lainey • Jun 28, 2018 10:05 am
Girl Sh-t Jennifer Lawrence enters the narrative Jennifer Lawrence has always been good for a one-liner. She’s quick-witted and unfiltered. Those two things have always been a part of a Jennifer Lawrence press tour. So, when J.Law started promoting Red Sparrow, I knew we’d be in for a few headline-grabbing cracks. Let’s start By Kathleen • Feb 19, 2018 10:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Current War The Current War is about Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) scrambling to build the electrical grid that will power a nation. When the movie begins, Edison is already a famous “inventor”, known most recently for the invention of the lightbulb, and Westinghouse has made an enormous By Sarah • Sep 15, 2017 08:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Fox is having an X-Man problem So let’s just get this out of the way: That happened. I don’t know what to say. Except—I’m sorry. For all of us, but mostly for those who now legitimately fear for their rights, and even their lives. We’ll get through this, but it’s By Sarah • Nov 09, 2016 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nicholas Hoult is the perfect Tesla The Current War, the Nikola Tesla movie that is somehow not about Nikola Tesla, has finally cast Nikola Tesla. At least we know he’s in this movie for sure. In a rather brilliant piece of casting, Nicholas Hoult will be playing Tesla, the genius inventor caught between two litigious By Sarah • Oct 07, 2016 11:35 am
