Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers have made their mark Avengers: Endgame opens in two days and I CAN’T WAIT TO TALK ABOUT IT. Infinity War was not a movie I felt compelled to discuss after the fact, but oh boy are we going to be talking about Endgame. One reason to talk about it is that this is By Sarah • Apr 24, 2019 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scarlett Johansson’s last group date? Scarlett Johansson is currently promoting Avengers: Endgame, a movie which needs no promotion. She was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night with RDJ, Chris Hemsworth, and Paul Rudd. Next year, she’ll probably be back on the Marvel beat promoting her own movie, Black Widow, which is reportedly going to By Sarah • Apr 09, 2019 10:54 am
Scarlett Johansson Global Actresses…and Scarlett Johansson Vogue’s April issue has a series of covers featuring actresses from around the world, representing the biggest and/or most promising names from fourteen countries. Lainey emailed me about it and said, “Global actresses…and Scarlett Johansson?!?!” I get it, though, ScarJo is a huge draw around the world. By Sarah • Mar 15, 2019 10:29 am
Award Season Campaigning ScarJo works for Black Panther Black Panther is the first Marvel movie with a real shot at a major Oscar nomination. As such, Disney is backing an actual, proper award campaign for the movie and key craftspeople involved, particularly Ruth Carter, the costume designer. I attended an event with Ruth Carter a couple months ago By Sarah • Dec 10, 2018 02:09 pm
Scarlett Johansson Avengers: Endgame The trailer for Avengers 4, officially titled Avengers: Endgame has finally arrived and we have some things to discuss. First, that title. After much overdone secrecy, it is revealed to be “Endgame”, a reference to Doctor Strange’s line in Infinity War. It’s fine. It hardly justifies the amount By Sarah • Dec 07, 2018 12:02 pm
Style Scarjo and the People The People’s Choice Awards have always been kind of a joke. I feel like by now even the MiniVan Majority knows this? They’re trying to elevate the PCAs by airing them on E! but I’m not sure that makes a difference. E! is part of NBCUniversal. NBC By Lainey • Nov 13, 2018 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo makes bank Once upon a time, Marvel was called cheap, largely because they didn’t pay their actors massive contracts (and also famously serving Subway sandwiches at their press junkets). Then, The Avengers happened and RDJ pulled in $50 million. So the story became that Marvel was cheap, except for RDJ, who By Sarah • Oct 12, 2018 12:04 pm
Chadwick Boseman Avengers and friends want you to vote The last time I wrote about a celebrity PSA encouraging people to vote, it was before the 2016 election when Joss Whedon launched his campaign to get people out to vote. He relied on his Avenger pals to drum up interest, and now, two years later, here we are again By Sarah • Oct 03, 2018 10:32 am
Emmy Awards 2018 ScarJost at the Emmys This is not the first major event that Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost have attended together and walked the red carpet for. He accompanied her to the Avengers: Infinity War premiere. And then again at the Met Gala. The newness, then, is gone. The strangeness of them as a couple By Lainey • Sep 18, 2018 06:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo kinda cleans up her mess A couple weeks ago Lainey wrote about Scarlett Johansson’s legendarily awful response to criticism after she was cast as transman Dante “Tex” Gill in the biopic Rub & Tug. Please revisit this PR nightmare that they are probably already teaching in Publicity 101. (Can you imagine the face of By Sarah • Jul 16, 2018 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow has a director Earlier this year we learned Marvel (finally) greenlit a Black Widow movie, and now that movie has a director: Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland. Scarlett Johansson apparently backed Shortland because she liked Shortland’s 2012 movie, Lore. Marvel movies tend to benefit when actors are engaged and advocating for their characters— By Sarah • Jul 13, 2018 12:25 pm
Dumbass Scarlett Johansson doubles down Deadline reported yesterday that Scarlett Johansson and Rupert Sanders are working together again on a film called Rub & Tug, based on the real life story of Dante “Tex” Gill. As The Verge pointed out, “all of the major trades, however, managed to misgender Gill, despite the fact that he By Lainey • Jul 04, 2018 12:05 pm
Xenu Smut Scarjo says she didn’t audition for Tom We need some backstory before we can get into this. In 2012, after Katie Holmes left Tom Cruise, Vanity Fair published a story, by Maureen Orth, about Tom’s “secret wife auditioning process” before he and Katie started dating. It was revealed that actress Nazanin Boniadi was chosen by the By Lainey • Jun 28, 2018 11:05 am
Met Gala 2018 Scarlett Johannsen: Duana's 2018 Met's Worst Dressed Look, she was already going to be my worst dressed. She was already on the “f-ck you” list for showing up to THE COSTUME INSTITUTE in something that looks like it was an also-ran for one of her We Got A Zoo premieres in Europe. I get that the highlight By Duana • May 08, 2018 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJost is red carpet official The first draft of this post was about Scarlett Johansson’s ever-growing back tattoo, and my defense, as someone who has tattoos, of what looks like a theme piece growing on her back. BUT THEN SHE PULLED OUT THE JOST. And the tattoos went in the electrical garbage can. Yes, By Sarah • Apr 24, 2018 12:35 pm
Quiveration Scarlett & Adam Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver were photographed in New York on Friday working on Noah Baumbach’s new film. A Noah Baumbach film is a good reset for Scarlett. I’d like to see her in a smaller, quieter film. But my first thought when I saw these pictures was By Lainey • Mar 20, 2018 01:05 pm
