Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in The Roses Warren Adler’s divorce-themed novel, The War of the Roses, was published in 1981, born of the era in which the introduction of no-fault divorce led to a huge spike in divorces. In 1989, Danny DeVito—an underappreciated director of comedy—adapted Adler’s novel into the similarly titled The By Sarah • Aug 27, 2025 02:55 pm
What Else Comic Con gets off to a slow start Comic Con is this weekend. It’s expected to be a relatively quiet year as a number of studios are sitting this one out, including Marvel and DC. But Twisted Metal, a video-game based series I don’t think anyone watches, had its panel already, bringing out Anthony Mackie, Stephanie By Sarah • Jul 25, 2025 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Roses at war (again) When a remake of The War of the Roses, Danny DeVito’s pitch black 1989 divorce “comedy”—quotes because the film is emotionally and literally violent—was announced last year, I thought why. I mean, besides the fact that you almost can’t get a script greenlit without it stemming By Sarah • Apr 17, 2025 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Winslet in Lee Cinematographer Ellen Kuras has lensed films for Spike Lee, Rebecca Miller, Mary Harron, Michel Gondry, and Sam Mendes, so it tracks that Lee, her debut as a solo feature film director, is a very handsome film. Even the most gruesome moments are artful, which also tracks, as Lee is a By Sarah • Sep 26, 2024 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Winslet and Andy Samberg’s unlikely partnership Last week I mentioned Kate Winslet’s upcoming war biopic of photographer Lee Miller, titled Lee, mostly in reference to how hot Andy Samberg looks in this movie. Now there is a full trailer for Lee, though, so let’s talk about Winslet and Lee Miller, who was a very By Sarah • Jul 16, 2024 02:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Palm Springs is a wacky existential rom-com for our times SPOILERS Stanley Kubrick once said, “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” Palm Springs is a film concerned with that supply of light, and how we find meaning when life seems meaningless and every day the same. Directed by Max Barbakow, making his feature film debut, and By Sarah • Jul 13, 2020 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Staycation with Palm Springs Earlier this year, the biggest title at Sundance was Palm Springs, a Groundhog Day-esque rom-com starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti. Not only was Palm Springs one of the best-received films to play at Sundance, but it also closed the biggest deal in Sundance history, selling to Hulu and By Sarah • Jun 17, 2020 12:21 pm
Andy Samberg The Lonely Island Announces their First Ever Tour I grew up watching Lonely Island sketches on SNL and YouTube, to the point where I can still sing/rap nearly every one of their tracks. In fact, this used to be my desktop background in high school for the longest time: That’s the original file too, I’m By Prem • Feb 22, 2019 11:11 am
TV Updates Brooklyn Nine-Nine Does Not Hoot Around *SPOILERS* Season 6 of Brooklyn Nine Nine premiered yesterday after a dramatic cancellation by Fox. It found a new home on NBC after the flood of support from both celebrities and fans on Twitter. I know this is a retroactive outrage but who makes these decisions? “This show that we By Prem • Jan 11, 2019 10:02 am
Top Reads The Sandra Oh Golden Globes That’s how I’ll remember this year’s Golden Globes – the Sandra Oh Golden Globes. On so many levels. Let’s start with history because she made it, twice: first as the first Asian woman to host the Golden Globes and as the first Asian woman to win multiple By Lainey • Jan 07, 2019 02:33 am
Ellen Degeneres Intro for January 4, 2019 Dear Gossips, Big weekend! It’s the Golden Globes on Sunday! The Golden Globes do not have a hosting problem. It’s the Oscars that have a hosting problem. Which is why the Oscar host dilemma is making headlines today, just two days before the Globes. With only 7 weeks By Lainey • Jan 04, 2019 09:10 am
Andy Samberg Intro for December 6, 2018 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning. We’ll cover those in subsequent posts throughout the day. Ahead of the nominations, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association yesterday finally confirmed who will be hosting: Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg. I don’t think anyone was expecting this… even By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 08:34 am
Emmy Awards 2016 Andy Samberg & Kit Harington: Emmys best presenters All the photos I saw of Kit Harington before the show, on the carpet, were of him making his squinty-eye, brooding face, also known as his Jon Snow face. So it was going to be that kind of night. I thought…wrong. Because they paired him as a presenter with By Lainey • Sep 19, 2016 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lonely Island in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Since 1984, This Is Spinal Tap has been the gold standard of film satires, a flawless movie that uses the mockumentary format to lampoon pop culture and music in the 1980s. In the years since there have been worthy mockumentary successors—Drop Dead Gorgeous, What We Do in the Shadows— By Sarah • Jun 03, 2016 02:03 pm
Emmy Awards 2015 Most Relaxed Emmy Host – Andy Samberg I’ve looked around, and I can’t find a really strong anti-67th Emmys faction, even among all the complainers on Twitter (who I am proud to call my brethren). Don’t get me wrong, there are still people frustrated with the show, with the winners, or the lack thereof, By Duana • Sep 21, 2015 03:13 am
TV Updates Taylor Lautner pod-personed Andy Samberg Today in completely improbable news, Taylor Lautner is replacing Andy Samberg on the BBC comedy Cuckoo. Let’s give that a moment to sink in: We now live in a world where Taylor Lautner is an acceptable comedic replacement for Andy Samberg. Cuckoo is about a British girl who marries By Sarah • Feb 12, 2014 11:59 am
