Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel got to Steven Yeun There is probably no better gauge for how the momentum of superhero stuff, particularly Marvel, has shifted in the last few years than how people react to new casting news. Yesterday, it was reported Steven Yeun has been cast in an unnamed but “significant” role in the upcoming anti-hero team-up By Sarah • Feb 24, 2023 11:19 am
Gorgessity Intro for February 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, It is one week till Creed III, and as Lainey declared, when Michael B. Jordan is serving this much content, then we’re going to serve the MBJ content. MBJ was back at it last night, alongside Tessa Thompson and Jonathan Majors, at an HBCU fan screening in By Sarah • Feb 24, 2023 09:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cocaine Bear is upon us It is here, the time is now—it’s Cocaine Bear week at last. The premiere was last night in Los Angeles, bringing out director Elizabeth Banks, and stars O’Shea Jackson, Jr., esteemed character actress Margo Martindale—who is adorably excited to be in this movie—Jesse Tyler Ferguson, By Sarah • Feb 22, 2023 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Jonathan Majors in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Up until now, the Ant-Man films have been a charmingly inconsequential corner of the MCU, offering family-friendly adventures and low stakes stories that work as a kind of pressure valve for the bigger, more centralized stories responsible for carrying the interconnected narrative forward. Well, that’s all gone now, as By Sarah • Feb 20, 2023 02:44 pm
Award Season Campaigning The big BAFTA weekend We are getting down to the wire in awards season, with the BAFTAs and the Directors’ Guild Awards occurring over the weekend. Because of their recent voting changes, the BAFTAs aren’t as central to the Oscar race as they used to be; for instance, despite both giving excellent performances, By Sarah • Feb 20, 2023 11:06 am
What Else What Else? Do I genuinely like Gemma Chan’s pink corset dress or am I just tired? (Go Fug Yourself) Thanks to forums like Reddit’s “Am I The Asshole” and online agony aunts like Ask A Manager, the internet is full of people telling horrifying stories of red flags ignored, warning By Sarah • Feb 17, 2023 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tetris without the murders Well, here’s one way to do guilt-free true crime: just don’t mention it. The trailer for Tetris, a film about the behind-the-scenes effort to acquire the rights to Tetris and bring it out of the USSR and to game consoles around the world, dropped yesterday. The film stars By Sarah • Feb 17, 2023 10:53 am
Quiveration Chris Pine before D&D Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is six weeks away. It will mark Chris Pine’s first press tour since all the worrying, darlings. He’s already done appearances for D&D, chiefly Comic Con and CCXP in Brazil. In both cases, he seemed happy to be where he By Sarah • Feb 17, 2023 09:44 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, After her surprise Oscar nomination for Best Actress, Andrea Riseborough has kept a low profile, skipping out on the Oscar nominees luncheon earlier this week, and the London Critics Circle Film Awards last week. She has a built-in excuse, as she is working on The Palace, an upcoming By Sarah • Feb 17, 2023 09:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A little Ursula, as a treat When will we get a full trailer for The Little Mermaid? Yesterday, we got another teaser, once again using a clip of Halle Bailey singing “Part of Your World” (aka, the second best Disney song), but this teaser shows us Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, arguably Disney’s best himbo By Sarah • Feb 16, 2023 11:17 am
TV Updates Her Majesty, Queen Charlotte Last year, we saw a teaser for Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, a Bridgerton spin-off centered on the younger version of Golda Rosheuvel’s royal character. That teaser focused on the meet-cute between then-Princess Charlotte and young King George III. Now we have a second, “official” teaser that gives us By Sarah • Feb 15, 2023 12:34 pm
Keanu Reeves Keanu is worried about AI John Wick: Chapter 4 is coming! It is nearly three hours long! This might be too much, even for Baba Yaga! But we approach Keanu, as always, with gratitude and appreciation—for being one of the good ones, one of the last ones, and one of the actually interesting ones. By Sarah • Feb 15, 2023 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Indiana Jones 5 looks SLIGHTLY better The first trailer for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny did not impress me, at all. But the Super Bowl spot kind of works for me, at least the bit with Mads Mikkelsen, and Indy asking if he’s “still a Nazi”. First, it’s a GREAT piece of By Sarah • Feb 14, 2023 02:43 pm
TV Updates Ted still believes It’s a Valentine’s Day miracle! The teaser for Ted Lasso season 3 dropped this morning, revealing a March 15 premiere date. That’s just one month away! Not two months or three months or nine months! ONE! Valentine’s Day is a made-up holiday, but this is almost By Sarah • Feb 14, 2023 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Infinite Adam Drivers Back in December, we saw a trailer for a new Adam Driver movie called 65, in which Adam Driver fights a dinosaur. I called it cashing in, which is okay because this mountainous man puts up with a lot from us, the thirsty internet, and in exchange for not swatting By Sarah • Feb 13, 2023 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Creed III countdown is on Are we counting down time until Creed III? It’s just under a month away, which seems both very near and far at the same time (the end of winter always does). The first trailer was a total thirst trap, but the Super Bowl spot is focused more on the By Sarah • Feb 13, 2023 12:26 pm
