Movie Reviews and Previews Taron Egerton in Tetris A movie about a brand should not be this good, but Tetris is REALLY good. Tetris tells the true(ish) story of how a colorful salesman struck the deal of a lifetime to get Tetris, one of the most popular games of all time, out of the USSR and into By Sarah • Mar 31, 2023 12:47 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for March 31, 2023 Dear Gossips, Finally, a bit of good-ish news for Disney-Marvel, or at least it is from the perspective of people who like even a modicum of diversity in their superhero movies. Ike Perlmutter, the long-time head of Marvel Entertainment, was booted from the company this week. Disney is in the By Sarah • Mar 31, 2023 09:10 am
TV Updates Just let Noho Hank be happy The final season of Barry begins in two and a half weeks, and the latest trailer is all about how everything is awful. We knew from the teaser that nobody is okay, but at this point, it seems like Barry could end with an asteroid destroying Earth, that’s how By Sarah • Mar 30, 2023 12:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wes Anderson’s alien movie By this point, either Wes Anderson’s twee little dioramas work for you, or they don’t. They almost always work for me, I like the dark streak at the heart of all his stories, the human messiness juxtaposed with his strict papercraft sensibility. I also don’t mind his By Sarah • Mar 30, 2023 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Where is that old Pixar magic? Pixar was once Disney’s crown jewel, a reliable hit-maker that not only delivered money into the company coffers, but also reliably put trophies on shelves. The last few years have been rough, though, with Pixar movies—again, once one of the most reliable box office performers in the entire By Sarah • Mar 29, 2023 11:41 am
Style Gaga’s grunge Harley Back in February we got a context-free look at Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux. That photo didn’t show anything of Gaga’s Harley look except smeared lipstick and an ecstatic expression, so it was hard to tell what her version of Harley will look By Sarah • Mar 27, 2023 02:48 pm
Business of Hollywood The Marvel mess continues Last week, longtime Marvel Studios executive Victoria Alonso was fired after almost 18 years with the company. The initial reporting was that she “exited” the company, but that was always euphemistic language, and over the course of the week, more and more details spilled into the public’s view, making By Sarah • Mar 27, 2023 01:04 pm
Top Reads Jonathan Majors: The latest bad man (allegedly) Saturday morning, news broke that Jonathan Majors was arrested in New York City in connection with a domestic violence incident. TMZ had the first report (of course), and they set the tone for the weekend by calling the woman, who turned out to be Majors’ girlfriend, the “alleged victim”. When By Sarah • Mar 27, 2023 10:03 am
What Else What Else? Brian Cox is once again dragging Method acting. I’m not trying to start sh-t, except for how I am, but it feels sort of…personal, doesn’t it? There is famously a breach between the British and American approaches to acting (see also: that probably apocryphal story about Laurence By Sarah • Mar 24, 2023 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 4 Nine years after John Wick became a breakout hit fueled entirely by word of mouth and newly rediscovered affection for Keanu Reeves, the story of the widowed assassin avenging his dog comes to a phrenetic, satisfying end. At an immense 169 minutes, John Wick: Chapter 4 is the longest entry By Sarah • Mar 24, 2023 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The new Cap and Bucky at work Amidst Marvel’s recent upheaval, life goes on. Filming for Captain America: New World Order is underway in Atlanta. Here are Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, and Shira Haas on set yesterday. This is Mackie’s first feature film as Captain America, after picking up the mantle in The Falcon and By Sarah • Mar 24, 2023 12:58 pm
Douchebags Chris and Crusty Hugh at the premiere The Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves press tour is underway, here’s Chris Pine and the rest of the cast at the London premiere last night. It defies logic how well Pine works that contrasting yellow tie/shirt combo, but then, standard fashion rules have never applied to Chris By Sarah • Mar 24, 2023 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, Today in Good Luck With That news, Robert Downey, Jr. might star in a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 classic, Vertigo. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is (re)writing the screenplay, and Paramount, which distributed the original film, has the rights to the remake. RDJ and his By Sarah • Mar 24, 2023 09:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ready for Renfield With John Wick: Chapter 4 opening this weekend, and Dungeons & Dragons and Tetris next weekend, we are rolling toward the absolute car crash that is the film release calendar for the rest of 2023. Things start picking up steam in April, and the film I am most excited about By Sarah • Mar 23, 2023 11:39 am
Business of Hollywood The Marvel Mess In a bombshell announcement on Monday, Victoria Alonso, a long-time executive at Marvel Studios, “exited” the company. Alonso, one of the few high-profile female executives in film production, left for “unclear” reasons, per The Hollywood Reporter. Sources are saying that she was not fired. But her departure was definitely an By Sarah • Mar 22, 2023 11:22 am
TV Updates Daniels did a Star Wars By now, it’s a familiar pattern: an up-and-coming indie filmmaker makes a splash, often by being nominated for and/or winning an Oscar and is immediately sucked into the franchise moviemaking machine. The latest case is Daniels, the directing duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the newly minted By Sarah • Mar 21, 2023 11:43 am
