Movie Reviews and Previews Double-nominee Black Widow Last night during the college football championship game, Marvel dropped a “special look” at Black Widow. The “special look” is mostly stuff from the teaser trailer, but we learn that part of Natasha’s challenge in her solo movie is squaring off with a “new generation” of Black Widows, and By Sarah • Jan 14, 2020 12:31 pm
Golden Globes 2020 Cynthia Erivo & Scarlett Johansson: Globes Piercing Pals I am a garden-variety internet addict who loves clothing and spectacle, so during or after an awards show, I obviously search obsessively to find out who designed the outfits I love (or despise). I used to be better at the ‘I can guess that designer just by looking at it’ By Duana • Jan 06, 2020 09:45 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Scarlett Johansson’s most iconic role On the last episode of Show Your Work , Duana had a conspiracy theory about Scarlett Johansson hosting Saturday Night Live. So on this episode we’re doing a report card on that conspiracy theory and get into Scarjo’s work overall – because Duana has taken a position: that Scarjo does By Lainey • Dec 18, 2019 04:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson in Marriage Story (Lainey: Marriage Story came away with several Golden Globe nominations, including Best Drama, and nominations for Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Laura Dern from the Screen Actors Guild but curiously was not nominated in the ensemble cast category. Still, it’s a major contender for Best Picture at the Oscars. By Sarah • Dec 12, 2019 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow on her own At long last, and more than five years overdue, Black Widow has her own movie. The teaser for Black Widow was released this morning, and it looks…fine. If this was coming out sometime between 2012 and 2015, when fans were most loudly clamoring for a Black Widow standalone movie, By Sarah • Dec 03, 2019 11:15 am
BFFs The Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson Buddy Circle The working title of this piece was “Evans and ScarJo circle jerk”; I cleaned up the headline because I am a PROFESSIONAL. But make no mistake, any interview format that involves actors interviewing each other is a circle jerk, and the Variety “Actors on Actors” series is no different. It’ By Sarah • Nov 12, 2019 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarjo, Adam, and Laura Dern: primed for award season Scarlett Johansson got stuck in traffic on her way to the New York Film Festival press conference for Marriage Story the other day but her seven minute absence only bolstered the crowd's enthusiastic appreciation for the film, and her performance. Her sweet hug with co-star Alan Alda right By Joanna • Oct 09, 2019 03:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit After playing in the Marvel sandbox, Taika Waititi returns to his natural state, making films with a precise blend of comedy, drama, and pathos. His latest is Jojo Rabbit, in which he becomes the latest filmmaker to satirize Hitler since Charlie Chaplin first did it in 1940s in The Great By Sarah • Sep 10, 2019 05:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s not a good time to be a Nazi Ahead of its TIFF premiere, a new trailer for Jojo Rabbit has been released, which doubles down on the satirical tone of the teaser. There are lots of “bumbling idiots” hijinks, and Taika Waititi is in bright blue contacts as Imaginary Friend Hitler which is a GREAT touch, a subtle By Sarah • Sep 03, 2019 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow’s new duds The Black Widow movie continues teasing us, making a stop at D23 the other day where some footage was screened—sounds like the same kitchen fight scene between Natasha Romanov and Yelena Belova—though the cast, still filming, was not present for this one. We do have, however, some new By Sarah • Aug 27, 2019 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 21, 2019 Dear Gossips, The Toronto International Film Festival released its schedule yesterday and, as usual, most of the major titles and, therefore, the big celebrities, are heavily stacked on the first weekend. Saturday night is the one everyone is marking on their calendars though. That’s the night that A Beautiful By Lainey • Aug 21, 2019 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow Officially Exists This year’s Comic-Con was strangely quiet, especially on the film side, so quiet that Marvel didn’t even have to pull out all the stops to “win” the weekend with their Saturday evening panel. All they had to do was literally show up, which is what they did. Marvel By Sarah • Jul 22, 2019 12:51 pm
Trevor Noah Intro for July 18, 2019 Dear Gossips, Scarlett Johansson made headlines earlier this week for recycling her comments on casting in Hollywood, and who gets to play what roles. Scarlett, like so many celebrities of her status, has often responded to criticism by doubling down, in part because celebrities support each other and celebrity itself By Lainey • Jul 18, 2019 08:50 am
Dumbass ScarJo is back on her bullsh-t File this one under “Lessons Not Learned”. Over the weekend, Scarlett Johansson revived the controversy around her right to play whatever role she wants, be it animal, tree, or trans person. Remember last year when she backed out of the movie Rub & Tug, about a crime boss/transman named By Sarah • Jul 15, 2019 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Let’s talk about Black Widow MAJOR SPOILERS WITHIN SPOILER ALERT SPOILERS BEWARE OF SPOILERS ONE MORE TIME – SPOILERS Natasha Romanoff was the second Avenger in the door. Scarlett Johansson debuted the character way back in 2010, in Iron Man 2. She was the second team member we met, not Captain America, not Thor, and not By Sarah • Apr 29, 2019 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Avengers: Endgame is a surprising, satisfying conclusion (Lainey: I edit almost every post that goes up on this site. I have not read this post. And I’m sad about that because I love reading Sarah’s articles so much. But I’m also trying to go into Avengers: Endgame as clean as possible and while Sarah By Sarah • Apr 25, 2019 12:19 pm
