Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: North Star Kristin Scott Thomas’s directorial debut, North Star, is inspired by her own experience losing her father and stepfather within a few years of each other when she was a little girl. Scott Thomas, who co-wrote the script with John Micklethwait, frames these losses as the core memories haunting By Sarah • Sep 14, 2023 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone famous in Asteroid City Wes Anderson is a filmmaker who has long been interested in dysfunctional families, fathers and sons, grief, love, and a sense of style so precise he’s his own sub-genre of cinema. His latest, Asteroid City, embraces all of Anderson’s usual quirks and pursuits, with an added dash By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise takes Rome As mentioned last week, the big Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 premiere was yesterday in Rome. Rome because one of the movie’s big set pieces, a car chase, takes place in Rome. And … as it always is where Tom’s movies are concerned… the event was a f- By Lainey • Jun 20, 2023 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson: The Stars and the Strike At the Asteroid City premiere last night, Scarlett Johansson was asked about the writers’ strike and the potential actors’ strike. SAG-AFTRA’s current agreement expires on June 30. Negotiations have been underway since June 7. While an actors’ strike is not a certainty, it is definitely a possibility, and By Lainey • Jun 14, 2023 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJost turns it on in Cannes Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last night to largely positive reviews. The film is rated at 86% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes so far and several critics have said that this is his best work since The Grand Budapest Hotel which, to me, basically translates By Lainey • May 24, 2023 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wes Anderson’s alien movie By this point, either Wes Anderson’s twee little dioramas work for you, or they don’t. They almost always work for me, I like the dark streak at the heart of all his stories, the human messiness juxtaposed with his strict papercraft sensibility. I also don’t mind his By Sarah • Mar 30, 2023 11:17 am
Gossip Genie Scarlett out, Ana in… with Chris Evans Back in the summer, Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans made headlines when it was announced they’d be working together again in a movie called Ghosted. There’s been a casting change now since they want to go into production in February and it’s a scheduling conflict for Scarlett. By Lainey • Dec 06, 2021 01:53 pm
Outfit of the Week Outfit of the Week: Scarlett Johansson It’s been a while since we’ve seen Scarlett Johansson on a red carpet – and she had a major movie release out this year. And it’s not just because of the pandemic. Black Widow came out in the summer and while Scarjo participated in the virtual press tour, By Lainey • Nov 19, 2021 01:41 pm
Top Reads Scarlett Johansson and Disney settle And just like that, the tectonic lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and Disney has settled, just two days before the two-month mark. ScarJo and Disney have brought an end to hostilities, having reached a settlement agreement yesterday. In a statement, ScarJo said: “I am happy to have resolved our differences By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 12:35 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost Named A Baby Man, things have changed. It’s not just because of the pandemic, but how much more chill is this kind of birth announcement, via Colin Jost’s Instagram, than the publicist-released announcements we used to get hours after birth? (For added hilarity, if you still f-ck with Michael By Duana • Aug 19, 2021 01:15 pm
Top Reads Scarlett Johansson v Disney: Hollywood’s next labor battle Last Thursday, Scarlett Johansson dropped a bombshell lawsuit on Disney, alleging breach of contract. The suit claims that Johansson had a theatrical-exclusive guarantee in her contract for Black Widow—which would not be unusual for an actor of her stature—and that by putting Black Widow on Disney+ day- By Sarah • Aug 03, 2021 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow: Marvel is back Black Widow marks Marvel’s return to theaters after a two-year forced hiatus. Directed by Cate Shortland (Berlin Syndrome, Lore) and written by Marvel veteran Eric Pearson (with a story by Ned Benson and WandaVision’s Jac Schaeffer), the film begins with an extended cold open that flashes back By Sarah • Jul 08, 2021 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarjo Gets Slimed Scarlett Johansson received the Generation Award at the MTV Movie and TV Awards last night. She was not in attendance which means while things are definitely getting back to normal, whatever that means, we’re not quite there yet. And also, Scarjo is based in New York and she obviously By Lainey • May 17, 2021 10:55 am
Weddings Mr & Mrs ScarJost Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are married. They started dating in 2017 after getting to know each other when Scarlett hosted Saturday Night Live. They got engaged last year. And now it’s official….they are ScarJost. The announcement is what’s most interesting, to me. It was Meals on By Lainey • Oct 30, 2020 09:24 am
TV Updates Rub & Tug is revived, sans ScarJo A couple of years ago, Scarlett Johansson waded (again) into the waters of appropriation, intending to star in the movie Rub & Tug in the role of a trans man, Tex Gill, who ran a massage parlor empire in Pennsylvania in the 1970s (Tex Gill’s life sounds so cinematic) By Sarah • Jul 22, 2020 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow gives up the ghost Of the spring/early summer film release, Black Widow was the last giant standing, but yesterday, Disney pulled the plug, shuffling Black Widow off its May 1 release date and making it, like everything else, TBD. There goes the summer kickoff. Disney has moved BLACK WIDOW from May 1, 2020 By Sarah • Mar 18, 2020 11:22 am
