Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man looks exhausting Remember when, for five whole seconds, Peter Parker was a kid with kid problems, who had to fit his superheroing around school and family obligations? Remember how fun and refreshing that was? That the stakes of a Marvel movie weren’t the fate of the whole world, but just this By Sarah • Nov 17, 2021 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland goes on baby’s first adventure The popular video game series Uncharted has been stuck in development hell since 2008, when a film adaptation was first announced. After years of false starts—including David O. Russell being attached to direct for a while in the early 2010s—Uncharted finally got off the ground, only to get By Sarah • Oct 22, 2021 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Peter Parker vs. Doctor Strange Over the weekend, a trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home leaked. Now, with CinemaCon, the annual convention for theater owners in Las Vegas, underway, the trailer has been released for real. (Sidebar: Having CinemaCon right now doesn’t feel like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, it feels like trying By Sarah • Aug 24, 2021 10:11 am
Zendaya Coleman Zendaya’s “Best Life”: the Vaccinated Life It was a good weekend for Zendaya. She’s in Space Jam: A New Legacy, which topped the box office this weekend. And she posted on Twitter the other day, a shot of herself by the pool, with the caption, “out here living my best life”. She’s since deleted By Lainey • Jul 19, 2021 01:31 pm
Top Reads Zomdaya, confirmed If you were reading this site a week ago, you may have been prepared for this. In my post about Zendaya following the BET Awards, I mentioned that Tom Holland was seen visiting her on the set of Euphoria which is when speculation started that they might be back together, By Lainey • Jul 05, 2021 12:07 pm
Law Roach Zendaya and Law: A Tribute to Beyoncé I mean, this is why Zendaya is in a category of her own – because the standard that she and Law Roach have created together is impossible. Here’s Zendaya at the BET Awards last night: She’s unreal. And he’s unreal. And he takes credit for it… AS HE By Lainey • Jun 28, 2021 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland’s marketing schtick Spider-Man 3 (version 2) is due in theaters in December of this year, for whatever “theaters”, “December”, and “this year” means anymore. This week, the main cast of Tom Holland, Jacob Batalon, and Zendaya have been teasing the title reveal on their Instas, each proffering a supposed title for the By Sarah • Feb 25, 2021 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendalland reunited On set, anyway. Tom Holland and Zendaya are working on Spider-Man 3 (version 2) and were photographed on set together. MJ appears to be working in a donut shop now, and there is fake snow falling. Are we in for another random Hallmark Christmas movie ending for a December superhero By Sarah • Jan 19, 2021 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland’s Cherry Since the Oscars expanded eligibility for Our Plague Year: 2020, we are now getting a rash of new year movies to meet the extended February deadline. Malcolm & Marie is one of these movies, and now we have a teaser for Cherry, starring Tom Holland. It’s a Zendalland reunion! By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom and Zendaya Together Again (Soon) It’s a click-baity title, I know, so I just want to be clear that Tom Holland and Zendaya aren’t, like, together in photos right now but they are, presumably, together because both have arrived in Atlanta to begin production on Spider-Man 3. Here are new shots of Zendaya By Lainey • Oct 27, 2020 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews All the Spider-men are back Spider-Man 3 (version 2) is set to start filming this month—and may already be picking up shots in Queens, though Tom Holland is still working on the Uncharted movie—and with that comes another round of casting news, though this has not yet been backed up by the trades. By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange joins Spider-Man One of the most adorable moments in Avengers: Infinity War is when Spider-Man meets Doctor Strange. It’s less than thirty seconds but it’s a great character beat for Peter Parker and the “who has time for you” look Strange gives him is loaded with potential which neither Infinity By Sarah • Oct 09, 2020 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robert Pattinson brings chaos to Tom Holland At this point, I will watch anything Robert Pattinson is in, just to see whatever bonkers performance he’s giving that day of the week. Over his decade-plus of fame, Pattinson has turned into one of the most reliably strange performers in film—some actors try VERY HARD to sell By Sarah • Aug 14, 2020 11:00 am
Jock Smut Tom Holland & Nadia Parkes: Instagram Official Just over a year ago, Tom Holland and Zendaya were promoting Spider-Man: Homecoming and we all thought they’d been dating for a couple of years, even though they would never confirm it. They hung out a lot though, with each other’s families, but through it all, they maintained By Lainey • Aug 10, 2020 12:00 pm
Jake Gyllenhaal Jake G: Not the JK I was hoping for Yesterday in What Else?, I linked to an article about Tom Holland’s handstand t-shirt challenge and how he tagged Jake Gyllenhaal, and a couple of others, to do it next. Here, specifically, is what I wrote: “Is this a thing? I haven’t seen it on any of my By Lainey • Apr 03, 2020 10:52 am
BFFs Bro-ing down with JB and Tom Last week, Sarah gave us her Crossover Madness bracket, imagining characters from certain television series crossing over to other television series. In real life during collective worldwide quarantine, we’re getting real celebrity crossovers – some of them more unexpected than others. Like this one: Justin Bieber and Tom Holland. The By Lainey • Apr 01, 2020 10:20 am
