Movie Reviews and Previews Solo ran off the road And the summer box office car crash claimed its second victim. If Deadpool 2 was a fender-bender, Solo straight up got ran off the road. Going into the weekend, the projection was a $130-150 million four-day Memorial Day weekend, and coming out of the long weekend, the estimate is $84 By Sarah • May 29, 2018 09:46 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Thandie Newton's Outfits of the Week Thandie Newton wore a one-shoulder top and pants outfit to the Solo: A Star Wars Story photocall the other day that I had already decided would be the Outfit of the Week on, like, Tuesday. And the reason I love this on her so much is because it could have By Lainey • May 18, 2018 12:37 pm
Style Lando and Han on the Croisette Quiet Cannes, right? There was the women’s march, and Kristen Stewart took off her shoes, and Lars Von Trier predictably annoyed everyone, but it’s been relatively quiet, yes? It’s been quiet enough that The Hollywood Reporter ran an article devoted to Cannes’ “decline”. Frankly, it doesn’t By Sarah • May 16, 2018 08:56 am
Music Donald Glover’s great week Six days ago, Donald Glover hosted Saturday Night Live, performing two new songs as Childish Gambino and the video to one of those songs, “This Is America”, has been the most-watched and most-talked about four minutes of pop culture this week as people break down all the hidden references and By Lainey • May 11, 2018 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Solo: A Lando Calrissian Story We’ve all just resigned ourselves to Solo happening to us, right? Like a trip to the dentist—it’s just something we have to get through. A jaunty new trailer has been released to encourage us to take our Star Wars fan service with grace and good cheer, but By Sarah • Apr 09, 2018 12:06 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars’ experience problem In the interest of building a self-perpetuating franchise machine, the Star Wars universe is expanding. Solo, the second of the “Star Wars Stories” is due this summer, and Rian Johnson is following up The Last Jedi by developing a new, unrelated trilogy for Lucasfilm. Yesterday, the latest element of the By Sarah • Feb 07, 2018 09:31 am
Star Wars Intro for December 19, 2017 Dear Gossips, No spoilers in this post, I promise, but can we talk about Star Wars: The Last Jedi? Specifically about Rose Tico, played by Kelly Marie Tran? There are some people who weren’t into Rose and Finn’s part of the story. That’s one of the things By Lainey • Dec 19, 2017 09:34 am
Star Wars Intro for December 18, 2017 Dear Gossips, Did you see Star Wars: The Last Jedi this weekend? Did you love it? Or are you one of those fanboys bitching about it because it was too funny, or something? I LOVED it…but it didn’t start off that way. You know how it starts off, By Lainey • Dec 18, 2017 09:39 am
Star Wars Two Princes and a Droid It’s Star Wars week, right? The movie opens very, very soon. Everybody’s talking about how good it is. So if everyone’s talking about Star Wars, why is no one f-cking talking about R2-D2? R2 is the OG. The OG! An OG should always take precedence over a By Lainey • Dec 13, 2017 12:51 pm
Star Wars Oscar & Elvira at the premiere I called it Oscar Isaac Week yesterday. I should also have called it I Saw Him First Week because I did. And in about five days, when all of us have seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi, at least once, you’ll all be dialed up over Oscar Isaac and By Lainey • Dec 13, 2017 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the Star Wars for a generation After an original trilogy, a prequel trilogy, a spin-off, and the first installment in a sequel trilogy, it didn’t seem that Star Wars could still surprise. They could create new creatures and amaze with effects, be they practical or elaborate CGI, and they could give us new versions of By Sarah • Dec 12, 2017 03:19 pm
Star Wars Star Wars Week kicks off Oscar Isaac Week I’ve been holding some Oscar Isaac photos to post this week because the biggest movie of the year is coming out in 48 hours which I’m seeing on Saturday and that would be Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Sarah’s review of The Last Jedi will be posted By Lainey • Dec 12, 2017 01:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for November 23, 2017 Dear Gossips, Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens in three weeks. We’re getting close. And I’m getting pretty pumped. Once Thanksgiving is over in America, they’ll be making their final marketing push before the release. Yesterday they started reporting the early box office projections. Right now, The By Lainey • Nov 23, 2017 09:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Surprise Star Wars During the World Series (congrats, Astros!), a super-sized TV spot for Star Wars: The Last Jedi dropped and everyone lost their minds because Luke Skywalker is in the Millennium Falcon. I lost my mind because the Porg screamed and it’s simultaneously adorable and terrifying (their teeth are nightmares). At By Sarah • Nov 02, 2017 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Merely whelmed by The Last Jedi It’s a day for final trailers. Star Wars: The Last Jedi also released their final trailer, and it’s very red. Red, and all about Kylo Ren being the biggest bag of dicks in this or any other galaxy. My interest in The Last Jedi has waned with previous By Sarah • Oct 10, 2017 11:20 am
