Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 9:00AM I will miss Twitter when it's gone even though it was kind of a hellscape. Anyway, here are some choice showbiz related tweets from the past couple of weeks, curated for this crowd here at TFE...
Cate Blanchett has yet to TRULY challenge herself as an actress by playing the role of a mentally sound lady who has a nice day
— Chelsea Pope (@chelseathepope) November 6, 2022
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 2:26PM by Nathaniel R
The long holiday weekend proved to be an old school "movie star" weekend. Tom Cruise managed his best opening weekend ever (not adjusted for inflation) as Top Gun Maverick finally opened after a long long COVID delay. Mysteriously, Sandra Bullock's 10 week old adventure romcom The Lost City was up 29% despite losing theaters as if everyone suddenly remembered that they'd meant to see it all along...
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Monday, March 21, 2022 at 8:14PM By: Christopher James
Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum search for their own "Romancing the Stone" vehicle in "The Lost City."There are some movies that are “perfect films,” masterpieces that elevate the bar on what cinema can do, where not a single frame should be changed. Other movies are “perfect versions of themselves.” The Lost City is not a perfect film by any means. However, it is the perfect version of itself. It’s a light on its feet, star driven adventure-romance-comedy. Watching it transports one back to the 90s, when movies could be sold solely on a movie star and a logline. If the trailer makes you chuckle, you’ll be giggling for the entirety of the 112 minute running time.
There’s the old saying, those who can’t do… teach. In The Lost City, one could say: those who can’t be archeologists, write horny romance novels. That is the fate of Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock), who has not left her house since the passing of her beloved explorer husband. Her latest entry in the bestselling romance novel series "Lovemore and Dash" is about to drop and Loretta’s publisher, Beth (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), insists on putting her on a book tour...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 11:39PM 
• THR talks to Michelle Yeoh about her new film Everything Everywhere All At Once. Great 'meeting Tarantino' story and now I wish they'd have worked together
• AV Club our era of famous faces being paid lots of money for those faces to be buried / unrecognizable under prosthetics continues with Sean Penn in a Watergate thriller
Vanessa Bayer, Ewan McGregor, Anne Hathaway, and more after the jump...
Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 11:58AM Please welcome new contributor Catherine Springer
Sandra Bullock has something to prove. No matter how beloved she may be as a performer, she’s never really been taken seriously as a dramatic actress. Her Best Actress Oscar win for The Blind Side (2009) is widely considered to be one of the weakest, as many feel she won more as a nod to her popularity and successful career than for the performance itself. Bullock has always had a healthy perspective on herself and her career, and has taken all the criticism in stride. And yet, there must be a place deep inside that wants to prove to the world that she deserves her Oscar, and that she is so much more than the funny, affable girl next door.
Bullock’s starring role in Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity (2013) went some of the way to proving she is more than the feel-good funny girl. But the question still remained: can Sandra Bullock deliver in a dramatic role, with no CGI or alien buffers? She's never truly played an unlikeable character, either. Can she change her brand this late in her career, and prove she can deliver in a serious and not loveable role?
The new Netflix film, The Unforgivable, proves the answer is an unequivocal yes. Unfortunately, few may hear that answer because anything she’s doing in this film that’s right is offset by everything else that is so, so wrong...
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