Movie Reviews and Previews Holiday trailer haul We’re approaching the end of the year, which means holiday movie season, and while Wicked: For Good and Avatar: Fire Nation & Ash are expected to dominate the box office, there is plenty of other stuff coming down the pike, too. To wit, The Testament of Ann Lee dropped By Sarah • Nov 07, 2025 02:18 pm
TV Updates First Lady Michelle (Pfeiffer) Michelle Pfeiffer is currently starring on The First Lady as Betty Ford. The show has not been getting great reviews, and I don’t want to bag on it because it’s not even bad in an interesting way, it’s just a weird combination of looking expensive but being By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 11:41 am
Judy Greer The First Ladies rally One of the splashiest drama due this year is Showtime’s anthology series, The First Lady, which depicts the lives of three former first ladies. Viola Davis stars as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt. The cast also includes Kiefer Sutherland, Aaron Eckhart, By Sarah • Feb 22, 2022 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges in French Exit French Exit stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a disaffected, broke widow who flees to Paris after losing it all in New York. This is the best role and performance Pfeiffer has had in years, and French Exit SHOULD be a genuine pleasure to watch just to see Pfeiffer do her thing, By Sarah • Feb 18, 2021 01:42 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Intro for January 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, The pandemic has disrupted so many regular features of award season – the screenings, the parties, the red carpets, and perhaps even the major award shows themselves. The Independent Spirit Award nominations are happening today. Typically the Spirit Awards are held on Saturday, the day before Oscar Sunday, in By Lainey • Jan 26, 2021 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Maleficent Disappointment Maleficent: Mistress of Evil opened over the weekend, taking the top box office spot, but still coming in under expectations. It’s the first Disney disappointment since Dumbo earlier this year, though it will not likely lose money like Dumbo did. We’re just so used to seeing Disney trample By Sarah • Oct 23, 2019 03:57 pm
Gorgessity Outfit of the Week: Angelina Jolie in Givenchy If you’re a regular visitor of this site, you know that we normally post the Outfit of the Week on Fridays, because it is the best outfit we’ve seen all week. I’m not waiting this week because I’m betting that we’ve already seen the best By Lainey • Oct 07, 2019 02:29 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina's fun side Team Jolie, minus Maddox, who’s at university in South Korea, came out strong at the Maleficent: Mistress of Evil premiere last night. Here’s Angelina with five of her six children, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne, and Knox, celebrating the release of her latest Disney blockbuster. As you can see, By Lainey • Oct 01, 2019 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Maleficent is a baddie again…or is she? While writing up that solid Mulan teaser, I cut a whole tangent about Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and its place in the live-action remake canon. But now we have a brand new Maleficent trailer to judge and it is exactly what my tangent-rant was about, so now let’s talk By Sarah • Jul 08, 2019 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina’s perfect witch cackle Angelina Jolie has recently rebranded herself as the First Lady of Disney, a path lit up by the live-action remake of Maleficent that came out a few years ago. It’s an okay movie, it has some interesting revisionist ideas—something lacking in the other live-action remakes (except for Pete’ By Sarah • May 14, 2019 10:25 am
Angelina Jolie Maleficent 2 gets a real title The last time we heard anything from Maleficent 2, it was a tease of Michelle Pfeiffer’s role as “Queen Ingrith”, but yesterday Disney dropped a new poster on Twitter, along with an official title: Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil, and also a new release date - in October. I’ By Sarah • Mar 07, 2019 10:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina and Michelle toe to toe Maleficent came out in 2014. That’s so long ago! Now that we live in a nightmare where every year feels like a decade, five years ago is a lifetime. Maleficent 2 comes out in 2020, making six whole ass years between movies. There are children who will go see By Sarah • Jan 30, 2019 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Take a break with Ant-Man and the Wasp Look, no one is going to argue that Ant-Man and/or the Wasp are Marvel’s most beloved, most important, or most well-known characters. No one is going to defend the Ant-Man franchise as one of the jewels of Marvel’s crown. I’m not even going to defend Ant-Man By Sarah • Jul 04, 2018 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michelle Pfeiffer gets busy After taking a few years off, Michelle Pfeiffer returned in 2017, appearing in several movies including mother! and Murder on the Orient Express. This year, she returns to comic book movies in Ant-Man and the Wasp—no one is psyched for this movie but the cast is AMAZING, so maybe By Sarah • Apr 30, 2018 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Murder on the Orient Express is for parents Agatha Christie’s most well-known murder mystery, Murder on the Orient Express, is the subject of several adaptations, including Sidney Lumet’s 1974 film in which Albert Finney played famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, surrounded by a cast that includes Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Perkins, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Jacqueline Bisset, By Sarah • Nov 14, 2017 04:46 pm
Emmy Awards 2017 Allison Janney: Best Emmy Protector You know that question we always hear on nights like this when someone shows up and you can’t understand how they do it? “Does so-and-so ever age?!” We have to add Allison Janney to that list, right? Allison Janney not only doesn’t age, she keeps getting better and By Lainey • Sep 18, 2017 04:19 am
