Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 20, 2025 Dear Gossips, We’re just about a week away from the start of the Venice Film Festival and then Telluride and TIFF right after, so trailers and other promotional materials for projects that will be premiering and, perhaps, kicking off their Oscar campaigns are now being released. That includes Edward By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 09:34 am
Golden Globes 2025 All the other Best Actresses We’ve been saying it for months now – the field for this year’s Best Actress Oscar race is as competitive as it’s ever been with as many as eight candidates in contention for just five spots and no clear frontrunner. Even after last night, with Demi Moore and By Lainey • Jan 06, 2025 10:40 am
Julianne Moore Intro for September 3, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s a brand new school year, we’re back from a brief break and just in time for the gossip gold rush. The Venice Film Festival has been underway for a few days, Telluride was happening this past weekend, TIFF kicks off on Thursday, New York Fashion By Lainey • Sep 03, 2024 09:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Queens of Venice The Venice Film Festival revealed its lineup yesterday and, just as it was with TIFF the day before, after last year’s strikes muted the brilliance of the stars, they’re coming back with the dial cranked to max with huge names expected on the Lido at the end of By Lainey • Jul 24, 2024 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender in The Killer David Fincher’s latest film, The Killer, is an adaptation of the French comic book of the same name by Matz and Luc Jacamon. It asks the basic question—what if the secret assassin world of John Wick was actually boring and full of working stiffs? The Killer stars Michael By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 02:36 pm
Style Tilda Swinton channels David Bowie Last night, Tilda Swinton’s new film, The Eternal Daughter, premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. La Swinton showed up, doing her best David Bowie. If ever there is a biopic of Bowie, should anyone bother showing up besides Tilda Swinton? I think not. (There has already been an By Sarah • Oct 07, 2022 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba in Three Thousand Years of Longing Sandwiched between two Mad Max films (Fury Road and the upcoming Furiosa), Australian auteur George Miller brings us Three Thousand Years of Longing, a curiosity, a romantic drama adapted from A.S. Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” (Miller co-wrote the script with Augusta Gore) By Sarah • Aug 26, 2022 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba washes away the scent of Cats George Miller, the mad genius behind the Mad Max films, filled his time between Mad Max: Fury Road and its prequel, Furiosa, with a similarly fantastic, albeit less apocalyptic fantasy film Three Thousand Years of Longing. Starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, the film premiered at Cannes to mostly positive By Sarah • May 24, 2022 03:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tilda and Timothée Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch received the longest standing ovation so far in Cannes this year. It was supposed to be released last year, and it’s been a while since the last Wes Anderson live action feature. From what I’ve seen and read, critics so far seem By Lainey • Jul 13, 2021 09:47 am
Style Cate and Tilda: Actors on the Red Carpet As I mentioned on Tuesday when I posted photos of Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton arriving at the Venice Film Festival, it felt like reactivating a dormant muscle. After six months of no red carpets and arrival coverage, there’s some stiffness and pain, even disbelief, and also some cautious By Lainey • Sep 03, 2020 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cate and Tilda arrive in Venice The Venice Film Festival opens tomorrow and here are Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton arriving ahead of the opening night gala. It feels so weird to be posting photos from a festival arrival – even though, around this time of year, this is what we do here. We see shots of By Lainey • Sep 01, 2020 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Return to Wes Anderson’s Land of Impossible Twee Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch, is set for a summer release and is expected to premiere at Cannes. If it does, it will bring a collection of stars to the Croisette unlike any other ensemble that could be assembled. Few directors can attract such high-wattage stars to By Sarah • Feb 12, 2020 02:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Personal History of David Copperfield or Dev Patel can play any role Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield is a breezy, fun, surprisingly straightforward take on the classic. Iannucci co-wrote the script with his frequent collaborator Simon Blackwell, but if you’re expecting a Veep or Death of Stalin-style satire—as I was—don’t hold your breath. Iannucci By Sarah • Sep 09, 2019 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A bunch of ghouls in The Dead Don’t Die Jim Jarmusch’s latest feature, The Dead Don’t Die, is a curious movie that exists in two realities at once: one in which it is good, and one in which it is bad. It’s like Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the universe in that it is By Sarah • Jun 14, 2019 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver saying “Ghouls” Up until this very moment, pop culture has had only one ghoul expert, and that is Charlie Kelly, who knows a ghoul on sight. Now, however, Charlie Kelly is joined by Adam Driver in Jim Jarmusch’s new zombie movie, as he correctly identifies ghouls and, incidentally, creates a new By Sarah • Apr 01, 2019 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria Dario Argento’s Suspiria is a Giallo classic, famous for its lurid colors and expression of feminine repression and power. Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria—less a remake and more a reimagining—is going to be famous for its marathon length and multiple good performances from Tilda Swinton. Wisely, Guadagnino doesn’ By Sarah • Nov 06, 2018 03:31 pm
