Movie Reviews and Previews Vanessa Kirby and some guys in The Fantastic Four: First Steps From its first seconds, when a delightfully retro title card appears on screen, The Fantastic Four: First Steps isn’t like other Marvels movies—it’s cool! But it actually IS cool, every frame of First Steps is packed with eye-popping artistic design, the score is immediately recognizable, from the By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone get out of Vanessa Kirby’s way It has long been a truism of superhero movies that every iteration of the live-action Fantastic Four has sucked. Well, guess what? It’s true no more! The Fantastic Four: First Steps, stupid title aside, is F-CKING GREAT. I’ll have a full review later this week, but for the By Sarah • Jul 22, 2025 01:17 pm
Quiveration The New “Family” We are just over two weeks from the release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the MCU’s next anticipated blockbuster so the press tour is starting and also more solid marketing, including the cover of PEOPLE Magazine - in character. This is … perfect. Because it suits both brands. This By Lainey • Jul 07, 2025 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The New New Fantastic Four I was expecting it during the Super Bowl, but Marvel just dropped the first teaser for Fantastic Four: First Steps, the film more than any other they hope will get the good ship SS Total Box Office Dominance back on track. They did a whole ass live launch event with By Sarah • Feb 04, 2025 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The New New Fantastic Four Ending actual years of speculation, yesterday the cast of Marvel Studio’s (new) new Fantastic Four team was announced. As previously reported, Pedro Pascal will star as stretchy science man Reed Richards, and he is joined by Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, and The Bear’ By Sarah • Feb 15, 2024 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby in Napoleon Two popular images of Napoleon Bonaparte survive 200 years after his death: 1) Napoleon the bold military strategist who nonetheless ran into the insurmountable wall of a Russian winter, and 2) Napoleon the weird little guy who was led around by his dick by his older, promiscuous wife. Smash these By Sarah • Nov 22, 2023 01:59 pm
Gorgessity Fake and real Bonapartes Napoleon comes out next week, so it is cramming in as much press tour as possible between the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike and the day before US Thanksgiving. Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, and Ridley Scott were in London last night for the UK premiere. Joaquin showed up in the By Sarah • Nov 17, 2023 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Napoleon is a weird little guy Yesterday, Lainey pointed out the rather lacking chemistry in the trailer for Anyone But You, the sexy rom-com starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney. It’s surprising that the trailer is so bland, given how hot Glen and Sydney were all over Sydney, Australia earlier this year. Well, another trailer By Sarah • Oct 20, 2023 03:46 pm
Gorgessity Outfits of the Week: Michelle and Vanessa in black Let’s begin where we should – with reigning Best Actress Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh at Paris Fashion Week. She was seen at the Schiaparelli show in an exquisite black pantsuit and the pictures don’t do it justice so I’m giving you a video. Look at how perfectly tailored By Lainey • Sep 29, 2023 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Napoleon, but make it Josephine Last week, when assessing Bradley Cooper’s potential Oscar competition this year, I namechecked Ridley Scott and his upcoming historical biopic Napoleon, and said Scott would “have to sh-t the bed” to miss being part of the Oscar conversation. The first trailer for Napoleon dropped yesterday, and would it surprise By Sarah • Jul 11, 2023 01:53 pm
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise & Co. in the UK The press tour for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One kicked off earlier this week with the world premiere in Rome. Yesterday, the crew was in London for the UK premiere. This is the second summer Tom Cruise has rocked that tousled hair on a press tour, and this is By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 09:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s #Family We saw the first trailer for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (I’m pretty sure that’s the right punctuation, I hate these titles) one year ago, and now that the film is actually due on July 12, the second trailer is here to show off even more of By Sarah • May 18, 2023 02:16 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Vanessa Kirby in red We have seen a LOT of great looks over the last two weeks. And 80% of them from Jodie Turner-Smith. Everyone has been bringing it in Venice and now TIFF and the Emmys are on Monday and I hope this fashion excellence continues (let’s properly hydrate and do our By Lainey • Sep 09, 2022 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Pieces of a Woman On paper, Pieces of a Woman is awards season catnip. An emotionally grand yet intimately domestic portrait of a family in crisis after an unspeakable tragedy, Pieces of a Woman has long, show-stopping monologues and unceasing conflict for actors to play against a backdrop of bleak cityscapes, all things that By Sarah • Sep 15, 2020 03:12 pm
