Movie Reviews and Previews Vanessa Kirby and some guys in The Fantastic Four: First Steps From its first seconds, when a delightfully retro title card appears on screen, The Fantastic Four: First Steps isn’t like other Marvels movies—it’s cool! But it actually IS cool, every frame of First Steps is packed with eye-popping artistic design, the score is immediately recognizable, from the By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone get out of Vanessa Kirby’s way It has long been a truism of superhero movies that every iteration of the live-action Fantastic Four has sucked. Well, guess what? It’s true no more! The Fantastic Four: First Steps, stupid title aside, is F-CKING GREAT. I’ll have a full review later this week, but for the By Sarah • Jul 22, 2025 01:17 pm
Quiveration The New “Family” We are just over two weeks from the release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the MCU’s next anticipated blockbuster so the press tour is starting and also more solid marketing, including the cover of PEOPLE Magazine - in character. This is … perfect. Because it suits both brands. This By Lainey • Jul 07, 2025 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Celine Song’s Materialists Celine Song follows up her Oscar-nominated debut feature film, Past Lives, with another meditative look at modern romance. This time it’s Materialists, which takes the trappings of a romantic comedy and gently drops them into something almost like reality, where, specifically, financial reality is a critical part of everyone’ By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 01:35 pm
Maple Leaf Pedro Pascal prefers Canada Materialists comes out on Friday and earlier this week, Vogue released an “off the cuff” interview with Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal promoting the movie – the whole thing was really cute, their chemistry is fun, the way it’s fun when two friends, who are super comfortable with each other, By Lainey • Jun 11, 2025 04:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 3, 2025 Dear Gossips, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Pedro Pascal, and Joseph Quinn, aka the cast of The Fantastic Four, were at CCXP Mexico this past weekend to promote the movie which comes out on July 25. But that’s not Pedro’s next movie. His next movie is Materialists, opening soon, By Lainey • Jun 03, 2025 09:09 am
Cannes 2025 Angelina, Natalie, Emma – Oscar winners on Cannes Friday PROGRAMMING NOTE: Monday is a stat holiday in Canada so we will be dark and returning to regular gossip schedule on Tuesday. One of the most highly anticipated films of the year is screening in Cannes tonight – Ari Aster’s Eddington opens wide and it’s an ambitious move because By Lainey • May 16, 2025 04:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Love Triangle of the Summer If this is a trend, I like it: a pop culture love triangle every summer. At the movies. Last year it was Tashi, Art, and Patrick in Challengers, played by Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor. This year it’s Lucy, Harry, and John played by Dakota Johnson, Pedro By Lainey • May 09, 2025 10:38 am
TV Updates Jennifer Aniston and Pedro Pascal: LA and London I got a text from a family member last night. She doesn’t work in entertainment, she isn’t super online. And she asked me, “Jennifer Aniston and Pedro Pascal???” I don’t know if she was just a few weeks behind or wishful thinking or both. But there are By Lainey • Apr 29, 2025 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Almost all the Thunderbolts* As Sarah just pointed out in her post about Sebastian Stan earlier today, even though he’s sort of the unofficial leader of the Thunderbolts* with his Marvel seniority, he was not at the UK premiere last night because he’s working on another project. I feel like they’ll By Lainey • Apr 23, 2025 11:18 am
Walton Goggins Intro for April 11, 2025 Dear Gossips, HBO is going back to back with The White Lotus season three and The Last of Us season two on Sunday nights, and by the time it’s all done it’ll be 15 straight weeks of watercooler domination. The reviews for The Last of Us season two, By Lainey • Apr 11, 2025 09:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pedro Pascal in Freaky Tales Filmmaking duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck return to cinemas with their first feature film since 2019’s Captain Marvel with the anthology film, Freaky Tales. A loosely connected set of four stories depicting convergent events on May 10, 1987, in Oakland, California. Freaky Tales is a love letter to By Sarah • Apr 04, 2025 01:10 pm
TV Updates Pedro Pascal: The Artful Dodge Pedro Pascal was the main story yesterday – Sarah posted about him being papped after a three-hour dinner with Jennifer Aniston among others and the instant online speculation about whether or not they now might be dating. Interesting timing too since he’s now promoting The Last of Us season two, By Lainey • Mar 25, 2025 10:22 am
TV Updates Gossip Genie: Pedro and Jennifer? We are 10+ years into the Pedro Pascal internet boyfriend agenda, and it occurs to me that for all the online thirst he generates, we don’t spend a lot of time speculating about Pedro’s love life. He’s doing internet boyfriend on hard mode, keeping his personal life By Sarah • Mar 24, 2025 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans vs Pedro Pascal Celine Song’s Past Lives is a heartbreaker of a film, at once dreamy and romantic, and pragmatic about the realities of life, of the way people ebb and flow from our lives, and how love changes shape, or doesn’t, over time. Her follow-up film, Materialists, seems cut from By Sarah • Mar 19, 2025 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The New New Fantastic Four I was expecting it during the Super Bowl, but Marvel just dropped the first teaser for Fantastic Four: First Steps, the film more than any other they hope will get the good ship SS Total Box Office Dominance back on track. They did a whole ass live launch event with By Sarah • Feb 04, 2025 09:59 am
